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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 / 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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Aid

Ten great myths about foreign aid

Published in the Daily Mail (July 7th, 2011) As he pledged to pour hundreds of millions more into propping up Afghanistan, David Cameron accused critics of his foreign […]

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Syria / World

Why Britain must try to stop the slaughter in Syria

Published in the London Evening Standard (April 27th, 2011) Libya made history last month by becoming the first nation to be suspended from the United Nations Human Rights […]

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Aid

The scandal of orphanages in tourist resorts and disaster zones that rent children to fleece gullible Westerners

Published in The Mail on Sunday (April 10th, 2011) As a child welfare expert who has worked amid bullets and bombs in some of the world’s toughest war […]

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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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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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