Afrodynamics

The clash will take place on 26 May at the Olimpiyskiy Stadium in Kiev. eal Madrid  will play Liverpool in the Champions League final, set to take place on Saturday, 26 of May at the Olimpiyskiy stadium in Kiev (8:45pm). The reigning European champions, who will be the home side, will be in the final for the  third consecutive season ,  and are up against the English team, who beat Roma in the other semi-final (7-6). Liverpool will be attempting to win their sixth  European Cup  to round off a fine season. Jurgen Klopp's side finished top of Group E ahead of Sevilla, Spartak Moscow and Maribor. In the last-sixteen their overcame Porto (5-0 on aggregate), before eliminating Manchester City (5-1) in the quarter-finals. In the semi-finals, after beating Roma 5-2 at Anfield, they clinched their place in the final in Kiev away from home (4-2). It's the second time  Real Madrid  and Liverpool will meet in a  European Cup  fi...

Cameroon’s government is up in arms after an investigation into President Paul Biya’s extended “private trips” away from his own country. Here’s how three journalists collaborated across continents to count his days abroad and built their story. The topic was obvious. The numerous overseas trips of President Paul Biya have long irritated many Cameroonians, particularly due to the street closures that accompany his return, which can block traffic for hours in the capital of Yaoundé. Their annoyance deepened in October 2017, when Biya was away in Switzerland while protests in the west of the country  were violently quashed . Yet all the while, nobody had calculated the full scale of Biya’s absences from the country he has ruled since 1982. I pitched the idea to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) who immediately got on board with a budget, and finally  published our investigation  on February 18. It showed that, since the 85-year-old Biya h...

MABANDA, NORTHERN CAMEROON —  Boko Haram fighters have attacked villages in the Far North region of Cameroon leaving at least a dozen dead, several soldiers wounded and the villages torched in a large operation involving hundreds of attackers, some of whom used villagers as human shields. Children gathered in little groups along the road shout to welcome the Cameroon military in Mabanda, a northern village on the border with Nigeria. It is one of the villages that suffered the latest Boko Haram assaults this week. 43-year old village elder Alihou Idrissu says groups of fighters infiltrated the faithful praying in Mosques and sellers and buyers on their market day Wednesday.  He says one group of eight armed men invaded the Mosque while they were praying and ordered the Imam and all Muslims present to lead them to a nearby Cameroon military post. He says those who objected were killed. Idrissu says the militants operated for over two hours and killed at least 14 village...