Jon Swain - writer and foreign correspondent
Some of Jon’s recent reports for The Sunday Times
On Zimbabwe and Africa
Mugabe's Dirty Diamonds
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe pays security goons $5,000 a day
Robert Mugabe closes in on last white farmers
Zimbabwe cabal seizes diamond riches to buy power
Grasping Grace puts diamond business on her shopping list
Is Somalia the new Afghanistan?
Africa: China’s new frontier
On Afghanistan
Book review: Seeds of Terror: How heroin is bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda by Gretchen Peters
Vietnam has ominous echoes for president stuck in unwinnable war
Stephen Farrell: Rescuing Robohack
On the Air France airline crash
Air France flight 447
On the Middle East
Book review: The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
Fresh-faced, I fell into the honey trap laid by Israel’s Mata Hari
Iran takes fight to opposition online