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.
A second panel will discuss issues in the Sahel, where military junta rule, Russian military activity, and jihadi gang terrorism are making life miserable for the inhabitants. Recent undercover reporting by a ZAM team in the Sahel countries of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso resulted in the Hotel Kremlin project, and input from this project will be part of the panel. The third session will feature NAIRE’s Estacio Valoi, who will discuss his and ZAM’s Into the Woods investigation in Mozambique. In this project, he documented the plunder of the Quirimbas National Park by foreign traders colluding with officials.
In November, ZAM will also be participating in the investigative journalism conference held by the Dutch/Flemish VVOJ (Association of investigative journalists) in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. This will take place in the context of a panel set to discuss cooperation between Western and African investigative journalists.
Find the programs for the AIJC and VVOJ conference here and here in Dutch.
