Sarah Searight
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Sarah Searight highlights the problem of pillaging for those trying to piece together Mali’s rich heritage.
Published April 20 2005
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Sarah Searight tells how the efforts of the little-known Robert Moresby, together with the innovation of the marine steam engine, revolutionised trade and transport for the British Empire in the perilous waterway.
Published February 19 2003
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Sarah Searight finds that, in the past as in the present, Caspian oil has produced political conflict as well as economic development.
Published July 31 2000
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One hundred years ago a French expedition struggled from the mouth of the Congo to southern Sudan, only to have their plans thwarted by the British. Sarah Searight revisits the Fashoda incident. Published June 30 1998
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