{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65670352d7b5d40012be7324/6ad8c225a25058b22a5dceb5?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Jeffrey Donaldson: Dark questions over ex-DUP leader’s curious African shadow career ","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/65670352d7b5d40012be7324/1792590149945-dc77073a-23c1-4dae-a824-1e2723e09336.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>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. </p><p><br></p><p>Why was the then DUP leader undertaking sensitive work in dictator-led Cameroon just a week after he himself collapsed Stormont in 2022? </p><p>Why was he helping sell arms in Egypt alongside a British general? </p><p><br></p><p>Why did a special forces officer say he’d worked with Donaldson before? </p><p><br></p><p>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. </p><p><br></p><p>Sam McBride joined Ciarán Dunbar. </p>","author_name":"Belfast Telegraph"}