Some 300 days after popular Pidgin journalist Samuel Wazizi was arrested and held incommunicado by police in the south-western city of Buea, his alleged torture and death were announced in the Cameroonian media on Wednesday.

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Samuel Ajiekah Abuwe, who went by the name Wazizi, was a popular news presenter at CMTV in Buea, the capital of the anglophone South West region.

"He had an amazing programme over the radio called Hala ya matter in Pidgin; his programme was kind of satirical as he brought out the ills and gave out local news," says Feka Parchibell, the head of an NGO called Hope for Vulnerables and Orphans (HOVO) in Kambe, based in the anglophone North West region.

Parchibell met Wazizi in 2018 when he came to a HOVO press conference about the lack of education for Anglophone children in the region.

Wazizi, one of many detained journalists

Press organisations are also closely following the cases of Pidgin bloggers and activists Mancho Bibixy, Tsi Conrad, and Thomas Awah Junior.