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‘Ghost soldiers’ – Britain’s shadow war in west Africa

15 September 2022

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Lisoka Lesasuyan was injured by faulty explosives. (Images: Kelvin Kubai, MOD)

Army knew explosive was faulty years before child got maimed

4 August 2022

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British army’s white phosphorus habit revealed

3 August 2022

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‘Blood on their hands’

27 July 2022

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How UK security services obstructed the Manchester bombing inquiry

30 June 2022

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Nato knew terrorists would gain from toppling Gaddafi

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29 June 2022

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Counter-terrorism officials allowed Manchester bomber to operate in Libya warzone

28 June 2022

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Manchester bomber was a UK ally

27 June 2022

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Ian Martin with the then UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon. (Photo: Prakash Mathema / AFP via Getty)

Nato bombing of Libya ‘exceeded UN mandate’

19 May 2022

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Kibore Cheruiyot Ngasura, left, was evicted from Kericho in 1934 and deported to an island on Lake Victoria. (Photo: Tony Karumba / AFP via Getty)

Prince William petitioned by Kenyan land grab victims

4 May 2022

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Russian aircraft allegedly attack a Syrian village with white phosphorus in 2016. (Photo: Anas Sabagh via Getty)

British Army admits using white phosphorus in Kenya

27 April 2022

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Mortars fired by British troops explode in Kenya. (Photo: MOD)

British ammo almost certainly maimed Kenyan boy – new evidence

22 April 2022

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Defence Secretary Ben Wallace opens the army’s new East Africa HQ with his Kenyan counterpart. Files were destroyed in the move. (Photo: FCDO)

British army destroyed files in Kenya

21 April 2022

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Vladimir Putin visits Muammar Gadaffi in Libya, 2008. (Photo: Artyom Korotayev / Getty)

Russian mercenaries invited to Libya via Western security firm

14 April 2022

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Prince William visits Ol Maisor school in 2018. British troops train in the area. (Photo: Thomas Mukoya / AFP via Getty)

The sun never set: British army’s secret payments to colonial-era farms

6 April 2022

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USAF B-1 Bombers at the air base on Diego Garcia. (Photo by: Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Britain’s occupied territory

1 March 2022

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Cameroon's President Paul Biya and his wife Chantal (Photo: Alexis Huget / AFP via Getty)

The UK-backed African regime run by five men

26 January 2022

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Richard Leakey burns confiscated elephant tusks in 1991. The British army advised him on anti-poaching. (Photo: Andrew Holbrooke / Corbis via Getty. File: UK MOD)

Stakeknife and the spy who went on safari

10 January 2022

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Murage Gitonga addressing a Justice for Lolldaiga rally (Photo: Kelvin Kubai)

Second death linked to British army blaze in Kenya’s ‘White Highlands’

3 December 2021

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Lisoka Lesasuyan suffered life-changing injuries (Photo: ACCPA)

Exclusive: Kenyan boy lost arms in British war game

18 November 2021

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Congo’s prime minister Patrice Lumumba with UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld in 1960. (Photo: Ben Martin / Getty)

Did Britain help murder an African leader and U.N. secretary general?

26 October 2021

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Britain’s ambassador to Somalia visits the police Goodir Unit (Photo: FCDO / Twitter)

David Amess murder: How is Britain tackling the terror threat from Somalia?

18 October 2021

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Mali’s anti-terrorist

Mali massacre: police marksmen had British backing via EU scheme despite Brexit

11 October 2021

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British troops sparked a major fire in Kenya on 23 March 2021 (Photo: MOD)

British army ignored five fires before sparking Kenya inferno

24 September 2021

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