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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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.

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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...

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Into the Woods II

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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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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...

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KR#20: Crowdfunding resistance

New investigations and analysis from ZAM and our network.

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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...

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Africa | Artivists

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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...

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Reimagining Europe | Glitching to Rebuild

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

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...

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Zambia | Restraint and fear

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

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....

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Hôtel Kremlin | Burkina Faso (English)

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

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...

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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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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

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...

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Africa | Strange bedfellows

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

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

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

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

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

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

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

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...

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Nigeria | The dream of the Caliphate

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

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...

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

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.

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

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/.

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

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...

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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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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

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!

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

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...

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Ivory Coast | A mirage of democracy

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

How EU millions for elections helped the state in Ivory Coast to incarcerate opponents. For five months, investigative journalists traced €100+ million from Europe for elections in five African countries. Stay tuned for our Elections Circus investigation. Launching tomorrow.

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

How an “endless cycle of workshops” mask the real power of the political elite in Kenya. For five months, five investigative journalists traced 100+ million Euros for elections in five African countries. Stay tuned for our Elections Circus investigation. Launching 6 May.

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

EU’s elections support in Africa serves “to keep the exports flowing and the migrants out of Europe.” For five months, investigative journalists traced 100+ million from Europe for elections in five African countries. Elections Circus. Launching on 6 May.

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

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?

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KR#13: The Gambia's production scam

New investigations and analysis from ZAM and our network.

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

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...

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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...

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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?

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

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...

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Migrant battalion | Kenya

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

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.

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Migrant Battalion | Nigeria

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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?

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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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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

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...

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

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.

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

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!

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Frontlinie: de Ruslandroute

Frontlinie - De Ruslandroute, zondag 7 september, 23.10 uur, NPO 2 en NPO Start

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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!

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

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....

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KR#8: Chasing polluters from the Wetlands

New investigations and analysis from ZAM and our network.

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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...

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Sell Outs | The Gambia

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

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...

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KR#7: Poisonous partnerships and the colonial bogeyman

New investigations and analysis from ZAM and our network.

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

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.

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Sell Outs | Mozambique

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ZAM Magazine @zammagazine.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

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.

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Protests and Pain: Kenya reflects

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