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Africa / Aid / Zambia

Guards at Harry’s Africa charity face new killing and torture allegations

Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th March, 2024) An African conservation charity of which Prince Harry is a director is facing further accusations of human rights abuses […]

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Africa / Aid

Wasteful and misguided: what the new aid minister really thinks about the £14bn we send abroad each year

Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th May, 2019) The new International Development Secretary has admitted that ‘not a great deal has been achieved’ with foreign aid, The Mail […]

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Africa / Ethiopia / Technology

Support journalists, not countries that jail them

Published in The Guardian (August 5th, 2013) ‘I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse. For all of us, […]

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Aid / China / India / World

Forget aid and target inequality

Published in Prospect (November 9th, 2012) Should Britain give aid to India? For a hefty majority of people in this country, the answer is clear: it is absurd […]

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Africa / Zambia

A good news story out of Africa brings hope

Published in The Observer (September 25th, 2011) Even in this remarkable year of uprisings and unpredictable events, it was an inspirational moment that revealed the pace of change […]

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Africa / Aid / General

Big men, bankers and the stench of corruption

Published in The Independent (August 18th, 2009) Frederick Chiluba is a sharp dresser. The one-time bus conductor who rose to become President of Zambia has a fondness for […]

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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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