In the summer of 2005 the leaders of the G8 group of nations met at Gleneagles, with Africa and aid were top of the agenda. In the run-up to the summit Stephen Sackur went to Ethiopia, one of the poorest countries in the world, whose democratic credentials were being been questioned. He asked Prime Minister Meles Zenawi the questions Ethiopian journalists could not.
For 100 days in 1994 almost a million people were butchered in Rwanda. In 2002 Tim Sebastian talked to Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire, the UN force commander in Rwanda, who did his best to stop the genocide and who was still struggling to come to terms with the enormity of his failure.
