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Social Media Threats and the Anglophone Crisis: An Interpretation of the Cameroonian Criminal Law Response

In: Democracy and Africanness

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  • Irene Dione Fokum Sama-Lang

    (University of Buea)

  • Roland Djieufack

    (The University of Bamenda)

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Today, a rapid technological change with a corresponding effect on the attitude of people brings new challenges to regulatory authorities. The social media is a mixed blessing, as it is hailed for giving impetus to economic, social, cultural, and political advancement on the one hand, while on the other it is a tool for cyber criminality. Social media threats, a form of this criminality, reached dire proportion during the raging Anglophone crisis in Cameroon. This is so despite the legal frameworks, regulating criminal conducts and criminal proceedings. This chapter primarily visits the controversial question of establishing evidence to the offence of threat committed through this medium pointing to the scanty legislative measures in addressing this contemporary issue. Adopting desk top review, it highlights the hurdles that beset the working application of the Criminal Procedure Code, considering the glaring difficulty on matters of proof connected to social media offences such as threat. It points to the need for a fundamental reform of the inquisitorial laws on matters of proof to maintain a higher degree of clarity to meet up with the current trend of technology and its effects.

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  • Irene Dione Fokum Sama-Lang & Roland Djieufack, 2022. "Social Media Threats and the Anglophone Crisis: An Interpretation of the Cameroonian Criminal Law Response," Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development, in: Hannah Muzee & Tata Emmanuel Sunjo & Andrew Osehi Enaifoghe (ed.), Democracy and Africanness, chapter 0, pages 111-125, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:aaechp:978-3-031-11248-5_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-11248-5_8
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