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- By Evelyn Groenink
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Our researchers intimidated and detained, whistleblowers killed in suspect car accidents, legal threats and numerous ‘no comments.’
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- By African Investigative Publishing Collective
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African kleptocratic rulers plunder natural resources and state budgets with the assistance of international and local business people.
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- By African Investigative Publishing Collective
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For poor women, doing sex work to survive is the rule rather than the exception.
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- By African Investigative Publishing Collective
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- By Estácio Valoi
- Investigations
Withholding of promised funds left Mozambican communities to battle cyclones, floods and drought alone for years.
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- By ZAM Reporter
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First we were accused of ‘gross distortions’. Now the mining company gives in.
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- By Oluwatosin Adeshokan
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Why Nigerian doctors escape a rotten health system.
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- By Evelyn Groenink
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The walls of kleptocracy are cracking under the force of stories and revelations. With a new pan-African alliance the changemakers’ movement enters a new stage.
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- By Olivia Ndubuisi
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Olivia Ndubuisi infiltrated one of the notorious ‘419 scams’ industry’s headquarters.
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- By ZAM Reporter
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Exactly one week ago a hard-hitting investigation into the plunder of state resources by African oligarchs was launched at ZAM headquarters in Amsterdam
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- By Maxime Domegni, Eric Mwamba, Francis Mbala, Estacio Valoi, Lawrence Seretse, Evelyn Groenink, and Correspondent Rwanda and Burundi
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How African oligarchs steal from their countries.
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- By Theophilus Abbah, Zack Ohemeng Tawiah, Benon Herbert Oluka, Muno Gedi and Anas Aremeyaw Anas
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The war for grazing lands in Africa.
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- By Benon Herbert Oluka
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Outside Peyero bar on Gulu Municipality’s Langara road in north Uganda is a car which, by the last letter on its licence plate, belongs to State House, the official residence of the president.
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- By Chief Bisong Etahoben
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“There were trees there,” says Patience Ndifor of the Society for Initiatives in Rural Development and Environmental Protection (SIRDEP) which receives funding from Germany, over the phone.
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- By Ken Opala
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They had come, way back in the year 2000, to promise Lucianna Wanjiku, 58, that her mud shack in Soweto settlement in Kibera, Nairobi, -often called ‘the greatest slum on earth- would be rehabilitated.
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- By Selay Kouassi
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“You won’t find anyone talking to you about these programmes,” says Amadi Sidiné, whose shop alongside the main road in Duékoué, among the street’s many vegetable stalls, sells everything from cans of tomatoes to light bulbs.
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- By Francis Mbala and Eric Mwamba
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The World Bank in the DRC.
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- By Benon Herbert Oluka, Chief Bisong Etahoben, Francis Mbala, Eric Mwamba, Selay Kouassi, Ken Opala
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“I won’t complain. They can kill my children with witchcraft.”
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- By ZAM
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African investigative journalists and development aid workers from the West who work on the continent are strange bedfellows.
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- By Evelyn Groenink
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How a British multinational became an apologist for a murderous regime.
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- By Evelyn Groenink
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Journalist and peace activist Ahmad Salkida has been arrested in Nigeria. He had flown there from exile in Dubai to share information on Boko Haram with the authorities.
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- By Evelyn Groenink
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Journalist and peace activist Ahmad Salkida has been arrested in Nigeria.
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- By Evelyn Groenink
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The six cross-border investigations done by AIPC-ZAM teams shatter some dominant narratives.
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- By Anneke Verbraeken, Chief Bisong Etahoben, Fidelis MacLeva and Alberique Houndjo
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Witches are real. They exercise political power in West African societies.
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- By Evelyn Groenink
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The ruby company writes to ZAM about ‘gross distortions’ in our story about mining in Montepuez. ZAM responds.