EIF Network

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.

Fiacre is a journalist and fact-checking expert and communication consultant from Central African Republic. He has worked with Le confident, Ndjoni sango, Média Plus, Le Citoyen, Petit Observateur Centrafricain. He has worked with with Zam Magazine which is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and The Museba Journalism Project based in Cameroon. He joined Congo Check, a verification body based in DR Congo, to be an independent consultant in fact-checking in the sub-region. Today, I am a Fact-Checking expert, Communication Consultant and Investigator.

Zubaida Mabuno Ismail is a freelance investigative journalist based in Ghana. She was a participant of the Pandora Papers by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. She is also a member of the Norbert Zongo Centre for Investigative Journalists in West Africa and African Fact-Checking Alliance. With over ten years of experience, Zubaida has covered environmental, climate change, and gender issues. She is a media trainer, brand marketing consultant, ZAMI Reports managing editor, and Reporters Without Borders reporter in Ghana.

Elodie Toto is a journalist based in Africa. She covers social, geostrategic, and environmental issues.

I have been working as a journalist since 1989 covering the UN cycle of big congerences ond evelopment in the 1990s; the social and environmental impacts of big economic infrastructure projects iin the Amazon Basin.

Aïda is an independent environmental journalist currently based in Tunis. After having completed a master’s degree in political philosophy, she joined the team of Cash Investigation, a major investigative journalism TV show in France. She then contributed to Inkyfada, an independent Tunisian investigation media. Passionate about ecology related stories, her work mainly focuses on environmental and agricultural issues along with their social and health consequences. She has notably conducted a transborder investigation concerning a major waste affair between Italy and Tunisia. She is a fellow of the Earth Journalism Network.

Klaartje Jaspers is an investigative journalist, often dealing with social and ecological implications of multinational activities, such as mining. The last few years, Klaartje has primarily been looking into the impact of the increasing European demand for biomass on producing countries like Zambia and Sweden. She also has an academic background as an Interdisciplinary Social Scientist focused on the Western and Southern African region.

Mathias is a journalist, technologist, and researcher. He holds a position as project manager at InfoAmazonia, leading the development of data-driven and web application products, such as PlenaMata in cooperation with Natura and MapaBiomas. Before joining InfoAmazonia, he was a researcher at the University of Navarra, Spain, under the JOLT project, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program. He was also a visiting researcher at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. Mathias Felipe is co-editor of the book “Journalism, Data and Technology in Latin America” published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2021.