Our Managing Editor returns to the African Investigative Journalism Conference 2025 as speaker

The organisers of the African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC) yesterday October 23, 2025 released the programme for the event and it is fully packed with exciting sessions, speakers and programmes.

Coming up in the coming weeks, the 21^st edition of the AIJC will be happening at the WITS University in the South African capital of Johannesburg. The largest investigative journalism conference on the continent will feature former International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda as keynote speaker, and among the hundreds of speakers at the event would be our Managing Editor, Emmanuel K Dogbevi.

Dogbevi will be running a workshop on how to navigate the demands of cross-border investigative journalism collaborations. He will also join other speakers on a panel to discuss media sustainability.

Dogbevi who has participated in several major collaborative investigative journalism projects in the world is also a journalism trainer. He has been part of the first largest investigative journalism collaboration in the history of West Africa known as ‘West Africa Leaks’, the project involved 13 journalists from 11 countries within the region who worked together to expose the financial secrets of some of West Africa’s most powerful politicians, moguls and corporations. Other projects he has participated in are FinCEN Files, Pandora Papers, Shadow Diplomats, and recently he collaborated with two other journalists in Switzerland and The Netherlands to investigate a carbon credit agreement between Ghana and Switzerland.

Not a stranger to the conference where he has been a speaker in the past, having been featured in four sessions in the 2024 edition, Dogbevi says he looks forward to joining his colleagues and friends from around the continent for a fulfilling conference.

The organisers say the conference this year is packed with informative showcases, dedicated networking sessions, and hands-on workshops led by industry innovators, including a Bellingcat digital forensics workshop, covering climate resilience in Africa, investigative journalism and AI, how to navigate the demands of collaborative investigations, low-cost investigations for health, conflict and environment beats, creating stories with visual impact, and much more.

They have also introduced two new session formats: Story Time: Where speakers are given the opportunity to present a selection of the best investigations published across the continent in five- to seven-minute slots, and Raise Your Flag: A sessions that allows speakers to present innovations that work, from funding opportunities to new projects and other ideas in five- to seven-minute slots.

The conference will be held from November 5 to 7, 2025.

By Peter Quarshie

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