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Africa / Libya

How Labour secretly put Libyan dissidents under house arrest at Gaddafi’s behest following Blair’s ‘deal in the desert’

Published in The Mail on Sunday (September 11th, 2011) Labour used controversial control orders to put Libyan dissidents in Britain under house arrest – at the behest of […]

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Africa / Libya

Devastating secret files reveal Labour lies over Gaddafi

Published in The Mail on Sunday (September 4th, 2011) The startling extent to which Labour misled the world over the controversial release of the Lockerbie bomber is exposed […]

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Africa / Libya

Inside Gaddafi’s torture chamber: The bloodstained cells inside a former primary school used to brutalise his enemies

Published in The Mail on Sunday (August 27th, 2011) The secret door in the corner of the nondescript office swung open and I was ushered through. The walls were […]

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Africa / Aid / Congo / Rwanda

Monster behind genocide and rape squads

Published in the Daily Mail (July 27th, 2011) Women and children – desperately sick and weak after months on the run – were finally caught by Rwandan army […]

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Africa / Aid / Somaliland

The former British colony that shows Africa doesn’t need our millions to flourish

Published in The Mail on Sunday (July 24th, 2011) The Summer Time restaurant was buzzing. On the dusty road outside, new four-wheel drive cars fought for space with […]

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Africa / Aid / Arts / Music

The corrosive legacy of Live Aid

Published in the Daily Mail (June 4th, 2011) Like most people of my generation, I can still recall with utmost clarity the moment a bunch of denim-clad rockers […]

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Africa / Aid / Rwanda

Stop the flow of cash to Rwanda’s despotic regime

Published in The Times (May 23rd, 2011) Somehow, we never seem to learn. This year, we have seen seismic uprisings in North Africa expose the shabby foundations of […]

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Africa / Rwanda / Technology

My twitterspat with Paul Kagame

Published in The Guardian (May 17th, 2011) Returning home from a Saturday afternoon walk with the dog, I did what has become almost a reflex action and checked […]

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Africa / General / Ivory Coast

Gbagbo must go – and so should other African leaders who overstay

Published in The Guardian (April 4th, 2011) The horror stories have been emerging for weeks. Atrocities against children, bodies on the streets, charred corpses in the morgues. There […]

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Africa / Libya / Politics

Cameron’s battle with the desert despot may define him

Published in The Mail on Sunday (March 20th, 2011) It is hard to think of two more different people – the urbane British Prime Minister born into privilege […]

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Africa / Equatorial Guinea

Africa’s despots fear the gales will blow south

Published in The Times (March 11th, 2011) Juan Pedro Mendene was midway through his weekly radio programme, ironically called Total Relaxation, when the live broadcast was interrupted by his […]

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Africa / Libya

Bloggers warn of lynchings and Gaddafi’s deserted by his blonde Ukranian nurse

Published in The Mail on Sunday (February 27th, 2011) Muammar Gaddafi has survived many threats in his time. But now the people he has terrorised for so long […]

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Ian Birrell is an award-winning columnist, foreign correspondent, feature writer and investigative journalist. He is contributing editor of The Mail on Sunday, a weekly columnist in The i Paper and writes frequently for other papers and platforms. He is also co-founder with Damon Albarn of Africa Express, the acclaimed collaborative music project. (Pictured: Talking to refugees in Iraq fleeing Islamic State)... Read More.

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