00:00Cameroonian police using tear gas to disperse protesters in Douala, the country's largest city.
00:10Many young people took to the streets to protest what they describe as fraud in the presidential election.
00:21You can still hear tear gas canisters being fired by police. Protesters here have also
00:28thrown stone at police. I asked some of the people that came out to protest. They told me that they
00:33believe that their candidate, Issa Chiroma Bakari, won the Cameroonian presidential election for 2025,
00:40but this victory, according to them, has been stolen. You see, the youth are outside to reclaim
00:47their votes that have been stolen. I agree with them. We can clearly see that Issa Chiroma Bakari
00:55won the election, but the government denied that. Tensions have been rising in Cameroon
01:05since the release of preliminary results that put incumbent president Paul Bia ahead of opposition
01:13leader Issa Chiroma Bakari. Bia, 92, has ruled Cameroon since 1982 and is expected to win another
01:23seven-year term. He has become extremely unpopular in this central African country.
01:32Frankly, people are not happy. And they're right. Because we've been suffering for 43 years.
01:39It's not going well. Children are suffering. Educated youth have no jobs. We can't eat in Cameroon. We
01:46can't get treatment. We're fed up. More than two-thirds of Cameroonians are under the age of 30.
01:56Many young people are unemployed and have no prospects for the future. Some experts believe
02:03that these protests could spread if President Bia continues to cling to power.
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