President Paul Biya has been in power since 1982 and the 1997 constitution allows him two more seven-year terms...
President Paul Biya fears a similar fate to Cameroon's first President Ahmadou Ahidjo who died in exile...
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...
Vol 42 No 3 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
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...
Vol 41 No 14 |
- CAMEROON
- CHAD
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...