Cameroon’s Presidential Election – Playing With Numbers Is a Dangerous Game

This article presents a personal view and analysis of data from Cameroon’s presidential election by Guillaume Tanga, a data and finance professional from Cameroon.

As countries debate machine learning, politicians in my home country Cameroon still gamble with simple arithmetic. On 27 October 2025, the Constitutional Council published the official results of the presidential election held two weeks earlier. The pattern is familiar: late communication, limited transparency, and a result that raises…