Hundreds of men and women took to the streets of Yaoundé (Cameroon's capital) on Saturday to protest a sharp rise in femicide cases, marching four kilometres through the city centre in a demonstration organised by the youth civic group Jeunesse émergente et républicaine camerounaise. Cameroon's Ministry of Women and the Family has recorded around sixty femicide cases so far in 2026, including nearly ten in August alone. Protesters and activists called for femicide and infanticide to be explicitly criminalised under Cameroonian law and for the country to formally adopt the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.