A high-profile critic of Cameroon's long-running President Paul Biya has been excluded by electoral authorities from the list of approved candidates able to run in an October 12 presidential vote.

YAOUNDE, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Elections Cameroon (Elecam), the country's electoral body, on Saturday announced that it has provisionally approved 13 candidates out of 83 who applied to run in the ...

Maurice Kamto's exclusion leaves just 12 out of more than 80 applicants hoping to replace the 92-year-old Biya in the field.