The UK government has effectively endorsed evidently unfair elections in Uganda, where both the opposition and media were subjected to violence and intimidation, to help Yoweri Museveni, a favoured authoritarian leader who has been in power for 34 years, to remain in office.
Africa
As repression in Egypt increases, so does UK cooperation with its regime
by BELÉN FERNÁNDEZ | 19 January 2021
TAGGED: Egypt
Ten years on from the Arab Spring, the UK government’s relationship with a brutal regime in Egypt goes from strength to strength, as the country witnesses its worst human rights crisis in modern history, under Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Did the UK’s secret Libya policy contribute to the Manchester terror attack?
by PETER OBORNE | 16 December 2020
TAGGED: Libya, Manchester Bombing, MI6, terrorism
The official inquiry into the 2017 Manchester bombing has yet to probe the links between the terrorist, Salman Abedi, and UK covert action during the 2011 war in Libya – yet there is no point in the inquiry unless it asks difficult questions the British establishment would rather avoid.
MI6 has a long history of being a law unto itself
by RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR | 13 November 2020
TAGGED: MI6
After Declassified UK’s revelation that Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), known as MI6, ‘misled’ two inquiries into the arrest of a suspected British terrorist in Kenya, Richard Norton-Taylor outlines the long history of MI6 operating outside of democratic control.
Revealed: MI6 ‘misled’ two inquiries into arrest of Lee Rigby’s killer
by NAMIR SHABIBI | 12 November 2020
TAGGED: Kenya, MI6, terrorism
Three intelligence officers tell Declassified UK that Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI6, tracked and arranged the arrest of Michael Adebolajo in Kenya, contradicting MI6’s testimony to two intelligence oversight reviews.
Nigerian air force learning to fly helicopters in England amid human rights concerns
by PHIL MILLER | 11 November 2020
TAGGED: Cobham, Nigeria
Nigerian air force personnel are learning to fly helicopters in Newquay, southwest England, amid allegations by Amnesty International that military aircraft have killed civilians in Nigeria. Yet the UK’s Ministry of Defence says it has no knowledge of this training.
British security firm Saladin tries to distance itself from police war crimes investigation
by PHIL MILLER | 18 September 2020
TAGGED: Keenie Meenie Services, Kenya, Saladin Security, Sri Lanka
One of Britain’s oldest private security companies has admitted to UN experts that it shared an office building in west London with a group of mercenaries being investigated for alleged war crimes – but denies involvement.
How a British policeman helped normalise torture in a Gulf monarchy
by QAYS ABDULLA | 14 September 2020
TAGGED: Bahrain, Kenya, Police
As two political prisoners face execution in Bahrain, the country’s repressive justice system remains rooted in the career of Ian Henderson – one of the most notorious police officers the British empire ever produced, who caused suffering to scores of Bahrainis including members of my family.
The militarisation of US/Africa policy: How the CIA came to lead deadly counter-terrorism operations in Kenya
by NAMIR SHABIBI | 28 August 2020
TAGGED: Kenya
US and Kenyan diplomatic and intelligence officials tell Declassified UK why the CIA set up a covert paramilitary counter-terror team, how it flies recruits to the US for special training, and why Britain helps gather intelligence on targets.
Revealed: The CIA and MI6’s secret war in Kenya
by NAMIR SHABIBI | 28 August 2020
TAGGED: Kenya, MI6
A covert Kenyan paramilitary team armed and trained by the US and supported by UK intelligence is behind renditions and controversial killings of terror suspects in night-time raids, Declassified UK can reveal.