President Paul Biya, the world’s oldest leader, sets February 7 for Cameroon’s delayed legislative and local polls.

Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has announced that legislative and local elections will be held in the country on February 7 next year.

Biya, who is 93, made the announcement in a decree read on public radio on Monday.

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The decree comes at a tense moment for Cameroon, with authorities cracking down on the opposition, roughly a year after an election that handed Biya another term.

Biya, who has ruled Cameroon since 1982, is the world’s oldest head of state.

His re-election in October last year set off widespread protests that the authorities met with a violent crackdown.

Lawyers cited by Human Rights Watch said…