In the register of normative developments, it is appropriate to include the development, adoption, promulgation and effective entry into force of Law No. 2016/007 of July 12, 2016 on the Penal Code of Cameroon, amended and supplemented in its article 241 by law n°2019/020 of December 24, 2019. Expressly repealing “all previous contrary provisions having the same purpose”, it renews the main principles of criminal law and the catalog of offenses punishable in the order Cameroonian legal system.