Cameroon: Post-Election Cameroon – ‘The Regime Considers the Press to Be Its Last Enemy’

In his campaign to win an eighth term, Cameroonian President Paul Biya pledged to “strengthen measures to protect freedom of expression and journalists” in one of Africa’s most dangerous countries for the press.

But six journalists who spoke to CPJ after October’s contested election — which opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary claimed to have won, before fleeing to The Gambia — said they were not convinced by 92-year-old Biya’s promise of reform after four decades of repression.

“The regime…