Killing of Cameroonian woman by alleged separatists sparks outcry
HUMAN rights activists have condemned the killing of a young woman in Cameroon's Anglophone regions after a video of alleged separatist rebels slitting her throat drew outrage on social media. The conflict between separatists demanding independence from the mostly Francophone state and government forces has killed more than 3,000 people since 2017, with both sides regularly accused of committing atrocities. In the video, a young woman is seen with her hand behind her back being accosted by several young men, who then slit her throat with a machete and dump her body in the middle of the road. The Cameroon-based…