Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: 4.8 (2008 = 2.4) 1.7 Confidential sources of information protected by law and/or the courts. « Each time a journalist comes before the police or a court, one of the first things is to have him/her reveal his/her source » Panellists felt that in Cameroon, the protection of sources is “given with one hand and taken (away) with the other”. For example, Article 50.1 of the 1990 Social Communication law states that the protection of sources is both “recognised and guaranteed”. But the very next line of that law states that a judge can compel a journalist to reveal his/her source during an in camera session. “Each time a journalist comes before the police or a court, one of the first things is to have him/her reveal his/her source,” said one panellist. Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: 72 are AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER CAMEROON 2011 1.4 (2008 = 2.1)