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

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

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

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

A giant data leak from within the South African tobacco industry presents evidence of large-scale infiltration by the tobacco mafia of the South African police, justice and secret services.

15/08/2016

As military jets fly over Kampala, an eerie silence reigns in the Ugandan capital. Social protests have been banned by a court order, media are blocked from reporting on even the smallest eruption of activism and people suspected of being involved in such activism are being arrested. The country is preparing to swear in President Yoweri Museveni for the fifth time.

12/05/2016

As ZAM was preparing the publication of its new investigation into ruby plunder and abuse of local citizens in northern Mozambique, the tragic news of yet another organized crime-inspired murder in that country reached us.

12/04/2016

The revelations in the Panama Papers –offshore account details held by the global rich and powerful, unearthed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) last week- have caused turmoil in the Democratic Republic of Congo because of their mention of President Joseph Kabila’s twin sister, Jaynet. All of a sudden, the rumours around Jaynet’s business deals and suspicions that she was the channel through which the wealthy family is moving Congo’s money out of the country, started to make sense. But journalists have been threatened with jail if they write about Jaynet and her account.

11/04/2016