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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.
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- By Evelyn Groenink
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After the publication of our fifth AIPC-ZAM investigation, titled ‘The Ruby Plunder Wars of Montepuez,’ ZAM received correspondence from Mr Brian Cattell, a consultant for Gemfields, which –as majority partner in the Montepuez Ruby Mining company- features prominently in the story.
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- By Evelyn Groenink
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After his last undercover investigation, Ghana’s judicial authority sacked twenty-one judges and nineteen judicial service workers. A portrait of Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
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- By Anas Aremeyaw Anas, Theophilus Abbah and Benon Herbert Oluka
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Conscientious officials and their fight against corruption.
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- By ZAM reporter
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The African Investigative Publishing Collective and ZAM’s first two investigations -on failing malaria aid and the ‘war on terror’- were met with interest worldwide.
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- By Tshireletso Motlogelwa and Matteo Civillini
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Presidential arms dealers and securocrats rule Africa’s ‘success story.’
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- By David Dembele, Hamza Idris, Muno Gedi, Bram Posthumus and Kenya correspondent
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Let down by ruling elites, it is difficult for youth in East and West Africa to withstand the ‘siren call’ of jihadi movements.
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- By Estacio Valoi (Mozambique) and Gesbeen Mohammad (UK)
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How villagers fight a mining pact from hell in the world’s richest ruby deposit.
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- By Zack Ohemeng Tawiah (Ghana) and Francis Mbala (DRC), with contributions from Janneke Donkerlo (Amsterdam, Geneva) and Erick Kabendera (Dar es Salaam)
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How donor campaigns are setting the fight against malaria back.