Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what conclusions, if any, they have drawn from the discrepancy in turn-out between the Anglophone and Francophone regions of Cameroon in the presidential elections on 7 October.

The African Union's Election Observation Mission found that violence affected polling in the Anglophone regions owing to fears about insecurity, intimidation by armed separatist groups, a call to boycott the election and the long distances and lack of transport available to reach the reduced number of polling stations. The Minister for Africa was concerned by reports of violence and casualties on polling day in Anglophone regions and by how difficult it was for citizens to vote there.