Jeffrey Donaldson was doing paid work for the ministry of defence in Africa even as acute political turmoil was engulfing his party at home in Northern Ireland. 

Why was the then DUP leader undertaking sensitive work in dictator-led Cameroon just a week after he himself collapsed Stormont in 2022? 

Why was he helping sell arms in Egypt alongside a British general? 

Why did a special forces officer say he’d worked with Donaldson before? 

Profound political questions remain over who all the now convicted paedophile was working for – alongside concerns about whether he had access to children in developing countries. 

Sam McBride joined Ciarán Dunbar.  

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