Tribute to defenders, journalists and activists in Cameroon

Status: Murdered

Journalist Martinez ZOGO

Managing Director of private radio Amplitude FM, and star host of a daily show, “Bouteillage”,

Found lifeless on January 23, 2023

Status: Murdered

Journalist Reverend Pere Jean Jacques OLA Bébé

Galaxy FM radio presenter, and priest of the Orthodox Catholic church in Cameroon was found murdered near his home around 10 p.m. in the Mimboman district of Yaoundé, on February 2, 2023

Status: Murdered

Journalist Samuel WAZIZI.

Journalist presenter of the regional television channel Chillean Media Télévision, assassinated on June 3, 2020

Status: Murdered

Journalist Eric OHENA LEMBEMBE

Executive Director of the Cameroonian Foundation for AIDS (CAMFAIDS) and journalist engaged in the defense of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersexual (LGBTI), found murdered at his home in Yaoundé, on the evening of July 15, 2013.

Status: Murdered

Journalist Franklin MOWHA

National President of the Frontline Fighters for Citizens Interests (FFCI) association [1] and member of the Network of Human Rights Defenders in Central Africa (REDHAC), missing since August 6, 2018.

Status: Murdered

Journalist Jules KOUM KOUM

Journalist and correspondent for Reporters Without Borders was driving his car outside Yaoundé when he was hit head-on by a truck. Taken alive from his vehicle, the journalist was taken to Yaoundé general hospital where he died on November 4, 2011.

Status: Murdered

Journalist Maître Victor Samuel DIBOMA

The body was found in the Cité Sic district in Douala, the economic capital of the country. “He was stabbed at the Marion stadium, close to his home in the Jourdain district. January 3, 2023.

Status: Murdered

Journalist Anye NDE NSOH

North-West regional manager of the English-language newspaper The Advocate assassinated on May 7, 2023 in the town of Bamenda.

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