Its happened! To our delight, Justine Greening announced today that the government was pulling the plug on the UK’s next instalment of aid to Rwanda.
We had been holding the ladder for Continue reading
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Month: November 2012
Implant
Its not just women who have implants! Yesterday I had the second implant into my abdomen of a 28 day slow release capsule of female hormones…. without a local anaesthetic ( much to the concern of the doctor!)
This is round two of the fight inside my Continue reading
British aid scandal
Britain is the largest European aid donor to Rwanda, for so long portrayed as a model African country following the ending of the the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 during which Hutu groups conducted mass killings of an estimated 800,000 Tutsi people in 100 days.
Britain backed the rebuilding of the country under Continue reading
Molo Street Orphans
When Sonia and her husband Chris went to work in the rift valley area of Kenya 10 years ago as teachers and house parents in a Christian secondary school, God used them in ways they never thought possible. After settling in to life in rural Kenya, Sonia found her heart strings being tugged Continue reading
Leg shot off
Please try and watch Dispatches on Channel 4, 8pm tonight (Monday 26th November).
The former private secretary to the Rwandan president spills the beans on how British aid to his country is bankrolling war crimes in neighbouring Congo. ‘Britain is not funding Rwanda; it is funding Continue reading
Holes in Socks
A few years ago people darned their socks; Ann darned mine like a loving wife would. Then suddenly one day it was over, she told me to throw them out. So I asked Josie to darn them for me. But then she moved away and Continue reading
Richard missing
Richard, who we helped escape certain death at the hands of a D R Congo assassination squad a year ago, has been missing now for ten days from the family’s safe house, giving great concern to his wife and six children stranded Continue reading
