Anselme Mballa

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A court in Yaoundé sentenced Mballa, editor of the private weekly newspaper Le Serment, to a six-month prison term for defamation. While the reasons for the charge remained unclear, some local sources reported that it was in connection with an article written by Mballa in April 1999, in which he criticized the treatment of traditional chiefs by the secretary of state for posts and telecommunications.