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...
Vol 65 No 25 |
- 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...
With every birthday – 13 February was his 91st – the succession to President Paul Biya draws nearer as does the intensity of the rivalry of the factions aiming to replace him...
Cameroon has had a worrying start to the year with President Paul Biya's four-decade-long dictatorship facing economic challenges that could turn political at a moment's notice...
President Paul Biya's 91st birthday falls in February and people are picking what they hope will be the winning side...
Political opposition to the presidency of Paul Biya has been marginalised not only by armed action by separatists but by the regime's increasing intolerance and emasculation of constitutional oppositionists...
A funeral which buried hope It was to little surprise that President Paul Biya engineered the late former Social Democratic Front leader John Fru Ndi's funeral to look like a victory lap over his arch rival...
The burial of Fru Ndi who had spent 26 years vainly fighting for power on an absurdly uneven electoral playing field symbolised for many the hopelessness of ever seeing an end to the rule of President Paul Biya...