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Money laundering in French real estate

Money laundering in French real estate

French real estate attracts dirty money from all over the world. By matching government datasets available online, our cross-border team of journalists uncovered…

Emmanuel 13 January 2023
The civilians killed by France's operation Barkhane in the Sahel

The civilians killed by France's operation Barkhane in the Sahel

We revealed that French soldiers of operation Barkhane killed at least 25 civilians in Mali while the official toll stands at 7. French troops have fought against…

Emmanuel 20 September 2021
Frontex complicit in illegal pushback of migrants

Frontex complicit in illegal pushback of migrants

Migrants who attempt to cross the Aegean from Turkey to Greece, to seek refuge in Europe, know that the Greek coast guards often stop their boats, disable them by…

Emmanuel 18 November 2020
COVID quarantine? Not if you own a jet!

COVID quarantine? Not if you own a jet!

We investigated the French businessmen who flew from Paris to their beach homes on their private jets (French only). They broke the COVID quarantine rules that left…

Emmanuel 19 October 2020
Tracking surveillance planes and drones in Somalia

Tracking surveillance planes and drones in Somalia

We used an antenna to track surveillance planes that were flying over Somalia, analysing massive amounts of data to find out a few planes flying in perfect circles.…

Emmanuel 14 August 2020
Diversity in media outlets that report on Africa

Diversity in media outlets that report on Africa

International newsrooms that report on Africa are often full of white journalists (and I’m one of them). But just how white or how ethnically diverse are they?…

Emmanuel 12 August 2020
Israeli mercenaries in Cameroon

Israeli mercenaries in Cameroon

Over the past two decades, Israeli mercenaries have been training the BIR, an elite unit of the Cameroonian army. Their names were mostly kept secret. The BIR are…

Emmanuel 29 June 2020
Ebola business in Congo

Ebola business in Congo

I looked at militarisation and mismanagement (‘Ebola Business’) in the Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of Congo through several articles. One…

Emmanuel 6 March 2020
Systematic torture in an army basement in Yaoundé, Cameroon

Systematic torture in an army basement in Yaoundé, Cameroon

About a hundred people were tortured by security forces in Cameroon's capital, Yaoundé. In an article for African Arguments, I revealed that detainees were systematically…

Emmanuel 7 May 2019
The lost Ebola blood

The lost Ebola blood

Where are the samples extracted from patients during the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa? To investigate this, I did nearly a hundred freedom of information…

Emmanuel 11 February 2019
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