The burial of Anicet Ekane — president of the Manidem party and prominent Cameroonian opposition leader who died in military detention in December 2025 — is scheduled for Saturday in his home village of Bomono, but bitter disputes have broken out between his biological family, his political allies, and his own party over control of the proceedings. The Manidem party and the MRC (the main opposition movement of Maurice Kamto) have both announced they will boycott the funeral, while Ekane's son Muna, appointed by a court to oversee the arrangements, has publicly appealed for calm, saying political scores should not be settled "above the coffin of an assassinated hero." Ekane was arrested in late October 2025 amid protests over the re-election of President Paul Biya and died on 1 December in circumstances that remain disputed, with his family's lawyers contesting an official autopsy ruling of natural causes and a government investigation still yielding no public conclusions.