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Sep 23, 2020 8 tweets 4 min read Read on X
It’s been an incredible week for our Open Source investigations team at #BBCAfricaEye. A short thread...

First, we saw the killers of these kids jailed in Cameroon
There’s detail on the sentencing here. The three men jailed are the same three named 2 years ago in our original report, plus their commander. Thanks to everyone who was part of this - it was a huge team effort bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…
We also published this new investigation, which holds Nigeria’s state oil firm (the immensely powerful @NNPCgroup), to account for a devastating explosion in #Lagos that destroyed a school and killed 23 people
We also received two @digawards nominations this week in recognition of earlier work. One for our chronicling of a massacre in Sudan...
bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-…
And one for an investigation that exposes covert foreign military interference in Libya...
We also produced another Libya story last month, showing that the UAE was behind a drone strike that killed 26 unarmed cadets in Tripoli in January.

Many suspected this, but no one had the evidence (or the courage) to say it publicly
What links all these films is accountability. We’re trying to produce original investigations that expose serious abuses of power, to show the visual evidence that leads to our conclusions, and to tell these stories as powerfully as we can
We have built this unit & vision from nothing in 2 yrs & are proud of the work we’re doing. Gifted collaborators work on every one of these projects, but core team is just @yaolri @BenDoBrown @bertram_hill1 @effisfor. Heartfelt thanks & respect to this dedicated, talented team

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May 15
On my way to the @sirharrysummit to hear a stellar line up of speakers (convened by @TinaBrownLM) talk about the challenges facing investigative journalism worldwide.

The whole thing is live-streamed. Some agenda highlights in this thread 🧵 👇

sirharrysummit.org/agenda/
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The basic task of separating truth from lies has never been more urgent or more challenging.

Addressing this are @EliotHiggins @deborahturness @Amampour5 @StevenBrill Image
Anyone concerned with journalism owes a huge debt to the Palestinian journalists who, working in unimaginable conditions, have shown us what’s happening in Gaza. We are lucky to have @azaizamotaz9 @YoumnaElSayed17 @safwatkahlout with us this morning Image
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Oct 12, 2023
Some of the most measured voices I’m hearing on here, the ones who seem most serious about ending this agony, seem to come from Israelis whose loved ones have just been murdered or abducted by Hamas.

Some examples… 🧵 ⬇️
In their pain, these people have summoned a serious, humane response that contrasts so sharply with the dogmatic, righteous, cocksure punditry that has dominated Twitter and degraded much of the political commentary
Noi Katzman whose Brother Chaim was murdered by Hamas

“The most important thing for me and also for my brother, is that his death will not be used as a justification for killing innocent people”

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Jun 29, 2022
It’s been 2 weeks since our ‘Racism for Sale’ investigation dropped and I thought it might be worth sharing some of the fallout. ICYMI the basic story & links to the film are here…

First, a *lot* of ppl watched this film: > 2m on FB, >1.6m on Insta, >1m on YouTube in English & Chinese. Another 750k in Brazil.

This is a story about racist exploitation of kids, and it clearly resonated all over the world. @Lupita_Nyongo shared it too, which never hurts…
People in #Malawi were legitimately outraged...
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Mar 28, 2022
In February 2015 Russian politician Boris Nemtsov — a fierce critic of Putin  — was shot dead on a bridge in the shadow of the Kremlin.

Five men were convicted for the murder, but the most urgent questions were never answered: who ordered the hit, and why?
Now, a new film from our team at BBC Eye Investigations, working with @bellingcat and @the_ins_ru, reveals that, in the year running up to the murder, Nemtsov was being shadowed by a government agent linked to a secret assassination squad…
…the same assassination squad that poisoned @navalny
Read 9 tweets
Mar 6, 2020
Opportunity for African video journalists, producers, and documentary filmmakers.

We have created a new #BBCAfricaEye training in the art & craft of documentary storytelling.

Thread…
This course is *not* about how to shoot or edit. We’re working with a lot of people who can film and cut beautifully. We also have a network of great investigators and reporters across the continent.

But documentary storytelling…that’s a harder challenge.
The training is about how to find and develop incredible stories, how to imagine them as visual narratives, and how to direct and structure those stories in the field and in the edit.
Read 12 tweets
Mar 3, 2020
Refugee Blues, W.H.Auden, March 1939... 1/6 Image
Say this city has ten million souls,
Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:
Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, there’s no place for us.
Once we had a country and we thought it fair,
Look in the atlas and you’ll find it there:
But we cannot go there now, my dear, we cannot go there now.
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