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[LIVE] Cameroon polls: Red carpet as Biya votes, gunshots in Bamenda. Automated Publishing Via Osuta Yusuf Robot Trigger. Cameroonians are voting today Sunday (October 7) in a key presidential election which could end or extend the 36-year rule of President Paul Biya, one of Africa’s longest serving leaders. Polls opened at 0800 local (0700GMT) across much of the country including areas in the restive English-speaking regions. Security has been heightened with armed personnel deployed outside most poling stations. Reuters reports that three separatists have been shot dead in Bamenda, capital of the northwest region of the country. The northwest and southwest regions have been the epicenter of what has become known as the Anglophone crisis. A security source told Reuters that the trio had been gunned down for attempting to disrupt the voting process. Separatist groups have vowed to stop the polls from taking place in both regions. Red carpet for Biya, aspirants cast ballots — Daniel Finnan (@Daniel_Finnan)   — Mimi237 (@Mimimefo237)   — Mimi237 (Mimimefo237)   — Mimi237 (@Mimimefo237)   Multiple reports of gunshots in NW capital, Bamenda — Alphonse Tebeck (@AlphonseTebeck)   — Daniel Finnan (@Daniel_Finnan)   — Adesewa Josh (@AdesewaJosh)   — Comfort Mussa (@ComfortMussa)   Did you know that diaporans are voting? Indeed, Cameroonians in the diaspora are joining in the process of choosing the next president of the country. Elections body, ELECAM, shared photos of people casting their ballot outside of the country. Among other places, people in Malabo, Cairo, Brussels and Tel Aviv are all voting. — ELECTIONS CAMEROON(@Elecam2018)   — ELECTIONS CAMEROON(@Elecam2018)   — ELECTIONS CAMEROON(@Elecam2018)   — ELECTIONS CAMEROON(@Elecam2018)   Will opposition coalition count for much? In a surprise and belated move with about 24-hours to opening of polls, two opposition members announced a long-expected alliance. Former Biya-era minister Maurice Kamto agreed a coalition with famed lawyer Akere Muna. Muna’s correspondence to the elections body, ELECAM, to step down as a candidate was however turned down. He has asked his supporters to vote for Kamto. A reported third coalition member, Serge Espoir Matomba, denied agreeing to join late Saturday. Political watchers said despite the coalition being a welcome move, it had come too late in the day but that its impact will be properly assessed after the close of polls and in the stage of results declaration. Ex-Togo PM leads AU observers, EU backed out The European Union, EU, said it will not deploy observers to Cameroon as it has done in almost all previous votes across Africa. But the African Union, AU, has a team in the country led by former Togolese Prime Minister, Artheme Ahoomey Zunu Kwesi Agbefia Seleakodji Lolonyo. The EU and UN have all called for peaceful and transparent process. — Guy Cyrille Tapoko (GuyCyrille)   Biya, the 85-year-old long-server gunning to soldier on A victory for Biya, who has ruled since 1982, would usher in a seventh term for the 85-year-old and see him stay until at least the age of 92, bucking a tentative trend in Africa where many countries have installed presidential term limits. It would maintain a long held status quo in the oil and cocoa producing Central African country where, despite relative economic stability and growth of over 4 percent a year since Biya was last elected in 2011, many of its 24 million citizens live in deep poverty. Most have only known one president. Of Biya’s biggest challenges has been the year-old secessionist uprising in the Anglophone Northwest and Southwest regions that has cost hundreds of lives and forced thousands to flee either to the French-speaking regions or into neighbouring Nigeria. It further complicates Cameroon’s security mix, that is, for a country that is still battling Boko Haram insurgents in its Far North region. A new security region was set up in Bamenda in what was seen as a security solution to the separatists.


Automated Publishing Via Osuta Yusuf Robot Trigger.

Cameroonians are voting today Sunday (October 7) in a key presidential election which could end or extend the 36-year rule of President Paul Biya, one of Africa’s longest serving leaders.

Polls opened at 0800 local (0700GMT) across much of the country including areas in the restive English-speaking regions. Security has been heightened with armed personnel deployed outside most poling stations.

Reuters reports that three separatists have been shot dead in Bamenda, capital of the northwest region of the country. The northwest and southwest regions have been the epicenter of what has become known as the Anglophone crisis.

A security source told Reuters that the trio had been gunned down for attempting to disrupt the voting process. Separatist groups have vowed to stop the polls from taking place in both regions.

Red carpet for Biya, aspirants cast ballots

— Daniel Finnan (@Daniel_Finnan)  


— Mimi237 (@Mimimefo237)  


— Mimi237 (Mimimefo237)  


— Mimi237 (@Mimimefo237)  


Multiple reports of gunshots in NW capital, Bamenda

— Alphonse Tebeck (@AlphonseTebeck)  


— Daniel Finnan (@Daniel_Finnan)  


— Adesewa Josh (@AdesewaJosh)  


— Comfort Mussa (@ComfortMussa)  


Did you know that diaporans are voting?

Indeed, Cameroonians in the diaspora are joining in the process of choosing the next president of the country.

Elections body, ELECAM, shared photos of people casting their ballot outside of the country. Among other places, people in Malabo, Cairo, Brussels and Tel Aviv are all voting.

— ELECTIONS CAMEROON(@Elecam2018)  


— ELECTIONS CAMEROON(@Elecam2018)  


— ELECTIONS CAMEROON(@Elecam2018)  


— ELECTIONS CAMEROON(@Elecam2018)  


Will opposition coalition count for much?

In a surprise and belated move with about 24-hours to opening of polls, two opposition members announced a long-expected alliance. Former Biya-era minister Maurice Kamto agreed a coalition with famed lawyer Akere Muna.

Muna’s correspondence to the elections body, ELECAM, to step down as a candidate was however turned down. He has asked his supporters to vote for Kamto. A reported third coalition member, Serge Espoir Matomba, denied agreeing to join late Saturday.

Political watchers said despite the coalition being a welcome move, it had come too late in the day but that its impact will be properly assessed after the close of polls and in the stage of results declaration.

Ex-Togo PM leads AU observers, EU backed out

The European Union, EU, said it will not deploy observers to Cameroon as it has done in almost all previous votes across Africa.

But the African Union, AU, has a team in the country led by former Togolese Prime Minister, Artheme Ahoomey Zunu Kwesi Agbefia Seleakodji Lolonyo. The EU and UN have all called for peaceful and transparent process.

— Guy Cyrille Tapoko (GuyCyrille)  


Biya, the 85-year-old long-server gunning to soldier on

A victory for Biya, who has ruled since 1982, would usher in a seventh term for the 85-year-old and see him stay until at least the age of 92, bucking a tentative trend in Africa where many countries have installed presidential term limits.

It would maintain a long held status quo in the oil and cocoa producing Central African country where, despite relative economic stability and growth of over 4 percent a year since Biya was last elected in 2011, many of its 24 million citizens live in deep poverty. Most have only known one president.

Of Biya’s biggest challenges has been the year-old secessionist uprising in the Anglophone Northwest and Southwest regions that has cost hundreds of lives and forced thousands to flee either to the French-speaking regions or into neighbouring Nigeria.

It further complicates Cameroon’s security mix, that is, for a country that is still battling Boko Haram insurgents in its Far North region. A new security region was set up in Bamenda in what was seen as a security solution to the separatists.

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