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Cameroon

Paul Biya (Paul Barthélemy Biya'a bi Mvondo)

Date of Birth: 13 February 1933
Place of Birth: Mvomeka'a, Cameroon


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To the victor the spoiled ballot

Citizens of Cameroon's main conurbations are bracing themselves as unrest spreads in the wake of the efforts by President Paul Biya and his ruling Rassemblement Démocratique du Peuple Camerounais (RDPC) to publish forged return sheets from polling stations...

Paul Biya we hear then overruled a further attempt by Paul Atanga Nji his zealous minister of territorial administration to make another arrest attempt...


Splits appear in Biya regime’s façade

The previously confident guardians of Paul Biya's presidency are looking concerned as they absorb the impact of the defection of two previously dependable even crucial allies – Bello Bouba Maïgari and Issa Tchiroma Bakary...


Biya’s reforms hint at succession plan

Top regime advisors are at work on reforms designed to broaden representation and increase the accountability of government through more parliamentary seats and new posts according to sources close to President Paul Biya's government...


Security falls apart as Biya totters

The collapsing security system in Cameroon is seriously threatening 92-year-old President Paul Biya's regime in what many in Yaoundé say is its twilight period...

The militant Anglophone resistance with which President Paul Biya refuses to negotiate is driving migration to the US and Europe...


Biya’s grip in question ahead of the October elections

Assuming he wins elections expected in October by the end of his next term Cameroonian President Paul Biya will be 99 years old...

At the ceremony activists and backers rallied around Biya's candidacy under the theme: ‘…standing tall behind President Paul Biya in championing peace unity and democracy'...

‘Another candidacy of Paul Biya for the 2025 elections is not realistic ' the Archbishop Samuel Kleda of the Roman Catholic Church in Douala said late last year in a high-profile intervention...


Anglophone separatists’ campaign reaches bloody stalemate

Sympathy for Cho 52 has been lacking in places normally sympathetic to liberation movements because ADF tactics increasingly rely on kidnapping murder and intimidation of civilians accused of collaboration with the government of President Paul Biya...


Economic hits before and after votes

They acknowledge that the president is under pressure from protégés in and around the ruling Rassemblement des houphouëtistes pour la démocratie et la paix (RHDP) who see his continued rule as their best defence against any new government's anti-corruption campaigns – but wonder whether a man so aware of the high international regard in which he is held and assured of a prestigious retirement role will really want to be viewed through the same lens as Cameroon's Paul Biya (AC Vol 64 No 22 Biya circles the wagons)...


Ambazonia bets on Trump

It will also ‘educate' US officials about the ‘gross human rights abuses and crimes against humanity against the people of Ambazonia as well as more broadly all the crime and abuses perpetrated during the decades-long dictatorship of Paul Biya'...


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