Gallery -- Key Figures

From right to left: Somali warlords Mohammed Said Hersi "Morgan", the late Mohammed Farah Aidid (of Black Hawk Down fame, later made into a book and film), Youssef Khazem, Ali Mohammed Elewa and Abdi Warsameh Isaaq.

With the late Sudanese Vice President and SPLA Chairman, John Garang

Interviewing Ugandan President Youweri Museveni

After independence with Isias Afewerki, the first President of Eritrea

With Riek Machar, the first Vice-President of the independent Republic of South Sudan

With the late Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi

With the late Hassan Gouled Aptidon, the first President of Djibouti

With President of the Republic of Sudan, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, a week after his coup d'etat in 1989 -- this was al-Bashir's first interview with the Arab press following the coup

Interviewing Sudanese Former Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi

With religious and Islamist Sudanese political leader Dr. Hassan al-Turabi

With Former Somali President Dr. Abdiquasim Salad Hassan