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.…
From farmers to fighters - an anglophone armed group
I spent a week with an armed group called the Ambazonia Defense Forces (ADF). Since October 2017, this group has been fighting against the Cameroonian army army…
Burning Cameroon: Images you're not meant to see
Since October 2017, over 180,000 people were displaced by the conflict between anglophone separatists and the Cameroonian army. Cameroon’s security forces have…
Paul Biya, Cameroon’s Roaming President
Cameroonian president Paul Biya has long been known for his travels abroad for private business. With two Cameroonian journalists we calculated just how much time…
Burning down the house: Myanmar’s destructive charcoal trade
I investigated how charcoal is illegally harvested in Myanmar and then smuggled to China to make cosmetics, alloys and electronics. In China,…
The Mines Minister, his wife and the Australian company Sundance resources
(Published in French in Le Monde Afrique) In a Yaoundé notary's office in 2007, a handful of people gathered to close a deal worth over 10 million…
Quebec's real estate, new hotspot for the wealth of Africa’s rulers?
Politically-exposed Africans and their friends invested a total of $26 million in Québec's real estate since 2000. We uncovered investments by a dozen individuals…
Advocates ignored evidence on conflict minerals
Leading non-profits advocating against conflict minerals in Congo have ignored evidence that the policies they pushed for harmed artisanal miners. For several…
Poverty on top of gold, the World Bank project in Liberia
The World Bank invested $19 millions in an industrial gold mine in Liberia, in the hope of contributing to development. But it only brought poverty and pollution. The…