Independent inquiry

"Independent journalists covering the conflict are often tagged as accomplices of separatists and tried in military courts.

The press in Cameroon has never been free throughout the two regimes that have ruled the country," says DW's Mimi Mefo.

"As an independent investigative journalist in Cameroon, you know you could be jailed or killed."

Regime stays mute

DW's Mimi Mefo is one of many journalists jailed in the central African country in recent years.

South West Governor Barnard Okalia Bilai has told journalists that only Yaounde can answer over the fate of Samuel Wazizi.