Bureau Of Investigative Journalism

UK eyes up Covid-19 vaccine donations to slash £140m of foreign aid

The UK is set to count its excess Covid-19 vaccines as part of its aid budget, taking money away from other projects

Samuel Horti , Rosa Furneaux , Samuel Lovett

9 min read

MEXICO – 2021/01/21: People wearing face masks wait in a line to refill their oxygen tanks.
The country faces a shortage of oxygen tanks and a fourfold rise in prices as cases of Covid-19 increase.
People line up to buy oxygen for their relatives infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), to help them breath during the illness. (Photo by Guillermo Diaz/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

AIRSEP

25 AUG 2021

Oxygen companies put profit over patients by spreading misinformation in Mexico

Companies falsely claimed that onsite oxygen plants could kill patients

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Madlen Davies, Lorena Rios & Chrissie Giles

19 min read

Members of the transgender and LGBTQ community hold candles as they take part in the vigil of the Transgender day of Remembrance in order to pay tributes to victims of hate crimes in Uganda and all over the world, in Kampala, Uganda, on November 23,2019. – The event comes after a number of attacks on the LGBTQ community in Uganda in recent months, and follows the arrest of 120 people in a raid on an LGBTQ-friendly nightclub in Kampala on November 10, 2019. A colonial-era law outlaws gay sex in the country, many LGBTQ people continue to be victims of violence from hate crimes. (Sumy SADRUNI / AFP)

AFRICAN POLICING CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT FORUM

25 NOV 2020

Under cover of Covid, Uganda targets LGBTQ+ shelter

Pandemic rules were used to justify a violent raid on a homeless shelter in Uganda, but a group of victims is pursuing a criminal case against the perpetrators

Madlen Davies

15 min read