{"id":209469,"date":"2025-10-10T19:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-can-cameroon-secure-access-to-the-ballot-for-those-in-conflict-zones\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T19:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:49:14","slug":"cameroon-can-cameroon-secure-access-to-the-ballot-for-those-in-conflict-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-can-cameroon-secure-access-to-the-ballot-for-those-in-conflict-zones\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Can Cameroon Secure Access to the Ballot for Those in Conflict Zones?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Voting on 12 October may be difficult for people in conflict-affected regions, who comprise a large portion of the country&#8217;s electorate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">At 92, Paul Biya is running for what would be his eighth consecutive term as Cameroon&#8217;s president. With opposition leader Maurice Kamto&#8217;s candidacy rejected, Biya will face a reshuffled opposition, notably with the candidacies of Bello Bouba Maigari and Issa Tchiroma Bakary &#8211; two heavyweights from the north who previously supported the incumbent&#8217;s candidacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">With&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510100248.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>Voting on 12 October may be difficult for people in conflict-affected regions, who comprise a large portion of the country&#8217;s electorate. At 92, Paul Biya is running for what would be his eighth consecutive term as Cameroon&#8217;s president. With opposition leader Maurice Kamto&#8217;s candidacy rejected, Biya will face a reshuffled opposition, notably with the candidacies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":209470,"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\/00180842:208002f259b330ec066f47fdf2a6a555:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[6450,258,256,9240,4698,377,2444,257,7904,254,8439],"class_list":["post-209469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ballot","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-conflict","tag-news","tag-secure","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zones"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00180842:208002f259b330ec066f47fdf2a6a555:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209469","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=209469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}