Cameroon: the premises of the newspaper "Le Jour" burgled
Newspapers, including the daily "Le Jour", displayed in a kiosk in Yaoundé, October 10, 2011. SEYLLOU / AFP
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The premises of the Cameroonian daily Le Jour were burglarized during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, the day before demonstrations organized by the opposition.
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Millions of CFA francs of computer equipment were stolen.
But above all, all the archives and ongoing investigations of this critical journal with regard to power in
Cameroon
have been stolen.
The facts took place the day before the demonstration which was marked by weak mobilization and
a strong security system
.
For the director of publication, Haman Mana, we must preserve "
freedom of expression
" because "
it is the oxygen of journalism
".
"
What we have today, namely the small interstice of freedom, bullied, but which still allows us to express ourselves, is the fruit of long struggles dating back to the 1990s
", he explains. .
Resist intimidation
The boss's
Day
does not intends to stop doing its job.
“
It is absolutely necessary that our colleagues who want to continue to practice this profession in more or less acceptable conditions in Cameroon, continue to resist, to resist all these intimidations which make no sense.
We have to do it, it's our job.
It has fallen on us and we must do it
.
"
The daily newspaper
Le Jour
is 5,000 copies a day and Haman Mana intends to resume this pace soon.
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