BBC Africa Eye
BBC World Service investigative division
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| October 1 2023 | BBC Africa Eye published 'Predators on the Pitch', an investigation exposing sexual abuse of young footballers in Gabon and FIFA's alleged failure to take effective action. |
| February 20 2023 | BBC Africa Eye, in collaboration with Panorama, released 'Sex for Work', an investigation revealing widespread sexual abuse on Kenyan tea farms supplying major UK brands. |
| December 12 2022 | BBC Africa Eye produced 'Black Axe: Nigeria's Mafia Cult', an investigative documentary about one of the world's most powerful and secretive organized crime groups. |
| April 2021 | BBC Africa Eye collaborated with Bellingcat and Newsy to confirm the authenticity of footage documenting the Mahbere Dego massacres in Tigray, providing evidence of war crimes in the Tigray War. |
| February 7 2021 | BBC Africa Eye released 'Lady P and the Sex Work Sisterhood', a documentary exploring the challenges and rights of sex workers in Sierra Leone. |
| November 15 2020 | BBC Africa Eye premiered 'The Baby Stealers', revealing baby trafficking in Kenyan hospitals. The documentary prompted a police investigation, leading to arrests and convictions of people involved in a child-trafficking syndicate. |
| October 7 2020 | Following BBC Africa Eye's earlier investigation, The Guardian confirmed UAE and Turkey's violation of the UN arms embargo in Libya. |
| July 9 2020 | Nigerian Senate passed the anti-sexual harassment bill, proposing up to 14 years jail term for offenders, following the 'Sex for Grades' documentary. |
| June 29 2020 | BBC Africa Eye produced 'Corona Quacks', an investigative report by Anas Aremeyaw Anas exposing fake coronavirus cure scams in Ghana during the pandemic. |
| January 4 2020 | BBC Africa Eye and BBC Arabic Documentaries revealed a UAE-operated drone killed 26 unarmed young military cadets, mostly teenagers, at a military academy in Tripoli using a Chinese-made Wing Loong II drone with a Blue Arrow 7 missile. |
| 2019 | The 'Sweet Sweet Codeine' documentary was nominated for an International Emmy Award. |
| 2019 | The 'Sweet Sweet Codeine' documentary won the One World Media TV Documentary Award. |
| October 8 2019 | BBC Africa Eye premiered 'Sex for Grades', an investigative documentary by Kiki Mordi exposing sexual harassment by lecturers at University of Lagos and University of Ghana. The documentary led to suspensions of implicated lecturers and the re-introduction of an anti-sexual harassment bill in the Nigerian Senate. |
| October 7 2019 | BBC Africa Eye released 'Sex For Grades', an undercover investigation exposing sexual harassment in Nigerian and Ghanaian universities, revealing systemic abuse by lecturers and professors. |
| June 3 2019 | BBC Africa Eye produced 'Sudan's Livestream Massacre' documentary using over 300 videos from protestors, exposing Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo's role in ordering a massacre that killed over 100 people in Khartoum. |
| February 6 2019 | BBC Africa Eye published 'Betraying The Game', an undercover investigation by Anas Aremeyaw Anas that exposed nearly 100 football officials across West Africa and Kenya accepting bribes. |
| September 23 2018 | BBC Africa Eye premiered 'Anatomy of a Killing', an open-source investigation that exposed Cameroonian soldiers responsible for executing four civilians. The production resulted in seven soldiers being tried, with five convicted and four jailed for ten years. |
| July 29 2018 | BBC Africa Eye premiered 'Rehab Nightmare', documenting abuse in Islamic rehab centres in Nairobi, Kenya. The documentary led to the immediate closure of the Darushifa Rehabilitation Centre and two other illegal centres. |
| July 15 2018 | BBC Africa Eye released 'My Neighbour The Rapist', a documentary examining the dangerous living conditions for women in Diepsloot, South Africa. |
| June 2018 | BBC Africa Eye collaborated with investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas to support the premiere of 'Number 12' (also known as 'Betraying The Game'), which resulted in the resignation of Ghanaian Football Association President Kwesi Nyantakyi. |
| June 2018 | Ghana's Health Minister Kwaku Agyemang-Manu banned all production and importation of codeine syrup as part of the country's National Medicines Policy review. |
| June 2018 | BBC Africa Eye exposed footage revealing Cameroon's Rapid Intervention Battalion soldiers burning civilian houses in the Southwest Region during the Anglophone Crisis, highlighting systematic denial of journalistic access. |
| June 19 2018 | BBC Africa Eye produced 'My Stolen Childhood', a documentary investigating the 'trokosi' system in West Africa, highlighting the enslavement of women in religious shrines, despite the practice being officially banned in Ghana. |
| April 2018 | BBC Africa Eye was established as part of the BBC World Service's largest expansion since the 1940s, with a mission to promote investigative journalism across Africa and strengthen journalistic skills. |
| April 30 2018 | BBC Africa Eye premiered its first documentary 'Sweet Sweet Codeine', which exposed widespread codeine syrup abuse in Nigeria. The documentary led to an immediate government ban on codeine-based syrup import and manufacture within 24 hours. |
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