'After intimidation at gunpoint, the fighters instructed me to report that the houses were burnt by the military,' he said. Kehven says he was ordered by both the anglophone rebels and government troops to report lies.
Kehven says he decided to leave the area and his career after covering an attack on a village that left scores of people dead, and homes burned.īut it wasn’t reporting on the brutality or violence that pushed him to flee. Lambert Kehven, 36, is a baker in Cameroon's capital, Yaoundé.īut two years ago, he was a reporter in Cameroon’s Northwest region for Canal 2 International, one of the country’s top TV stations, reporting on the separatist conflict. Cameroonian media groups say at least 80 journalists have fled from the country's troubled western regions because of threats to their safety. Journalists in Cameroon are marking World Press Freedom Day (May 3) with calls for government troops and rebels to stop abusing reporters covering the separatist conflict.