Police chief quit after abuse by British colonial troops in Kenya covered up
Documentary reveals how Britain was not only involved in rape and torture but tried to suppress evidence A former police commissioner resigned after attempts to...
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‘Like a scene out of Jaws’: British boy attacked by sharks in Bahamas
Finley Downer, eight, bitten on both legs by nurse sharks at Compass Cay before being pulled to safety An eight-year-old British boy has been attacked...
London museum returns 72 Benin treasures to Nigeria
Horniman museum is first government-funded institution to hand back artefacts looted by British forces in 1897 A London museum is to return 72 treasured artefacts,...
Commonwealth Games must do more for LGBT rights, says former swimmer
Michael Gunning calls for event to push for change after a ‘petrifying’ visit to his home country, Jamaica The former Team GB swimmer Michael Gunning...
Portrait of tyrant Thomas Picton moved to side room in Welsh museum
Exhibition includes two specially commissioned works reframing story of former Trinidad governor For more than a century, the portrait of Thomas Picton hung in a...
Oxford University may return items looted from Nigeria by Britain in 1897
University council supports claim for 97 artefacts, including bronzes, currently held in city’s museums Oxford University could return almost 100 artefacts that were looted by...
Anticolonial hero statue to occupy Trafalgar Square fourth plinth from September
Antelope by Samson Kambalu depicts John Chilembwe wearing hat in defiance of colonial rule in Nyasaland, now Malawi A sculpture of a preacher who was...
UK officials raised concerns over Rwanda policy, documents show
Charity says disclosures in legal case paint picture of home secretary desperate to push policy through The Home Office pushed through its policy of sending...
Home Office in fresh row with UNHCR over Rwanda asylum policy
Despite court hearing, Home Office continues to claim UNHCR is supportive of controversial scheme The Home Office has been accused of misrepresenting the UN refugee...
‘I could have been a Mo Farah’: trafficked boxer denied his shot at Olympic glory by Home Office
Kelvin Bilal Fawaz reveals how Farah’s TV interview was a reminder of how his own boxing career was lost to life in immigration limbo A...
