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Africa

Contestants compete in the Mister and Miss Pride competition. (Photo by Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi/GroundTruth)
Photography

A look at Uganda’s last pride week, now crushed by brutal homophobia

An artisanal miner in Koidu shows off diamonds. He hopes to sell them to one of the town's many dealers.
Rights

Uncovering Africa’s offshore empires

What do you know about Africa and the Panama Papers? Take this interactive quiz by ICIJ in partnership with...

Jul 25, 2016
Kumba James, left, and her daughter, Kumba Johnbull, were moved to the resettlement site in 2013 because of diamond mining. The locals locals call the resettlement Benghazi. They say that they are frustrated by limited access to water during the dry season, when the resettlement site’s wells dry up. (Photo by Cooper Inveen/ICIJ)
Rights

An offshore company blasts its way through Sierra Leone

By Cooper Inveen, Silas Gbandia, Khadija Sharife, Will Fitzgibbon and Michael Hudson KOIDU, Sierra Leone – Once or twice...

Jul 25, 2016
Mohamed Abdelfattah interviews Jack, a Trump supporter who rode from North Dakota to Cleveland for the RNC. (Photo by Jenny Montasir/GroundTruth)
Democracy

After covering Tahrir Square, an Egyptian’s view of the RNC

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Jenny and I arrived in Cleveland on Wednesday with our camera and microphone, and headed downtown...

Jul 22, 2016
Sia Momoh's father, an artisanal miner named Aiah Momoh, was shot and killed by police in 2007 while protesting mining activity. Sia, now 15 years old, lives with her aunts and grandmother and spends her days selling produce and butterscotch around town.
A New Light

In Sierra Leone, the search for diamonds overpowers a city

By Cooper Inveen In eastern Sierra Leone, gravel caused by mine blasts can be seen surrounding Koidu, a...

Jul 22, 2016
Rights

The struggles of indigenous people displaced in Tanzania

By Dana Ullman “In Tanzania, it is as if we don’t exist,” says Salumu Kundaya Kidomwita, a Barabaig...

Jun 21, 2016
SNIM employees, who travel on special reserved coaches, talk in Arabic dialect while they lunch on September 30, 2015. It is custom in the desert to share food and water with the other travelers. (George Popescu/GroundTruth)
A New Light

A 20-hour train ride through the Sahara Desert

Passengers often ride on top of the train cars transporting iron ore across the Sahara desert, from the mine...

May 03, 2016
Africa

Survivors of Kenya’s Garissa Massacre Cope with Fear of Another Attack

John Omwango, who survived the Garissa University massacre in April 2015, transferred to Moi University, where he is...

Apr 01, 2016
Fellowships

The New Old Egypt: Reporting a Revolution, Interrupted

By Lauren Bohn and Omnia Al Desoukie  CAIRO — We met four years ago. We were young, ambitious and foolish. Well,...

Mar 09, 2016
War and Peace

Reporter’s Notebook: Tahrir Square, Five Years Later

CAIRO – Where Egyptian demonstrators locked arms five years ago in the iconic protests of Tahrir Square, there was...

Jan 25, 2016
War and Peace

Five Years Later: Egypt’s Revolution Devours Its Children

CAIRO—It takes about 30 minutes to drive from the teeming Cairo neighborhood of Faisal to what locals call...

Jan 24, 2016
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