Daniel Howden
Daniel Howden is Africa Correspondent for The Independent. He has reported from more than 50 countries covering everything from wars and elections to natural disasters and environmental crises. Special interests beyond Africa include southeast Europe, Latin America and global forests. A former Athens correspondent he has returned to Greece regularly during the European debt crisis. Now based in Nairobi, he acted as producer on the documentary 'Stolen Seas: Tales of Somali Piracy', winner of the Boccalino D'Oro prize at the 2012 Locarno film festival.
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'Insider' leaks secrets from heart of Mugabe's Zimbabwe regime on Facebook
26 July 2013 06:22 PM
Days before election, Zimbabweans read allegations of corruption in ruling party
South Sudan plunged into political crisis as president dissolves the government in power struggle
24 July 2013 01:22 PM
Wave of sackings aimed at removing country's powerful vice president Riek Machar
World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim: 'They said poverty would always be with us. Well, maybe not'
07 July 2013 11:41 PM
The Monday Interview: The World Bank chief remains an outsider with big ambitions
Separate and unequal: Apartheid's legacy lives on
07 July 2013 12:00 AM
World View: South Africa has certainly changed since the ANC came to power, but the party's failure to tackle economic inequality is glaringly evident
South Africa: Hope and fear in a land of Nelson Mandela memories
05 July 2013 07:29 PM
No part of South Africa has been untouched by the life of the first post-apartheid president. But different parts were affected in different ways
Desmond Tutu calls for resolution to Nelson Mandela graves feud
05 July 2013 07:28 PM
The family feud over the graves of the children of Nelson Mandela drew a sharp rebuke yesterday from Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Return to Qunu: Mandela family remains exhumed again
03 July 2013 06:42 PM
Battle over bodies of statesman’s children ends as they are taken back to ancestral village
Judge orders Nelson Mandela's grandson Mandla to exhume bodies of anti-apartheid leader's children
02 July 2013 08:09 PM
A judge ordered Nelson Mandela's grandson to exhume the bodies of three of the anti-apartheid leader's children today and return them to their original graves, the latest twist in a dispute that has divided South Africa's most famous family.
Tug of war over Mandela family burials set to continue
30 June 2013 07:48 PM
The tug of war over the remains of three of Nelson Mandela's children is set to continue after his grandson said he would challenge a court order to return them to the anti-apartheid icon's childhood home of Qunu in Eastern Cape.
Barack Obama pledges energy cash to light up Africa’s darkness
30 June 2013 07:44 PM
US President promises funding to provide 'the energy to lift people out of poverty' by doubling Africans' access to electricity
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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