DW: Stanislas Ocloo, Togo

Stanislas Ocloo (35), a sports journalist with Togo’s national broadcaster Télévision Togolaise (TVT) and the communications chief of the Togolese soccer association, was killed on 9 January 2010, hours before the kick-off of the African National Cup he was going to cover.

The journalist was gunned down in the attack on Togo’s national soccer team’s bus in the north-western Angolan enclave of Cabinda. As many as three people were killed and nine injured in the strike.

According to local journalists, hooded gunmen opened fire on the team bus some 15 minutes after it crossed into Cabinda from neighbouring Republic of Congo. Angolan authorities announced today the arrest of two suspects in connection with the attack, which was claimed by the separatist Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda.