Supported projects

CAPE TOWN - A number of fishing companies are flouting international law, exploiting workers, and over-fishing, thus stripping vulnerable countries of a vital food source.

ABUJA - Thousands of tonnes of used electronics and illegal e-waste are imported into Nigeria every year. High demand for used European electronics, ineffective regulation and a lack of local recycling facilities pose a growing threat.

JOHANNESBURG - Fourteen of the twenty largest company on the Johannesburg stock exchange have at least one subsidiary in the Netherlands. 20 billion Euro coming directly from South Africa is stored in Dutch shell companies.

DAKAR - Mafia in Africa 2 exposes the fraudulent business empire of Italian criminal Curio Pintus, who was sentenced to three years in jail in 2001 for laundering drug money for the 'ndrangheta, but remains active as CEO of US “merchant bank”, the Pintus Group.

WINDHOEK - The internal financial structures of the dominant political parties in several African countries, which function as corporatised multinationals within monopolised state power structures: Angola's MPLA, Zimbabwe's ZANU and Namibia's SWAPO.

MAPUTO - How much of the $850 million budget allocated to Mozambique's public-private company Ematum to buy a fishing fleet was actually spent on military hardware?

CALABAR - According to a 2013 study conducted by Paris-based charity Foot Solidaire, around 15,000 young boys from West Africa are trafficked to Europe every year by bogus football agents who promise them trials with top football clubs in exchange for large sums money from their families.