{"id":254495,"date":"2025-10-27T12:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/254495\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T12:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:09:14","slug":"cameroons-president-paul-biya-declared-election-winner-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/254495\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon\u2019s President Paul Biya declared election winner | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published On 27 Oct 202527 Oct 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon\u2019s President Paul Biya, who has led the country since 1982, has won a re-election, according to official results.<\/p>\n<p>The Constitutional Council said on Monday the 92-year-old incumbent had secured 53.66 percent of the vote in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/12\/cameroon-votes-in-presidential-election-as-paul-biya-92-seeks-eighth-term\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 12 election<\/a>. Opposition candidate Issa Tchiroma received 35.19 percent, it added.<\/p>\n<p>Tchiroma, a former government spokesperson and minister in his late 70s, had claimed victory days before the announcement, citing results he said were collated by his party. Biya dismissed the claim.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, at least four people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/26\/two-killed-in-cameroon-protests-ahead-of-election-results-opposition-says\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were killed<\/a> in Cameroon\u2019s largest city, Douala, as security forces clashed with protesters when opposition supporters rallied to demand credible results.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published On 27 Oct 202527 Oct 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Cameroon\u2019s President&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-254495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}