12 years on the orphaned girl I met in the ruins of post-tsunami Aceh graduated this week. Congratulations to indomitable Mawardah Priyanka!
andrew harding
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andrew harding
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BBC Paris Correspondent. Author of "A Small, Stubborn Town," “These Are Not Gentle People,” “The Mayor of Mogadishu.” Previously in Africa, Asia, former USSR.
- Time heals?... Revisiting Aceh and one survivor, 10 years after the Asian tsunami: bbc.com/news/world-asi…
- Zimbabwe national anthem sung as Zanu-PF prepares to oust Mugabe
00:00 - After 15 yrs in Joburg and another 4 in Nairobi, I'm leaving this incredible continent later today for new pastures. It's been a joy, a challenge, an education - in resilience, tolerance, and what South Africans call ubuntu. Sala kahle.
00:00- After vote, ZANU PF's Paul Mangwana tells me "we are removing (Mugabe). He can go farming. We want a new president." Emmerson Mnangagwa voted new party leader "with immediate effect."
- South Africa’s priority crime police the Hawks are at Gupta residence in Johannesburg. Road sealed off.
- The endless comparisons with "banana republics" strike me as smug, ignorant and wrong. In Africa, for instance, there are many examples of courageous protestors fighting to overthrow autocrats. That's not - remotely - what we're seeing in the USA right now.
- Thrilled and honoured to hear that I have won South Africa's top literary prize - the Sunday Times non-fiction award - for my book, These Are Not Gentle People. @PanMacmillanSA @maclehosepress @JanklowUK @RebeccasBooks @SundayTimesZA @KatharinaBberg @Andrea_Nattrass
- The tide has turned. Zanu-PF youth league calling for Mugabe to quit to “rest as elder statesman.”
00:00 - Liberia passes another milestone. It's now ten days since the last confirmed new Ebola case here.
- Just watched thousands dancing through Johannesburg for a city carnival. Nation in mourning? Nope. Nation celebrating Mandela's life.
