Vol 38 No 21 | CAMEROON Biya's bad joke 24th October 1997 The opposition’s boycott handed the ruling party a landslide It took the government three days to produce partial preliminary results for the presidential election of 12 October. The only surprise was the scale of the victory claimed...
Vol 38 No 20 | CAMEROON No show 10th October 1997 The three main parliamentary opposition parties are boycotting the 12 October presidential election because none can agree to work with the others. The parties are John Fru Ndi's...
Vol 38 No 15 | CAMEROON Deaths foretold 18th July 1997 Perhaps it's just a bizarre coincidence but some Cameroonians have noticed that personalities close to the President have died just before multiparty elections. In 1992, the dead included...
Vol 38 No 13 | CAMEROON Biya election 20th June 1997 The President's team arranged his Assembly majority; next comes his own election President Paul Biya and his Rassemblement Démocratique du Peuple Camerounais (RDPC) look likely to get away with another flawed election. The RDPC claims to have won 109 of...