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Cameroon's Biya Wins 7th Term

by VOA News

   Incumbent President of Cameroon Paul Biya won his seventh consecutive
   term in power Monday after a Constitutional Council he appointed
   rejected legal challenges to the election results.

   Biya's opposition alleged widespread voter intimidation and fraud in
   the October 7 election, rejecting the vote count before it was
   released.

   Heavy troop deployment locked down cities across the country as the
   government banned all opposition rallies.

   Biya took 71 percent of the vote, his opponent Maurice Kanto received
   14 percent. The election had low turnout in Anglophone regions after
   almost a quarter-million people fled violence between English-speaking
   separatists and government forces.

   Biya has led Cameroon since 1982, and at 85, is one of the world's
   oldest heads of state.