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In Côte d’Ivoire, the Singrobo-Ahouaty hydropower dam was meant to showcase President Alassane Ouattara’s vision of green growth and inclusive development. One year after the GreenFakes investigation exposed the project’s environmental…
One team has dominated the Kenyan Premier League 21 times, with 4 others dominating the top 5 in almost every season. Could match fixing in the KPL be behind this dominance? An insider blows the whistle on international match-manipulation…
Kenyan football is facing its biggest threat, with perennial allegations of match fixing eroding the quality and integrity of the beloved sport. So what happens when the final score is decided before kickoff? As Kenya prepares to co-host…
They picked him from the streets with no warrant, no charge, and no court arraignment. Just a locked room & silence. Mulinge Muteti, a Kenyan human rights defender, went to commemorate the June 25th protest killings. What happened next, he…
By Mkhululi Chimoio An institution born out of a need for a unifying force against historical conflicts, poverty, poor governance, and economic isolation in a continent where borders were drawn in faraway conference rooms, the African…
Rose is a 21-year-old woman who was struck by a stray bullet while heading home during the June 25th, 2025, protests in Kenya. She wasn’t demonstrating; she simply found herself caught in the crossfire. Shot twice in the leg, Rose was…
Key findings. The abduction of journalist Arlindo Chissale is part of a broader pattern of enforced disappearances and political killings in Mozambique, with over 300 dead and 3,000 victims of violence from October 2024 to January 2025;…
This investigative documentary by Africa Uncensored uncovers the disturbing reality inside Ebenezer Children’s Home in Kajiado, Kenya. Through exclusive whistleblower testimonies and secret audio recordings, we expose allegations of…
In Episode 3 of #VoicesInDarkness, we sit down with “Peter” to hear the chilling true story of a criminal encounter and a police standoff that should have been his end. Voices In Darkness is an Africa Uncensored docuseries produced by…
By Moige William and Ronald Ssekandi East Africa’s high unemployment level is pushing young people to the extreme where well organised individuals through fraudulent job advertisements and a promise for a better life are luring them to…
May 31, 2026 (Ethiopia Insider) – The 7th general national elections in Ethiopia are scheduled for Monday, June 1, 2026. Official documents from the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) indicate that the election is expected to take…
In this chilling second episode of “Voices In Darkness,” we hear a firsthand true crime confession from “Cynthia” (not her real name), who opens up about her life within a violent criminal underworld. From the streets of Nairobi to the…
By Nancy Oseur Loita’s rolling green hills and untouched forests create the image of a community living in harmony with nature. Beneath this beauty, however, lies a long struggle that has kept women as caretakers of land they could neither…
By Theophilus Abbah How new machines did not help Nigerian voters “I was so frustrated and exhausted,” Josephine Ochadamu says when asked about her experiences as an Assistant Presiding Officer at a polling unit in Nasarawa State during…
By Selay Kouassi It is March 2025, seven months before the much-anticipated presidential elections. In the brightly lit conference room of the Plateau Mövenpick Hotel in Abidjan, government representatives, diplomats, political party…
Imagine being promised a well-paying job abroad, only to end up being sold into labor slavery. In the shadows of Southeast Asia’s booming cyber-scam industry, hundreds of Kenyans and Ugandans have been lured, trafficked, and forced by job…
By Charles Mafa For more than four decades, Caesar Masina (62), a resident of Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, has participated in his country’s elections, lining up at polling stations, casting his ballot, and watching governments change through…
An investigation into escalating violence against women, gang influence, and institutional failure in Kenya’s fastest-growing urban county By Ivy Gichungo and Patricia Andago “The mother was at school just recently, cheering for her…
KAMPALA — Three days to Uganda’s January 15, 2026 general elections, the state shutdown internet services to avoid what the communications regulator referred to as misuse of social media to spread false propaganda to spark an uprising.…
The Africa Uncensored team and its collaborators were among the standout winners and finalists at this year’s Annual Media Excellence Awards (AMEA), earning recognition for investigations that tackled some of Africa’s most pressing…
Africa Uncensored investigates the deadly 5-day internet shutdown during Uganda’s 2026 General Election. We expose undocumented killings by security forces and the timeline of violence hidden from the world. On January 13th, 2026, the…
ZAM reporters The European Union does not provide electoral support to the Ugandan state because of human rights abuses by its government, led by 81-year-old autocrat Yoweri Museveni. But it is also not supporting grassroots activists in…
By Eric Mugendi, Africa Uncensored As Kenyan voters, we have become used to experiencing, every five years, a high-stakes drama full of sound and fury, in which the stage is set years in advance, the actors are meticulously costumed, and…
What happens when a system designed to guarantee the poorest Kenyans access to the highest attainable standard of healthcare ends up overcharging them for health insurance, using their living conditions and lifestyle to determine premiums?…
