Ian Birrell

The Gift of Patience: the pair reach safety in Maiduguri

Every horror imaginable

3 June 2017 9:00 am

The group of kidnapped women were terrified. They had been brought back to the camp as booty and were being…

Korean notebook

22 April 2017 9:00 am

When I arrived in Seoul, I joked to my editor that I hoped this was not going to be like…

A truly monstrous regiment

29 December 2016 3:00 pm

When George Omona first saw soldiers in the infamous Lord’s Resistance Army, he was amazed. The scary fighters who had…

Getting away with murder

6 August 2016 9:00 am

Cher Hughes loved the beauty, the white sand beaches and sun-kissed climate of the tropical islands of Bocas del Toro…