Author Archives: Miles Amoore
Archbishop’s friend in secret talks to free Nigerian girls
(The Sunday Times) By Dipesh Gadher and Miles Amoore – A FRIEND of the Archbishop of Canterbury has been working secretly to help to free the Nigerian schoolgirls who have been kidnapped by Boko Haram extremists.
Smellie the Elephant is top mine detector
(The Sunday Times) THEIR sense of smell is one of the most powerful of any mammal. Now African elephants are being trained to sweep for landmines and detect explosives.
ANC trembles as firebrand stirs fury of the township
The Sunday Times – SPORTING a bright red jump suit and his red revolutionary beret, Julius Malema arrived at the stadium in Witbank, a gritty coal mining town two hours east of Johannesburg, to wild cheers from the crowd.
One by one, the knifeman killed my nine children
The Sunday Times Bangui, Central African Republic AS THE militiamen wielding guns, knives and machetes stormed into his village, Massoudo Bichefou fled into the tall grass near his home. The rest of his family were too slow. Bichefou, 55, watched from his hiding place as armed men dragged his nine children and a grandchild in […]
Kenya ‘bent on frenzy of revenge’
(Sunday Times) By Flora Bagenal and Miles Amoore – KENYAN officials have been accused of using hit squads to eliminate suspected terrorists, following a drive-by shooting of a prominent Muslim cleric in Mombasa last week.
Miles Amoore 