Scattered violence-marred Cameroon’s first-ever election to appoint regional councils on Sunday, with one voter killed by separatist insurgents in the English-speaking Northwest region.
President Paul Biya hopes the vote will appease critics who say he has long neglected the Central African country’s 10 regions, and end a four-year separatist insurgency in the west which has become the greatest threat to his near 40-year rule.