Reports from Cameroon indicate that charges against journalist Mimi Mefo had been dropped as she appeared before the military tribunal of Monday.
The local Equinoxe TV channel, Mefo’s employers, reported that the decision to drop the charges had come from the Presidency. There is no official explanation to the current development.
Mefo, a reference point in coverage of issues in the country’s restive Anglophone regions was arrested last week on charges of endangering state security.
She was specifically accused of publishing false information about clashes between the army and separatist militias.
The specific case being a tweet that attributes the death of Charles Wesco, the American missionary killed in Bamenda to the Cameroonian army.