Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Cameroon army confirms TV anchor's death in detention

Cameroon army confirms TV anchor's death in detention

Samuel Wazizi disappeared, from TV screens and from daily life, when police came for him on August 2, 2019 and handed him to the military. His death in detention came to light this week.
Cameroon journalist Samuel Ajiekah Abuwe alias ‘Wazizi’ (twitter.com/@FAJafrica)
Samuel Wazizi was the on-screen name of news anchor Samuel Ajiekah Abuwe of the independent Chillen Muzik and Television (CMTV).
The Pidgin-language station is based in Buea, capital of Southwest Region of Cameroon. Its core audience is citizens caught in Cameroon's ongoing bloody Anglophone separatist crisis.
It was during an upswing in hostilities between the armed separatists and government forces in August 2019 that Wazizi was detained by police. He was later blindfolded and led away in a military truck to an undisclosed location.

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