Overview
- Gambia said Issa Tchiroma Bakary arrived on November 7 and is being hosted temporarily “purely on humanitarian grounds,” a presence his spokesperson Alice Nkom also confirmed.
- Banjul announced consultations with regional partners including Nigeria to support a peaceful, negotiated outcome to Cameroon’s post-election tensions and pledged its territory will not be used for subversive activity.
- Cameroon’s government says it plans legal proceedings against Tchiroma over what it calls repeated calls for insurrection following his rejection of the official results and appeals for protests and “dead city” actions.
- Official tallies gave President Paul Biya 53.66% to Tchiroma’s roughly 35%, returning the 92-year-old leader to an eighth term after his November 6 swearing-in.
- Protest death tolls remain contested, with the government citing 16 fatalities, U.N. sources telling Reuters that security forces killed 48 civilians, and opposition and rights groups estimating more than 55.