Cameroon presidential election: As Paul Biya set to win, what’s at stake? | Boko Haram News

Cameroon will hold presidential elections on Sunday, October 12, with the vote expected to go in favour of Africa’s second-longest-serving leader, Paul Biya, 92, who is seeking an eighth term.

The cocoa and oil-producing Central African country has been beset by challenges in recent years, including the rising cost of food, high rate of youth unemployment, armed attacks in the far north and a secessionist conflict in the country’s southern Anglophone regions.