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Beatriz Ramalho da Silva

Investigative Reporter

Beatriz is a journalist focused on migration and food systems with work published in The Guardian and Al-Jazeera Media Network. She holds a masters degree in Media, Communications and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Investigations

False Promise of Biometrics

Three-country investigation shows digital IDs in Africa failing to deliver promised democratic and development boost, while making fortunes for tech vendors

Desert Dumps

Europe supports, finances and is directly involved in clandestine operations in North African countries to dump tens of thousands of Black people in the desert or remote areas each year to prevent them from coming to the EU.

Brain waste

Analysis of data previously unavailable to journalists reveals exclusion of skilled migrants from the jobs Europe most needs to fill to prevent economic decline

Europe’s Potemkin Lobby

Europe’s Potemkin Lobby

Powerful European farming lobby Copa-Cogeca is losing legitimacy even as it stymies the EU’s green agenda and hoovers up public funds

Toxic Rain

Hazardous and potential cancer-causing pesticides are being sprayed over farms supplying Nestlé and Coca-Cola

Big Meat

How Europe’s biggest meat companies avoid tax while raking in subsidies