The new Kleptocracy Report is out! With news about African investigative journalists at the GIJC Conference, elephant poaching in Benin, regimes that spy on their citizens, and how 'fair minerals' don't work. Read it here: kleptocracyreport.substack.com/p/kr12-chasi...

Whenever we think we have seen it all, something like Nicki Minaj addressing the United Nations about “genocide” of Christians in Nigeria happens. Read Beloved John's op-ed about all the ways that this doesn't make sense: www.zammagazine.com/politics-opi...

Tanzania and Cameroon in flames, genocide in Sudan. Anybody looking into how much support from EU, the West and its allies still flows to dictators and warlords in Africa?

Should Europe start worrying about African migrants going back home because it's getting better there? Read our newest www.zammagazine.com/investigatio....

Also don't miss our story on how Kenya's government is selling out its youth to Russia zammagazine.com/investigatio... and our presentation of the full team that investigated the #Alabuga recruitment scheme and its consequences here: www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

How Beloved John almost got herself recruited zammagazine.com/investigatio..., and the Zimbabwe family that was left behind after a government official 'asked if I wanted my daughter to study in Russia' zammagazine.com/investigatio.... Read the new instalments in our #Alabuga #MigrantBattalion.

Our partners at Africa Uncensored published the next batch in our #Alabuga Russian recruitment series. Uganda africauncensored.online/blog/2025/09... is developing into a trafficking station: unwanted migrants dumped there, citizens encouraged to leave for Russia. A glimpse of things to come?

Over the past seven months, a ZAM team investigated Russian recruitment of young African women for its war industry. In this episode, Josephine Chinele tries to find her compatriots. www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

We are live! www.zammagazine.com/investigatio... #MigrantBattalion #Alabuga #AlabugaStart

From Great Lakes, Kenya, Nigeria, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia & Cameroon to Russia's war. Upcoming Monday 8 September: #MigrantBattalion, an 8 month cross border investigation by @zammagazine and @NAIREAfrica into the collusion of African officials with Russia’s @sezalabuga scheme.

Recommended for our Dutch audience: the Russia Route, on African young men fighting for Russia in Ukraine vpro.nl/artikelen/fr.... Tune in 7 September, 23.10 hrs,VPRO, NPO 2 and NPO Start. Then on Monday, ZAM presents #MigrantBattalion. See, read and hear both!

In our 9th issue kleptocracyreport.substack.com/p/kr9-lithiu...: Ghanaians fight for farmers and road users; the DRC's Manono village sees investors as enemies; Nigeria's securocrats under fire; and Kenya's Central Bank is to survey (and probably tax) diaspora remittances. Read and subscribe!

Just published: Kleptocracy Report #8 highlights African citizens' movements and activists standing up against polluters and political business frauds -and booking victories. Read it here kleptocracyreport.substack.com/p/kr8-chasin....

In the Sell-Outs transnational investigative series, we have now published Mariam Sankanu's piece on the rapacious building on crucial Wetlands in The Gambia. Read it here: www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

In Kleptocracy Report #7: ZAM's new transnational investigation into poisonous partnerships between multinationals and local African elites, the use of the Colonial Bogeyman by African despots, human traffickers, corrupt judges and more kleptocracyreport.substack.com/p/kr7-poison...

The third instalment in our Sell-Outs project portrays the lobbyists within the Mozambican government zammagazine.com/investigatio.... Read how contracts are signed behind the backs of real businesspeople and how factions fight for loot -but also note some change in the air.

Protests to once again emphasize that #Rutomostgo in Kenya, one year after scores died in the streets of Nairobi. Once again there are young people dead and missing. Read Jaya Khamala on solidarity here www.zammagazine.com/politics-opi... and follow @nanjala.bsky.social for updates.

A political class in Zambia, generals in Mozambique, enablers in the DRC, the president in Zimbabwe. Read ZAM's latest investigation into Africa's Sell-Outs here: www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

Important work by Forbidden Stories forbiddenstories.org/torture-wagn...

What happens when new leaders simply feel it's their turn to eat? See Kleptocracy Report's new issue #6 kleptocracyreport.substack.com/p/kr6-recurr...

One year ago, scores of protesters were shot in the streets of Nairobi. This weekend, a teacher was beaten to death by police for exposing corruption. Read Jaya Khamala's piece on the need for international solidarity www.zammagazine.com/politics-opi...

It is the abductions, torture, and extrajudicial killings we hate. Whether done under the instructions of a white man employed by the British Crown, or a Ugandan or East African from the north, east, or south, that doesn’t matter. Read www.zammagazine.com/politics-opi...

ZAM calls on NL authorities to stop collaborating with torture states www.zammagazine.com/component/ci...

Agather Atuhaire @AAgather is free after four days of being held incomunicado and tortured. Now all political prisoners in Uganda, Tanzania and all of East Africa must be freed. And those who disappear and torture people must be held accountable.

Tanzanian torturers released Boniface Mwangi @bonifacemwangi but still hold Agather Atuhaire @AAgather. We hear stories of screams and blindfolds. @zammagazine.bsky.social calls its following to address Tanzanian President @SuluhuSamia, aka Idi Amin Mama. eastleighvoice.co.ke/national/153...

ALERT @AAgather Atuhaire and fellow activist @bonifacemwangi are missing after arrest in Tanzania, where they went to express support in the political trial against @TunduALissu ZAM calls for the immediate reappearance, unharmed, of our colleagues. @SuluhuSamia chimpreports.com/activists-ag...

Mozambican nature park employees implore new president to get rid of thieving management www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

Politicians have captured judges in Nigeria, causing increased criminality and insecurity in the country. But some brave legal minds are fighting to restore the rule of law. Read the third episode of Legal Rebels www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

Quirimbas park employees in Mozambique denounce plunder by management. The Open Letter follows ZAM's Into the Woods report on timber logging in the park. www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

Our new Kleptocracy Report is out! Read an interview with brave @ElizabethTabi1 and about a book unearthing the kind of wildlife protection that damages humans. Also: mbingas who get millions for free, and collapsing buildings. kleptocracyreport.substack.com/p/kr5-legal-...

Law firms elsewhere may fold under intimidation by the powerful, but these lawyers in five African countries routinely risk imprisonment and death threats in their fight for justice. "We have no other option": read our new transnational project now here: www.zammagazine.com/investigatio....

New KickBack episode: Dr Marianne Camerer & @devipillay.bsky.social join @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social to discuss state capture in South Africa, the role of civil society, and how pressure brought change. Essential listening on anti-corruption. Listen: bit.ly/Soundcloud129 #KickBack #GIACE

Loved this conversation with Marianne and Liz!

Journalists under attack & fighting back, coal dust, a Dutch fanboy of Kenya's president and more in the 4th issue of @zammagazine 's Kleptocracy Report. Read it here kleptocracyreport.substack.com

Billions of EU 'Green Funds' for South Africa seem wasted as EU companies place extra orders for SA coal, while politically connected 'big coal' poisons entire provinces for the extra buck. By Oliver Stallwood, @jackwolfwolf.bsky.social and Sakhile Dube. www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

A remarkable victory: Ghanaian investigative journalism wins in US court. www.zammagazine.com/politics-opi...

This happens. Stay tuned for a similar nightmare in South Africa, with #deadaid from @eucommission. www.investigative-malawi.org/1880/billion... #JETP

Our media partner Anas Aremeyaw Anas has won in a US Court against Ghanaian politician Kennedy Agyapong, who had called Anas a 'terrorist' (and who showed Anas' colleague Ahmed Suale's face on TV just before his murder in 2019). See here x.com/i/status/190... for Anas' video after the verdict.

Dutch Royals are visiting a murderous regime. See this op-ed www.zammagazine.com/politics-opi...

I've written for @zammagazine.bsky.social on how the Dutch Henk-Jan Van Schothorst and his religiously conservative organisation help to export anti-rights (and anti-LGBTQ) legislation across the African continent: www.zammagazine.com/politics-opi...

Touching on Kenya's recent Gen-Z protests and global affairs, CEO of Africa Uncensored, John-Allan Namu, asks confronting questions. Watch his ZAM Nelson Mandela Lecture 2025 titled ‘Souls on Fire - The Global Quest for Freedom and Dignity’ here: youtu.be/M0m85EYCdLs?... What do you think?

#GreenFakes Discover @climatewhistles.bsky.social' latest revelations about bauxite mining in #Guinea, published by @mediapart.fr and Africa Uncensored.

Talk about hypocrisy. Dam project in Ivory Coast built by Eiffage and funded by international institutions is destroying forests and harming endangered species—despite promises of no biodiversity loss. Read more: climatewhistleblowers.org/new-global-i... #GreenFakes

#GreenFakes: Major global investigation series by @climatewhistles.bsky.social & partners reveal how environmental auditing firms water down assessments performed for multinationals. Read more here: www.climatewhistleblowers.org/new-global-i...

Issue #3 of the Kleptocracy Report is out now. Featuring: waves of change across the continent; state capture in the USA; resistance & femicide in Kenya; deadly corruption in the SA water sector; ecocide and green-washing; and much more! kleptocracyreport.substack.com/p/kleptocrac...

TWO DAYS UNTIL THE ZAM NELSON MANDELA LECTURE: Jerry Afriyie is arguably one of the most successful campaigners in the Netherlands. Join us in conversation with him, hosted by the phenomenal Ikenna Azuike. Tickets: ita.nl/en/shows/zam...

Kenya | Resistance and Femicide: Naila Aroni on the anti-femicide march of December 2024, violent state repression, and the interconnectedness of gender inequality, economic hardship, and systemic governance failures. New on ZAM.

Nigeria's protected sanctuaries are increasingly under threat as state governments convert them into upscale residential estates for the elite. Protests from Nigerian environmentalists and local communities are growing louder. Taiwo Adebulu investigated for ZAM: www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

The full programme for the 2025 ZAM Nelson Mandela Lecture is out! The lecture will be delivered by Kenyan investigative journalist John-Allan Namu. Other talks and the details of the cultural programme below ⬇️ Join us on 16 Feb in Amsterdam. Tickets on sale: ita.nl/en/shows/zam...

THREE DAYS UNTIL THE ZAM NELSON MANDELA LECTURE. Join us for an in-depth talk on Sudan: The Power and the Money Behind the War, by Dr Suliman Baldo & Hager Ali moderated by Leon Willems. Visual by Sky Walker & illustration by Jip Roozen. Tickets here: ita.nl/en/shows/zam...