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14 September 2024
UAE ‘used Russian mercenary group to arm Sudan rebels’
Wagner, renamed Africa Corps after the death of its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin last year, ‘shipped arms from Dubai’ to militants accused of war crimes in Darfur
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29 November 2023
Scramble for Africa
An Emirati sheikh and an Italian fugitive are hoovering up land for an ambitious carbon offsetting project that critics say will make the climate crisis worse
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31 May 2023
‘This is plunder’: Illegal quarries threaten one of Africa’s fastest vanishing forests
Sierra Leone is on the climate change frontline. Its defences are on sale to the highest bidder
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16 November 2022
BP’s latest dirty secret? An oil terminal polluting the Red Sea for decades
Just across the water from the COP27 summit, a plant recently owned by BP is pumping contaminated water into the ocean—and has been doing so for decades
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8 February 2022
London is a battleground for Nigeria’s looted oil millions
Fortunes stolen by military dictator Sani Abacha are now being fought over in UK courts
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21 January 2022
Kazakh leader’s grandson was mystery client at collapsed ‘golden visa’ firm
Dolfin Financial went bust after being accused of misleading regulators over its ties with Nurali Aliyev, an oligarch with luxury property in London
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7 February 2021
Revealed: The fossil fuel projects in line for UK support despite ban
Offshore oil drilling in Brazil, a gas pipeline in Turkmenistan and power stations in Iraq among the projects that could still be approved
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4 February 2021
Dirty white elephants
Incinerators were supposed to solve the UK’s waste crisis. Are they making it worse?
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