BBC journos held for spying

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Yaounde - Two journalists who work for the BBC have been arrested and accused of spying during a reporting assignment in Cameroon's tense Bakassi peninsula region, a BBC correspondent in Yaounde said on Wednesday.

Cameroonian soldiers patrolling the area on the border with Nigeria on Sunday arrested Farouk Chotia, a South African broadcasting producer, and Ange Ngu, a Cameroonian radio journalist, and "treated them as spies", Herve Yonkeu said.

The Bakassi peninsula is rich in fish stocks and believed to have large oil reserves. In a ruling to end a long-standing dispute with Nigeria, the International Court of Justice in The Hague in October 2002 declared the peninsula to be Cameroon's territory.

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