Breaking: Cameroon President Biya re-elected for seventh straight term

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Cameroon President Paul Biya has been re-elected to a seventh straight term with 71.3 percent of the vote in this month’s election, the Constitutional Council said Monday.

A file photo taken on January 30, 2013 shows Cameroon president Paul Biya speaking to journalists following a meeting with his French counterpart at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Cameroon’s President Paul Biya on October 13, 2014 vowed his government would go after the Islamist group Boko Haram “until it’s totally wiped out”. He made the promise as he received 10 Chinese and 17 Cameroonians freed last week after spending months as hostages of armed men thought to belong to Boko Haram, an anti-Western rebel group in Nigeria which has been increasingly making incursions into Cameroon. AFP PHOTO

Opposition candidate Maurice Kamto came second with 14.2 percent, council president Clement Atangana said, announcing the official results of the October 7 ballot in a state television broadcast.

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Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/10/breaking-cameroon-president-biya-re-elected-for-seventh-straight-term/