More than 350 of them have been arrested while demonstrating for the release of opposition leader Maurice Kamto.

Octogenarian President Paul Biya has his hands full dealing with the disaffected Anglophone majority in his country.

Last week his police killed a four-month-old baby among protestors in the English-speaking west of Cameroon.

Now the police have turned on Francophone opponents of Biya, who has been in power for 35 years.

Maurice Kamto and scores of his supporters were arrested after he claimed victory in last October’s presidential election.

Those supporters are defying police, and risking death and injury, by taking to the streets of the capital Yaoundè demanding his release.

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