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Cameroon’s Biya wins re-election in landslide

Cameroon’s Biya wins re-election in landslide

thenewsnigeria.com.ng


President Paul Biya:

Cameroonian President Paul Biya won re-election with 71 per cent of the vote, the Media said on Twitter on Monday.

The win extends Biya’s 36-year rule and cementing his place as one of Africa’s longest-standing rulers.

Victory, which gives the 85-year-old a seventh term in office, came amid claims from opposition candidates that the election was fraudulent.

Scattered violence connected to a separatist movement in the western Anglophone regions also kept most people there from voting. (Reuters/NAN)

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