Cameroon 1.2 The right to freedom of expression is practised and citizens, including journalists, are asserting their rights without fear. ANALYSIS: Judging from the number of persons practising journalism in Cameroon, it can be said that people are asserting their right to freedom of expression. The citizens are properly informed by the media. However, there is a degree of fear especially as concerns journalists of the Cameroon Radio Television (CRTV) and other state-run media like the “Cameroon Tribune”. The state-run media do not carry critical analysis of events. There are special reporters, especially when it comes to commenting on the activities of the Head of State, the speaker of the National Assembly and the Prime Minister. Apparently, their choice is guided by one factor – their hardly or noncritical approach to reporting. As concerns the state-run media, the fear by journalists to analyse events stems from the burning desire to “keep their positions” meaning their positions of responsibility in the corporation. There is equally fear on the part of private media practitioners. The fear is not that of arrest, it is economic – the fear of being sacked from the job. A panellist argued that there was no fear on the part of the state-media practitioners and buttressed his point with the fact that a CRTV journalist recently refused to read a communiqué with dangerous tribal content signed by some elite of the Centre Region, including members of government, and nothing happened to him. Two critical CRTV Radio programmes – ��Cameroon Calling” and “Morning Safari” were cited by the panellist as programmes where journalists address issues without fear. Another panellist was of the opinion that fear stems from lack of proper command of the practice of journalism as journalists of the state-run media are seen as development agents who must support whatever decisions the government takes. Be it among journalists of the private or state media, there is fear African Media Barometer - Cameroon 2008 5