{"id":203589,"date":"2025-07-30T15:38:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-main-opposition-candidate-barred-from-elections\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:38:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:38:55","slug":"cameroon-main-opposition-candidate-barred-from-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-main-opposition-candidate-barred-from-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Main Opposition Candidate Barred From Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Exclusion of Maurice Kamto Harms Election Credibility<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The decision by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/africa\/cameroon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cameroon<\/a>&#8216;s electoral board to exclude Maurice Kamto, a key opposition leader and challenger to incumbent President Paul Biya, from the country&#8217;s upcoming presidential elections raises concerns about the credibility of the electoral process, Human Rights Watch said today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">On July 26, 2025, Cameroon&#8217;s Election Commission (ELECAM) approved <a href=\"https:\/\/portail.elecam.cm\/en\/2025presidentialelection-the-electoral-board-has-published-a-list-of-13-candidates-qualified-to-run-for-the-october-12-2025-presidential-election-in-cameroon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">13<\/a> out of <a href=\"https:\/\/portail.elecam.cm\/en\/2025-presidential-election-in-cameroon-82-nomination-files-received-by-elecam-between-11-and-21-july-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">83<\/a> prospective candidates, including the 92-year-old Biya, who has been&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507300074.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Exclusion of Maurice Kamto Harms Election Credibility The decision by Cameroon&#8216;s electoral board to exclude Maurice Kamto, a key opposition leader and challenger to incumbent President Paul Biya, from the country&#8217;s upcoming presidential elections raises concerns about the credibility of the electoral process, Human Rights Watch said today. On July 26, 2025, Cameroon&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00550933:a522408b8753c0f7812a827060ac5355:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,7999,4698,377,7997,821,9612,257,5675,254],"class_list":["post-203589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-barred","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-candidate","tag-elections","tag-main","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00550933:a522408b8753c0f7812a827060ac5355:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}