While Washington and Mexico City celebrate the death of Mexican organized crime group leader “El Mencho,” history shows that decapitating cartels splits them into smaller, more violent groups. And it doesn’t stop the flow of drugs to the U.S. www.occrp.org/en/feature/t...

Companies House to strike off Zedxion Exchange after an OCCRP investigation found the firm used a stock-photo model to hide its links to sanctioned Iranian tycoon Babak Zanjani. www.occrp.org/en/news/uk-t...

Curaçao has no natural gold deposits. So why did dozens of tons of gold refined at a prestigious Swiss refinery come from the island? The evidence points to their origin in conflict areas in Venezuela — highlighting weaknesses in gold industry rules that persist today. www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

Fear is the Message: How the Jalisco New Generation Cartel Weaponized Algorithms to Paralyze Mexico In the hours after Mexican drug lord "El Mencho’s" killing, his cartel responded by deploying hundreds of flaming roadblocks, — and rapidly sharing the carnage online. www.occrp.org/en/feature/f...

The Cat and the Stock-Footage CEO: How a Digital Trail Helped Unmask an Iranian Money Machine Elizabeth Newman supposedly runs two U.K.-registered crypto exchanges. But she's actually a corporate fiction used to move billions of dollars’ worth of crypto for Iran. www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

The staff at the Eetcafé Oppe Platz pub in central Echt didn’t know that quiet Tuesday in September 2024 that they had served their last plate of bitterballen, a fried Dutch snack. But in the pub’s attic, a disaster was quietly unfolding. @ingridgercama.bsky.social www.occrp.org/en/feature/b...

Loooooong read: Meet the South Pacific Ponzi King With a Bogus Bank — and a Global Fan Club www.occrp.org/en/feature/m...

There's some really clever sleuthing from our reporters and partners in this piece: Cocaine and Bananas: How Balkan Traffickers Used Fruit Shipments From the Ecuadorian President's Family Firm to Smuggle Drugs www.occrp.org/en/project/t...

Presenting the first major story in my new role at OCCRP. Huge thanks and congratulations to the many journalists involved. “You have examples in Spain where the cocaine is buried in the bunkers under the ground,” said Robert Fay from Europol. “Everybody is asking: ‘What the hell has happened?’”

BREAKING: A Madagascar army colonel, who led a mutiny of soldiers that joined anti-government Gen Z protesters, said that the military had taken charge of the African island nation, after President Andry Rajoelina fled the country reut.rs/3KOGdE0

Rwanda sanctions will undermine push for Congo peace talks, proscribed minister says www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Rwanda’s Kabarebe, sanctioned by US over ties to Congo rebels, is Kagame's 'hatchet man' www.reuters.com/world/africa...

UN Security Council to call on Rwanda to pull troops from Congo reut.rs/4bdfY3d

Rwanda says DRC criticism of Arsenal, Bayern and PSG deals threatens regional peace reut.rs/3CPBqhY

Somalia says its army, allied militias repel al Shabaab attacks, kill more than 130 reut.rs/4hKJGPq

US sanctions Rwandan minister, militant over DRC conflict, says Treasury www.reuters.com/world/us-san...

Burundian soldiers, who have been fighting Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, were pulling out following the fall of the city of Bukavu, four sources, including a Burundian army officer and two U.N. officials, said on Tuesday. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Nearly 300 foreign mercenaries hired by the Democratic Republic of Congo government to counter an offensive by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in the east have surrendered and were on their way home on Wednesday. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

With fear and fist-bumps, Goma residents greet Congo's M23 rebels again www.reuters.com/world/africa...

More than 100 dead dolphins found on Somali coast, cause a mystery www.reuters.com/world/africa...

The government of Somalia's semi-autonomous Jubbaland state said on Thursday it was suspending relations and cooperation with the federal government in Mogadishu following a dispute over local elections in the region. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

A prominent Ugandan opposition politician was kidnapped during a book launch in Kenya over the weekend, transferred to Uganda and is being held at a military jail in Kampala, his wife said on Wednesday.

Somaliland opposition leader Abdirahman Cirro defeated incumbent president Muse Bihi Abdi in last week's election, the electoral commission said on Tuesday, setting up a leadership change as the breakaway Somali region pushes for global recognition.

Egyptian warship delivers more arms to Somalia, officials say www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Tanzania arrests opposition leaders to thwart protest www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Strike at Kenya's main airport causing flight delays, cancellations, Kenya Airways says reut.rs/4egC9FH

Kenyan court halts proposed Adani lease of country's main airport

Alleged killer of Ugandan Olympian Cheptegei dies from burns, hospital says reut.rs/4d19YJS

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine shot in leg, his party says reut.rs/47c8Rpr

Egypt sends arms to Somalia following security pact, sources say www.reuters.com/world/africa...