Cameroon is holding its first-ever regional election, which the government says hands more power to the provinces but the opposition boycotts as a sham.
In Sunday’s indirect polls, a 24,000-strong electoral college made up of regional delegates and traditional chiefs will vote to fill the posts of 900 regional councillors – 90 for each of the country’s 10 regions – putting into action a 1996 law that promised a decentralised government but was never enacted.
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