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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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David Cameron celebrates in Benghazi, Libya, with French president Nicholas Sarkozy in 2011. (Photo: Stefan Rousseau / Getty Images)

Four terrorists who murdered Britons fought in David Cameron’s war in Libya

25 May 2021

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Helicopter attacks Nigerian civilians after British pilot training

13 May 2021

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Ugandan opposition call for UK Africa minister to quit over business ties to Museveni regime

18 March 2021

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‘Tacit approval’ for killings: UK Foreign Office and police support to Kenyan anti-terror unit ‘operating like a criminal gang’ revealed

11 February 2021

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Minister who welcomed Uganda’s flawed election had business ties to ally of country’s president

28 January 2021

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Britain whitewashes Uganda’s stolen election

20 January 2021

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As repression in Egypt increases, so does UK cooperation with its regime

19 January 2021

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David Cameron walks with Libyan rebels upon his arrival at Benghazi Airport on 15 September 2011 (Photo: Stefan Rousseau / AFP via Getty)

Did the UK’s secret Libya policy contribute to the Manchester terror attack?

16 December 2020

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MI6 has a long history of being a law unto itself

13 November 2020

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Revealed: MI6 ‘misled’ two inquiries into arrest of Lee Rigby’s killer

12 November 2020

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Nigerian air force learning to fly helicopters in England amid human rights concerns

11 November 2020

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British security firm Saladin tries to distance itself from police war crimes investigation

18 September 2020

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How a British policeman helped normalise torture in a Gulf monarchy

14 September 2020

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The militarisation of US/Africa policy: How the CIA came to lead deadly counter-terrorism operations in Kenya

28 August 2020

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