Cameroon's President Paul Biya has been re-elected for an eighth term that could keep him in office until he is nearly 100.
Biya, 92, the world's oldest president, has been declared the winner of the central African country's latest election.
Clashes with security forces in Cameroon left at least four protesters dead ahead of Monday's announcement as opposition supporters rallied to demand credible results.
But the Constitutional Council said he received 53.66% of votes while former ally-turned challenger Issa Tchiroma Bakary got 35.19%.
"Hereby proclaimed President-elect: the candidate Biya Paul," said Clement Atangana, president of the Constitutional Council.
Serving all of his next term would make him 99 by the time of the next election and would mean he would be in power for 50 years.
Biya took office in 1982 and has held a tight grip on power ever since, doing away with the presidential term limit in 2008 and winning reelection in the counry of nearly 30million people.
This year his strongest challenge came from Issa Tchiroma Bakary, a former government spokesperson and employment minister in his late 70s who broke ranks with Biya earlier this year and mounted a campaign that drew large crowds and endorsements from a coalition of opposition parties and civic groups.
