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CRTV News is the dedicated news channel of Cameroon Radio Television, the state broadcaster, based in Yaoundé and broadcasting in French and English.

A news channel inside a state broadcaster

CRTV runs a general television channel, radio stations and this news service, with correspondents in the country's ten regions. Splitting news onto its own channel lets the broadcaster carry bulletins and current affairs through the day without displacing the entertainment and educational programming of the main channel.

The anglophone regions

Cameroon's two English-speaking regions, the North-West and South-West, have been in conflict since 2016, when protests by lawyers and teachers were met with a crackdown and armed separatist groups emerged. A state broadcaster's coverage of that conflict is official in character, and its reporting is contested by private outlets and international organisations.

Regional stations

CRTV operates stations in each of the ten regions, which is how a national service reaches a country stretching from Lake Chad to the Atlantic. Those stations supply local reporting to the news channel and carry its bulletins back to their areas.

Bilingual broadcasting

The service works in French and English, the two official languages, and its schedule accounts for both audiences. That arrangement has become more sensitive as the conflict in the anglophone regions has sharpened the question of representation.

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