Although Anglophone General Yenwo has been Biya's unflinching ally ever since he saved Biya from the 1984 coup that aimed to put Cameroon's first president Ahmadou Ahidjo back in the presidential palace (AC Vol 41 No 20 Pride of lions)...
Officers supporting the founding president Ahmadou Ahidjo launched a coup against Biya after the two leaders fell out...
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He will know that relatives of his late boss President Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo are still trying to repatriate the Founding President's remains from Dakar Senegal where he died in 1989...
Two weeks before the legislative and local elections on 30 September the ruling Rassemblement démocratique du peuple camerounais (RDPC) has caused a shock by recruiting Aminatou Ahidjo youngest daughter of Founding President Ahmadou Ahidjo President Paul Biya's predecessor...
In a matter of few days Déby detained two generals Weiding Assi Assoué and David Ngomine Beadmadji; one colonel Ngaro Ahmadou Ahidjo; three members of parliament Mahamat Malloum Kadré Saleh Makki and Gali Gatta Ngothé; two journalists the Deutsche Welle correspondent and head of the journalists’ union Eric Topona and the Editor-in-Chief of the weekly Abba Garde Moussaye Avenir de la Tchiré...
Weiding was Minister of Defence in 2000-01; his colleague Beadmadji was in charge of military cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs while Ngaro Ahmadou Ahidjo was Governor of the Salamat Region between 2008 and 2013...
Biya’s refusal to allow greater pluralism has its roots say local observers in the 1984 coup attempt apparently masterminded by his predecessor Ahmadou Ahidjo (AC Vol 49 No 24 Biya's grip & Master political survivor)...
’ Correction: In AC Vol 52 No 1 ‘To Biya or not to Biya’ we said Cameroon’s President Ahmadou Ahidjo was from the south...
The previous President (1960-82) Ahmadou Ahidjo was from the north...
He listened to his aides' advice until 1984 when a failed coup d'etat was sponsored apparently by former President Ahmadou Ahidjo...
The former first lady Germaine Ahidjo widow of Cameroon's first President recently admitted in a rare interview that her Muslim husband Ahmadou Ahidjo made mistakes during his 26 years as President but the most grievous was to hand over power to his Christian Prime Minister Paul Biya...