Zimbabwean government turns 'blind eye' on religious sect's child marriages

April 8, 2024
By Brezh Malaba
Photography by Cynthia R. Matonhodze

Published on Veza, CCIJ's new publication site.

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November 22, 2023
By Olga Konsevych

Published on Veza, CCIJ's new publication site.

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What the world can learn from Africa’s ‘cradle of water reclamation’

August 23, 2023
By Frederick Clayton
Photography by John Trotter and Margaret Courtney-Clarke

Published on Veza, CCIJ's new publication site.

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‘Not the kind of life a human being should live’

How Namibia’s sanitation crisis is endangering its people and its future

May 1, 2023
By Frederick Clayton and Sonja Smith
Photography by Margaret Courtney-Clarke

Published on Veza, CCIJ's new publication site.

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In Ethiopia’s Tigray, a horrific military cooperation: weaponized rape

December 13, 2022 • By Lucy Kassa

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Tapped Out: Power & water justice in the rural West

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