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Uganda| Between prayer and protest

By The Insight Team October 24, 2023 255

By Emmanuel Mutaizibwa “He can pray for your visa,” promises apostle Goodwin, from his stage at the Zoe Ministries evangelical settlement on the shores of Lake Victoria, just outside Uganda’s capital Kampala. “Many have been helped already. They have travelled, they are working in the United States. You only have to bring offerings and he’ll […]Continue Reading

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Nigeria | The returnees who leave again

By The Insight Team October 24, 2023 252

By Theophilus Abbah Stuck in the desert in Algeria “with nothing”, Uka Ifeanyi, on February 14 2023, accepted an offer by the International Organisation on Migration (IOM) to “resettle” back home in Nigeria. Brought back by air to Lagos, the IOM staff “asked us to wait for three months for our accommodation and resettlement,” he […]Continue Reading

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Kenya | No alternatives

By The Insight Team October 24, 2023 229

Ngina Kirori On Christmas Day in 2019, at her wits end after failing for long periods to put enough food on the table at home, Faith Murunga left Kakamega, her rural area in Kenya, with an “agent” who offered her a domestic worker job in Saudi Arabia. “I simply could not bear to see my […]Continue Reading

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Cameroon | Hope dies last

By The Insight Team October 24, 2023 220

By Elizabeth BanyiTabi DOUALA, 2 June 2023 At the reception after the funeral of Bryan Achou*, people commiserate about death of the young man, who was only 28. “He’s a kid from my neighborhood! In less than two weeks we lost two children. One was in the oceans between Turkey and Greece, the other was […]Continue Reading

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Paying dictators | The Making of African Migration

By The Insight Team October 24, 2023 206

By Elizabeth BanyiTabi, Emmanuel Mutaizibwa, Ngina Kirori, Theophilus Abbah and Brezh Malaba Key Points Over sixty percent of EU-funded “returnee projects” fail “Rescue centres” in Saudi Arabia keep women detained for years Cameroonian businesspeople in the diaspora have stopped investing in their home country Migrants who were returned to Cameroon were arrested, tortured, Continue Reading

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Brain drain | The Making of African Migration

By The Insight Team October 24, 2023 170

By Elizabeth BanyiTabi, Emmanuel Mutaizibwa, Ngina Kirori, Theophilus Abbah and Brezh Malaba Key points Nine out of ten Nigerians said they want to “escape” “Frustration of excellence” is behind an exodus of doctors, IT experts, and teachers Academics leave behind silenced and empty campuses Oppression drives many to “vote with their feet” The extremely heavy […]Continue Reading

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Cash cows | The Making of African Migration

By The Insight Team October 24, 2023 198

By Elizabeth BanyiTabi, Emmanuel Mutaizibwa, Ngina Kirori, Theophilus Abbah and Brezh Malaba Key Points The financial exploitation of migrants is a multimillion-dollar business for agencies, rackets, syndicates, and scammers Many state officials are involved in schemes exploiting migrants The production of passports yields hundreds of thousands of dollars per day African Continue Reading

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Losing hope | The Making of African Migration

By The Insight Team October 24, 2023 193

By Elizabeth BanyiTabi, Emmanuel Mutaizibwa, Ngina Kirori, Theophilus Abbah and Brezh Malaba Key points Awareness campaigns about the risks of (illegal) migration, even the risk of dying, have little to no effect Aspiring migrants feel sadness about the state of their countries, but have little hope for change as their ruling elites are seen as […]Continue Reading

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Akwa Ibom residents worry over incessant flooding

By The Insight Team July 20, 2023 241

By Confidence Chibueze Eunice Sunday, 45, stood in front of a flooded house in Idua lamenting. Her face depicts frustration at the losses she has incurred as a result of flooding “My ND certificate I got from Akwa Ibom Polytechnic, the flood came when I was sleeping, and soaked everything, my electronics, my books and […]Continue Reading

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Loan apps torment users in Nigeria despite being barred by government, Google

By The Insight Team July 18, 2023 479

Key Points: Loan app operators still violate data privacy of borrowers despite government regulation App operators take advantage of unsuspecting, desperate borrowers Interest rates on the apps are extremely high Citizens must take their data privacy seriously Avoid patronizing loan sharks; report violators to relevant security agencies By Daniel Adaji Michael Adekunle, a Continue Reading

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The murder of Cameroonian journalist Martinez Zogo

By The Insight Team July 11, 2023 212

Arizona/ZAM How the killing of a Cameroonian journalist silenced investigations into plunder by an internationally-connected elite, eliminated a rival for the succession of an ageing president, and sidelined a tax director. Arizona Project Team A dossier full of bank slips, payment instructions, and tables of sums amounting to tens of millions of dollars, printed by […]Continue Reading

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How internationally connected Cameroon elites plundered US$ 656 million -and how a tax investigation was silenced after the murder of Martinez Zogo

By The Insight Team July 11, 2023 209

Arizona Project Team How tax cases involving hundreds of millions in payments from state coffers to questionable entities were snuffed out. A list of 67 suspicious transactions scheduled for investigation by Cameroon’s tax agency shows a total equivalent to US$ 656 million in undeclared payments from state coffers to questionable business entities and individuals. The […]Continue Reading