It’s been an incredible week for our Open Source investigations team at #BBCAfricaEye. A short thread...

First, we saw the killers of these kids jailed in Cameroon https://twitter.com/BBCAfrica/status/1044186344153583616?s=20

There’s detail on the sentencing here. The three men jailed are the same three named 2 years ago in our original report, plus their commander. Thanks to everyone who was part of this - it was a huge team effort https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-54238170

We also published this new investigation, which holds Nigeria’s state oil firm (the immensely powerful @NNPCgroup), to account for a devastating explosion in #Lagos that destroyed a school and killed 23 people

We also received two @digawards nominations this week in recognition of earlier work. One for our chronicling of a massacre in Sudan... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-africa-48956133

And one for an investigation that exposes covert foreign military interference in Libya...

We also produced another Libya story last month, showing that the UAE was behind a drone strike that killed 26 unarmed cadets in Tripoli in January.

Many suspected this, but no one had the evidence (or the courage) to say it publicly

What links all these films is accountability. We’re trying to produce original investigations that expose serious abuses of power, to show the visual evidence that leads to our conclusions, and to tell these stories as powerfully as we can

We have built this unit & vision from nothing in 2 yrs & are proud of the work we’re doing. Gifted collaborators work on every one of these projects, but core team is just @yaolri @BenDoBrown @bertram_hill1 @effisfor. Heartfelt thanks & respect to this dedicated, talented team