The president of the Front for National Salvation of Cameroon is still in Adama Barrow’s country, which has been hosting him since 07 November 2026.
Nothing at the moment justifies the end of the stay of the Cameroonian opponent Issa Tchiroma Bakary on Gambian soil. Received in this country on 07 November 2025 and hosted since then under the watch of the Gambian government, the opponent of the Yaoundé regime is still there in exile. The imminence of his departure for the United States of America announced last 16 February via a press release declared false by the government is not on the agenda. According to this document confirmed as fake by the Ministry of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services, the Gambian government had granted a period of three months to the Cameroonian politician to stay on its territory. This time having elapsed, measures are being taken for the opponent to find refuge in the United States. According to the document, he should go there.
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But, while the news occupies cyberspace, the Gambian government made a statement on 18 February to issue a denial. The aforementioned ministry specifies that the document in circulation dated Monday 16 February does not emanate from it as claimed. This ministerial department then clarifies that it has not produced such a document nor mandated anyone to do so. Consequently, the said press release contains only false information.
For the moment, the national president of the FSNC remains hosted in Gambia, steering and following from there the activities of his party related in particular to national political life. In recent days, the public read his message addressed to Muslim and Christian faithful on the occasion of the simultaneous start of the Ramadan fast and the Christian Lent in Cameroon. Before that, the former minister intervened, along with his supporters, to deny the appointment of a new spokesperson to replace Me Alice Nkom.
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Faced with this series of false news, the general secretariat of the central committee of the FSNC made a statement on 17 February to denounce the action of “shadowy organizations” attempting to “hinder a dynamic of change that is now irreversible.” The party body “denounces with the greatest vigor this campaign of systematic disinformation and fake news whose sole purpose is to create an illusory trouble within public opinion,” as stated in the communication from the party’s central committee.
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