ZAM Magazine

Migrant battalion | Kenya ZAM is an international multi-media platform celebrating African creativity and new thinking. Committed to giving an edgy and contemporary viewpoint on Africa, ZAM’s content is free of clichés, platit...

Also don't miss our story on how Kenya's government is selling out its youth to Russia zammagazine.com/investigatio... and our presentation of the full team that investigated the #Alabuga recruitment scheme and its consequences here: www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

Migrant Battalion | Nigeria ZAM is an international multi-media platform celebrating African creativity and new thinking. Committed to giving an edgy and contemporary viewpoint on Africa, ZAM’s content is free of clichés, platit...

How Beloved John almost got herself recruited zammagazine.com/investigatio..., and the Zimbabwe family that was left behind after a government official 'asked if I wanted my daughter to study in Russia' zammagazine.com/investigatio.... Read the new instalments in our #Alabuga #MigrantBattalion.

Migrant Battalion: Uganda - Trafficking station - Africa Uncensored An investigation spanning seven countries into how African governments collude with Russia to recruit young Africans into its arms industry

Our partners at Africa Uncensored published the next batch in our #Alabuga Russian recruitment series. Uganda africauncensored.online/blog/2025/09... is developing into a trafficking station: unwanted migrants dumped there, citizens encouraged to leave for Russia. A glimpse of things to come?

Over the past seven months, a ZAM team investigated Russian recruitment of young African women for its war industry. In this episode, Josephine Chinele tries to find her compatriots. www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

We are live! www.zammagazine.com/investigatio... #MigrantBattalion #Alabuga #AlabugaStart

From Great Lakes, Kenya, Nigeria, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia & Cameroon to Russia's war. Upcoming Monday 8 September: #MigrantBattalion, an 8 month cross border investigation by
@zammagazine and @NAIREAfrica into the collusion of African officials with Russia’s @sezalabuga scheme.

Frontlinie: de Ruslandroute Frontlinie - De Ruslandroute, zondag 7 september, 23.10 uur, NPO 2 en NPO Start

Recommended for our Dutch audience: the Russia Route, on African young men fighting for Russia in Ukraine vpro.nl/artikelen/fr.... Tune in 7 September, 23.10 hrs,VPRO, NPO 2 and NPO Start. Then on Monday, ZAM presents #MigrantBattalion. See, read and hear both!

In our 9th issue kleptocracyreport.substack.com/p/kr9-lithiu...: Ghanaians fight for farmers and road users; the DRC's Manono village sees investors as enemies; Nigeria's securocrats under fire; and Kenya's Central Bank is to survey (and probably tax) diaspora remittances. Read and subscribe!

KR#8: Chasing polluters from the Wetlands New investigations and analysis from ZAM and our network.

Just published: Kleptocracy Report #8 highlights African citizens' movements and activists standing up against polluters and political business frauds -and booking victories. Read it here kleptocracyreport.substack.com/p/kr8-chasin....

Sell Outs | The Gambia ZAM is an international multi-media platform celebrating African creativity and new thinking. Committed to giving an edgy and contemporary viewpoint on Africa, ZAM’s content is free of clichés, platit...

In the Sell-Outs transnational investigative series, we have now published Mariam Sankanu's piece on the rapacious building on crucial Wetlands in The Gambia. Read it here: www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

KR#7: Poisonous partnerships and the colonial bogeyman New investigations and analysis from ZAM and our network.

In Kleptocracy Report #7: ZAM's new transnational investigation into poisonous partnerships between multinationals and local African elites, the use of the Colonial Bogeyman by African despots, human traffickers, corrupt judges and more kleptocracyreport.substack.com/p/kr7-poison...

Sell Outs | Mozambique ZAM is an international multi-media platform celebrating African creativity and new thinking. Committed to giving an edgy and contemporary viewpoint on Africa, ZAM’s content is free of clichés, platit...

The third instalment in our Sell-Outs project portrays the lobbyists within the Mozambican government zammagazine.com/investigatio.... Read how contracts are signed behind the backs of real businesspeople and how factions fight for loot -but also note some change in the air.

Protests and Pain: Kenya reflects ZAM is an international multi-media platform celebrating African creativity and new thinking. Committed to giving an edgy and contemporary viewpoint on Africa, ZAM’s content is free of clichés, platit...

Protests to once again emphasize that #Rutomostgo in Kenya, one year after scores died in the streets of Nairobi. Once again there are young people dead and missing. Read Jaya Khamala on solidarity here www.zammagazine.com/politics-opi... and follow @nanjala.bsky.social for updates.

Sell Outs | Africa ZAM is an international multi-media platform celebrating African creativity and new thinking. Committed to giving an edgy and contemporary viewpoint on Africa, ZAM’s content is free of clichés, platit...

A political class in Zambia, generals in Mozambique, enablers in the DRC, the president in Zimbabwe. Read ZAM's latest investigation into Africa's Sell-Outs here: www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

Torture and Forced Disappearances: Inside Wagner’s Secret Prisons in Mali - Forbidden Stories For more than three years in Mali, Wagner mercenaries have detained and tortured civilians in secret prisons located in military bases, according to Forbidden Stories’ investigation.

Important work by Forbidden Stories forbiddenstories.org/torture-wagn...

KR#6: Recurring fires New investigations and analysis from ZAM and our network.

What happens when new leaders simply feel it's their turn to eat? See Kleptocracy Report's new issue #6 kleptocracyreport.substack.com/p/kr6-recurr...

Kenya | Lighting the memory of the protests ZAM is an international multi-media platform celebrating African creativity and new thinking. Committed to giving an edgy and contemporary viewpoint on Africa, ZAM’s content is free of clichés, platit...

One year ago, scores of protesters were shot in the streets of Nairobi. This weekend, a teacher was beaten to death by police for exposing corruption. Read Jaya Khamala's piece on the need for international solidarity www.zammagazine.com/politics-opi...

It is the abductions, torture, and extrajudicial killings we hate. Whether done under the instructions of a white man employed by the British Crown, or a Ugandan or East African from the north, east, or south, that doesn’t matter. Read www.zammagazine.com/politics-opi...

ZAM calls on NL authorities to stop collaborating with torture states www.zammagazine.com/component/ci...

Agather Atuhaire @AAgather is free after four days of being held incomunicado and tortured. Now all political prisoners in Uganda, Tanzania and all of East Africa must be freed. And those who disappear and torture people must be held accountable.

Tanzanian torturers released Boniface Mwangi @bonifacemwangi but still hold Agather Atuhaire
@AAgather. We hear stories of screams and blindfolds.
@zammagazine.bsky.social calls its following to address Tanzanian President @SuluhuSamia, aka Idi Amin Mama. eastleighvoice.co.ke/national/153...

Activists Agather Atuhaire, Mwangi Remain Missing After Reported Release in Tanzania Dar es Salaam/Kampala — Regional concern is mounting after Ugandan and Kenyan human rights activists Agather Atuhaire and Boniface Mwangi remained unaccounted for on Wednesday morning, despite earlier...

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@AAgather Atuhaire and fellow activist @bonifacemwangi
are missing after arrest in Tanzania, where they went to express support in the political trial against @TunduALissu ZAM calls for the immediate reappearance, unharmed, of our colleagues. @SuluhuSamia chimpreports.com/activists-ag...

Mozambican nature park employees implore new president to get rid of thieving management www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

Politicians have captured judges in Nigeria, causing increased criminality and insecurity in the country. But some brave legal minds are fighting to restore the rule of law. Read the third episode of Legal Rebels www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

Quirimbas park employees in Mozambique denounce plunder by management. The Open Letter follows ZAM's Into the Woods report on timber logging in the park. www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

Our new Kleptocracy Report is out! Read an interview with brave @ElizabethTabi1 and about a book unearthing the kind of wildlife protection that damages humans. Also: mbingas who get millions for free, and collapsing buildings. kleptocracyreport.substack.com/p/kr5-legal-...

Law firms elsewhere may fold under intimidation by the powerful, but these lawyers in five African countries routinely risk imprisonment and death threats in their fight for justice. "We have no other option": read our new transnational project now here: www.zammagazine.com/investigatio....

New KickBack episode: Dr Marianne Camerer & @devipillay.bsky.social join @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social to discuss state capture in South Africa, the role of civil society, and how pressure brought change. Essential listening on anti-corruption. Listen: bit.ly/Soundcloud129 #KickBack #GIACE

Loved this conversation with Marianne and Liz!

The Kleptocracy Report by ZAM x NAIRE | Substack The best reporting by African journalists on African kleptocrats and the post-colonial networks and structures that keep them in place, brought to you by ZAM and the Network of African Investigative J...

Journalists under attack & fighting back, coal dust, a Dutch fanboy of Kenya's president and more in the 4th issue of
@zammagazine
's Kleptocracy Report. Read it here kleptocracyreport.substack.com