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Vol 66 No 22

Published 7th November 2025


Cameroon

Improbable dissident: Issa Tchiroma Bakary

Having served 20 years as a senior minister and spokesman for Cameroon President Paul Biya, Issa Tchiroma Bakary is an unlikely insurrectionist. Of his ten-year stint as Biya’s Communications Minister, Tchiroma asked for voters’ forgiveness. ‘In my capacity as minister, I did something which distorted, which hurt your mind,’ he said on the campaign trail. Tchiroma insists that he won the 12 October polls, pointing to returns from several stations. The 53.7% given to Biya is suspiciously close to the 53% that electoral commission sources told Africa Confidential Biya would get, and there is little question that the government was guilty of serious electoral fraud.

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