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Margot Gibbs

Margot Gibbs is a reporter at Finance Uncovered. She has investigated the UK's facilitation of corruption, natural resources and the environment.

A woman harvests crops in Kenya. Biotech firms are piling pressure on farmers to grow GMO crops. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)
AFRICAN CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY

Big Agriculture is watching critics, pesticides and GMO food

A new investigation details a covert campaign that companies such as Monsanto, now Bayer, and Syngenta waged against critics who threatened its profit

  • Lydia Namubiru, The Continent
  • Elena DeBre
  • Margot Gibbs
5 min read
Leaked documents and an affidavit from a whistleblower working at a major Western fishing company operating in African waters have given rare insight into how food multinationals can shift profits around the world to avoid paying taxes in developing countries.
ATLANTEX

A fishy business: How an Icelandic multinational moved profits out of Namibia

Global food companies avoid paying taxes by shifting profits around the world. Finance Uncovered reports on the case of Icelandic fishing giant Samherji’s operations in Namibia

  • Margot Gibbs
10 min read
Grounded: Private jet M-MYNA is at the centre of one of Nigeria’s biggest corruption scandals (Photo: Gerhard Rühl via PlaneSpotters.net)
BODE JOHNSON

The private plane, the minister and the $1.3-billion scandal

A private plane and a Nigerian minister are at the centre of a $1-billion corruption scandal

  • Margot Gibbs
  • Lionel Faull
4 min read