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Jan 14, 2025 | 
zammagazine.com | Evelyn Groenink
Editor-in-Chief of the courageous Africa Uncensored media platform, John-Allan Namu, is set to spotlight Africa’s struggles for justice at the 2025 ZAM Nelson Mandela Lecture. As a Kenyan investigative journalist, Namu is well-acquainted with the horrors of power abuse, the machinations of genocidal politicians, the devastation wrought by climate change, and the forced migration of youth from nations misruled by uncaring, oppressive governments.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
zammagazine.com | Evelyn Groenink
The investigative work done by ZAM’s partner NAIRE (the Network of African Investigative Reporters and Editors) will be featured in no less than three sessions at this year’s African Investigative Journalism Conference, to be held between 30 October and 1 November in Johannesburg. In one of these investigations, regarding the Rwanda Classified project, the NAIRE member who led ZAM’s team investigating Rwanda’s ‘long arm’ in East Africa will participate under a pseudonym.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
zammagazine.com | Malick Sadibou Coulibaly |Charles Mafa |Evelyn Groenink |Oluwatosin Adeshokan
Read the French version here.
For decades, villagers and city dwellers in the Sahel countries of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso had hoped for change in their “dust and pollution” riddled lives, tyrannised as they were by corrupt governments, French uranium exploitation and gangster jihadis who stole their cattle and abducted their sons.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
zammagazine.com | Evelyn Groenink
“They are going to say that we deny the genocide,” the colleague at Forbidden Stories – the project of fifty journalists and seventeen media that investigated work, life, and death of our Rwandan colleague John Williams Ntwali – had already warned us. He was right: in the past two weeks, they did just that. We are Rwandan genocide deniers, all fifty of us – or at least funded, or deceived by, genocide deniers.
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May 28, 2024 | 
zammagazine.com | Evelyn Groenink
Based on current and previous revelations, one might think that the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the West in general would regard Rwanda under Paul Kagame’s regime as akin to North Korea: a place to be rather concerned about.
Not so. The EU recently closed a mineral tracking deal with the central African police state, meant to stem the flow of conflict minerals, and ensure peaceful and well-governed mining.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
zammagazine.com | Evelyn Groenink
It was a relief to note that most media in the Netherlands managed relatively quickly to move from outrage about what some called a “tribal clash” or a “foreign conflict” between Eritreans in The Hague to the more sensible understanding that the violent protests had targeted the even more violent Eritrean regime, whose agents and militants had assembled in that city to celebrate a special festive day for the dictatorship.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
zammagazine.com | Evelyn Groenink
Gregory Gondwe, founder and editor of Malawi’s Platform for Investigative Journalism, and currently on the run from the Malawian military, still cannot figure out how his country’s president, once-vocal opposition and anti-corruption activist Lazarus Chakwera, is now seemingly unable or unwilling to reign in the bloodhounds. “You ask yourself: who is this person?
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
zammagazine.com | Evelyn Groenink |Oluwatosin Adeshokan |Estacio Valoi
On 31 January, the same day that the Network of African Investigative Reporters and Editors called out Africa’s oppressive kleptocrat regimes, Malawian investigative editor Gregory Gondwe received note that the Military Police in that country were looking for him.
The reason why the security forces had set out to take him in ‘for a chat’ at military barracks, he heard, was an article he had published two days before, on January 29th.
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Aug 23, 2023 | 
zammagazine.com | Charles Mafa |Evelyn Groenink |Oluwatosin Adeshokan |Linda Soko
Deep within Zambia’s artisanal mining sector lies a captivating web of intrigue, where high-ranking Ministry of Mines and Minerals Development officials, together with foreign entities, capture coveted mining rights. This clandestine alliance, together with the practice of some influential top officials who establish direct partnerships with mining companies, obstructs the growth of the artisanal mining sector in the country.
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Aug 23, 2023 | zammagazine.com | Charles Mafa |Evelyn Groenink |Oluwatosin Adeshokan |Linda Soko
Deep within Zambia’s artisanal mining sector lies a captivating web of intrigue, where high-ranking Ministry of Mines and Minerals Development officials, together with foreign entities, capture coveted mining rights. This clandestine alliance, together with the practice of some influential top officials who establish direct partnerships with mining companies, obstructs the growth of the artisanal mining sector in the country.
