Sahara Reporters

Source profile

Origin:

United States

Region:

Africa

Founded:

2006

Ownership: Founded in New York in February 2006 by Omoyele Sowore, who remains publisher. Corporate identity appears variously as Sahara Reporters, Inc. and SaharaReporters Media Group Inc., with grant funding running through a separately registered Lagos foundation. No masthead, editor-in-chief, corrections policy or staff list is published.

Funding: Advertising, reader donations and, historically, foundation grants. Documented grants from the MacArthur Foundation and Omidyar Network all predate 2021 and no current funder is disclosed.

Focus Areas: Public-sector corruption and procurement fraud, anti-graft agencies, the police and state security services, banditry and mass-casualty attacks, the judiciary, universities, labour disputes and the Nigerian diaspora.

Language:

English