Ahmed Abba, an RFI correspondent in Cameroon, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail. "This is a punishment for the whole press, an attempt to criminalise the profession of journalism in Cameroon," said Cameroonian journalists' union leader Denis Nkwembo. Prosecutors that Abba was collaborating with the Nigerian Islamist armed group Boko Haram and failed to pass on information about planned attacks. Prior to being transferred to a jail, Abba said he was tortured for three months by intelligence agents. At the time of his arrest in July 2015, he had been reporting in the north of the country, an area which is often targeted by Boko Haram.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 25, 2017 07:18 UTC