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8 Dec 2025
My first time going undercover, and it was well-worth it. Read below.
14 Oct 2025
🧵What’s the biggest lie the surveillance industry tells? That they only sell to legal clients. That there are red lines. But what do these companies say when they think nobody is watching? We went undercover to find out
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Lagos Lagoon, viewed from Ikoyi, looking towards Lagos Island. Things have changed a bit!
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On #Ebola, it's encouraging seeing local concerns of "Ebola business" treated seriously rather than dismissed as irrational fears.
There was an *incredible* amount of mismanagement in the 2018 outbreak. Millions of dollars handed in cash, payments to armed groups etc.
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I like to think I contributed to this change, as most of the press coverage was uncritical of the response.
The WHO's comms team gave me the worst pushback ever. One research report was censored, editors called by "friends", personal attacks...
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Or here in English (note the long time between the articles, partly due to pressures)
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May 28
Every year, bad diets kill millions of people and cost trillions of $. The world’s largest food companies say they want to be part of the solution. But behind closed doors, companies lobby governments to derail public health laws.
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Apr 23
Given what was reported at the time, this represents a massive underestimate of casualty figures in Tanzania's elections last October. As the opposition Chadema says, "a government accused of ​carrying out violent abuses cannot investigate itself".
Apr 23
At least 518 people were killed in violence that broke out during Tanzania's elections last October, a government-appointed commission of inquiry said on Thursday, in the first official acknowledgment of the scale of the deadly unrest. reuters.com/world/africa/tan…
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Mar 28
NOTES ON (NOT) BEING NEEDED substack.com/@johnallannamu/…
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#Cameroon
Cameroonian authorities are arbitrarily detaining non-Cameroonian nationals deported from the US detaining abusing journalists who tried to interview them. But Trump’s administration doesn’t seem to care, @LozSeibert @hrw
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Feb 13
🛑New Investigation Alert
We received a trove of documents created by a Russian influence operation last October. The company from which they leaked was dissolved the very next month. This weekend we are launching a series delving into them.Â
#Russia #InvestigativeJournalism
ALT Russia’s Yevgeny Prigozhin
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Emmanuel Freudenthal retweeted
4 Dec 2025
In this #Backlight episode, Lighthouse reporters @cr0ft0n and @EmmanFre take us inside the undercover reporting behind the Surveillance Secrets investigation: lighthousereports.com/invest…
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2 Dec 2025
Are you an early-career professional who is passionate about investigative journalism? Are you constantly curious about new ways of doing journalism and making it reach critical audiences?
You might just be the fellow we are looking for: apply.workable.com/lighthous…
Lighthouse Reports is hiring two part-time fellows in 2026. The fellows – one focused on open source intelligence and the other on reporting – will work with us from 23 March 2026 to 25 September 2026.
They will be mentored by Lighthouse journalists and fully embedded within investigations. Where possible, they will also join our remotely distributed team for in-person meetings.
As part of our commitment to expand investigative journalism in underrepresented communities, we are recruiting our 2026 OSINT fellow exclusively from Majority World countries.
- Learn more about our reporting fellowship here: apply.workable.com/lighthous…
- Learn more about our OSINT fellowship here: apply.workable.com/lighthous…
Got a question about the fellowships? Join our webinar on:
- Tuesday 9 Dec 10am CET Sign up here: forms.gle/VWYmBGR6p3Cg7Awk7
- Thursday 11 Dec 3pm CET Sign up here: forms.gle/ieMpTKyZdqiTVhQQ9
Apply here: apply.workable.com/lighthous…
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3 Dec 2025
One of the biggest, most luxurious private planes in the world (#2DEER) is flying to the US, with the #ANGOLA1 call sign.
This type of call sign is usually for heads of state, and indeed there's reports that President João Lourenço is headed to the US.
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3 Dec 2025
Trump recently supported the Lobito Corridor, a $2bn railway project to access critical minerals.
Sources:
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17 Nov 2025
I'll be at the #GIJC Conference in Kuala Lumpur with the rest of the @LHreports food systems team later this week.
Please reach out if you would like to grab a coffee there!
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10 Nov 2025
I produced a documentary for @AfUncensored on State Surveillance in Kenya exposing the role telecos play in the breakdown of our democracy, especially last year.
Watch, share and comment 🇰🇪
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31 Oct 2025
Cameroon opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary said on Friday he had been escorted to a secure location by soldiers loyal to him for his protection, a move that could signal a split within the army following a disputed election. reuters.com/world/africa/cam…
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2 Nov 2025
A message from a friend in Tanzania right now 🇹🇿
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2 Nov 2025
Gado, on Tanzania's shocking elections:
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