Journalist and Diplomat, Léopold Henri Meboé, dies in the United States

The Permanent Mission of Cameroon to the United Nations is in mourning. One of its senior officials and Diplomatic Adviser, Léopold Henri Meboé, died on the night of August 24 2015 in New York.

Cameroonian journalist, Célestin Ngoa Balla, who lived in the United States, indicated that he died in his room at the Holiday Inn's "after a malaise" which occurred in the presence of his helpless children.

Ndzana Seme, another journalist also based in the US and citing a source at the Cameroon Mission to the United Nations, said that he collapsed in his bathroom. "He had gone to buy food from a restaurant and brought it into the Chamber. On his way to the bathroom we heard the noise as he fell,” he wrote on his Facebook page.

Célestin Ngoa Balla believed that an investigation was opened to determine the origin of the “evil that took away the former Cameroonian public television journalist.” His death occurred just after he assumed his position to where he had been posted, after a holiday spent in Cameroon.

Léopold Henri Meboé had started on national television covering the 1986 Africa Cup of Nations football in Egypt. He was also the presenter of the literary programme 'Signatures.’ After CRTV, Meboe joined the Directorate-General for External Research (Dgre) before being assigned as a diplomat at the Permanent Mission of Cameroon to the United Nations.