February 2001
(13th February 2001)
Each morning in Bujumbura, you can read a long list of things you didn't see, and screams you didn't hear. Every day, local news agency Azania rounds up the night's activities, and it is always grim reading. 17 July 2001: Three dead in a rebel attack at Gakenke. A rebel attack in Rumonge commune. A civilian beaten to death by soldiers. A rebel attack in ...
(1st February 2001)
Picture a paparazzi. A greasy, corpulent roué, fresh from a tabloid picture desk, reeking whisky and cynicism? But the man waiting to meet me at 11pm in a Florence hotel lobby is none of the above. Massimo Sestini, notorious paparazzo, scourge of celebrities, is instead slim, wiry, dressed in black with Florentine elegance, and playing with his Palm Pilot. "Ciao!" he says with the warmth ...