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African Youth Movements

Resilient African Youth Movements vs Brutal Government Crackdowns

Youth are rising as a formidable force in Africa’s politics. The continent’s population skews overwhelmingly young where more than 60% are under 25 years old and many of these young people…

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Resilient African Youth Movements vs Brutal Government Crackdowns

October 3, 2025 • All, Policy And Governance

Youth are rising as a formidable force in Africa’s politics. The continent’s population skews overwhelmingly young where more than 60% are under 25 years old and…

Corporate Accountability in African Environmental Disasters

October 3, 2025 • All, Corporate Accountability

International companies operating across Africa have long been linked to a series of devastating oil, mining and agribusiness accidents. Yet survivors and advocates say justice…

“Dire Crisis: Privatization of State Assets in Africa”

October 3, 2025 • All, Politics

Across Africa, governments have been selling or outsourcing formerly state-run services like electricity, water, healthcare, and more to private firms. Decades after bold promises of…

The Silent Coup: How Constitutional Reforms Are Being Used to Extend Term Limits in Africa

October 3, 2025 • All, Legislation

Across Africa, a silent coup is underway. Not through tanks rolling down capital city streets or midnight arrests, but through constitutional amendments passed in marble-floored…

Sacred Power: How Religious Institutions Command Africa’s Political Destiny

October 3, 2025 • All, Originals

The sanctuary of Christ Embassy Church in Lagos falls silent as Pastor Chris Oyakhilome steps to the pulpit on this humid Sunday morning in March…

Investigating the Effectiveness of Regional Peacekeeping Forces in Africa

October 3, 2025 • All, Originals

African nations have increasingly turned to home-grown solutions to violent conflict. Via the Regional Peacekeeping Forces In Africa, Since 2000, roughly 38 African-led peacekeeping missions…

Alarming Government Spyware Surveillance in Africa: An Investigative Expose

October 2, 2025 • All, Data Privacy And Cyber Security

Governments across Africa are increasingly using sophisticated spyware to monitor and intimidate political opposition. Independent investigations about government spyware surveillance in Africa by Amnesty International,…

Exposing the Criminal Nexus: Political Elites and Organized Crime in Africa

October 2, 2025 • All, Investigations

Africa’s struggle with corruption and insecurity has deep roots in the collusion between political power and criminal networks. In nation after nation, from oil-rich Nigeria…

Foreign disinformation in African elections: An Explosive Investigative Report

October 2, 2025 • All, Elections

Foreign powers and private interests are intensifying campaigns of digital propaganda to influence African elections. In 2024, a record 80+ national votes involved half the…

Deadly Role of Private Military Contractors in Africa

October 2, 2025 • All, Defence

Across volatile battlefields, governments and militias increasingly rely on private military contractors in Africa (PMCs) i.e ostensibly civilian mercenaries to tip the scales of conflict.…

Chinese Investment in Africa: Controversial Influence on Political Power

October 2, 2025 • Africa, All

Over the past two decades, China has dramatically expanded its economic footprint in Africa financing highways, ports, dams and factories with billions of dollars of…

Dispossessed: How Corporate Land Grabs in Africa Devastate Its Indigenous Communities

October 2, 2025 • All, Indigenous Rights

At dawn on March 15, 2024, government trucks surrounded the village of Soitsambu in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Armed officers ordered Maasai families to gather…

How $88.6 Billion in African Funds Vanish Into Global Money Laundering Networks

October 2, 2025 • All, Originals

An Investigation into the $88.6 Billion Annual Drain That Keeps a Continent in Poverty While Enriching Global Financial Centers Every single day, approximately $242.7 million…

Blood Diamonds and illicit diamond trade in Africa: How Criminal Networks Exploit Africa’s New Smuggling Routes

October 2, 2025 • All, Originals

Despite two decades of international efforts to eliminate conflict diamonds, a sophisticated network of smugglers, corrupt officials, and criminal enterprises continues to funnel billions of…

Wildlife Trafficking Networks In Africa – The Criminal Empire Destroying Africa’s Wilderness for Asian Markets

October 2, 2025 • All, Originals

The numbers are staggering and the methods barbaric. Every year, criminal syndicates operating across Africa slaughter more than 30,000 elephants, 400 rhinos, and millions of…

Stolen Lives: The Shocking Cost of Healthcare Procurement Corruption in Africa

October 1, 2025 • All, Corruption

The whistleblower’s hands trembled as she held the damning documents. Babita Deokaran, a financial manager at South Africa’s Tembisa Hospital, had uncovered what would become…

Foreign Aid Corruption Exposed: How Billions Vanish Into African Officials’ Pockets

October 1, 2025 • All, Corruption

The numbers are staggering and the evidence overwhelming: across Africa, billions of dollars in foreign aid intended to lift populations out of poverty are systematically…

Digital Shadows: How Cryptocurrency Bypasses Africa’s Financial Guardians

October 1, 2025 • All, Corporate Accountability

In a cramped internet café in Lagos, Nigeria, twenty-three-year-old Emmanuel Adebayo scrolls through his smartphone, executing what appears to be a routine peer-to-peer trade. While…

Shell Games: The Hidden Empire Controlling Africa’s Mining Fortune

October 1, 2025 • All, Corporate Accountability

Mining trucks navigate the scarred terrain of a massive copper pit in the Democratic Republic of Congo as we investigate and research about Africa Shell…

Press Freedom in West Africa and a fight for its accountability

July 22, 2025 • Africa, All

When Ghanaian journalist Noah Dameh was relentlessly harassed — targeted by police, dragged to court, and driven to failing health — for exposing a business…

Investigating Cold Cases: How Two Journalists Dug Deep Into Decades-Old Civil Rights Era Killings

July 22, 2025 • All, Human Rights And Civil Liberties

In July 1965, police officer Edward Nugent shot and killed John Wesley Wilder, a Black man outside a cafe in Ruston, Louisiana. The officer —…

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