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Ethiopia's historic self-confidence writ large in the monastery at Debre Damo – By Richard Dowden
Strictly dancer Amy Dowden reveals her health battle for the first time
Time to get back to basics at the BBC – By Richard Dowden
Programmes | If | Aid 'is not solution' for Africa
Richard Dowden Obituary - Sulphur, LA
Richard Dowden blogs from Uganda: Kampala and Kigali’s reconciliation
Richard Osman's House of Games With Huge Davies, Amy Dowden, Humphrey Ker and Jamie-Lee O'Donnell
A Man of Good Hope – Review by Richard Dowden
‘Don’t Force Statehood on Somalia’ – in defence of Richard Dowden – by Prof Said Samatar
South Africa: A hundred years after its birth, what has happened to the ANC? – By Richard Dowden
It produced one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century. It fought a violent race-based dictatorship and replaced it with the most...
Ethiopia's historic self-confidence writ large in the monastery at Debre Damo – By Richard Dowden
The monastery at Debre Damo has survived unmolested for some 900 years among the vast Tigrayan Mountains of Northern Ethiopia.
Strictly dancer Amy Dowden reveals her health battle for the first time
Amy Dowden, from Caerphilly, had been keeping it a secret.
Time to get back to basics at the BBC – By Richard Dowden
The story that has practically broken the BBC this week was the result of an appalling breach of the first journalistic rule – get the facts...
Programmes | If | Aid 'is not solution' for Africa
Aid has not solved, and will not solve, Africa's problems, argues Richard Dowden, director of the Royal African Society.
Richard Dowden Obituary - Sulphur, LA
Hixson-Sulphur Memorial Funeral Home. Richard Scott "Ricky" Dowden, 63, passed away on Tuesday, January 2, 2024 at his camp in LeBlanc,...
Richard Dowden blogs from Uganda: Kampala and Kigali’s reconciliation
A rapidly growing economy, oil, war, a regional role and an opposition that won't lie down. He may talk of transition and his farm but Museveni has far too...
Richard Osman's House of Games With Huge Davies, Amy Dowden, Humphrey Ker and Jamie-Lee O'Donnell
Richard Osman's House of Games With Huge Davies, Amy Dowden, Humphrey Ker and Jamie-Lee O'Donnell plus richard osman himself.
A Man of Good Hope – Review by Richard Dowden
Asad was born in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, in the early 1980s. Aged eight he sees his mother shot dead in front of him when the city is invaded by rebels.
‘Don’t Force Statehood on Somalia’ – in defence of Richard Dowden – by Prof Said Samatar
Since all attempts at centralizing Somalia have so far failed, he seems to be saying, why not try something new, something similar to the “Swiss model?”
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A writer and commentator who has criticized the DRC's governance and social issues, often discussing its history of colonialism and ongoing struggles.