After polls, women on the front line to hold Cameroon together
A polling station in Yaounde, Cameroon, on February 9, 2020. Separatists boycotted last week’s elections and government reacted with renewed violence. PHOTO | AFP
When Gladys Mbuya spoke at the African Peer Review Mechanism meeting in Kigali, her voice shook. She described her life as an internally displaced person in the violence ravaging her country, Cameroon. Her pre-conflict status in life stands in sharp contrast.
Mbuya is the Queen Mother of Alatening village, and head of the women’s traditional village council of the village Tekumbeng, a throne inherited from her mother.
