2 Journalists Under the Judicial Radar

The Yaoundé Military Tribunal has barred two journalists from practising until further notice. Félix Cyriaque Ebole Bola of Mutations newspaper and Rodrigue Tongue of Le Messager were given the embargo on
October 28th 2014 after they appeared before the Tribunal to answer charges relating to the security of the state.

The journalists told reporters shortly after their interrogations that the judge has barred them from leaving the country throughout the trial period and they are not allowed to organise any press conference on the matter.

The judge also instructed the duo report to her office every Monday and to provide two individuals each as guarantee that they will not jump bail. The two individual guarantees, the judge said, most neither be journalists nor parliamentarians.


Felix and Rodrigue were summoned by the tribunal alongside Baba Wame, an Information Technology lecturer at the Advanced School of Mass Communication, ASMAC who is also a media practitioner. The trio are accused of refusing to make available, information in their keeping which is allegedly detrimental to the state's security.

But the duo have denied all the accusations, maintaining that they were in possession of no document of the sort
Culled from cameroonjournal.com