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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?…
When Eric Mutua left his home on the morning of March 6, 2026, he hoped to return to his family later in the day. He never did. Caught in heavy rains while on the road, his life was claimed by floods, one of many in Nairobi. In this…
Mozambique’s vast natural resources are a double-edged sword. In this #GlobalGrab investigation, we expose the devastating environmental and human toll of coal mining. Communities on the front lines face health crises and displacement,…
By Purity Mukami, Joy Kirigia, Gabriel Geiger, Tomas Statius, Naipanoi Lepapa SHA’s AI system for predicting income was guaranteed to overestimate the earnings of the poorest and underestimate the earnings of the richest. This meant that…
Ambulance sirens pierce the night, sharp and urgent,with a commanding promise that help is on the way. In those moments, families surrender everything to the men in uniform: trust, hope, and the fragile belief that every second counts. But…
Across Africa, the conversation about development is increasingly shifting from politics to systems. Many African states achieved political independence decades ago, yet the structure of governance and economic management still struggles…
A mother goes into labour in the dead of night, but the hospital gate remains closed. Another delivers her baby on a cold veranda, exposed and humiliated. Families recount desperate midnight drives to hospital, only to watch their loved…
On September 1, 2024, Janet Chetambe, nine months pregnant, travelled from Nairobi to Eldoret to visit her sister, but her plans changed when she unexpectedly went into labour on September 11, 2024. She delivered her daughter at Uasin…
This story follows Janet Chetambe and her baby, Angel Favor. According to Janet, she took her child to one of Kenya’s largest referral hospitals with signs of jaundice and pneumonia. What happened next, she says, changed her baby’s life…
When an emergency strikes, every second counts. In Kenya, it can cost you everything. Fatal Detour, produced by Africa Uncensored’s Moige William, is a gripping investigation into the dark underbelly of Kenya’s emergency medical system.…
By Eunice Magwambo The findings were stark. When the Technical Working Group (TWG) on Femicide released its long-awaited report on 27 January 2026, it confirmed what many advocates had long feared: for many women, the greatest threat is…
By Fredrick Onyango Ogola The escalating tensions involving the United States, Israel and Iran are not merely another distant geopolitical crisis. They are a stress test for the global order — and a defining moment for Africa. This crisis…
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