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CURRENT AFFAIRS: ED O'LOUGHLINreviews Saving Darfur: Everyone's Favourite African War, By Rob Crilly, Reportage Press, 256pp, £12.99

ROB CRILLY lays his cards on the table from the start. “I never came to Africa to change the world or even to save Darfur,” he writes in the introduction to his new book. “It was the search for adventure that brought me and my notebook to El Fasher.”