Africa Confidential

It's not that new because it's now nearly 30 weeks.

With me, Rob Rose from Financial Mail, Zuchila Majova from Scroller, and with Patrick Smith from Africa Confidential.

These are all fantastic titles.

Of course, I say this because they're all us.

We have to kind of all dash off and do our journalism duties and see if Jacob Zuma is threatened to invade Norway, as one does, or rage against not getting the Nobel Prize himself.

So thank you very much for joining us.

And please remember, do subscribe to this podcast and subscribe to Africa Confidential, to Stroller, and to the Financial Mail.

Thank you very much.

The Saudis lend him 15 million more.

Libya opens a bank in Kampala and, according to the British political newsletter Africa Confidential, promises him another 16 million through it for his personal use.

And then reports of killings began to spread.

Over the next seven years, Idi Amin will allegedly murder somewhere between 100,000 and 500,000 of his own people.

Let's cross to London.

Let's bring in Patrick Smith, one of the key figures in specialized reporting on Africa, editor of, uh, in chief of The Africa Report, editor of Africa Confidential.

Good evening, Patrick.

How are you?

Thank you for this week.

A stellar panel.

In London, Patrick Smith, editor-in-chief of The Africa Report, editor of Africa Confidential.

In Ukraine, thank you, Constant Moet, the New York Times correspondent covering Ukraine.