Building forensic tech. Liberating open source intel. Fighting digital threats.
ANCIR partners with investigative newsrooms to produce data-driven investigative reports using social network analysis, entity analysis and open source intelligence.
Operation KOT: User network uses coordinated amplification of anti-Ruto hashtags on Twitter, in a likely attempt to spread disinformation. June 2020
Read MoreHow users in African countries are scammed into sharing their banking information during the Covid-19 lockdown period. July 2020
Read MoreHow the Ethiopian diaspora community spearheaded the Hashtag Activism after the assassination of Haacaaluu Hundessa. August 2020
Read MoreANCIR focusses on using investigative entity analysis and open source intelligence to produce actionable data, and to combat disinformation and digital threats produced by predatory state agencies, malicious corporations, and organised crime.
AfriLEAKS allows you to leak confidential documents of public interest. We've designed the system to help you share these materials while protecting your own identity, making it very hard to identify you as the source of the leak.
Visit AfrileaksANCIR partners with investigative newsrooms to produce transnational Pan-African data-driven journalism using entity analysis and open source intelligence
ANCIR is a network of Africa’s best muckraking newsrooms, collaborating on cross-border investigations and who pool their resources to build the technnologies and expertise necessary to beat organised crime and corruption.
ANCIR is a member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network and has partnership agreements with regional counterparts in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North America.
ANCIR is a non profit organization. The following organizations and institutions partners have made our work possible:
Political trolls
Covid-19 package scam
Ethiopia's hacktivism
