The death of Queen Elizabeth II had a global impact, and for many people it marked the end of an era. In this troubled and changing world, it was important to witness continuity, while all else is unsettled. The perfectly choreographed military processions and the ritual were comforting, as well as visually impressive. Millions around the world tuned into […]

A sixteen-year-old girl named Veronique is the reason why I started Network for Africa. I met her on the first afternoon of my first trip to Rwanda in 2004. My colleagues and I were visiting an orphanage for children who had lost their families in the genocide, ten years before. The man running the orphanage […]

We are all in need of some positive news at the moment. Please read the following for a little uplift, and thank you to those who have helped us along the way: The UN agency UNICEF once called Sierra Leone the second most dangerous place in the world to be a child (the most dangerous was Angola […]