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Source: NPR [12], 10/02/2025

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Chinese Mining Firm Downplays Toxic Spill as Residents Reel From Impacts [13]

"A Chinese mining company is denying that its toxic waste spill, one of this year’s worst environmental disasters, had a “significant impact” on the environment or local communities."

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Source: Inside Climate News [21], 09/23/2025

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Chinese Mining Company Accused Of Covering Up Major Toxic Spill In Zambia [22]

"A Chinese-owned mining company has been accused of covering up the extent of a disastrous toxic spill in Zambia that polluted a major river that millions rely on with cyanide and arsenic."

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DEADLINE: Pulitzer Center's Ocean Reporting Fellowships [30]

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Source: AP [24], 09/03/2025

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‘Sea War’ Brews Off Gambia As Local Fishers Attack Foreign Vessels, Each Other [25]

"BANJUL, Gambia — Kawsu Leigh writhed in pain on the fishing boat, his burned skin as mottled as the paint on the deck beneath him. Raw and slick, the burns covered large parts of his upper body."

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Source: AP [29], 08/29/2025

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The Pulitzer Center invites applications to join the third cohort of the Ocean Reporting Network (ORN), a fellowship program that gives professional journalists the opportunity to spend up to a year working on an in-depth or investigative ocean story. Apply by Sep 12, 2025.

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DRC Opens Gorilla Habitats And Pristine Forest To Oil And Gas Drilling Bids [35]

"The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is opening crucial gorilla habitats and pristine forests to bids for oil and gas drilling, with plans to carve up more than half the country into fossil fuel blocks."

Biodiversity [2]

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Source: Guardian [39], 07/31/2025

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DEADLINE: Global Health Film Grant [40]

This grant of up to £20k, a collaboration between One World Media, Pulitzer Centre and the Financial Times, is for an experienced filmmaker who wants to explore, through a short documentary, underreported stories about health in the global south. Deadline: Aug 20, 2025.

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Mexico [43]

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Australia & Oceania [44]

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African Investigative Journalism Conference [45]

An initiative of the Wits Centre for Journalism, this annual conference gathers investigative journalists from Africa and elsewhere at Wits University to network, share ideas and stories, celebrate excellent, groundbreaking work and learn from one another through lectures, workshops, masterclasses and seminars.

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DEADLINE: African Investigative Journalist of the Year Award [47]

Africa [11]

Run by the Wits Centre for Journalism and the African Investigative Journalism Conference, this award recognizes outstanding investigative reporting from across Africa. Enter by Jul 15 for the chance to win cash and a trip to the AIJC conference, Nov 5-7, 2025 in Johannesburg.

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DEADLINE: CANEX Shorts Film Competition [48]

Afreximbank's Creative Africa Nexus programme invites entries by Jun 30 from filmmakers aged 18 to 35 years old, living in Africa and the Diaspora. Three winners will receive a cash prize of $2000, have their film screened at CANEX at IATF2025 in Algiers, Algeria, Sep 4-10, and an expenses-paid trip to attend.

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