Cameroon: call for a "dead press day"

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In Cameroon, the main newspapers of the written press did not appear on Monday. This follows an appeal launched by the Network of Press Bosses of Cameroon (Repac), the day after International Press Freedom Day. In their press release, the publishers of private publications asked for a recasting of the state aid system and of the taxation for their newspapers, in particular by recalling their important role in the face of the Covid-19.

Publicity

The privately-owned print media is struggling to exist today, not because there is a global media crisis, but simply because most newspapers face immense challenges that are not limited to of the profession. That is to say, these are fairly tense relations with political power in the fact that we are taxed that is specific to companies that produce goods, services and others. While we are working for democracy. We need public assistance that does not come from a simple ministerial order, but which should come from the National Assembly. We want to sensitize the national and international public opinion, not only of the public authorities, but also all those who are able to put in our newspapers announcements and others, and to say: attention the press is dying in Cameroon.

Jean-François Channon, publication director of the daily Le Messager

Leonard Vincent

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