What was Jeffrey Donaldson doing in Africa? Examining his international double life

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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…