Cameroon conducted regional elections on Sunday with residents voting for the first time for members of the country’s upper House of legislature.

Local representatives voted to appoint councils in all 10 regions made up of delegates and traditional rulers.

It puts into action a 1996 law that promised decentralised government but was never enacted.

Since 2016, the regions which comprise Cameroon’s minority Anglophone area have been in conflict with the central French-speaking government over growing requirements to use French in the legal and education systems.

But opponents say the vote offers only the semblance of regional autonomy, and comes too late to fix the conflict.

Journalist King Agborem tells us about Sunday’s polls.