President Tokayev has vowed to clamp down on the theft of state assets, and billions of dollars have already been recovered. But experts fear that the president’s backroom decisions are leaving the public in the dark — and serving primarily his own interests.

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is sworn in as president of Kazakhstan on November 26, 2022. (Photo: Xinhua/Alamy Live News)

Every day, forty-six year-old Dia walks into the jungle to seek exhausting, dangerous and precarious work in the diamond pits that pockmark the landscape of Kono District in eastern Sierra Leone.

If he is lucky, he will dig for up to 10 hours in knee-deep mud to receive US$2-3 at the end of the day.

Artisanal diamond mine on the outskirts of Koidu. (Photo: Josef Skrdlik/OCCRP)

The head of the village appears to have abused a new land-titling system intended to help illiterate farmers, using it to take control of a chunk of former state land for himself, according to an investigation by iFact.

Plots of land in Duzagrama under the control of Mukhtar Ismayilov. (Photo: ifact.ge)

Last Friday, tens of thousands of Lebanese viewers watched in horror as a businessman collapsed live on air during a video interview with two prominent investigative journalists.

Protesters demonstrating against the drop in value of the Lebanese pound and the economic crisis facing the country burn tires in Beirut, Lebanon, in March 2021. (Photo: Hussein Kassir/Alamy Stock Photo)

A senior police official in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina threatened to rip a journalist’s throat out. Widely hailed as a war hero, Zoran Čegar has spent years in top positions despite repeated scandals, pointing to a pervasive culture of impunity.

Barely restrained by his own lawyer, Čegar lunges at a CIN journalist outside Dubrovnik’s Municipal Courthouse. (Photo: CIN)