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Vol 66 No 20

Published 10th October 2025


Cameroon

Oppositionists struggle to unite on challenger to Biya

As his rivals bicker on the eve of the election, the President took a holiday in Geneva and promoted some generals

The campaign by Cameroon’s opposition coalition has been picking up speed but too slowly to unite and present a serious challenge to 92-year-old President Paul Biya in elections on 12 October. With the main challenger at the last election in 2018, Maurice Kamto, now barred, Bello Bouba Maïgari and Issa Tchiroma Bakary, northern politicians who recently broke with the government, have come to the fore.

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