Paul Biya (Paul Barthélemy Biya'a bi Mvondo)

So there will be a welcome if few favours for the African leaders who claim to be Chirac's friends notably Presidents Omar Bongo (Gabon) Gnassingbé Eyadéma (Togo) Lansana Conté (Guinea) Paul Biya (Cameroon) and Denis Sassou-Nguesso once lauded by Chirac as the man to hold Congo-Brazzaville together (AC Vol 42 No 25)...

A Kenyan academic Michael Chege linked poverty to authoritarianism theft of state resources and commissions on contracts under regimes such as those of Cameroon's Paul Biya Gabon's Omar Bongo Kenya's Daniel arap Moi Togo's Gnassingbé Eyadéma and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe...

Yet travelling without his wife Bernadette he spent the long state banquet at the Etoudi Palace on 18 January flanked by the Cameroonian presidential couple and found conversation with President Paul Biya's wife Chantal Biya some forty years his junior something of a strain we hear...

Cameroon's extraordinary national football team the Indomitable Lions has done President Paul Biya some big favours...

That will depend on politics: specifically the military opposition to Chadian President Colonel Idriss Déby and the corruption and mismanagement surrounding Paul Biya's government in Yaoundé (named the world's most corrupt government in 1998 by anti-graft lobby Transparency International)...

Robinson was a deputy to Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker during Ronald Reagan's reign then joined a lobby firm whose clients included the Nigerian government of General Sani Abacha Gnassingbé Eyadéma's regime in Togo and Paul Biya's in Cameroon...

Robinson was a deputy to Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker during Ronald Reagan's reign then joined a lobby firm whose clients included the Nigerian government of General Sani Abacha Gnassingbé Eyadéma's regime in Togo and Paul Biya's in Cameroon...

Moi and others like him such as Cameroon's President Paul Biya inherited a one-party system which more or less successfully managed ethnic rivalries...

In Cameroon President Paul Biya's coalition government which includes the ruling Rassemblement Démocratique du Peuple Camerounais the northern-based Union Nationale pour la Dé mocratie et le Progrès and the Union des Populations Camerounaises is working relatively smoothly for now...

Also under suspicion according to the document are Guinean President Lansana Conté and Cameroonian President Paul Biya for their ambivalence towards Sassou...