A trove of confidential documents, e-mails and WhatsApp conversations has unveiled a ploy by the British Foreign Office to run a smear campaign against African Stream. The Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) is at the centre of the scheme, the latest by Western governments opposed to our independent and African-centred reporting. According to the documents, CIR is paying African journalists to write articles claiming that African Stream is a Russian-funded propaganda outlet – a claim not backed by any evidence ...