{"id":209266,"date":"2025-10-08T19:44:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-the-woman-daring-to-end-cameroon-presidents-43-year-rule\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T19:44:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:44:23","slug":"cameroon-the-woman-daring-to-end-cameroon-presidents-43-year-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-the-woman-daring-to-end-cameroon-presidents-43-year-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: The Woman Daring to End Cameroon President&#8217;s 43-Year Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em>Tomaino Ndam Njoya, an experienced parliamentarian with international credibility, is confident she can achieve what many failed to do over the past four decades: Unseat President Paul Biya at Cameroon&#8217;s election.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">There was great surprise when Cameroon&#8217;s electoral commission announced the 12\u00a0candidates for the\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/election-in-cameroon-will-the-frustrated-youth-vote\/a-74247248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 12 presidential election<\/a>. For the third\u00a0time in Cameroon&#8217;s political history, one of the contenders running for the highest office in the country is a woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">The fact that Tomaino&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510080129.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>Tomaino Ndam Njoya, an experienced parliamentarian with international credibility, is confident she can achieve what many failed to do over the past four decades: Unseat President Paul Biya at Cameroon&#8217;s election. There was great surprise when Cameroon&#8217;s electoral commission announced the 12\u00a0candidates for the\u00a0October 12 presidential election. For the third\u00a0time in Cameroon&#8217;s political history, one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":209267,"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\/00671617:afa325f1eee9c0bc72674a7e8513ad93:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[52519,258,256,4698,377,18323,257,7527,7858,254,4307],"class_list":["post-209266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-43year","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-daring","tag-news","tag-presidents","tag-rule","tag-south-africa-today","tag-woman"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671617:afa325f1eee9c0bc72674a7e8513ad93:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209266","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=209266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}