Opinion: Elections in October may make dialogue even more difficult

By Jude Mutah In the lead up to the polls in October 2018, a political crisis is deepening in Cameroon. At 85, Paul Biya, president since 1982, plans to run for a seventh term. Having abolished presidential term limits in 2008, he is sure to be re-elected in the face of an opposition that is both weak and fractured For many Cameroonians, their fears transcend the looming electoral crisis. After decades of marginalization of its Anglophone communities, Cameroon risks civil war, with the country deeply and sharply polarized along linguistic and cultural fault lines – Francophone and Anglophone. Government repression…