I’m a freelance investigative journalist based in Nairobi who’s been doing investigations all over Africa for a decade.
My stories range from nerdy data-journalism to extended reporting trips in conflict zones.
I’m a freelance investigative journalist based in Nairobi who’s been doing investigations all over Africa for a decade.
My stories range from nerdy data-journalism to extended reporting trips in conflict zones.
By trawling through documents, I’ve uncovered corruption scandals that led to police investigations in Canada and Australia. I won a Peabody Award for a collaborative open-source investigation into the murder of women and children by Cameroonian soldiers. I’ve also done several data investigation using aircraft ADSB data or over 4000 newspaper covers.
I’ve also trekked through rainforests for days and became the only journalist to embed with an armed group fighting in Cameroon’s nascent civil war.
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My latest investigations
Money laundering in French real estate
French real estate attracts dirty money from all over the world. By matching government datasets available online, our cross-border team of journalists uncovered…
The civilians killed by France's operation Barkhane in the Sahel
We revealed that French soldiers of operation Barkhane killed at least 25 civilians in Mali while the official toll stands at 7. French troops have fought against…
Frontex complicit in illegal pushback of migrants
Migrants who attempt to cross the Aegean from Turkey to Greece, to seek refuge in Europe, know that the Greek coast guards often stop their boats, disable them by…
COVID quarantine? Not if you own a jet!
We investigated the French businessmen who flew from Paris to their beach homes on their private jets (French only). They broke the COVID quarantine rules that left…
Tracking surveillance planes and drones in Somalia
We used an antenna to track surveillance planes that were flying over Somalia, analysing massive amounts of data to find out a few planes flying in perfect circles.…
Diversity in media outlets that report on Africa
International newsrooms that report on Africa are often full of white journalists (and I’m one of them). But just how white or how ethnically diverse are they?…
Israeli mercenaries in Cameroon
Over the past two decades, Israeli mercenaries have been training the BIR, an elite unit of the Cameroonian army. Their names were mostly kept secret. The BIR are…
Ebola business in Congo
I looked at militarisation and mismanagement (‘Ebola Business’) in the Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of Congo through several articles. One…
Systematic torture in an army basement in Yaoundé, Cameroon
About a hundred people were tortured by security forces in Cameroon's capital, Yaoundé. In an article for African Arguments, I revealed that detainees were systematically…
The lost Ebola blood
Where are the samples extracted from patients during the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa? To investigate this, I did nearly a hundred freedom of information…
36 Years of Rocky ‘Stability’ in Paul Biya’s Cameroon
Paul Biya, the president of Cameroon has managed to stay in power for 36 years - and it's no easy feat. In an article for the World Politics Review, I look at the…
Anatomy of a Killing in Cameroon
A movie shot on a phone went viral last July. It shows two women, a little girl and a baby escorted by several soldiers. The soldiers smack a women in the face.…