Lighthouse Reports

When Assad’s security state collapsed, locked doors opened, spilling decades of secrets. Among them: 100s of stolen children, hidden in orphanages & used to blackmail parents. We’ve done the deepest dive yet into this cruel system. Here’s what we found 🧵 lighthousereports.com/investigation/…

Last May, Tennessee Highway Patrol joined ICE on the streets of Nashville. We @LHreports + partners mapped the traffic stops and used 1M+ ICE records, dashcam video, and court files to show how supposed routine encounters became deportations.

“We’re like memory workers. It’s a way to rehumanize those who were killed and also to stop, pay attention and give an event its full meaning.” Sabrina Slipchencko, Digital Reporter, Lighthouse Reports. In this #Backlight episode, hosts Beatriz and Tessa discuss The Kanabi Killings, Lighthouse’s latest investigation on the ethnically motivated atrocities of the Sudanese Armed Forces. Listen to the episode: lighthousereports.com/how-to-report-…

The lobbying comes as the EU, the largest donor to Palestine and biggest export market of Israel, has found itself shut out of negotiations over Israel-Palestine while the Board of Peace has sprawled in scope to potentially rival the UN.

Meeting minutes, got under FOI, reveal TBI was “convinced that [the] EU will have a role at the BoP” and that the US has demonstrated a “willingness to work with the EU and [is] open to negotiation.”

Lobbyists for the Tony Blair Institute privately urged the EU to support and join Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, an initiative which started life as a council to oversee Gaza & sprawled since into a rival to the UN

Read the original investigation here: lighthousereports.com/investigation/…

It's not often we get to report on hopeful news... Alaa Hamoudi has won in the EU's top court against Frontex! This opens doors for many survivors of Frontex pushbacks. @bash_deeb tells how he first reported on Alaa's case back in 2020 with @bellingcat. And how this evidence ended up in court.

“A lot of this is classic storytelling. It's what the screenwriters think about. And some of that stuff might sound counterintuitive for investigative reporters.” - Susanne Reber, Piz Gloria Productions In this #Backlight episode, Tessa and Beatriz share snippets of the “Making an Investigative Podcast” panel at GIJC 2025.  Listen to the episode here: lighthousereports.com/how-to-make-an…

بعد استعادة القوات المسلحة السودانية لمدينة مدني في أوائل عام 2025، شنت حملة من العنف العرقي ضد المزارعين من غير العرب، المعروفين باسم "الكنابي"، في جميع أنحاء ولاية الجزيرة بوسط السودان. إليكم ما كشفناه بعد أشهر من البحث والتقصي

We are grateful to our partners @CNN, @sudanwarmonitor, @trouw and our colleagues investigating these attacks against the Kanabi @Cen4infoRes for sharing their work We are indebted to the many, unnamed Sudanese reporters and contributors who helped us uncover these grave abuses

Dutch partner @trouw shares firsthand testimonies from survivors of the attacks who took immense risk in sharing their stories with our team on the ground trouw.nl/buitenland/hoe…

When Sudan’s Armed Forces (SAF) took back the city of Madani in early 2025, they unleashed a campaign of ethnic violence against non-Arab farmers known as Kanabi across the central Sudanese state of Gezira. Here’s what we uncovered after months of digging into these atrocities … edition.cnn.com/2025/12/16/wor…