{"id":206052,"date":"2025-09-01T18:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroons-election-risks-instability-no-matter-who-wins\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T18:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:04:18","slug":"cameroons-election-risks-instability-no-matter-who-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroons-election-risks-instability-no-matter-who-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon&#8217;s Election Risks Instability, No Matter Who Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Cameroonians <a href=\"https:\/\/africa24tv.com\/cameroon-presidential-elections-slayed-for-october-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will vote<\/a> in presidential elections on 12 October 2025. The incumbent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckglpnk0kqko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Biya<\/a>, who has been in office for nearly 43 years, will be a candidate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">In 2025, as in the last election in 2018, and in all presidential elections since 1992, it is reasonable to expect that the ruling party will win. And opposition parties will want to protest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">If Biya wins, by the end of the new term in 2032, he will have been in power for half a century. It will be a feat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/20\/worlds-oldest-president-paul-biya-cameroon-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">no other<\/a> executive head of state&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509010003.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>Cameroonians will vote in presidential elections on 12 October 2025. The incumbent, Paul Biya, who has been in office for nearly 43 years, will be a candidate. In 2025, as in the last election in 2018, and in all presidential elections since 1992, it is reasonable to expect that the ruling party will win. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":206053,"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\/00670089:35a20af934a159d2036fa1d07507ae38:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,377,4331,3119,9317,11782,257,7349,254,6552],"class_list":["post-206052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cameroons","tag-election","tag-instability","tag-matter","tag-news","tag-risks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wins"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670089:35a20af934a159d2036fa1d07507ae38:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206052","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=206052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}