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The Network of African Investigative Reporters and Editors (NAIRE) has issued a call to support the efforts of its members in exposing regimes consisting of “kleptocrats who sell out resources, promote incompetence and nepotism, and oppress civil society.”
NAIRE says its members will continue its work as “ethical journalists who stand firm amid a barrage of fake news and paid propaganda”.
A new survey by Germany-based Otto Brenner Foundation in Frankfurt has exposed how media organisations including in Europe failed to report in-depth the crisis in Mali and the entire Sahel region, leading to lack of accurate information in the African region. The survey noted that the French news agency AFP and the German press agency DPA are particularly influential but “around 40 per cent of all contributions came from correspondents who are not on the ground in the Sahel region.”
A joint statement by the groups said the partnership intends to facilitate joint investigative projects, skill-building initiatives, and the exchange of resources among journalists and editors across the sub-region.
A dossier of bank slips detailing suspect payments of millions of dollars handed to the journalist brought the downfall of a political upstart in Cameroon. But it also led to Zogo’s murder. His colleagues went to investigate why