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This world's oldest leader - 92-year-old Paul Biya - has promised the nation's electorate "better days are ahead" as he seeks his eighth consecutive term in office on Sunday.

The nonagenarian has stayed in power since 1982 - an additional 7-year term could keep him in power for 50 years until he will be almost a century old.

Election Controversies

He resisted broad demands to leave office and has been criticised for making merely a single campaign event, using the majority of the political race on a week-and-a-half unofficial journey to Europe.

A backlash regarding his use of an computer-generated election advertisement, as his rivals actively wooed voters directly, led to his hurried travel to the northern region after coming back.

Young Voters and Joblessness

This indicates for the great bulk of the citizenry, Biya is the only president they experienced - above sixty percent of the nation's thirty million inhabitants are younger than the 25 years old.

Young advocate Marie Flore Mboussi is desperate for "new blood" as she thinks "prolonged leadership naturally results in a kind of laziness".

"Following four decades, the citizens are tired," she states.

Employment challenges for youth has been a notable discussion topic for nearly all the contenders participating in the election.

Nearly forty percent of young residents aged from 15 and 35 are without work, with twenty-three percent of college-educated youth experiencing problems in obtaining regular work.

Opposition Contenders

Apart from young people's job issues, the voting procedure has created dispute, especially with the exclusion of an opposition leader from the leadership competition.

The disqualification, confirmed by the Constitutional Council, was broadly condemned as a strategy to stop any strong challenge to the incumbent.

A dozen aspirants were approved to contest for the country's top job, including an ex-government official and another former ally - each previous Biya allies from the northern region of the nation.

Election Challenges

In Cameroon's English-speaking North-West and South-West areas, where a long-running separatist conflict persists, an voting prohibition closure has been imposed, halting economic functions, travel and schooling.

Rebel groups who have imposed it have promised to attack people who participates.

Beginning in 2017, those working toward a independent territory have been battling official military.

The conflict has to date resulted in at minimum 6k individuals and caused nearly 500,000 people from their residences.

Election Results

After Sunday's vote, the legal body has 15 days to reveal the outcome.

The security chief has already warned that no aspirant is authorized to declare victory prior to official results.

"Candidates who will try to declare outcomes of the presidential election or any unofficial win announcement against the regulations of the nation would have crossed the red line and need to be prepared to encounter retaliatory measures commensurate to their violation."