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Here are the From Our Own Correspondent stories from Africa, sorted by date, from January 2009.

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January 2009


5 September

Libya leader's green-tinted spectacle
The Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been celebrating the 40th anniversary of the military coup which brought him to power in 1969. David Willey witnessed the festivities.

29 August

Hope and rusty guns in Niger Delta
In the Niger Delta, Caroline Duffield discovers an uneasy truce between militants and the Nigerian government.

29 August

Checking out Africa's hotels
On a trip to the Central African Republic, Chris Simpson considers the highs and lows of hotel life in Africa.

8 August

Ethiopia's passion for bureaucracy
As she prepares to leave Addis Ababa, Elizabeth Blunt reflects on the intense level of officialdom she has encountered in Ethiopia which she believes reveals much about the nature of power and responsibility in Ethiopian society.

9 July 2009

Libya's struggles with modernity
Travelling to the Libyan town of Sirte to report on the African Union summit, Christian Fraser considers whether Libya is ready for an era of mass tourism.

28 May 2009

Tribal divide on Kenyan campus
Will Ross finds echoes of Kenya's tribal violence at the polling for student leaders at Nairobi University.

9 May 2009

Kenya's slow path to justice
In Nairobi, Adam Mynott considers why the trial of Thomas Cholmondeley took 30 months to reach a conclusion.

2 May 2009

Mining a mint in eastern DR Congo
Despite years of political turmoil, Stephen Sackur discovers there are still fortunes to be made in DR Congo.

18 April 2009

South Africa's battle with crime
In Johannesburg, Stephen Evans tries to understand why lawbreakers are consistently managing to beat the system.

18 April 2009
Somali chaos spills from land to sea
Karen Allen considers the challenges in tackling the problem of piracy off the coast of Somalia.

9 April 2009

Wallowing off the coast of Tristan
From a boat offshore the volcanic island of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic, Simon Winchester ruminates on a lesson in the ethics of tourism.


7 March 2009

Old sensitivities resurface in Sudan
Owen Bennett-Jones finds that the antagonism between Sudan's rulers and the outside world is nothing new.

21 February 2009

Kenya's continuing tribal divide
Pascale Harter returns to Kenya to see if tribal divisions have healed since the violence of last year.

3 January 2009

The curse of Nigerian oil
The BBC's Sue Lloyd-Roberts argues that Nigerian oil has brought wealth to a few but fuels greed and corruption on a grand scale.



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