Will this world's most aged leader keep the title and attract a country of young electorate?
The world's most aged leader - 92-year-old Paul Biya - has pledged Cameroon's electorate "the future holds promise" as he seeks his eighth straight term in office this weekend.
The elderly leader has stayed in office since 1982 - another 7-year mandate could see him rule for 50 years making him almost a century old.
Campaign Issues
He ignored numerous appeals to step down and has been criticised for making merely one rally, devoting much of the election season on a 10-day personal visit to Europe.
Criticism concerning his reliance on an computer-generated election advertisement, as his opponents actively wooed supporters in person, saw him rush north after coming back.
Young Population and Joblessness
Consequently for the vast majority of the people, Biya remains the sole leader they remember - over 60% of Cameroon's 30 million residents are under the 25 years old.
Young advocate Marie Flore Mboussi urgently wants "new blood" as she maintains "prolonged leadership naturally results in a kind of inertia".
"With 43 years passed, the citizens are exhausted," she declares.
Young people's joblessness has been a particular discussion topic for most of the contenders running in the vote.
Almost 40% of youthful Cameroonians between 15 and 35 are without work, with twenty-three percent of young graduates encountering difficulties in obtaining official jobs.
Rival Candidates
Apart from young people's job issues, the voting procedure has also stirred debate, particularly regarding the disqualification of a political rival from the presidential race.
His exclusion, upheld by the Constitutional Council, was generally denounced as a strategy to prevent any significant opposition to the current leader.
Twelve contenders were authorized to vie for the country's top job, featuring a former minister and another former ally - the two former Biya associates from the northern region of the nation.
Election Challenges
Within the nation's Anglophone North-West and South-West regions, where a extended separatist conflict continues, an poll avoidance closure has been established, halting economic functions, transport and education.
Insurgents who have enforced it have threatened to attack people who participates.
Starting four years ago, those attempting to establish a breakaway state have been clashing with state security.
The fighting has so far killed at minimum six thousand lives and forced approximately half a million others from their homes.
Election Results
After Sunday's vote, the Constitutional Council has two weeks to declare the findings.
The interior minister has already warned that no candidate is authorized to announce winning prior to official results.
"Those who will seek to declare outcomes of the political race or any self-proclaimed victory against the rules of the republic would have violated boundaries and must prepare to encounter retaliatory measures appropriate for their violation."
