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...
The contest for power in Cameroon looks set to reach a climax this week as opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary who claims victory in the 12 October presidential election has called for nationwide ‘ghost town' protests and the isolation of the administrative capital Yaoundé...
Having served 20 years as a senior minister and spokesman for Cameroon President Paul Biya Issa Tchiroma Bakary is an unlikely insurrectionist...
6% of the vote allotting his rival Issa Tchiroma Bakary 35...
Protestors burn symbols of authority When the gendarme units tried to arrest Issa Tchiroma Bakary on polling day in Garoua the home town of first president Ahmadou Ahidjo thousands of supporters fought back setting a water-cannon and a troop transport on fire...
With the main challenger at the last election in 2018 Maurice Kamto now barred (AC Vol 66 No 16 Blocking oppositionist Kamto President Biya clears the field) Bello Bouba Maïgari and Issa Tchiroma Bakary northern politicians who recently broke with the government (AC Vol 66 No 14 Splits appear in Biya regime's façade) have come to the fore...
These tactics won't work with the disenchanted northern politicians who previously supported Biya such as Bello Bouba Maïgari and Issa Tchiroma Bakary both of whom were approved by the electoral commission as candidates (AC Vol 66 No 14 Splits appear in Biya regime's façade)...
The previously confident guardians of Paul Biya's presidency are looking concerned as they absorb the impact of the defection of two previously dependable even crucial allies – Bello Bouba Maïgari and Issa Tchiroma Bakary...
After reports in the French daily Le Monde that the First Couple's European holiday was spent on medical treatment in Switzerland (him) and France (her the flamboyant Chantal Biya) Communications Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary once a northern oppositionist denounced foreign attempts to undermine the state...
The Front pour le salut national du Cameroun of Communications Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary saw its list rejected...
Supporters in his home town of Garoua have stuck up posters around town including at the residence of Communications Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary...