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Travel Ban on Issa Tchiroma Sparks Fierce Storm in Cameroon

On 31 July 2025, Cameroonian presidential candidate Issa Tchiroma Bakary was barred from flying to Senegal at Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport. Tchiroma, who leads the Front for the National Salvation of Cameroon (FSNC) party, was accompanied by his daughter. The pair intended to visit the grave of former president Ahmadou Ahidjo in Dakar. Eyewitnesses and local media report that airport officials told Tchiroma he could not travel, citing …

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Former Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary wanted to go to Senegal to gather on the grave of Cameroon's first president, Ahmadou Ahidjo.

·Paris, France
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The president of the Front pour le Salvation national du Cameroun questions the objectives of this ban ordered since the state summit. Issa Chiroma Bakary, candidate of the Front pour le Salvation national du Cameroun (FSNC), could not get out of the country on 31 July 2025 to go to the tomb of Ahmadou Ahidjo, the first president of Cameroon, whose remains lie in Senegal. He was stopped net at the international airport of Yaoundé Nsimalen. He wa…

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A candidate declared in the presidential election of 12 October 2025, Issa Tchiroma Bakary was prevented from leaving the national territory this morning at Nsimalen International Airport. The president of the Front pour le Salut National du Cameroun (FSCN) was preparing to embark for Dakar, Senegal's capital, as part of a private trip during which he intended to gather on the graves of the Ahidjo family, who had died in exile. For him, this dis…

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camer.be broke the news in on Thursday, July 31, 2025.
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