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Cameroon government warns against post-election disorder

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The Cameroonian government has warned quarters displeased with the outcome of the October 7 presidential election against causing any post-election disorder.

This as opposition candidate Maurice Kamto of Cameroon Renaissance Movement, threatened to organize street protests after claiming he won the election.

Kamato came in a distant second in the election which President Paul Biya won with 71.28 percent of the vote.

However Cameroon’s Minister of Territorial Administration Paul Atanga Nji said the government would l “not tolerate” any post-electoral disorder in the country.

“The administration has shown proof of tolerance but I must tell you that we will henceforth not tolerate any disorder,” Nji is quoted by Xinhua as saying. “Break time is over.”

The Cameroon army said on Friday it had killed three suspected armed separatists in Esu, a locality in Northwest, one of the two war-torn English-speaking regions of the country.

Fighting between government forces and armed separatist groups has been ongoing since October 2017 after the separatists declared the independence of a nation called “Ambazonia” in the two English-speaking regions of Northwest and Southwest.

 

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