Mimi Mefo: journalist says prejudice against Africans may have had role in Australian visa refusal

Cameroonian journalist was due to speak at Integrity 20 in Brisbane about press freedom

A Cameroonian journalist who was denied a visa for Australia because the government believed she might not leave has questioned if they made assumptions about her because she is African.

Mimi Mefo, an award-winning journalist who is currently based in Berlin and working for Deutsche Welle, was booked to appear at the Integrity 20 conference in Brisbane on Friday.

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