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Cameroon GBV Tracker
15 indexed fatal people · 1 indexed serious non-fatal event
Reviewed 25 October 2026 · published 26 October 2026 · coverage from 1 August 2026. This is an incomplete, nonprobability public-source register. It cannot estimate national incidence, prevalence or perpetrator distributions and must not be used to rank countries.
Fatal figures count people; serious non-fatal figures count distinct events. Research leads are excluded. August and September’s calendar periods have ended; this incomplete register remains open to late reports and corrections. October remains in progress.
Start with: Monthly evidence ledger → for the month-by-month picture, or Counted case index → to inspect individual indexed records. Uncounted research leads and corrections remain further down the page.
Monthly pages: August 2026 · September 2026 · October 2026
Monthly evidence ledger
| Month | Fatal people | Non-fatal events | Cumulative fatal people | Cumulative non-fatal events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 1 |
| October 2026 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 |
Zero indexed means no qualifying dated record entered here, not zero violence. Incident/death dates determine the month; documented discovery can be an explicitly provisional proxy. Article, arrest and court dates alone never determine occurrence month.
Reported actor and victim gender
| Fatal allegation pairing | People; denominator 15 |
|---|---|
| Man alleged → woman/girl | 14 |
| Actor gender unresolved → woman | 1 |
Non-fatal denominator: 1 event. One reported male-actor event involving an adult woman.
These categories describe this register only. Unknowns remain in the denominator. An allegation, charge or police attribution is not a finding of guilt.
Counted case index
| Stable case ID · open history | Person or safe identifier | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| CM-GBV-2026-001 | Diane Yidi Ebabi, 19 | Fatal person |
| CM-GBV-2026-002 | Daïna Tikeng | Fatal person |
| CM-GBV-2026-003 | Irène Dorothée Ngo, 36 | Fatal person |
| CM-GBV-2026-004 | Bronhilda Nofendo, 37 | Fatal person |
| CM-GBV-2026-005 | Modestine Maffo, 34 | Fatal person |
| CM-GBV-2026-019 | Centre-region child · identity withheld | Fatal person |
| CM-GBV-2026-020 | Ewana Flore | Fatal person |
| CM-GBV-2026-021 | Woman reported killed in Sapelli | Fatal person |
| CM-GBV-2026-022 | Ze Ebogo Lydie | Fatal person |
| CM-GBV-2026-023 | Delphine Bih | Fatal person |
| CM-GBV-2026-024 | Woman killed in Gouzougouï | Fatal person |
| CM-GBV-2026-006 | Eyenga Konga Jamelle | Fatal person |
| CM-GBV-2026-025 | Woman killed near Nkolfoulou | Fatal person |
| CM-GBV-2026-026 | Tchos Blandine | Fatal person |
| CM-GBV-NF-2026-001 | Adult survivor in Douala | Distinct non-fatal event |
| CM-GBV-2026-027 | Chéa Géraldine · reported aliases retained | Fatal person |
1 source-linked research records remain outside the dated totals; they include undated, unclassified and out-of-coverage leads.
August 2026 · individual histories
Diane Yidi Ebabi, 19 · CM-GBV-2026-001
When: 9 August · Where: Centre · Yaoundé · Victim/survivor gender as reported: Woman · Reported suspect gender: Man · Evidence: Reported · Reported relationship/context: Boyfriend reported · Justice: Arrest and reconstruction reported
Diane died in Yaoundé. A National Gendarmerie account, subsequently reviewed by MMI, said her boyfriend was arrested on 17 August and that investigators reconstructed the incident.
What remains to establish: Earlier lists called her “Blandine Diane” and gave conflicting ages and discovery dates. The later gendarmerie identity is Diane Yidi Ebabi, 19. Her arrest-stage record does not establish a conviction.
Gender classification evidence: MMI News, 11 September review
All case sources: MMI News, 11 September review · Last case review: 12 September 2026
Daïna Tikeng · CM-GBV-2026-002
When: Around 10 August · Where: Centre · near Yaoundé · Victim/survivor gender as reported: Woman · Reported suspect gender: Man · Evidence: Reported · Reported relationship/context: Husband reported · Justice: Arrest reported
Daïna was found dead after reportedly leaving a marriage in which there had been repeated violence. Her husband was reported arrested on 11 August.
What remains to establish: A prior-abuse history is reported, not a documented finding that she made a police complaint. MMI’s individual article and later review come from the same newsroom and are one source lineage.
Gender classification evidence: MMI News case report · MMI News, 11 September review
All case sources: MMI News case report · MMI News, 11 September review · Last case review: 12 September 2026
Irène Dorothée Ngo, 36 · CM-GBV-2026-003
When: Night of 17–18 August · Where: Centre · Yaoundé · Victim/survivor gender as reported: Woman · Reported suspect gender: Man · Evidence: Reported · Reported relationship/context: Intimate partner reported · Justice: Arrest and reconstruction reported
Irène died at a residence in Yaoundé. Cameroon Tribune reported that investigators arrested a man described as her lover and reconstructed the killing.
What remains to establish: Reports naming Mimboman and Auberge Château describe this same death. One victim, one ID, one count.
Gender classification evidence: Cameroon Tribune, investigative reconstruction · MMI News, 11 September review
All case sources: Cameroon Tribune, investigative reconstruction · MMI News, 11 September review · Last case review: 12 September 2026
Bronhilda Nofendo, 37 · CM-GBV-2026-004
When: 19 August · Where: Centre · Soa · Victim/survivor gender as reported: Woman · Reported suspect gender: Man · Evidence: Reported · Reported relationship/context: Husband reported · Justice: Arrest and reconstruction reported
Bronhilda died in Soa. Later police reporting said her husband had been arrested and a reconstruction carried out.
What remains to establish: An early account gave 21 August. The reconstruction dated the death to 19 August; this correction changes the incident date, not the August total.
Gender classification evidence: Actu Cameroun, reconstruction, 4 September · MMI News, 11 September review
All case sources: Actu Cameroun, reconstruction, 4 September · MMI News, 11 September review · Last case review: 12 September 2026
11 October source update: Cameroon Tribune reported, citing Centre regional judicial-police investigators, that the victim was killed on 19 August and that her husband was arrested after investigators traced him with assistance from police in Kumba. Premeditation is a police allegation, not a trial finding. Cameroon Tribune, 8 September 2026. Totals unchanged.
Modestine Maffo, 34 · CM-GBV-2026-005
When: Late August (day disputed) · Where: Littoral · Douala · Victim/survivor gender as reported: Woman · Reported suspect gender: Man · Evidence: Reported · Reported relationship/context: Husband reported · Justice: Arrest reported
Modestine was reported killed at her home in Logpom. Accounts said her husband was detained following the attack.
What remains to establish: Also reported as Modestine T. MMI uses the night of 22–23 August; another contemporary account implies 25 August. The archive retains the whole month while the day remains disputed.
Gender classification evidence: Actu Cameroun, Logpom case, 27 August · MMI News, 11 September review
All case sources: Actu Cameroun, Logpom case, 27 August · MMI News, 11 September review · Last case review: 12 September 2026
Centre-region child · identity withheld · CM-GBV-2026-019
When: 8 August · Where: Centre region · Victim/survivor gender as reported: Girl · Reported suspect gender: Man · Evidence: Reported · Reported relationship/context: Sexual violence reported · Justice: Not publicly established
MMI’s case review reports that the child was raped and killed in Centre region, Centre region, and that a man was named as a suspect.
What remains to establish: The sexual-violence allegation has not been checked against a public autopsy or prosecution file. Her age and village are given only as reported; no child photograph or graphic account is used.
Gender classification evidence: MMI News, 11 September review
All case sources: MMI News, 11 September review · Last case review: 12 September 2026
Ewana Flore · CM-GBV-2026-020
When: Around 18 August · Where: Centre · Yaoundé · Victim/survivor gender as reported: Woman · Reported suspect gender: Man · Evidence: Reported · Reported relationship/context: Former partner reported · Justice: Not publicly established
MMI reports that Flore travelled from Douala to meet a former partner in Yaoundé and was subsequently killed. The outlet describes her as pregnant.
What remains to establish: The exact date, specific location and full circumstances remain unconfirmed. MMI expressly distinguishes her from Diane Yidi Ebabi, correcting viral lists that conflated the two women.
Gender classification evidence: The Guardian Post, 31 August case review
All case sources: MMI News, 11 September review · The Guardian Post, 31 August case review · Last case review: 12 September 2026
Woman reported killed in Sapelli · CM-GBV-2026-021
When: Around 20 August · Where: East · Bélabo · Victim/survivor gender as reported: Woman · Reported suspect gender: Unknown · Evidence: Reported · Reported relationship/context: Sexual violence reported · Justice: Not publicly established
A woman was reported sexually assaulted and killed in the Sapelli area of Bélabo. No responsible person had been publicly identified when MMI compiled the case.
What remains to establish: Her name, exact date and investigative outcome were not established in the reviewed record. Anonymity is intentional; this is one death, not a placeholder for unspecified deaths in the region.
Gender classification evidence: MMI News, 11 September review
All case sources: MMI News, 11 September review · Last case review: 12 September 2026
Ze Ebogo Lydie · CM-GBV-2026-022
When: Late August · Where: Centre · Nkolafamba · Victim/survivor gender as reported: Woman · Reported suspect gender: Man · Evidence: Reported · Reported relationship/context: Husband reported · Justice: Husband reportedly fled
MMI reports that Lydie was fatally beaten by her husband and that neighbours heard her cries. She was taken to hospital and declared dead.
What remains to establish: The reported husband fled; arrest, charges and exact incident date have not been independently confirmed. The archive assigns only August, not an invented day.
Gender classification evidence: MMI News, 11 September review
All case sources: MMI News, 11 September review · Last case review: 12 September 2026
Delphine Bih · CM-GBV-2026-023
When: 25 August · Where: Centre · Mbalmayo · Victim/survivor gender as reported: Woman · Reported suspect gender: Man · Evidence: Reported · Reported relationship/context: Partner suspected · Justice: Detention reported
Delphine died after eating food provided by her partner. Subsequent reporting said a suspect was detained and admitted adding poison.
What remains to establish: An alleged admission does not replace a verified medical cause of death or a court finding. The archive marks suspected poisoning and keeps the final forensic and judicial outcome open.
Gender classification evidence: MMI News, 11 September review
All case sources: MMI News, 11 September review · Last case review: 12 September 2026
Woman killed in Gouzougouï · CM-GBV-2026-024
When: Died 28 August · Where: Far North · Kaélé · Victim/survivor gender as reported: Woman · Reported suspect gender: Man · Evidence: Reported · Reported relationship/context: Husband reported · Justice: Husband reportedly fled
MMI reports that a woman was stabbed in Gouzougouï on 27 August, allegedly by her husband, and died at Kaélé District Hospital the following day.
What remains to establish: The count is assigned to the death date, 28 August. Her name has not been established for this archive, and details about her children are withheld.
Gender classification evidence: MMI News, 11 September review
All case sources: MMI News, 11 September review · Last case review: 12 September 2026
September 2026 · individual histories
Eyenga Konga Jamelle · CM-GBV-2026-006
When: 8 September · Where: East · Ntam area · Victim/survivor gender as reported: Woman · Reported suspect gender: Man · Evidence: Reported · Reported relationship/context: Partner reported · Justice: Investigation reported
Eyenga was reported shot dead. Reporting attributed to the gendarmerie identified a gendarme as her partner and said he survived a subsequent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
What remains to establish: Early posts wrongly claimed that the accused man had died. The subsequent gendarmerie account says he survived. The precise judicial stage is not established.
Gender classification evidence: Le Bled Parle, gendarmerie account · MMI News, 11 September review
All case sources: Le Bled Parle, gendarmerie account · MMI News, 11 September review · Last case review: 12 September 2026
Woman killed near Nkolfoulou · CM-GBV-2026-025
When: 2 September · Where: Centre · Nkoabang · Victim/survivor gender as reported: Woman · Reported suspect gender: Man · Evidence: Reported · Reported relationship/context: Sexual violence context alleged · Justice: Arrest reported
An approximately 18-year-old woman was found dead at a motel. Early reporting said she was attacked after resisting sexual advances; a man was reportedly detained.
What remains to establish: The alleged sequence comes from early accounts, not a completed court finding. Her identity and precise cause of death were not established in the reviewed source.
Gender classification evidence: MMI News, 11 September review
All case sources: MMI News, 11 September review · Last case review: 12 September 2026
Tchos Blandine · CM-GBV-2026-026
When: 7 September · Where: Centre · Etoug-Ebe, Yaoundé · Victim/survivor gender as reported: Woman · Reported suspect gender: Man · Evidence: Reported · Reported relationship/context: Husband reported · Justice: Arrest reported
MMI reports that Blandine was fatally beaten by her husband, who was taken into gendarmerie custody.
What remains to establish: An early social-media image set reportedly mixed this case with Chea Géraldine’s; no victim image will be reused until separately verified. The available public reporting does not establish prosecution or conviction.
Gender classification evidence: MMI News, 11 September review
All case sources: MMI News, 11 September review · Last case review: 12 September 2026
Adult survivor in Douala · CM-GBV-NF-2026-001
When: 11 September report · Where: Littoral · Douala · Victim/survivor gender as reported: Woman · Reported suspect gender: Man · Evidence: Reported allegation
A local outlet, citing a family account, reported that a woman was injured in an alleged domestic assault and received hospital care. She is not identified; the fatal Logpom event involving Modestine Maffo is a separate August record.
What remains to establish: The survivor’s later condition and legal proceedings are not established. Count one distinct non-fatal event, not the number of alleged injuries or affected family members.
Gender classification evidence: Info Actualité Divine, 11 September
All case sources: Info Actualité Divine, 11 September · Last case review: 12 September 2026
September 2026 · additions published 26 October
Chéa Géraldine · reported aliases retained · CM-GBV-2026-027
Unit: Fatal person · Date basis: Death: 8 September 2026; alleged assault the preceding night
Reported actor/victim gender: Man alleged → woman · Evidence: reported; no finding of guilt.
Chéa Géraldine—also reported as Géraldine Amambua, with AP using Geraldine Achiah—died after an alleged assault in the home she shared with her husband. Later reporting says he was charged with murder and is jailed awaiting trial; he denies killing her. This record replaces the earlier unnumbered under-review note, not the separate October discovery.
Verification: Reported allegation with later police-linked charge reporting; shared spouse and case details reconcile aliases. AP syndications remain one lineage. Justice: Murder charge; detained pending trial; denial recorded. No adjudicated finding.
Sources: MMI, 11 September 2026 · AP, 15 October 2026 · Reviewed 25 October; published 26 October 2026.
Uncounted and undated research records
All records in this section are excluded from monthly and cumulative totals. A case-style ID does not imply that a record is counted.
Yaoundé adult woman · identity withheld · CM-LEAD-2026-001
Date basis: Discovery 7 October 2026; death date unconfirmed · Unit: Uncounted research record · Excluded from totals.
Reported actor: Man alleged by family · Victim/survivor: Woman
A woman was found dead at home in Yaoundé on 7 October. Her family reportedly implicated her partner, but the reviewed report said the cause of death and responsibility had not been established by authorities. Retain outside fatal totals pending police, forensic or prosecution evidence.
Evidence: Family allegation in one news report; GBV classification unresolved
Sources: Lebledparle, 7 October · Reviewed: 11 October 2026.
Evidence and policy follow-up
The documented cases support continued police and court follow-up, not a national trend claim. The October discovery remains too preliminary for a policy finding.
These are documentation and follow-up recommendations grounded in the listed records, not a prevalence comparison or a finding of institutional failure.
Earlier policy context: Human Rights Watch, 24 June 2026. This institutional assessment is separate from the individually indexed counts.
Methodology and limits
- Public period: deaths and distinct serious non-fatal incidents in Cameroon from 1 August 2026 onward. The public register starts in August; earlier months are neither displayed nor treated as zero.
- Fatal inclusion: a reported death plus case-level evidence of an intimate-partner or other gender-related nexus. A female homicide on its own is not automatically a femicide.
- Non-fatal inclusion: distinct serious GBV events with safe case-level reporting. Survivors injured in a fatal episode are recorded as one linked non-fatal event, separately from the fatal people; survivor headcounts are not event totals.
- Evidence labels: “Reported” requires an identifiable credible source; “Corroborated” requires genuinely independent confirmation. Under-review leads do not enter the headline. Official claims, media reports and judicial findings remain distinct.
- Gender fields and denominator: “Victim gender” and “reported suspect gender” reproduce a source’s description (woman, girl, man, boy or unknown); they are not guesses from a name or image or claims about a person’s self-identified gender. An accused person is not a convicted perpetrator. Report both a percentage of all indexed records (including unknown) and the known-pair subset; do not treat either as national prevalence. Count fatalities as people and non-fatal incidents as distinct events in separate tables.
- Dates and counting: one death per person; one non-fatal incident per distinct event. Assign by death or incident month where known, or visibly label a discovery or approximate date. Corrected dates may move an entry without creating a new death.
- Deduplication and corrections: compare aliases, place, date, relationship and investigative details. Retain stable IDs and publicly explain material corrections to names, dates, classification or totals.
- Safety and limits: do not republish graphic images, private survivor information or exact addresses. Reporting varies across regions, and the absence of a case from this register is not evidence that no violence occurred.
Leads outside the headline count
These cases require more evidence about the cause of death or gender-related nexus. They are not included in the 15 fatal people.
August · Kenfack Fortune and Valeryn N.: Both deaths are reported or suspected killings; the public record does not yet establish a gender-related factor. MMI News, 11 September review
August · Tibati–Meiganga woman and Tina Tabi: Potential sexual violence and disputed cause of death respectively remain under investigation; neither enters the principal GBV death total. MMI News, 11 September review
September · Chéa Géraldine: the former under-review note is now counted once as CM-GBV-2026-027. The separate October discovery retains CM-LEAD-2026-001. See the 26 October correction below.
Corrections and scope changes
12 September 2026 · Gender fields added: 14 fatal victim genders described as 13 women and one girl. In 13 fatal cases the reported accused is described as a man; one accused gender remains unknown. The one separately indexed non-fatal incident describes a woman injured by her husband. No fatal or non-fatal event has been added or reclassified by this metadata update.
12 September 2026 · Public scope reset: the monthly publication series begins 1 August 2026. The earlier, incomplete January–July cells and case cards are removed from this page. The new August–September baseline is 14 reported fatal deaths and one reported non-fatal incident. Earlier research is kept off this public monthly series; absence from it never means the earlier deaths did not occur.
Material case corrections retained: Diane Yidi Ebabi’s name and age were corrected after the gendarmerie account; Irène Dorothée Ngo’s different reported locations describe one death; Bronhilda Nofendo’s death date was corrected to 19 August; Modestine Maffo’s exact August day remains disputed; the suspect in Eyenga Konga Jamelle’s case survived, contrary to early reports.
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Research scope: This is an incomplete, nonprobability public-source register. It cannot estimate national incidence, prevalence or perpetrator distributions and must not be used to rank countries. Open the Africa country directory.
13 September 2026 · CM-GBV-2026-019: Child name, exact age and small locality removed from public headings and tables; totals unchanged.
Publication correction · 11 October 2026
CM-GBV-2026-004: stronger police-derived source added. CM-LEAD-2026-001: unclassified October discovery retained outside totals.
Cumulative since August: 14 fatal people / 1 non-fatal events → 14 fatal people / 1 non-fatal events. Sources and individual date decisions appear in the linked histories.
Country-by-country source map · Public change log
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Publication correction · 26 October 2026
CM-GBV-2026-027: Chéa Géraldine moved from an unnumbered under-review note into the September fatal ledger following police-linked murder-charge reporting. September fatal people 3→4; cumulative fatal people 14→15. CM-LEAD-2026-001 remains the separate 7 October discovery and is unchanged.
Review: 25 October 2026. Publication: 26 October 2026. Fatal people and non-fatal events remain separate. Public change log
November 2026 ledger: Open November 2026 records. The November register is open for verified additions; no incident should be inferred from the absence of indexed records.
