When someone you know dies, it's the smallest things that seem the most poignant.

This morning I found myself checking through the assignments diary for our Africa bureaux.

It includes details of Kate's last assignment, of stories she never got to file and holiday time she never got to take.

It's such a terrible waste.


AFRICA DIARY – 08/02/2005

STAFFING

Johannesburg:
KATE PEYTON – Somalia – 16/2, Nairobi – 19/2 (Leave 19/2 – 27/2, 19/3 – 29/3, 2/6 – 3/6)

Mombasa:
PETER GRESTE – Somalia 8/2 – 16/2

STORIES

Peter Greste

Somalia: Government – looking at the physical infrastructure of a state that has been looted and smashed, ahead of the new government’s return. (WTV Commission)

Somalia: Telecoms – looking at how the telecoms industry has become the most developed and efficient in Africa in spite of, or rather because of a lack of government red-tape and regulation. (WTV Commission)

Somalia: Sharia Courts – looking at the role of Islamic justice in Somalia, and how it is in danger of becoming the new radical force. (WTV Commission)

Somalia: Warlord – Profiling a warlord and explaining why it is going to be so difficult for the new government to disarm them. (WTV Commission)