The Cameroon Renaissance Movement (french: Mouvement pour la Renaissance du Cameroun, MRC) is a political party in

Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west- central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; th ...

History

The party was established in August 2012 by Maurice Kamto. It won a single seat in the 2013 parliamentary elections. Six members the MRC were arrested for distributing face masks and hand sanitizers in the capital,

Yaoundé Yaoundé (; , ) is the capital of Cameroon and, with a population of more than 2.8 million, the second-largest city in the country after the port city Douala. It lies in the Centre Region of the nation at an elevation of about 750 metres (2,50 ...

on May 12, 2020. The use of face masks was obligatory during the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified ...

. In December 2021, around thirty executives and activists from the MRC were sentenced to prison terms for insurrection and endangering state security. The party's first vice-president Alain Fogué and Kamto's spokesman Olivier Bibou Nissack received seven-year sentences.Cameroun: sept ans de prison pour des cadres du MRC
RFI, 27 December 2021

References

External links

Party website
{{Cameroonian political parties Political parties in Cameroon Political parties established in 2012 2012 establishments in Cameroon