An 18-storey building collapsed in Eastleigh, Kenya. Already in 2023, ZAM reporters uncovered why this keeps happening. www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

Kenya, Nigeria | The outrage of collapsing buildings

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In a groundbreaking financial investigation, Ghana Business News exposed how hundreds of millions of dollars in cocoa income were wasted over the past decade by officials entrusted with the livelihoods of cocoa farmers. The cocoa dollar wasting game: www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

Ghana | The cocoa dollar wasting game

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The cocoa dollar scam, a kleptocrat's golden glasses, Rwanda's war talk, and more. The new Kleptocracy Report is out! kleptocracyreport.substack.com/p/kr21-the-c...

KR#21: The chocolate and the greed

New investigations and analysis from ZAM and our network.

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At a press conference in Cameroon, Minister Mey missed his golden glasses. Four journalists were accused and imprisoned for 6 days, while the glasses were in the Minister's car. According to investigative reporters, kleptocrats in Cameroon have access to much undeclared gold.

Kidnapping syndicates run rampant in Nigeria. Much aid goes to fighting the scourge, but somehow unnecessary arms contracts are prioritised. www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

Nigeria | The ransom economy

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After a struggle joined by the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Media Institute of southern Africa and @zammagazine.bsky.social, a Mozambican court ordered the return of Estacio Valoi's laptop and phones seized last June. Valoi investigated timber smuggling. www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

Into the Woods II

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The new Kleptocracy Report is out! In this issue: Nigerian leaders buy fighter jets rather than address citizens' needs; the exploitation of tech migrants in 'Silicon Savannah'; activists in Uganda crowdfund their resistance; and more. kleptocracyreport.substack.com/p/kr20-crowd...

KR#20: Crowdfunding resistance

New investigations and analysis from ZAM and our network.

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Why politicians are cowards and the Nigerian First Lady was not amused. Read how satirical artists in four African countries laugh at power amid wave after wave of new followers. A ZAM team traced their disruptive influence. www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

Africa | Artivists

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This murder investigation www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026... remains very close to ZAM's heart. Also see www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

TRC investigator shut down interview probing Dulcie September murder, inquiry hears

Dulcie September’s family wants to know who told the TRC special investigations chief to abruptly terminate the Paris interview, shortly after the mention of a man tied to French arms companies and re...

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Students, scholars and @zammagazine.bsky.social came together in Groningen to reimagine Europe and visualise change, disruption and repair. Why are the hands that extract the minerals not represented in the cloud? www.zammagazine.com/arts/2113-re...

Reimagining Europe | Glitching to Rebuild

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Look, we're not the only ones saying it. theafricareport.com/427990/zambi.... Also do reread zammagazine.com/investigatio..., where we explain the role of #EU money in African elections.

Zambia’s election was flawed and may need to be rerun

Zambia’s election was not supposed to end like this. For much of the campaign, President Hakainde Hichilema looked well-placed to secure a second term. Instead, the country has emerged from the 13 August vote with its democratic credibility in serious doubt.

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Elections in #Zambia today! Three months ago, we already wrote about what was and is going to happen, and how #EU money is making things not better but worse. See "Elections Circus" here: www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

Zambia | Restraint and fear

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For our Dutch readers, voor onze NL lezers: ons verhaal over de recente Family Values Conference in Accra, Ghana, nu hier www.groene.nl/artikel/soev...

Op deze Afrikaanse conferentie willen autocraten de traditionele familiewaarden herstellen. Zonder westerse inmenging – toch?

Afrikaanse autocraten willen afrekenen met het ‘westerse’ feminisme en de rechten van lhbtqi+’ers. Om conferenties te organiseren over traditionele familiewaarden krijgen ze steun van trumpisten, Russ...

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The new Kleptocracy Report is out! Check it here kleptocracyreport.substack.com/p/kr19-the-i...

Burkina Faso junta leader Ibrahim Traoré is fast achieving hero status due to his anti-imperialist rhetoric. But following his reign in recent years, -and a massive death toll-, ZAM is not so sure it is deserved. Read www.zammagazine.com/investigatio.... Or www.zammagazine.com/politics-opi....

Hôtel Kremlin | Burkina Faso (English)

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A new pan-African arts magazine panaf.org/news/drum-ro... documents how art across the continent is routinely subjected to abuse, attacks, and other violations. However, despite growing pressures, artists continue to persist and thrive. Read our review: www.zammagazine.com/arts/2106-af...

Drum Rolls…….Introducing PANAF Voices Magazine

Drum Rolls.......Introducing PANAF Voices Magazine PANAF Voices is a bold new digital platform dedicated to amplifying the voices of African

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It is anti-colonial to confine "confused youth" to the village, ban gender rights and claim "sovereign" power. Read our undercover report about Accra's Family Values (and US rightwing) Conference here: www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

Africa | Strange bedfellows

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Our colleagues raided and criminally investigated, people abducted, tortured and disappeared every day. When will the insane military dictatorship in #Uganda finally be sanctioned? @ec.europa.eu @euobserver.com @minbz.bsky.social

The Finance Bill protests of 2024 will be commemorated this week again with more protests.

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Remember when Kenya (under an IMF program) tried to pass a finance bill that sparked mass protests, with protesters even storming Parliament? Kenya's Finance Minister at the time, Njūgūna Ndūng'ū, is now speaking out on the flaws with IMF programs www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/i...

Uganda keeps disappearing people, this time someone who also published with us www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/.... EU @eucouncil.bsky.social is still allies with dictator Museveni and his insanely cruel son and Chief of Defence #Muhoozi. #FreeAndrewNatumanya.

NUP condemns fresh wave of 'drone' abductions as Ninye Tabz is seized in Kamwokya

violently intercepted and whisked away by armed operatives in a notorious Toyota Hiace minibus, popularly known in Uganda as a "drone."

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The Network of African Investigative Reporters and Editors, NAIRE, condemns the mistreatment of our colleague, human rights activist Agather Atuhaire at Schiphol airport. See attached statement. @klm.bsky.social @marechaussee.bsky.social @ministeriejenv.bsky.social @nrc.nl @fenkee.bsky.social

New op-ed: the West is so hated by Nigeria's militants, that targeted attacks on Christians really do take place - a lot. But Donald Trump's answer to just bomb the "terrorist scum" only makes things worse. Read www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

Nigeria | The dream of the Caliphate

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Exploiting health scarcity is when anti-vax researchers go to a desperately poor country to conduct a medical trial to see if babies really need vaccines. Read www.zammagazine.com/politics-opi...

Guinea-Bissau | Exploiting health scarcity

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South Africa’s post-apartheid Constitution is paving the way for the decriminalisation of sex work in the country. "A win for vulnerable communities." See www.zammagazine.com/politics-opi...

South Africa | A victory for legal sex work

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Two imperial powers fighting for treasure maps that show Congolese wealth. Congolese leadership seems to have already sold to one. "We are left with tears." www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

Besides the US happily asking Kenya to receive highly infectious American Ebola patients t.co/lftPuVfjQp: have Kenyan authorities told Kenyan citizens? Says one of the comments under a Kenyan post about this on X: "I believe (president) Ruto has had his cut already." #poisonouspartnership #ebola.

Selay Kouassi, author of the Cote d’Ivoire chapter of the Election Circus Transnational Investigation, explains what role EU funding played in Côte d'Ivoire's fraudulent elections www.instagram.com/p/DYm6-bsMAkX/.

Our Nigerian colleagues tell us that some media have received visits from the security agencies, impressing on them not to criticise the government. And yet they publish! dailytrust.com/elections-ci... and premiumtimesng.com/news/top-new...

Elections circus: How new machines did not help Nigerian...

“I was so frustrated and exhausted,” Josephine Ochadamu says when asked about her experiences as an Assistant Presiding Officer at a polling unit in Nasarawa...

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According to Ugandan friends, many copies were bought when the Monitor daily published our zammagazine.com/investigatio.... The EU still seems intimidated by the regime, but at least our colleagues in journalism are brave!

Ivory Coast's electoral commission was disbanded on the day that zammagazine.com/investigatio... was published by 4 media in that country! "We clearly contributed to the momentum for reform, exposing critical issues at a pivotal moment" says author Selay Kouassi lesursaut-ci.com/web.frontend...

Ivory Coast | A mirage of democracy

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