Since the beginning of 2023, at least 29 murders of women have been recorded in Cameroon. On Monday, May 15, the Minister for the Promotion of Women, Marie-Thérèse Abena Ondoa, launched a plea for the adoption of a specific framework law.

Women have become butchers, the target for the dissatisfied, the embittered, the "bad in the skin", denounces Elise Pierrette Mpoung Meno, co-founder and president of the Association for the fight against violence against women.