What Happened to Cameroon's Missing Bishop?
Some claim Jean-Marie Benoit Balla committed suicide by jumping into a river near Yaoundé
Some are speculating that Jean-Marie Benoit Balla committed suicide by jumping into the Sanaga river near Yaoundé.
Also on the programme, the Syrian dentist who sought refuge in Sierra Leone. Plus, the Central African Republic tops the Norwegian Refugee Council's yearly list of the world's ten most neglected displacement crises.
(Photo: Front pages of Cameroonian newspapers show the Bishop of Bafia, Jean-Marie Benoit Balla. Credit: The Guardian Post & The Weekender Post.)
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