Investigations

Ngina Kirori, Emmanuel Mutaizibwa, Theophilus Abbah, Elizabeth BanyiTabi and Bram Vermeulen during the Cry Freedom conversation at the International Theatre Amsterdam. © Elzo Bonam

Details: By ZAM; Investigations; 26 February 2023

Of course there were visa troubles. We had ensured the timely submission of all required paperwork, including proof that our guests’ stay would be temporary, but there were still headaches regardless.

Details: By Data Report: Trends of repression and resistance; Investigations; 18 January 2023

Details: By Evelyn Groenink; Investigations; 18 January 2023

Kleptocracy Project

Details: By Evelyn Groenink; Investigations; 18 January 2023

Kleptocracy Project

Commuters in Abuja pass a wall covered in election posters. Photo by Dawali David

Details: By Theophilus Abbah; Investigations; 18 January 2023

Young people with limited resources read the papers not just to get information on current affairs but also to watch out for the civil service application windows, which only appear in the official gazette. They seldom buy newspapers, however, preferring to pay vendors to allow them to skim the articles rather than spending more to buy a copy. Photo by Rodrig Mbock

Details: By Chief Bisong Etahoben and Elizabeth BanyiTabi; Investigations; 18 January 2023

Voters look for their names on the voter’s roll at the Olympic Primary School polling centre in Presidential candidate Raila Odinga’s home constituency of Kibera ahead of the Kenyan general election. Photo by Samson Otieno

Details: By Ngina Kirori; Investigations; 18 January 2023

The police force descended in large numbers and beat those civilians who came out to protest against the high cost of living on August 16th 2019. Photo by Shepherd Tozvireva

Details: By Brezh Malaba; Investigations; 18 January 2023

Posters of Uganda President Yoweri Museveni are seen piled on Ben Kiwanuka street after national elections in Kampala, Uganda, on January 15, 2021. The incumbent was re-elected, though the election results were widely dismissed as being heavily rigged. Photo by Badru Katumba

Details: By Emmanuel Mutaizibwa; Investigations; 18 January 2023

Pedestrians stand on a roundabout on the Senanga to Sesheke Road. Photo by Chisaka Isaac Chulu

Details: By Charles Mafa; Investigations; 11 January 2023

Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) offices in Lilongwe, Malawi. Photo by Fatsani Gunya

Details: By Josephine Chinele; Investigations; 19 December 2022

Malawi

Details: By Josephine Chinele; Investigations; 06 December 2022

Malawi

Details: By Jack McBrams; Investigations; 01 December 2022

Malawi

Broken electricity distribution wires in Okitipupa, a community in the Ondo South district. Photo by Taiwo Adebulu

Details: By Taiwo Adebulu; Investigations; 13 October 2022

Route 529 is due to erosion at some places a very dangerous road by day, and a killer by night. Photo by Anneke Verbraeken

Details: By Anneke Verbraeken; Investigations; 30 September 2022

Details: By ZAM Reporter; Investigations; 28 September 2022

Nigeria

Details: By James Onono Ojok; Investigations; 07 September 2022

Uganda

Nurses sing and dance during their strike in 2020 which lasted for more than three months. The health workers’ grievances included poor salaries and poor working conditions. Bulawayo, Zimbabwe on 7 July, 2020. Photo by KB Mpofu

Details: By Mukudzei Madenyika; Investigations; 25 August 2022

A group of artisanal miners pose for a group photograph in Nthoro, Namanhumbir, Northern Mozambique. Picture by Emidio Jozine

Details: By Estacio Valoi; Investigations; 16 August 2022

Details: By Josephine Chinele; Investigations; 28 July 2022

Kleptocracy Project

Details: By Bettie Johnson-Mbayo; Investigations; 21 July 2022

Boarding the train. Photo by Adejumo Kabir.

Details: By Adejumo Kabir; Investigations; 08 June 2022

Gaja Usman, leader of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, looks out over the shifting sand dunes that have pushed back the Zakkari community in Yusufari. The encroaching desert displaced him from his hometown, made livestock farming difficult and worsened water scarcity issues. Photo by Murtala Abdullahi April 11, 2022

Details: By Kunle Adebajo and Murtala Abdullahi; Investigations; 08 May 2022

Cry Freedom comes to Amsterdam

Human rights violations 2017-2022 in Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Kenya

Cry Freedom

Cry Freedom | Trends of repression and resistance in five African countries

Nigeria | Death by tax collector

Cameroon | The truth is a dangerous business

Kenya | The Hidden Cost of Free and Fair

Zimbabwe | No human rights for ‘bad apples’

Uganda | How to remove a dictator remotely

Zambia | A long and potholed road ahead

Malawi | Government in blame game over anti-corruption chief’s arrest

Malawi’s Anti-Corruption Bureau chief arrested

Malawi | The Perils Of Unsafe Abortions

Nigeria | Power company’s ‘crazy billing’ under scrutiny

Route 529, the muddy road to peace in Congo | Route 529, de modderige ‘weg van de vrede’ in Congo

Nigeria | Choosing pollution over starvation

Uganda | Old ways may still threaten new roads

Zimbabwe | Losing human gold

Mozambique | The squandered taxes of Montepuez

Malawi | Punished for not being corrupt

Liberia | Ongoing Persecution of a colleague and her partner by a Liberian MP

The road to Kaduna

Nigeria | An encroaching desert intensifies Nigeria’s farmer-herder crisis

Mozambique | Danish protests against involvement in polluting coal mine

Video | Central Africa's Kleptolands. How the rich get richer.