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Cameroon: MRC condemns the abrupt interruption of a private meeting of its supporters in Bertoua
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Cameroon: MRC condemns the abrupt interruption of a private meeting of its supporters in Bertoua

From Journal du Cameroun · () French

Translated from French and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Cameroon’s opposition MRC said security forces interrupted a meeting of its supporters at a private residence in Bertoua on Aug. 30, 2026, on the orders of the local sub-prefect.
  • The party said gendarmes detained two federation officials without a warrant or formal procedure before releasing them under bond over an alleged undeclared public meeting.
  • The MRC called the intervention part of an “orchestrated escalation” against the party and cited several earlier disputes with the authorities.

Cameroon’s Movement for the Renaissance of Cameroon said about a dozen gendarmes surrounded a private home in Bertoua and abruptly dispersed a meeting of its supporters. The party said the gathering involved the MRC’s regional structures in the East and was stopped on the orders of Bertoua 2 sub-prefect Orfeo Benasconi Nkomo Mimbo’o.

Forcibly taken away without a warrant, without procedure, and without a state of emergency. They were placed under bond and released.

— Movement for the Renaissance of CameroonThe party described the detention and subsequent release of two regional officials after the meeting was interrupted.

The intervention also led to the detention of two party officials, according to the MRC: the secretary of its regional federation and the secretary of the Lom and Djerem departmental federation. The party said they were “Forcibly taken away without a warrant, without procedure, and without a state of emergency. They were placed under bond and released.” Authorities allegedly cited an undeclared public meeting as the reason for the arrests.

The events took place on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. The MRC disputes the classification of the gathering as a public meeting, arguing that such a meeting must take place in a public location or in a place open to the public. Since the gathering was held in a private residence, the party rejected the justification given for the intervention.

Act of state barbarism ordered by those in power

— Movement for the Renaissance of CameroonThe MRC used this phrase to condemn the dispersal of its meeting at a private residence.

The opposition party described the incident as an “Act of state barbarism ordered by those in power” and linked it to what it called an “orchestrated escalation” targeting the MRC. It cited the rejection of Maurice Kamto’s candidacy in the 2025 presidential election and the prohibition of the party’s first extraordinary national convention in November 2025 among the earlier actions it considers part of that escalation.

Orchestrated escalation

— Movement for the Renaissance of CameroonThe party linked the Bertoua intervention to a series of earlier actions it says targeted the opposition movement.
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