Declassified visited villages in Nigeria ruined by indiscriminate air strikes, which killed civilians, levelled marketplaces and hit a school — months after we revealed Nigerian air force pilots were secretly training in the UK.
Africa
Ugandan opposition call for UK Africa minister to quit over business ties to Museveni regime
A lawyer for Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine has called on Britain’s Africa minister James Duddridge to step aside, saying he is ‘caught up in a revolving door’ over his business links to the Museveni regime, which were first exposed by Declassified.
‘Tacit approval’ for killings: UK Foreign Office and police support to Kenyan anti-terror unit ‘operating like a criminal gang’ revealed
Britain’s Foreign Office knew Kenya’s Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) was involved in renditions of terror suspects yet paid for its new headquarters and continues assistance programmes, along with London’s Metropolitan Police, disclosures obtained by Declassified UK show.
Minister who welcomed Uganda’s flawed election had business ties to ally of country’s president
James Duddridge, Britain’s minister for Africa, earned tens of thousands of pounds as an adviser to a London-based finance house whose advisory board is chaired by an ally of Uganda’s authoritarian ruler, Yoweri Museveni. He also did not declare shareholdings in African companies to Parliament’s register of interests.
Britain whitewashes Uganda’s stolen election
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.
As repression in Egypt increases, so does UK cooperation with its regime
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?
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
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
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
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.