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11, October 2018
Two Candidates Claim Victory in French Cameroun Vote 0
by soter • Africa, Headline News, Politics
Authorities in Cameroon are appealing for calm after hundreds of youths marched through the streets of Yaounde, celebrating what they called the victory of their candidate, Maurice Kamtos, in Sunday’s presidential election. No results have been released yet from the election, in which eight candidates challenged longtime President Paul Biya. Hundreds of young people demonstrating […]
11, October 2018
Yaounde: Tension mounts as ELECAM seeks to doctor results 0
by soter • Headline News, Politics, World
Tension is mounting in Yaounde as supporters of Prof. Maurice Kamto suspect the election-organizing body is working behind closed doors to doctor the results. Mr. Kamto’s team yesterday held a press conference in which it deplored the government’s tactics aimed at falsifying elections and fomenting violence in the country. The press conference, which was delivered […]
10, October 2018
Cameroon’s Presidential Poll: Kamto to hold Press Conference 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Politics
Cameroon’s President-elect, Maurice Kamto, is scheduled to hold a press conference at 2:30PM Cameroon time in the nation’s capital. Mr. Kamto is expected to reiterate that he is the winner of the election and that the country’s election-organizing body and the constitutional council are doing everything in their power to rob the population of its […]
10, October 2018
Kamto’s victory is gradually being confirmed by ELECAM 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
It is gradually emerging that Prof. Kamto is the true winner of Sunday’s presidential election. An unimpeachable source at the election-organizing body, ELECAM, who has elected anonymity, has just sent the results to the Cameroon Concord News Group. The source says that ELECAM officials are divided on how to proceed. Some want the results to […]
10, October 2018
The autocrat and the ballot box: Transparency International says ‘We have no observers in Cameroon’ 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
Transparency International has disowned a report broadcast on Cameroon’s national television that said it’s observatory team monitoring presidential elections had approved the management of the electoral process. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the global anti-corruption body said it had not deployed an election observer mission in Cameroon. It described the television report by Cameroon […]
10, October 2018
CPDM crime syndicate exposed over fake election observer report 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
Cameroon radio and television, CRTV, the state broadcaster has been exposed by international rights group Transparency International, TI, over a report that the group’s observer team had ‘blessed’ the conduct of the October 7 presidential polls. CRTV shared a video that purported to have observers with TI but the group in a press statement said […]
10, October 2018
US tasks Cameroonians to await official poll results 0
by soter • Headline News, Politics, World
The United States says it remains an impartial party to Cameroon’s electoral process and calls on citizens to patiently await the officially declaration of results from the election body, ELECAM. The embassy in Yaounde in a Facebook post said they supported Cameroonian voters’ decision to use the polls to make their voices heard. The statement read […]
10, October 2018
Cameroon’s Presidential Poll: Biya under international pressure, likely to yield 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
As the dust raised by Prof. Kamto’s announcement about his victory in the October 7 presidential poll settles, it is slowly emerging that the country’s president, Paul Biya, is slowly showing some signs of flexibility about his retirement. A source close to the Yaounde strong man has hinted Cameroon Concord News Group that international pressure […]
9, October 2018
Cameroon’s Presidential Poll: Minister Issa Tchiroma caught lying again 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
In a bid to give credibility to the fake presidential election organized in Cameroon by the Biya regime, Issa Tchiroma, Cameroon’s communication minister, recently said that there was a Transparency International observation mission in the country. On Tuesday, October 9, 2018, Transparency International issued a statement that it had not sent any observation mission to […]
11, October 2018
Cameroon has a tense, long wait for election results as social media claims unverified winners 0
by soter • Africa, Headline News, News
Over the last two years, Cameroon’s government has gained a poor reputation for being repressive when it comes to internet freedoms. It’s had one of the longest-running intermittent internet shutdowns on record of 230 days between January 2017 and March 2018 as it tried to prevent political activists in the English-speaking regions of the country […]