Yet as President Paul Biya’s regime creaks towards presidential elections in October 2011 the security situation is deteriorating with more attacks in Bakassi and in the economic capital Douala...
The death of journalist Germain Cyrille ‘Bibi’ Ngota Ngota in the notorious Kondengui maximum security prison has caused outrage in Cameroon and abroad and could prompt political change in President Paul Biya’s ailing regime...
At each stop Jia sought to build ties with presidents and legislative leaders: Paul Biya and National Assembly President Cavayé Djibril in Cameroon Hifikepunye Pohamba and National Council Chair Asser Kapere in Namibia and Jacob Zuma and National Council of Provinces Chair Mninwa Mahlangu in South Africa...
Vol 50 No 13 |
- GABON
- FRANCE
Yet no current leader - Presidents Laurent Gbagbo Paul Biya Blaise Compaoré or Denis Sassou-Nguesso - can fulfil the role pioneered by Côte d'Ivoire's President Félix Houphouët-Boigny and continued by the 'Grand Camarade'...
A similar commission for Cameroon has been resisted every step of the way by President Paul Biya and his ruling Rassemblement Démocratique du Peuple Camerounais (RDPC)...
Vol 50 No 1 |
- CENTRAL AFRICA
CAMEROON: Political and economic drift Speculation about President Paul Biya’s political staying power will increase in 2009 just two years before the next presidential election...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 12 |
- CAMEROON
- ASIA
Despite popular involvement in farming Cameroon is about 70% dependent on food imports with the high costs leading to protests and violence targeting the regime of President Paul Biya in 2008...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 4 |
- CHINA
- AFRICA
- BRIEFING
Written by local journalists and a regular Xinhua contributor Raphaël Mvogo the piece blames President Paul Biya and the corrupt leaders and bureaucrats around him for some of these failures...
Following in the footsteps of Namibia’s President Sam Nujoma and Cameroon’s President Paul Biya President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has joined the roster of African presidents who have persuaded their parliaments to end or extend the constitutional limits on the number of terms a president may serve...
Twenty-six years in power do not explain the grip on Cameroon of Paul Biya and his ethnic clique...