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Biya sworn in as resistance ebbs

With Tchiroma in exile and state repression in full flow the pendulum has swung back to the state as oppositionists ponder resignation or armed struggle

The opposition, fixed on the exiled figure of Issa Tchiroma Bakary, is beginning to lose heart after President Paul Biya was sworn in for his eighth term on 6 November, in Yaoundé. Emboldened by relative calm in Yaoundé, Biya’s inauguration speech, on the 43rd anniversary of his accession to power, dwelled on old policies and themes as his security forces carried out a wave of arrests of oppositionists.

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