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Cameroon 2025 — The Arrest of Professor Aba’a Oyono: When the State Turns Against Its Own Conscience
[YAOUNDÉ, Oct 25 — Cameroon Concord Political Desk]
Cameroon’s deepening post-election crisis took a darker turn today with the brutal arrest of Professor Jean-Calvin Aba’a Oyono, a prominent public law scholar at the University of Yaoundé II and special advisor to opposition leader Mamadou Mota.
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[YAOUNDÉ, Oct 25 — Cameroon Concord Political Desk]
In an explosive statement on Saturday, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, self-declared winner of Cameroon’s October 12 presidential election, accused the Biya regime of turning “negotiation into persecution,” after senior opposition leaders were arrested following alleged talks with the presidency.
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[YAOUNDÉ, Oct 25 — Cameroon Concord Political Desk]
In a striking statement posted on his official Facebook account late Saturday, opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary laid bare what he described as the Biya regime’s “predictable and exhausted playbook” — a strategy of systemic electoral manipulation, intimidation, and post-election repression — as tensions surge ahead of the Constitutional Council’s proclamation expected Monday.
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[YAOUNDE, Oct 25] – Cameroon’s security services have widened a coordinated sweep against opposition voices, detaining Anicet Ekane (MANIDEM), Djeukam Tchameni, and Florence Titcho (party treasurer) in operations centered on Douala and Yaoundé, while Yerima Riré, a supporter of Issa Tchiroma Bakary, was reportedly abducted overnight in Garoua by men in uniform. Families and lawyers say they have received no formal charge sheets or access details—classic markers of unlawful detention.
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YAOUNDÉ, Oct 23 –]A confidential police document circulating since Thursday evening has accused opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary, candidate of the 2025 presidential election, of allegedly calling members of the armed forces to participate in demonstrations challenging President Paul Biya’s rule.
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As Cameroon inches toward what may be its most consequential political reckoning in decades, veteran journalist and statesman Eric Chinje has issued a searing letter to the Constitutional Council, urging its members to uphold the country’s constitution and resist the pressure to endorse a manipulated presidential outcome.
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