Kofa, Cameroon
$600 - $1000 / Day
Request QuoteChristian Locka is a multiple award winning freelance reporter from Cameroon. I expose human rights abuses, corruption, illicit finance flows and organized crime. My work has appeared in the Washington times, Global Post, UsaToday, 100 Reporters, Mail and Guardian, Courrier International, Al Fanar media, etc. I am a two time grantee and fellow of the Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) and winner of the 2015 freelance award of the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE). Since october 2018, co-founder of the MUSEBA Project, a regional news organization dedicated to fact-based reporting in Central Africa with contribution of freelance journalists from accross the region.
Produced for Info Afrique
I went in a UN refugees camp in eastern cameroon where i found that there are many cases of rapes of women. I met with victims and coordinatotrs who explained that those women are raped by male refugees who consume drugs sent to them by cameroonians. The phenomenon touches dozens of women and girls. the defence committe made of refugees is powerless to curb the problem.
looting of Cameroonian wood and mafia on the traceability project
The story tells how a gas project conducted by UK multinational and managed by President Biya turns to nightmare for local residents vicctims of abuses; the staate coffers receive almost nothing from the project, while million of US dollars are transfered secretly to offshore accounts.
Produced for Info Afrique
i went undercover to investigate how under 12 children are chained by their imam in a coranic shool in north cameroon. later, i met with victims who have undergone the same unhumane treatment and talked with adolescents who still carried wounds four or five years later. they are abandoned to their poor families and buy street medecine to try curing their wounds.
After the 2013 coup, Central African Republic plunges in a religious conflict between muslim rebels of Seleka and christian militia called Anti Balaka. the conflict makes 6000 dead after two years, according to the United Nations. Deprived of education, many children are enlisted, sometime by force, in armed groups, committing atrocities. But a Bangui-based NGO is bringing hope to faces. 150 former child soldiers, exfiltrated from the Anti-Balaka, a christian militia, are trained in pastry, soap production, carpentry, sewing, etc by a local NGO in Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic.
The story published by the US based platform exposed the business of laundering Central African republic blood diamonds in Cameroon by Kimberley officials, ready for the international market. I sometimes went undercover to get evidence.
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