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- By Anas Aremeyaw Anas & Tiger Eye
- Investigations
Rural families in northeastern Ghana and parts of the Sahel have been losing vital farm donkeys—essential for ploughing and transporting crops—to a syndicate that kills the animals for their skins.
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- By Mariam Sankanu
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The Tanbi Wetlands in The Gambia are vital for protecting both a thriving oyster trade and the flood-prone capital, Banjul. However, they have been severely threatened by unchecked industrial development led by politically connected business interests.
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- By Estacio Valoi
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At lunch in Maputo, my source—neatly dressed in a blue suit, tall, with a somewhat square head and a crew cut, and who calls himself a ‘lobbyist’—insists there be no recording and no mention of his name.
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- By Mukudzei Madenyika
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One cannot really go near most mining sites in Zimbabwe. Armed security men guard even the surrounding areas, and you wait for sources to tell you that now, if ever, it might be safe. When you do manage to get close, you hear stories of the relocation of communities, dispossession, and pollution.
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- By Charles Mafa
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Suddenly, the gold mining company representative turns hostile. “Who sent you? Is it the (opposition) Patriotic Front?” he asks, his tone growing sharper. The shift from amiable agreement to defensiveness is surprising, as no probing question has yet been asked in this interview about mining in Rufunsa—an area east of the capital, Lusaka — where the man’s company, Gold Hunters, is active.
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- By By Charles Mafa (Zambia), Mukudzei Madenyika (Zimbabwe), Estacio Valoi (Mozambique), Mariam Sankanu (The Gambia) & Jack Wolf (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
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In Zambia, an entire political class is involved. In Mozambique, it still helps to know a general. The DRC has bred functionaries who guide investors to the richest prospecting. In The Gambia, the connected few build on protected wetlands, risking the capital’s survival. In Zimbabwe, natural wealth lies in the hands of the president and his loyalists.
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- By Seth J. Bokpe and Edmund Agyemang Boateng
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- By ZAM reporter
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- By Josephine Chinele (Malawi), Emmanuel Mutaizibwa (Uganda), Elizabeth BanyiTabi (Cameroon), Theophilus Abbah (Nigeria), Seth Bokpe (Ghana), Edmund Boateng (Ghana)
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- By Oliver Stallwood, Sakhile Dube and Jack Wolf
- Investigations
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- By By Josephine Chinele (Malawi), Seth J Bokpe (Ghana), Edmund Agyemang Boateng (Ghana), Chief Bisong Etahoben (Cameroon), Elizabeth BanyiTabi (Cameroon), Estacio Valoi (Mozambique), James Onono (Uganda), Uchenna Igwe (Nigeria)
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- By Chief Bisong Etahoben and Elizabeth BanyiTabi
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- By Seth J. Bokpe and Edmund Agyemang Boateng
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- By Ramdane Gidigoro* (Niger), Malick Sadibou Coulibaly (Mali), and Rachid Zaïd Combary (Burkina Faso)
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