Prominent journalist released

A journalist and television presenter from Cameroon's restive Anglophone region was released on Saturday after being detained on charges of ‘attacking state security’. A report on the News24 site notes that Mimi Mefo, who heads English news for privately-owned Equinoxe broadcasting, was charged by a military tribunal on Wednesday and placed in preventive detention in Douala. Mefo was charged over a social media post which said the army was responsible for the death of US missionary Charles Trumann Wesco, who died in October after an attack in the English-speaking North West region, her lawyer said. ‘Her innocence is established and the proof that her imprisonment was planned is overwhelming,’ the National Union of Cameroon Journalists noted.