{"id":39917,"date":"2025-10-28T15:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/10\/28\/cameroon-violence-erupts-following-paul-biyas-election-victory\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T15:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:02:24","slug":"cameroon-violence-erupts-following-paul-biyas-election-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/10\/28\/cameroon-violence-erupts-following-paul-biyas-election-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Violence erupts following Paul Biya&rsquo;s election victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Violent incidents broke out across Cameroon following the announcement of Paul Biya\u2019s victory with 55.66% of the vote, defeating Issa Tchiroma Bakary, who received 35.19%. In Garoua, Tchiroma\u2019s stronghold, at least two people were killed by gunfire near the candidate\u2019s home. These deaths add to the four fatalities in Douala, Cameroon\u2019s economic capital, from clashes between pro-Tchiroma protesters and security forces. In a message on social media, President Biya thanked his supporters and expressed sorrow over the post-election violence. FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Indira Ayuk has the details from Yaounde.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violent incidents broke out across Cameroon following the announcement of Paul Biya\u2019s victory with 55.66% of the vote, defeating Issa Tchiroma Bakary, who received 35.19%. In Garoua, Tchiroma\u2019s stronghold, at least two people were killed by gunfire near the candidate\u2019s home. These deaths add to the four fatalities in Douala, Cameroon\u2019s economic capital, from clashes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-39917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}