Paul Atanga Nji said shops selling motorcycles without plates will be closed and owners prosecuted, at a meeting in Yaounde on 26 October 2026. No decree, penalty or start date has been published.
President Paul Biya's circular of 12 October 2026 sets the guidelines for the 2027 finance law, while Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute told regional leaders in Bamenda to keep contact with armed groups. The brief of 25 October 2026 had named three electoral indicators to watch; none has been published.
Cyrille Atonfack Guemo marked 10 years since the start of the Anglophone crisis by arguing that armed separatist groups are predatory rather than emancipatory. He made the case in an editorial broadcast on state radio.
Developing. The first deputy mayor of Bamenda was shot at while driving to the council offices. The attackers have not been identified.