By Abdul Tejan-Cole
Uganda and the Al-Shabaab threat
By William Lewis in Kampala
The aftermath of the Westgate massacre in Nairobi has got everyone looking over their shoulders. The upscale mall was a meeting place for many people especially foreigners working for NGOs and United Nations agencies. I was in Nairobi in April this year and I must have visited that mall some four or five times – mainly because it’s closer to where I always stay when I am in Kenya for work or pleasure.
Travelogue: Between New York and Geneva
By Asmieu Bah
New York was my home throughout September, as a fellow of the United Nations. Strictly as planned my fellow fellows and I are now in the Swiss capital on the last leg of our fellowship. For four weeks in one of the world’s busiest and liveliest cities, it was a great experience that I am sure will shape our career for the future.
Information Attachés, then and now
By Rev. S. M. Williams
When the Editor of Politico called on me to give some account of the modus operandi of the yesteryears of an Information Attaché (IA), I was delighted to oblige. Himself a young man, he must have been irked with today’s Information Attaché demeanour.
