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Link to article: https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509030308.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Cameroon will be holding an election this October (2025), there are major concerns that this will be a fair and equal election due to civil unrest. To start off, the problem with the election is that on one side you have President Biya who would be 99 by the end of his term. On the other side you have the opposition who is so disjointed that they all think that they should lead and no one is willing to compromise. Putting aside the political restraints, there are major problem with people getting to voting stations. For example, terrorist groups like the Anglophone separatists and the Jihadists have said that they will not allow people to vote. Both groups have proven their potency by kidnapping and murdering multiple people over the past year. People have also voiced concern with extreme weather events. For example, flash flooding has left thousands of people homeless. Over all people are scared or straight up unable to get to these polling stations. They are going to have to weigh the thought of either getting killed in extreme weather, killed by a terrorist, or killed by a scared young soldier of the Cameroonian Army; just so that they may go and vote for either a 92 year old or some smaller disjointed parties, none of witch are likely to get elected. This has led people to question the fairness of this election. If people can’t vote, what the point of a democracy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, I think that this issue has more importance than some may realise. If someone like Biya gets elected this could lead to a more destabilized Africa as a whole. For example, lets just assume that a 99 year old will have trouble gaining the support of different people groups within Cameroon. This is eventually going to lead to the growth in power of the terror groups in the nation. In other and more clear words, without a strong leader, Cameroon could become a home base of sorts for terror groups. Also not to forget about the election itself, if people are withheld from their right of voting Cameroons democracy will be weakened to a point of no return. When one democracy falls, we see those around them also suffer the consequences of this. As seen in East Asia during the 50’s-70’s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Each stakeholder is responsible in some way for this issue. Biya’s party is promoting a ruler that is clearly incoherent and unfit for ruling. The opposition has shown that they are unable to focus their efforts into one person that could possibly beat Biya’s party. Finally, the terror groups like the Jihadists and Anglophone separatists have been responsible for the destruction of Cameroonian Democracy by forcing people not to vote in a region that is critical for the sake of winning the election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally, this issue highlights one of the main points of IB Global Politics, human rights and justice. People are being forced to suffer on behalf of some corrupt politicians that don’t care about them. More obviously they are being literally killed for doing something that the government has asked them to do. Terrorists are killing people for just voting. People shouldn’t have to cower in fear at the thought of voting or at the thought of just walking around an urban area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Link to article: https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509030308.html Cameroon will be holding an election this October (2025), there are major concerns that this will be a fair and equal election due to civil unrest. 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