Cameroon-Info.Net learned that the accident occurred at about 11.15 a.m. Friday when a lorry transporting a container of newsprint crashed into a portion of the roof of the building housing Cameroon Tribune staff.

The building is located at the entrance to the vast compound on the Mvog-Mbi-Mvan stretch of road in Yaoundé.

The driver of the lorry is quoted as saying that the incident happened as he was entering the compound in reverse position to offload the newsprint when the brakes failed.

“He said his conductor tried placing a wedge to bring the truck to a halt, but the tyres instead ran over it, crashing into the roof of Cameroon Tribune/Cameroon Insider newsrooms,” a staff at SOPECAM said. “Fortunately, the wall of the building was not affected. The truck is one of several others that came in from Douala and were parked outside the SOPECAM premises since Tuesday, July 7, 2020, as they waited to take their turn to offload the newsprint ordered by the corporation.”

The Cameroon News and Publishing Corporation, SOPECAM publishes Cameroon Tribune, Cameroon Insider, and Nyanga among others. It also runs a printing press. It was created by decree no. 77/250 of July 18, 1977, and was transformed by decree n° 2016/216 of April 28, 2016, into a company with public capital having the State as the sole shareholder. SOPECAM is a company with public capital.