The Impunity of Women in Cameroon: “I Will Kill You and Bury You”

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Diane Yangwo, a 30-year-old high school English teacher living in Douala, Cameroon’s economic capital, was certain that her husband’s beatings were fatal. “From her hospital bed, Diane told me, ‘Myreille, I saw my death. Eric almost killed me,” she explains to EL COUNTRY over the phone Myreille Nguele Liboho, her close friend. Yangwo, who had three children, had just suffered a brutal beating at the hands of her husband, Eric Bekobe, a 35-year-o…