Associates of US President Donald Trump have been hired by the Cameroon government to boost the disastrous human rights image of the country.
22/08/2019
Wherever bad governance showed its ugly face #WhatWouldMagafuliDo? went viral.
11/04/2019
The Buzzfeed platform last week published a shocking story exposing widespread human rights violations against suspected poachers in six African and Asian wildlife parks. There is evidence of torture, rape and murder and that these practices were funded by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
14/03/2019
People in the West are not the prime trouble-shooters in the world. Acknowledge local activism and support it.
18/12/2018
We need to talk about coffee
Arena /We want to talk about coffee. The reason for this is the Coffee Barometer 2018’s shocking conclusion that Fairtrade does not give farmers an extra penny.
27/11/2018
African people who cross oceans in search for a better life are not desperate. They are hopeful.
28/08/2018
Much has already been said about President Trump’s fulminating tweet about land redistribution and 'large scale killings of farmers' in South Africa.
28/08/2018
Revisiting the artist’s life and work.
13/08/2018
Sometimes it needs a report to arouse a sudden realisation: that European borders are now in Africa.
04/06/2018
From Sharpeville to Gaza
Arena /According to Kallie Kriel ‘Apartheid was not a crime against humanity.’
17/05/2018
It’s always nice to be proven right, particularly when it is by actual in-depth research by a specialist investigator in the subject, whose credentials are beyond any doubt. It is however not so nice when the confirmation pertains to one's deepest darkest fears.
24/04/2017
Rapes, robberies and deportations carried out by notorious police squad to keep the rubies for MRM-Gemfields alone
17/02/2017
ZAM’s partner the African Investigative Publishing Collective asks for international solidarity to protest the internet blackout that is suffocating the southern Cameroon regions since 22 January.
26/01/2017
ZAM’s partner the Premium Times in Nigeria is preparing for worst case scenarios in which editor and reporters might get arrested, or even killed, for their critical reporting on failures of their country’s army.
16/01/2017
On Sunday 18 December the UK newspaper The Guardian headlined that the United Nation’s ban on child labour was a ‘damaging mistake.
22/12/2016
Anti Zuma protests will colour Pretoria
01/11/2016
Africans rising
Arena /Activists climb the Kilimanjaro.
18/10/2016
Two of our best editors in Uganda recently quit journalism for government jobs. They have been criticised for this. But I understand them.
30/09/2016
A peaceful day in Mogadishu
Arena /Deputy president of the Banadir Journalists Union in Somalia and ZAM correspondent, Muno Gedi, tried to attend the historical peace summit in her country. But there were roadblocks and she was left sitting next to the radio with her hopes, fears and dreams.
19/09/2016
An apartheid assassin and many former secret service agents conspired against law enforcement in South Africa together with ‘big tobacco.’
16/08/2016