SECTOR 2 considered “important” such as political and business reporting, and they are often relegated to covering “soft” beats. Nonetheless, women’s voices are gaining increasing prominence compared to the past. In 2012, the state-run Cameroon Tribune published a 12-page supplement focussing entirely on women’s issues. Public and private broadcasters have reserved programmes for women’s issues. Across the country, community radio stations that have women as a special target group have been created. But as one panellist put it, “It is not because there are specific media dealing with women’s issues that there is equal reflection” of the voices of all gender in the media. In other words, progress made over the years remains marginal at best. 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: 3.2 (2008=n/a; 2011=1.6) 2.8 All media fairly represent the voices of society and its minorities in its ethnic, linguistic, religious diversity. Cameroon has many subgroups defined by ethnicity, religion, language and socioeconomic class. Conservative estimates put the number of ethnic and linguistic entities at 250. Groups like the Pygmies and the Mbororos are often considered the most marginalised in mainstream Cameroonian society. Because of the country’s diversity, it is almost inconceivable that the media would represent all voices, and fairly for that matter. However, both private and public media make some effort to achieve a minimum representation of the wide range of voices. The state-run Cameroon Radio Television (CRTV) has ten regional radio stations with programmes in local languages. There is no laid down quota, but each regional station broadcasts a minimum of ten local languages regularly. Usually, the most widely spoken local languages are given priority to reach as many people as possible. Many community radio stations also air programmes in the most commonly used local languages. Several TV stations in the predominantly Muslim north of the country dedicate airtime to local languages and Arabic. However, the 102 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER CAMEROON 2014