Squabbles rock Cameroon’s ruling party ahead of local elections

Candidates standing on Cameroon’s ruling party CPDM in municipal and parliamentary elections on September 30 are locked in bitter wrangles which risk rocking President Paul Biya’s three-decade stranglehold on power. The 80-year-old leader had on July 5 instructed his party’s politburo to nominate those to run for the twin elections. The creation of top-tier “consensus [...]