Cameroon’s Constitutional Council announced on Wednesday evening that the final results of the country’s presidential election will be proclaimed on Monday, 15 days after the poll.

According to the council, results from all 31,653 polling stations will be read during a televised ceremony in the capital Yaoundé before the winner is declared.

The presidential election was held on Oct. 12.

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Internet access in Cameroon is significantly disrupted as protests continue over alleged irregularities in this month’s presidential election, Internet monitor NetBlocks said on Thursday.

“We can confirm a significant, ongoing disruption to internet connectivity in Cameroon which may limit coverage of events on the ground,” NetBlocks said in an email to Reuters.

Cameroon’s constitutional council on Wednesday threw out all petitions contesting the October 12 presidential election, clearing the way for full results to be announced.

Paul Biya, the world’s oldest ruler at 92, is widely expected to maintain his 43-year grip on power despite an energized opposition pushing for change.

Protests flared in several cities after partial election results reported by local media showed Biya was on course to be declared the winner.

Clashes broke out between security forces and opposition supporters in the northern cities of Maroua and Garoua.

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A senior opposition leader is calling on Cameroonians to demonstrate until the country’s ailing president, Paul Biya, packs and leaves the Unity Palace.

The senior opposition politician who elected anonymity said the demonstrations which must start immediately the constitutional council hands the people’s victory to a man who has ruled the country for 43 years with no evidence to show for such a long stay in power must only end when Biya escapes.

“Cameroonians must stay the course. Young Cameroonians must stay on the streets for months if their fate must change. They should be ready to walk to Etoudi to take Biya out. The Unity Palace is the people’s palace and a defeated presidential candidate must not occupy it,” he said.

“Young Cameroonians have been disrespected by the government. They get humiliated by Biya’s military when they want to demonstrate their frustration. This is an opportunity for Cameroonians to rid themselves of a dictator who has demonstrated open contempt for a people he is supposed to serve. He must be made to understand that he has overstayed his welcome,” he stressed.

“There are plans for people who will be on the streets to be fed. We are calling on demonstrators to avoid destroying state property or breaking into people’s shop. Our plan is to take Biya down and not to destroy our economy,” the irate politician told the Cameroon Concord News Yaoundé editor, Rita Akana.

“We are urging the Diaspora to play an active role in this struggle to liberate our country. Members of the Diaspora should help family members with money for them to buy groceries. We will be on the streets until the corrupt regime crumbles,” he stressed.

“We have successfully struck fear in the minds of those government officials. By voting massively against an incompetent Paul Biya on October 12, we have demonstrated that we can change things peacefully. However, if the ruling CPDM wants war and chaos, the people will deliver war to those who have dumped us into poverty and engineered the worst form of corruption in the country,” he pointed out.

“Cameroon is our country too. We have international support and let the Biya regime not think this is the Anglophone crisis. This situation is different and all Cameroonians including those in the South and Centre are sick and tired of Biya’s arrogance and corruption,” he stressed.

“We are also urging Cameroonians to avoid any acts of tribalism. This is a struggle against tribalism, nepotism, corruption and arrogance and all Cameroonians have been victims of the Biya regime. We must fight as an oppressed people against political elite who have distinguished itself through its corrupt practices,” he pointed out.

“We are aware of what is happening in the ministries and companies. Young men and women get sodomized before they are given employment. We already have a long list of directors and ministers who engage in such acts and once we take over, they will all be held accountable. We cannot tolerate impunity,” he concluded.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

As ruling party officials are calling for calm, so too are young Cameroonians planning to make Cameroon ungovernable with the objective of taking the country’s ailing president out of the presidential palace.

Cameroonian youths are tired being unemployed, molested by the country’s authorities and disrespected by their government.

Cameroonian youths are tired being babies. They want to demonstrate that they have come of age and that it is their time to determine the country’s political destiny.

The calls for massive demonstrations after the proclamation of doctored election results in favor of a dying president are resonating with young Cameroonians in all the nooks and crannies of the country given that they had voted for change but the country’s election body, ELECAM, has doctored the results to favor the incumbent, Paul Biya, 96 (real age) who is suffering from acute senility.

Cameroonians have concluded that this is one election fraud too many. Cameroonians have taken a lot and they are not willing to be served by a government which has, at best, been irresponsible.

The message from the country’s youths is clear. They don’t want to deal with a government which is rich in vain promises and low on concrete actions. They are ready to chase Mr. Biya out of power if he does not respect himself. It is up to him to leave honorably if he prefers dignity.

The government has for forty-three made empty promises, always promising gold and delivering hardship. The government’s words are enticing but if you scratch beyond the surface, you see that it is a government which will never change its old ways.

Cameroonians have always heard huge figure being announced for development projects, but these projects have only been implemented on paper.

Today, because Cameroonians are united and determined to head to the Unity Palace to dislodge Mr. Biya, the lazy king, from the people’s palace, we are hearing the politicians calling for calm.

Cameroonians have heard these words every day from greedy politicians in Cameroon for forty-three years.  The greedy politicians will always declare that the opposition is misleading youths to take to the streets to protest while their children are studying study abroad. The greedy ruling party politicians do not understand that what they see in other people is exactly what they can do. Ruling party politicians are not only greedy, they are manipulative.

Cameroonians who are already on the streets to protest are hungry or frustrated. It is hunger and anger against the ruling party that will drive them to the streets and many young Cameroonians hold that it is high time greedy politicians in Cameroon stopped this rhetoric which is only designed to keep them in power.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

France has advised its citizens in Cameroon to remain cautious amid a tense post-election climate, according to a travel alert released on October 17 by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs. The ministry urged French nationals “to exercise vigilance and stay away from large gatherings,” citing “sporadic unrest reported in several cities” since the October 12 vote.

Paris reminded its nationals that “the official validation of results is expected by October 27,” and that the swearing-in of the elected president should take place “no later than November 9.” In 2021, 5,676 French citizens were registered with the consulate in Cameroon, primarily in Yaoundé and Douala.

The message comes as the country faces heightened tensions and demonstrations in cities including Douala, Dschang, Garoua, Limbe, and Makary. Clashes have erupted between security forces and protesters contesting preliminary results. The National Salvation Front of Cameroon (FSNC), led by Issa Tchiroma Bakary, has already claimed victory before official results are announced.

Twelve candidates competed in the October 12 presidential election, including incumbent Paul Biya, 92, who has ruled since 1982 and is seeking an eighth term. Despite repeated calls for calm from the government, local organizations, and international observers, mistrust persists among the population.

The Constitutional Council, the sole authority empowered to validate the election outcome, has until October 26 to review the results submitted by Elections Cameroon (ELECAM). Meanwhile, unofficial figures circulating on social media have fueled confusion and uncertainty.

The Cameroonian government maintains that the situation “remains under control” and that security forces are mobilized to protect people and property. However, fears of post-election violence continue to loom over the country as authorities seek to restore calm and legitimacy to the electoral process.

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Tensions are rising between the President Biya and Tchiroma Bakary camps as Cameroon’s constitutional council must announce presidential election results by Sunday. But according to Jeune Afrique’s information, Biya has extended a hand to his opponent.

Cameroon’s Commission Nationale de Recensement des Votes declared President Paul Biya the winner with 53.66% of the votes in the presidential election, ahead of opposition candidate Issa Tchiroma Bakary, who took 35.19%. But the standoff continues between the two camps, as our sister magazine Jeune Afrique has information that Biya has offered his rival a government role.

Tchiroma contested the figures, and it is in this context, according to Jeune Afrique’s sources, that discreet negotiations were initiated between the former minister and the outgoing head of state, through intermediaries.

Through the mediation of North Region Governor Jean Abaté Edi’I – accompanied by other emissaries – Biya approached Tchiroma with a bold proposal: the post of prime minister.

The meeting took place in Garoua at Tchiroma’s home late last week. In exchange for the premiership and the promotion of some of Tchiroma’s allies within the government and administration, the opposition leader was expected to tone down his electoral challenge.

Tchiroma Bakary rejects the offer

According to Jeune Afrique’s information, government emissaries promised swift reform of the electoral code, to take place before the next legislative elections scheduled for 2026, in exchange for the opponent’s recognition of Biya’s victory.

The Tchiroma Bakary camp is preparing an action plan to defend his victory once the final verdict is released by the Conseil Constitutionnel

The proposal was supported by several foreign diplomats, who favoured Tchiroma accepting this outstretched hand and helping to bring about a resolution to the looming electoral crisis.

The former three-time minister under Biya, aware that his political base might oppose any arrangement with those in power and convinced of his victory in the presidential election, refused.

Contacted by Jeune Afrique, one of Tchiroma’s lieutenants said it was an attempt at “political neutralisation” by the president.

“All Issa Tchiroma Bakary demands is recognition of the truth of the ballot box,” his ally confided. The opposition leader’s team has begun publishing the minutes and a compilation of results in their possession, from which they claim to have won the presidential election with 62% of the votes.

On the ground, tensions remain high. According to our sources, the Tchiroma Bakary camp is preparing an action plan to defend his victory once the final verdict is released by the Conseil Constitutionnel, which must issue its ruling no later than 26 October. They have also enlisted the services of numerous Cameroonian and foreign lawyers.

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A senior member of Mr. Issa Tchiroma’s party has informed Cameroon Concord News that if the country’s constitutional council hands over victory to the outgoing president, Paul Biya, Cameroonians will make the country ungovernable.

The senior official who spoke on conditions of anonymity with the Cameroon Concord News Group Chairman, Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai, said that Cameroon was ripe for a revolution and if the country’s government officials are not aware of what is happening around the world then they are either blind or ill-informed.

“There is a lot of uncertainty around the world and Cameroon government officials want to import the demons to our shores. Cameroonians are frustrated and bitter because of Mr. Paul Biya’s incompetence and testing them one more time could be that last straw that will destroy the country,” he said.

“ELECAM has finished its results manufacturing job and the results are at the constitutional council. The results have leaked and it is up to Cameroonians to act as one person to chase Mr. Biya and his irresponsible collaborators from Cameroon. Our country has been in the news for all the wrong reasons over the last four decades – bad economy, no road infrastructure, sky-high unemployment with many Cameroonians dying on the high seas as they escape the economic pain the ruling party has generated.

“We will make Cameroon ungovernable. If that means arming our young men, we will do that. Money is not the issue and there are weapons lying fallow in the country’s northern regions,” he stressed.

“If Yaoundé has not learned from the Anglophone crisis which has already lasted for nine years, then it will never learn. The crisis in the country’s two English-speaking regions is still playing out and there is no end in sight. Opening a new front where Boko Haram has a physical presence is one additional mistake the government is making,” he underscored.

Issa Tchiroma’s victory is a victory for ever suffering Cameroonian. My fellow countrymen should come out to defend their victory. This victory is not only for Northerners. Every Cameroonian is suffering and this hardship will only stop if the people kick out Mr. Biya and his gang,” he urged.

He also added that Cameroonians in the Southwest, Northwest, Littoral and West regions should be ready to join the movement which has been designed to restore some sanity and dignity to Cameroonians who have been suffering for forty-three years, adding that prayers will not address the situation but actions which will strike fear in the government should be undertaken across the country, pointing out that the ultimate goal is to kick Biya out of power.

“The revolution which took place in Madagascar, Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, and Nepal did not happen through prayers and fasting.  The people took to the streets for months to express their frustration. Cameroon needs to wake up and only Cameroonians can end the disaster and calamity Mr. Biya has manufactured for them,” he pointed out.

“Biya has never won any elections in Cameroon. He has always cheated but this election fraud is one too many. He and his people must be called to order. Cameroonians have not committed any crime and they do not deserve the hardship and disrespect the CPDM government has engineered for them,” he said.

“We will be targeting key CPDM militants across the country. The people must punish them for their crimes and sins. Cameroonians have had it up to their eyeballs and this is the time to express that frustration,” he said.

Speaking from Garoua, the Tchiroma party official called on Cameroonians to make the country ungovernable, adding that it would be unwise to pass on the burden to future generations.

“We must solve this equation once and for all. We are calling on all Cameroonians to be ready to free their fatherland. We have been tolerating this corruption for decades, hoping that one day the architects would have an attack of conscience and do the right thing. From every indication, the criminals in government are very determined to push this country to the bottom of the abyss. We cannot allow this to happen and only Cameroonians can pull the country from the brink,” he said.

“The movement taking place in Garoua, Douala and Yaoundé today are just a child’s play. The government has never noticed violence before. It will see hell on the day the results will be made public. There is still time for the right thing to be done. We don’t like blood, but if the government continues to play its games, it will regret its stupidity and corruption,” he stressed.

“Cameroonians must be united against this devilish government which has and is still spreading death and suffering across the country. Mr. Biya who is 96 years according to his family members has a choice – exit power as a respected person or expose his family to the anger of the frustrated population,” he concluded.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Opposition presidential candidate, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, has announced plans to publish ‘original’ polling station reports to prove his victory in Cameroon’s October 12 presidential election.

He said this while challenging early trends that favor incumbent President Paul Biya.

In a statement released Sunday, Tchiroma said, “To ensure transparency and prevent any manipulation, our campaign team will, in the coming hours, release electoral trends based on the official polling station reports (PVs) signed at the polling sites and transmitted by our scrutineers.”

Tchiroma, who leads the National Salvation Front (FSNC) and is backed by the Union for Change, a coalition of opposition parties, is mounting a direct challenge to Biya, the long-serving president and leader of the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (CPDM).

Biya has ruled Cameroon since 1982 and is seeking another term amid growing calls for reform.

The National Commission for the General Counting of Votes has yet to announce official results, but preliminary trends suggest Biya is ahead.

Tchiroma’s campaign disputes this, citing data from 18 strategic departments that represent nearly 80% of the national electorate.

“These departments include Wouri, Mfoundi, Bénoué, Diamaré, Mayo-Danay, Mayo-Tsanaga, Vina, Logone-et-Chari, Mungo, Noun, Mayo-Louti, Mayo-Kani, Mayo-Sava, Menoua, Mifi, Mayo-Rey, Lom-et-Djérem, and Lékié,” the statement noted.

Tchiroma emphasized the credibility of his methodology: “It is based on official polling station reports, which are verifiable. Every figure published will be accompanied by documented proof to prevent any dispute.”

He called on the international community and Cameroonians to monitor the trends closely: “They represent the people’s voice and must neither be stolen nor manipulated. Together, we shall defend the truth of the ballot box!”

Meanwhile, tensions are rising across the country.

In the Far North city of Garoua, supporters have formed a civilian-led security unit to protect Tchiroma, declaring, “We will not let anything happen to our leader, we are here to protect him.”

Security forces have reported violent protests in Dschang, Garoua, and other cities.

The Gendarmerie released images of paramilitary drills and stated, “These acts of violence, perpetrated by protesters who claim victory for their candidate, have caused significant damage to property and loss of human life.”

In a bid to calm tensions, the National Council of Traditional Chiefs of Cameroon issued a joint statement urging restraint. Signed by National President Tsala Ndzomo Guy and Secretary General Fon Chafah, the release reaffirmed their commitment to peace and stability as the nation awaits the Constitutional Council’s official proclamation.

As the political standoff intensifies, all eyes remain on the release of Tchiroma’s polling station reports and the Constitutional Council’s final verdict, expected in one week.

Source: Daily Trust