Cameroon elections Stories

Cameroon’s Paul Biya declared presidential winner in tense election, extends 42-year rule
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Oct 27, 2025

Paul Biya’s eighth election win at age 92 extends one of Africa’s longest presidencies, fuelling outrage from opponents who accuse him of clinging to...

Tensions rise in Cameroon as 30 opposition figures arrested before poll results
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Oct 26, 2025

The arrests came a day after Interior Minister Paul Atanga Nji announced that security forces had foiled what he described as an "insurrectional movem...

Two Cameroon opposition figures arrested as country waits for election results
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Oct 25, 2025

Cameroon’s electoral body is expected to announce the official results on Monday. In the meantime, opposition supporters have staged protests across s...

Cameroon court dismisses all election petitions, paving way for Biya’s eighth term
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Oct 23, 2025

The ruling comes as 92-year-old President Paul Biya appears set to secure an eighth term, extending his decades-long rule over the Central African nat...

Cameroon votes under tight security as President Biya seeks to extend decades-long rule
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Oct 12, 2025

Biya abolished presidential term limits in 2008 and has since won every election with over 70 per cent of the vote, amid persistent allegations of fra...

The woman who wants to end Cameroon president's 43-year rule
DW News  |  Oct 09, 2025

Tomaino Ndam Njoya, an experienced parliamentarian with international credibility, is confident she can achieve what many failed to do over the past f...

Cameroon’s election risks instability, no matter who wins
The Conversation  |  Sep 01, 2025

If Biya wins, by the end of the new term in 2032, he will have been in power for half a century. It will be a feat no other executive head of state ha...

What keeps 92-year-old Cameroon President Biya in power?
DW News  |  Jul 29, 2025

Paul Biya is already the oldest head of state in the world. He wants to be re-elected in October for an eighth term. But how has President Biya manage...

Cameroon’s Maurice Kamto appeals presidential poll disqualification
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jul 29, 2025

Cameroon's national electoral body, Elecam, approved only 13 out of the 83 applications, leaving out Maurice Kamto, who was the runner-up in the hotly...

Cameroon’s Maurice Kamto barred from presidential race as Biya seeks to extend 42-year rule
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jul 27, 2025

Kamto previously contested the presidency under the Cameroon Resistance Movement (CRM), but has not yet publicly commented on his latest disqualificat...

Cameroon’s Paul Biya, 92, announces he will seek eighth presidential term
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jul 14, 2025

The 92-year-old president, who has been in power since 1982, announced in a statement on X on Sunday, stating that he was responding to numerous calls...

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