Reuters
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Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has been re-elected for an eighth time period that would maintain him in workplace till he’s almost 100, in response to official outcomes introduced on Monday by the Central African nation’s Constitutional Council.
“Hereby proclaimed President-elect: the candidate Biya Paul,” stated Clement Atangana, president of the Constitutional Council.
Biya, 92, took workplace in 1982 and has held a good grip on energy ever since, taking away the presidential time period restrict in 2008 and profitable reelection by comfy margins.
This yr his strongest problem got here from Issa Tchiroma Bakary, a former authorities spokesperson and employment minister in his late 70s who broke ranks with Biya earlier this yr and mounted a marketing campaign that drew giant crowds and endorsements from a coalition of opposition events and civic teams.