Cameroon heads to the polls as Biya faces off against a divided opposition

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : "I have an opportunity to tell you that my determination to serve you remains intact.
58% : For the previous presidential election on 7 October 2018, there were 6,687,000 registered voters, and participation was 53.85 percent across the national territory and 48.1 percent within the diaspora.
47% : Civil society groups called on the belligerents, both armed groups and the state, to do everything possible to allow English-speaking citizens to vote this Sunday, so that these two regions would not be excluded from the electoral process. Spotlight on Africa: Cameroon votes, Niger Delta oil pollution, South Africa - US ties Ayah Abine, a leading figure in English-speaking Cameroon and president of the Ayah Foundation based in Buea, the capital of the Southwest Region, told one of RFI's reporters in Cameroon: "The economy is on the floor, schools aren't working, not much is really happening, that's deplorable...

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