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lundi, 18 mars 2024

About us

MUSEBA Journalism Project  is a non profit media organization dedicated to watchdog journalism in Central Africa and the Great Lakes region.

Founded in 2019, MUSEBA which means trumpet in a local Cameroonian language publishes in both English and French. Its projects include international collaborations such as the FinCEN Files, Migrants from Another World, Pandora Papers, etc.

MISSION

We not only use the tools of fearless journalism to expose wrongdoing in the public and private sector.  We train a new generation in adversarial journalism. We push for change.

PEOPLE

Through collaborative approaches with a dozen journalists from the region, Museba investigates corruption, illicit financial flows, organized crime and human rights violations.

Christian LOCKA, co-founder, is a Cameroonian investigative journalist who has been exposing wrongdoing for 16 years. His work, both local and cross-border, has appeared in leading publications such as 100 Reporters, USA Today, The Washington Times, The Mail and Guardian, Global Post, etc. The 2016 Fellow of the Washington-based Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) was in 2015 the first-ever African winner in the history of the Freelance award of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE). He is also the laureate of several other accolades including the fetisov journalism award,  Norbert Zongo prize, the African Award for Excellence in the Media, and the Swiss Foundation for Excellence in Journalism Award. Co-Founder  and managing director of  Museba Journalism Project,  he is a member of several groups of investigative journalists.

Erick NGABA, CAR coordinator . Eric is the promoter of Ndjoni Sango, a website that publishes general information on the Central African Republic. He was trained by the Thomson Reuters Foundation. He is the author of several investigations, including one on the financing of Central African rebels.

Gael MPOYO, DRC coordinator . Gael is a congolese TV producer, editor and correspondent for several news agencies, including Africanews for several years now. In 2018, he was forced into exile to flee reprisals after broadcasting a documentary on land grabbing in South Kivu province by the family of former president Joseph Désiré Kabila.