The Observers

The Observers is a collaborative project that includes both a website and a weekly TV show, all based on amateur content.

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Colombian farmers offer rare view into the dangerous, lucrative world of coca production

Hundreds of videos posted on TikTok by young Colombians document cocaine being produced in the South American country, from the fields where coca grows to the labs where the leaves are transformed into the drug. Colombia is the largest global producer of both coca and cocaine. One of these TikTokers told the FRANCE 24 Observers team that many locals are reliant on coca production to make a living but that the sector continues to be controlled by illegal drug traffickers.
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Chinese police use force to implement quarantine rules in Shanghai

Renewed migrant pushbacks between Belarus and Poland worry NGOs

Investigators use satellite images to find extensive new graveyard in Chernihiv, Ukraine

Tied up and humiliated: Victims of the Koglweogo, a militia network, filmed in Burkina Faso

How pro-Russian bloggers are covering the war in Ukraine

'It's a policy of invasion': ADF rebels expand attacks in DR Congo

Four Uighurs in Saudi Arabia face 'grave risk' if extradited to China

Residents left in dire straits after Saudi govt bulldozes poor Jeddah neighbourhoods

Ukraine Siren Alerts: How a new online system updates Ukrainians about air raids

Rights groups 'strongly condemn' public humiliation of looters in Ukraine

'Don't betray your country': The letter 'Z' used to intimidate Russian anti-war activists

Ukrainian TikToker documents her family's escape from Mykolaiv

Anti-war protester arrested in Russia for holding up a poster saying 'two words'

Video investigation: How civilians were targeted by heavy bombing in Kharkiv, Ukraine

Russia's artillery war on Ukraine: Grads, Smerches and cruise missiles in action

Standing up to the Russians in the occupied city of Kherson

Activists fight to save Puerto Rico’s beaches

Migrant families in Sweden accuse social services of 'kidnapping' their children

Ukraine: A collaborative map to compile verified videos of the war

Ecuador: Oil spill in Amazon rainforest 'could have been avoided'
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