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Cameroon: Paul Biya's Re-Election Is An Insult to His People
DW, 22 October 2018
Incumbent Paul Biya has won Cameroon's presidency for a seventh time, taking a reported 71 percent of the vote. DW's Fred Muvunyi says it's another seven years of pain that… Read more »
Seven Terms in A Row, Paul Biya Keeps Winning
Now that Cameroon's octogenarian President, Paul Biya, who has been at the helm 36 years, has been declared the winner of another term after an election marred by allegations of fraud and in which many people were too scared to vote - it is more likely the country will continue on its downward trajectory, with the possibility of increased violence and the same sort of daring impunity that has long characterized his 36-year rule.
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Cameroon: Presidential Election - Here Comes Day of Official Results
Cameroon Tribune, 22 October 2018
The official results of the October 7, 2018 presidential election will be proclaimed during a solemn public hearing at the Constitutional Council at the Yaounde Conference Centre… Read more »
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Cameroon: Electoral Materials - Organisational Success
Cameroon Tribune, 22 October 2018
The five political leaders and candidates in the October 7, 2018 presidential elections who filed petitions at the Constitutional Council calling for either the total or partial… Read more »
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Cameroon: President Paul Biya Wins Seventh Term in Landslide Victory
DW, 22 October 2018
Biya's victory was widely predicted following an election marred by allegations of fraud. But the government's crackdown on influential activists suggests Biya's decades-long hold… Read more »
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Cameroon: 85-Year-Old Biya Declared Winner of Presidential Poll
This Day, 22 October 2018
Eighty-five-year-old Paul Biya has been declared winner of the October 7 presidential election by the Cameroon's Constitutional Council. Read more »
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Cameroon: Cameroon's 'Senseless Spiral of Violence'
DW, 20 October 2018
Sectarian violence is escalating in Cameroon, where an aspiring priest has been shot dead by soldiers in front of his church and the archbishop is demanding an end to the violence.… Read more »
InFocus
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The elections management body says it has received 25 petitions from candidates and voters calling for the October 7 presidential election to be annulled. Read more »
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No results have been released but authorities are calling for calm after hundreds of youths marched through the streets after Maurice Kamto of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement ... Read more »
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The October electoral process will enter another decisive phase as the Constitutional Council will rule on the 18 post-electoral petitions submitted by three of the candidates in ... Read more »
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Voting has closed in Cameroon despite a low turnout in Buea, the capital of the southwestern region. Some administrative officials were seen casting their ballots after local ... Read more »
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Cameroonian political parties have criss-crossed the country ahead of the presidential elections on Sunday October 7. Eight candidates representing a string of opposition parties ... Read more »
