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Africa-Press – Cameroun. <\/strong> <\/span>Depuis Banjul, ou\u0300 il s’est re\u0301fugie\u0301 apre\u0300s la pre\u0301sidentielle conteste\u0301e d’octobre 2025, Issa Tchiroma Bakary n’a pas renonce\u0301 a\u0300 se battre. Et la visite annonce\u0301e du pape Le\u0301on XIV au Cameroun lui offre une tribune internationale inattendue. Jeune Afrique a recueilli des e\u0301le\u0301ments ine\u0301dits sur la strate\u0301gie de l’opposant camerounais pour transformer cet e\u0301ve\u0301nement religieux en levier politique.<\/p>\n

Tout commence par les re\u0301sultats. Les chiffres valide\u0301s par le Conseil constitutionnel camerounais donnent 53,66 % des voix a\u0300 Paul Biya, contre 35,19 % a\u0300 Issa Tchiroma Bakary. Mais l’opposant, depuis son exil gambien, continue de revendiquer sa victoire avec 62,22 % des suffrages \u2014 un contre-re\u0301cit chiffre\u0301 que son camp entretient me\u0301thodiquement sur les re\u0301seaux sociaux et dans ses communications internationales.<\/p>\n

C’est dans ce contexte que la visite papale prend une dimension particulie\u0300re. Jeune Afrique a pu e\u0301tablir que les partisans de Tchiroma Bakary ont coordonne\u0301 une partie de leurs initiatives \u2014 lettre ouverte de \u00ab Project C \u00bb en novembre 2025, pe\u0301tition mise en ligne le 25 janvier 2026 \u2014 dans le cadre d’une strate\u0301gie plus large visant a\u0300 internationaliser la crise camerounaise. Le pape, figure morale mondiale, devient ainsi le destinataire ide\u0301al d’un plaidoyer que les chancelleries occidentales ont jusqu’ici largement ignore\u0301.<\/p>\n

L’e\u0301crivaine Calixthe Beyala, fer de lance culturel de l’opposition<\/p>\n

Proche de l’opposant en exil, l’e\u0301crivaine Calixthe Beyala a rejoint de\u0301but fe\u0301vrier le chorus des voix critiques contre la venue du souverain pontife. Sa prise de position ne rele\u0300ve pas du simple coup d’e\u0301clat: Jeune Afrique re\u0301ve\u0300le que Beyala s’est entretenue avec plusieurs personnalite\u0301s de la diaspora camerounaise en Europe dans les semaines pre\u0301ce\u0301dant sa de\u0301claration publique, dans le but de fe\u0301de\u0301rer un front culturel et intellectuel autour du rejet de la visite papale.<\/p>\n

La strate\u0301gie est claire: faire entendre la voix des opposants non plus seulement sur le plan juridique ou politique, mais aussi sur le terrain des symboles. En interpellant le pape, c’est l’image internationale de Paul Biya que le camp Tchiroma cherche a\u0300 ternir, a\u0300 un moment ou\u0300 le chef de l’E\u0301tat camerounais espe\u0300re pre\u0301cise\u0301ment que la visite pontificale lui confe\u0301rera un surcroi\u0302t de le\u0301gitimite\u0301.<\/p>\n

La pe\u0301tition lance\u0301e le 25 janvier 2026 de\u0301nonce un \u00ab re\u0301gime dictatorial \u00bb, avance le chiffre de plus de 40 morts depuis les e\u0301lections, et affirme que pre\u0300s de 2 000 personnes seraient encore de\u0301tenues. Ses re\u0301dacteurs appellent le pape a\u0300 ne pas se rendre au Cameroun, ou du moins a\u0300 \u00ab exiger la ve\u0301rite\u0301 \u00bb pluto\u0302t qu’a\u0300 \u00ab be\u0301nir les mensonges \u00bb.<\/p>\n

Mais Jeune Afrique a constate\u0301 que la pe\u0301tition peine a\u0300 de\u0301passer les cercles de\u0301ja\u0300 convaincus de la diaspora. Son impact sur la de\u0301cision du Vatican parai\u0302t, a\u0300 ce stade, limite\u0301. Les pre\u0301paratifs de la visite se poursuivent sans discontinuer, et aucun signal de Rome ne laisse pre\u0301sager un revirement.<\/p>\n

Pour Issa Tchiroma Bakary et ses soutiens, l’enjeu n’est peut-e\u0302tre plus d’empe\u0302cher la visite, mais de s’assurer que si le pape se rend a\u0300 Yaounde\u0301, il ne puisse pas e\u0302tre perc\u0327u comme un soutien tacite au re\u0301gime. Une bataille de communication que l’opposant en exil entend bien ne pas perdre, me\u0302me a\u0300 distance.<\/p>\n

Retrouvez plus d\u2019actualit\u00e9s et d\u2019analyses sur Cameroun<\/span> sur le site Africa Press<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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