Cameroon Renaissance Movement

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

Cameroon Renaissance Movement Mouvement pour la Renaissance du Cameroun
President	Maurice Kamto
Founded	August 2012
Headquarters	Yaoundé
Seats in the National Assembly	0 / 180
Website
Party website
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History

The party was established in August 2012 by Maurice Kamto.^[1] It won a single seat in the 2013 parliamentary elections.^[2]

Six members the MRC were arrested for distributing face masks and hand sanitizers in the capital, Yaoundé on May 2020.^[3] The use of face masks was obligatory during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.^[4]