{"id":212362,"date":"2025-11-03T08:41:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-protests-erupt-in-cameroon-as-the-92-year-old-president-gets-another-seven-year-term\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T08:41:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:41:50","slug":"cameroon-protests-erupt-in-cameroon-as-the-92-year-old-president-gets-another-seven-year-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-protests-erupt-in-cameroon-as-the-92-year-old-president-gets-another-seven-year-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Protests Erupt in Cameroon As the 92-Year-Old President Gets Another Seven-Year Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\"><em>Alleging electoral fraud, protesters have taken to the streets insisting on the victory of his opponent, a veteran of the regime who broke ranks, and garnered mass support by flip-flopping over the issues of federalism and the Anglophone crisis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Protests rock Cameroon as its president since 1982, Paul Biya, the world&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/world-records\/65335-oldest-current-head-of-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oldest<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/world-records\/105182-longest-serving-head-of-state-non-royal-current\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">longest-serving head of state<\/a> at the age of 92, is set to be sworn-in for another seven-year-long term that will last until he is almost 100 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">On Monday, October&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511030108.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>Alleging electoral fraud, protesters have taken to the streets insisting on the victory of his opponent, a veteran of the regime who broke ranks, and garnered mass support by flip-flopping over the issues of federalism and the Anglophone crisis. Protests rock Cameroon as its president since 1982, Paul Biya, the world&#8217;s oldest and longest-serving head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":212363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[29593,258,256,4698,377,16290,257,2450,5253,7353,254,7557],"class_list":["post-212362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-92yearold","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-erupt","tag-news","tag-president","tag-protests","tag-sevenyear","tag-south-africa-today","tag-term"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212362","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=212362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}