A journalist is shot dead in the capital of one of Cameroon’s English-speaking regions

8 May. (EUROPE PRESS) –

The Cameroonian journalist Anye Nde Nsoh has died after being shot inside a bar in the city of Bamenda, capital of the North-West Region, one of the two Anglophone-majority regions, shaken by an armed conflict since 2017.

Nsoh, who worked for the newspaper ‘Advocate’ and the Dream FM station, has been shot at by unidentified armed people, without any further details at the moment, according to the news portal Mimi Mefo Info, headed by the prominent journalist of the same name.

In this way, Nsoh is the third journalist assassinated in the last year in Cameroon, after the death in January of Martinez Zogo -whose mutilated body was found days after his kidnapping- and the death in February of Jean-Jacques Ola Bebe , shot in front of his home in the capital, Yaoundé.

The English-speaking regions of Cameroon — North West and South West, once part of British colonies in Africa but which decided to join French Cameroon — have been rocked by conflict following the crackdown on separatist movements following the self-proclamation of the independence of Ambazonia on October 1, 2017.

Since then, armed groups have proliferated and support for the separatists, hitherto quite marginal, has grown. The Government has responded with a harsh repression, during which Human Rights organizations have accused the security forces of committing atrocities.