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Ian Birrell

  • Award-winning columnist and foreign reporter. Contributing editor of The Mail on Sunday and weekly columnist in the 'i' paper. Writes regularly for many other papers, platforms and magazines. Frequent broadcaster and speaker at events. Co-founder wth Damon Albarn of the Africa Express music project and executive producer of 4 albums...Read more
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  • The West can play a part defeating dictatorship
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  • Musicians deserve a helping hand
  • Theresa May is in no position to lecture on moral leadership
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Deal is an own goal

Published by The Sun (11th June, 2018) Paul Kagame is one of the world’s most ruthless dictators. He runs a... Read Full Article

Deal that makes a mockery of fair play

Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th May, 2018) After a decade writing about the aid industry, I thought I... Read Full Article

Rwanda deserves to be condemned as much as Russia

Published by The Times (14th March, 2018) After a hard week working as a mental health nurse manager, Noble Marara... Read Full Article

Why does Rwanda still get British aid?

Published by The Times (31st August, 2017) Diane Rwigara is a brave woman. Her industrialist father died in what she... Read Full Article

‘Donor darling’ despot falsifies poverty numbers and sends hitmen to Britain

Published by The Mail on Sunday (23rd July, 2017) Emmanuel Gasakure could have enjoyed a comfortable life as a cardiologist... Read Full Article

Print your own body parts

Published by Mosaic Science, The Observer & The Atlantic (19th February, 2017) John Nhial was barely a teenager when he... Read Full Article

How ‘Big Brother’ is destroying free speech in Rwanda

Published by The Observer (10th January) Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship by Anjan Sundaram (Bloomsbury) The text arrived... Read Full Article

Assassins linked to Kagame regime

Published by The Independent (30th August, 2014) Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa had only been in South Africa for a few months... Read Full Article

Kagame’s enemies have a strange habit of dying

Published in The Independent (January 3rd, 2014) Patrick Karegeya knew Paul Kagame well. The pair went to school together, worked... Read Full Article

When democracy is accused of blood on its hands

Published in The Independent (May 13th, 2013) When the new president of Kenya visited London last week for the summit on... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • The West can play a part defeating dictatorship
  • Virus ‘definitely’ began in China, say US scientists
  • Musicians deserve a helping hand
  • Theresa May is in no position to lecture on moral leadership
  • The inhumanity of deeming some lives ‘more valuable’ than others

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