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KR#13: The Gambia's production scam
New investigations and analysis from ZAM and our network.
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The new Kleptocracy Report kleptocracyreport.substack.com/p/kr13-the-g... is out! With pretend-producers in The Gambia, carbon credits in Kenya, a Ugandan president who keeps electing himself, a strange take on development aid and what's with Trump rescuing Christians in Nigeria?
The new Kleptocracy Report kleptocracyreport.substack.com/p/kr13-the-g... is out! With pretend-producers in The Gambia, carbon credits in Kenya, a Ugandan president who keeps electing himself, a strange take on development aid and what's with Trump rescuing Christians in Nigeria?
KR#13: The Gambia's production scam
New investigations and analysis from ZAM and our network.
kleptocracyreport.substack.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:31 AM
The new Kleptocracy Report kleptocracyreport.substack.com/p/kr13-the-g... is out! With pretend-producers in The Gambia, carbon credits in Kenya, a Ugandan president who keeps electing himself, a strange take on development aid and what's with Trump rescuing Christians in Nigeria?
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...
November 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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...
November 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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?
#TANZANIA: POLICE STATION SET ABLAZE AS TANZANIA PROTESTS ESCALATE ON ELECTION DAY
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets across Tanzania on October 29 during the country’s general election, voicing anger over restricted opposition participation and alleged electoral irregularities.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets across Tanzania on October 29 during the country’s general election, voicing anger over restricted opposition participation and alleged electoral irregularities.
October 30, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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....
October 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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...
Migrant battalion | Kenya
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September 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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.
Migrant Battalion | Nigeria
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September 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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?
Migrant Battalion: Uganda - Trafficking station - Africa Uncensored
An investigation spanning seven countries into how African governments collude with Russia to recruit young Africans into its arms industry
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September 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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...
September 15, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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...
September 8, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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.
@zammagazine and @NAIREAfrica into the collusion of African officials with Russia’s @sezalabuga scheme.
September 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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.
@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!
Frontlinie: de Ruslandroute
Frontlinie - De Ruslandroute, zondag 7 september, 23.10 uur, NPO 2 en NPO Start
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September 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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!
September 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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....
KR#8: Chasing polluters from the Wetlands
New investigations and analysis from ZAM and our network.
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August 1, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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...
Sell Outs | The Gambia
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July 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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...
KR#7: Poisonous partnerships and the colonial bogeyman
New investigations and analysis from ZAM and our network.
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July 7, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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.
Sell Outs | Mozambique
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July 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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.
Protests and Pain: Kenya reflects
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June 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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...
Sell Outs | Africa
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June 23, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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...
Torture and Forced Disappearances: Inside Wagner’s Secret Prisons in Mali - Forbidden Stories
For more than three years in Mali, Wagner mercenaries have detained and tortured civilians in secret prisons located in military bases, according to Forbidden Stories’ investigation.
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June 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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...
KR#6: Recurring fires
New investigations and analysis from ZAM and our network.
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June 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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...
Kenya | Lighting the memory of the protests
ZAM is an international multi-media platform celebrating African creativity and new thinking. Committed to giving an edgy and contemporary viewpoint on Africa, ZAM’s content is free of clichés, platit...
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June 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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...
June 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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...
May 26, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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.
May 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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.