EIF Network

Our members benefit from benevolent support and advice to find a story angle, experts, colleagues, but also direct work opportunities whenever EIF has to offer. We do not predate on our members ideas and engage with them in strict confidentiality.

Charles Barailles

Charles is a former security and defense expert having worked for various public administrations.

Randrianarisoa Riana Raymonde

I have been an investigative journalist for 23 years. Curently, I am the chief Editor of TARATRA , a daily newspaper in local language-Malagasy.

Aïssatou Fofana

Freelance journalist since 2016, Aïssatou creates content for various platforms and online media, and currently serves as an assistant editor for the African section of the GIJN (Global Investigative Journalism Network). Moreover, sensitive to environmental issues, she has been campaigning for the environmental cause for several years, through her writings and by participating in activities dealing with these issues. This commitment led her to co-create April 2022, a news website, L’Écologiste, dedicated mainly to environmental issues. Aïssatou was also a Media Grantee granted by the Arican Union in 2022, the year she joined the GIJN team.

Dorian Cabrol

Dorian Cabrol is a french freelance journalist working mainly for local investigative media called Mediacités. He was involved in transnational investigative projects between Europe and West Africa supported by the german NGO CiFAR. He has worked in Ivory Coast for 3 years with “l’Éléphant Déchaîné“, an ivorian weekly investigative newspaper. He has written stories mainly about the marine economy in several sectors like fishing or maritime transport in Abidjan’s port. He has also worked on the mafia of land transport for Vice Magazine.

Ry Covington

Ry leads SkyTruth’s conservation technology program. His work combines geographic information science (GIS), remote sensing, and machine learning to identify, map, and monitor threats to the planet. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he studied the spatial dynamics of environmental impact assessment. Before joining SkyTruth in 2017, Ry led the spatial science program at Defenders of Wildlife. Most recently he developed his own consulting firm in GIS, Machine Learning, Database management and Data vizualisation: Honeybee Labs.

Daniela Sala

Daniela Sala is a freelance photographer and investigative journalist. She worked in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Gaza covering the climate crisis, water scarcity, the role of the oil industry and the EU companies in water grabbing in Iraq, and water weaponisation in NE Syria.

Stanley Gajete

Stanley Buenafe Gajete is an international multi-platform journalist and communication specialist from the Philippines for more than a decade. Some stories focused on environment, climate change, disaster, business and economy climate, political economy, global leadership, and others. He is a Cum Laude University of Philippines graduate an an Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, and Oxpeckers international journalist fellow.

Elie Kaboré

Elie has been an investigative journalist in Burkina Faso for the past 10 years, and an overall journalist since 17 years. He has a strong focus on the mining sector, on which he specializes his reports, articles and investigations, notably from the angle of corruption, illicit financial flows and democracy. He now works regularly for the Economiste du Faso, after several years working with L’Indépendant. Elie is also a member of the Norbert Zongo Cell for Investigative Journalism in West Africa (CENOZO), a regional hub of investigative journalists based in West Africa, which notably participated to the West African Leaks