GIJN’s Portuguese editor, Ana Beatriz Assam, offers her editor’s picks for the best investigative journalism in Portuguese in 2022 — featuring stories from Brazil, Portugal, and Mozambique.
As part of GIJN’s new guide to investigating organized crime in Africa, this chapter focuses in on best practices for covering financial crimes and scandals.
In this guide to reporting on organized crime in Africa, Ugandan investigative reporter Stephen Kafeero looks at drug trafficking across the continent.
In this guide to reporting on organized crime in Africa, investigative journlaist Khadija Sharife examines arms trafficking and weapons deals across the continent.
Armed rebellions, coups, and civil wars have ravaged many parts of Africa for decades. Rebel leaders, warlords, and notorious figures wage wars against governments they felt disfranchised their supporters. In the last 15 years, violent, armed jihadist groups have joined this troubling picture.
Among the most pressing environmental challenges in Africa nowadays are land-grabbing due to infrastructure or agribusiness projects, water and river pollution, deforestation, desertification, trafficking of endangered species, and Indigenous peoples’ rights violations.
GIJN’s guide to investigating organized crime in Africa includes tips, tools, and best practices for covering corruption, drug trafficking and other illicit activity.
Organized crime is a global phenomenon. But Africa, with its deep-seated corruption and “resource curse,” is particularly hard hit. We at GIJN are firmly convinced that watchdog journalists have a critical role to play here but only if they are well-equipped — and this guide is intended to arm investigators with the tools, resources, and case studies they need.