Rights activist decries Cameroon separatist leader verdict
22 August 2019 |
6:00 am
A Cameroonian activist critises the "unfair" trial of the leader of the country's anglophone separatist movement, Julius Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, after a military court handed him a life sentence.
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