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...
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)...
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'...
Despite mounting calls for Paul Biya to end his 42-year-long reign, the Cameroonian president intends to run again this year, hoping to lead the Central African nation for another seven years...
He headed no unit of the Cameroonian armed forces nor did he even grace its highest ranks let alone did he earn President Paul Biya's eternal gratitude by rescuing him from some plot or other but Rear-Admiral Joseph Fouda was the most important military man of the last 20 years – nearly half the President's time in power...
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- FRANCE
- AFRICA
This overture was reinforced when the Cameroonian head of state Paul Biya was invited to address August's commemoration of the 1944 liberation landings in Provence...
It concluded that President Paul Biya's government's ‘political resolve has weakened'...
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Confusion and farce surround the health and whereabouts of 91-year-old President Paul Biya who state officials now say is on a private visit to Geneva but has not been seen for over a month...
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Paul Biya has not been seen in public since leaving Beijing on 8 September after attending the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC)...
Nji who is based in the prime minister's office and presides over the ruling party's strategy for the 2025 elections wants to pave the way for a comfortable victory for President Paul Biya or any handpicked successor...