Cameroon: arrest of a businessman suspected of “having raped a very large number of young girls”. Since mid-January, more than 70 anonymous testimonies containing accusations of sexual assault have been relayed on social networks by a Cameroonian blogger.
A hashtag (#StopBopda), born from the wave of indignation among Internet users, has since been used several thousand times on across the African continent. The government welcomed “the referral to the competent judicial authorities with a view to establishing the materiality of the facts”