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Paul Biya (Paul Barthélemy Biya'a bi Mvondo)

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


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Border blues

President Paul Biya failed to dampen down the row at a Communauté Economique et Monétaire de l'Afrique Centrale summit in late June in Malabo...


Exeunt sojas

Much was read into the absence of some of Nigeria's neighbours - Presidents Charles Taylor of Liberia and Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso (both of whom Nigeria accuses of backing the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone) plus President Paul Biya from Cameroon whose country continues to pursue claims against Abuja for the Bakassi Peninsula...


Twilight Zone

Under President Paul Biya's idiosyncratic economic regime Yaoundé has been slow to ratify CEMAC regulations...


Kicking off

Those of course include Hayatou's native Cameroon whose President Paul Biya is still close to President Jacques Chirac and can be relied upon to ensure that the Cameroon Football Association Chairman toes the party line...


Rethink

Cameroon's Paul Biya is a particular source of frustration...


Big men, big countries, big hopes

And after their hotly disputed poll victories late last year Kenya and Cameroon's Big Men rulers Daniel arap Moi and Paul Biya have to contend with feisty parliaments where some 50 per cent of the representatives are oppositionists...


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Mini-Mobutu okay?

In Cameroon Paul Biya retained the presidency after a dubious poll...


Bongo's beanfeast

Enough political leaders were present to make the summit look convincing but the absentees as well as Nigeria's General Sani Abacha Congo-Kinshasa's Laurent Kabila and Sudan's Omar el Beshir included Paul Biya of Cameroon (busy forming a government) Ben Mkapa of Tanzania (at his party's congress) and regional kingpins Daniel arap Moi of Kenya Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Nelson Mandela of South Africa...


Biya's bad joke

The only surprise was the scale of the victory claimed for President Paul Biya...


No show

Each leader regards himself as the ideal consensus candidate to beat President Paul Biya...


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