Cameroon: After Months of Uncertainty, Anglophone Cameroon Journalist Wazizi Reported Killed in Custody

Some 300 days after popular Pidgin journalist Samuel Wazizi was arrested and held incommunicado by police in the south-western city of Buea, his alleged torture and death were announced in the Cameroonian media on Wednesday.

Wazizi's death was announced on Équinoxe television in the economic capital Douala, after reporting that it had received confirmation from a top military aide in Yaoundé, the administrative capital.

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