UK foreign office runs ‘smear campaign’ against African Stream
African Stream says leaked documents have revealed the British Foreign Office’s plot to run a smear campaign against the independent, pan-African media outlet.
Citing confidential documents, e-mails and WhatsApp conversations, African Stream said the London-based Center for Information Resilience (CIR) is at the center of the plot.
According to the report, CIR has recruited African journalists to write “smear” articles claiming that African Stream is "a Russian-funded propaganda outlet."
That’s while the claim is “not backed by any evidence other than similar accusations by the US government,” African Stream said.
Clarifying the motive behind the CIR's campaign, African Stream's editor-in-chief, Ahmed Kaballo, cited plenty of evidence indicating that the organization is firmly connected to the British and other Western governments and their intelligence agencies.
He said the alleged “independent counter-disinformation” organization was founded by two former British Foreign Office operatives, namely Ross Burley and Adam Rutland, adding that most of its senior staff have also worked with US, Britain's and Australia's intelligence wings.
Citing Declassified UK, he added that the organization has received significant amounts of funding from the UK Foreign Office, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Australian Foreign Ministry.
“Knowing who funds the CIR makes it clear why they are coming after us and accusing us of being Russia-affiliated. Our reporting, which exposes the atrocities committed by the imperialist powers against our people, has rubbed them the wrong way,” African Stream said in a post on X.
African Stream stressed that such campaigns will not undermine its determination to report anti-imperialist content.
“This attack is not the first; we know it won't be the last. But when the next one comes, it will also find us on our feet, not our knees. No number of assaults by imperialism's attack dogs will deter us from our duties as pan-African, anti-imperialist journalists.”
African Stream is a Nairobi-based online independent media outlet covering affairs concerning Africans at home and abroad.
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