Paul Biya (Paul Barthélemy Biya'a bi Mvondo)

Cameroon for example will continue to look to Paris for backing in aid and debt negotiations despite chilly relations with President Paul Biya which are not helped by continuing political jitters...

In 1992 the dead included Sultan Njiemolou Njoya of Bamoun a stalwart of the ruling Rassemblement Démocratique du Peuple Camerounais and confidant of President Paul Biya; First Lady Jeanne-Irène Biya; and presidential aide-de-camp Commandant Roger Motaze...

President Paul Biya and his Rassemblement Démocratique du Peuple Camerounais (RDPC) look likely to get away with another flawed election...

On Zaïre and on other issues Nigeria Sudan and Kenya make common cause with Mobutu's Francophone allies: Gabon's President Omar Bongo; Congo's President Pascal Lissouba Cameroon's President Paul Biya; Côte d'Ivoire's President Henri Konan-Bédié; Chad's President Idriss Déby; Niger's President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara; and the mother of Francophone allies France's President Jacques Chirac...

Also set to win their national elections this year are Presidents Daniel arap Moi in Kenya and Paul Biya in Cameroon...

The idea of good governance is not however necessarily welcome to rulers such as Paul Biya of drifting Cameroon...

Managing Mobutu was the central question at a mini-summit on 29 October organised by President Jacques Chirac at the Elysée Palace and attended by Gabon' s President Omar Bongo and Cameroon' s Paul Biya...

Later this month Paul Biya will stand for nomination as presidential candidate at the congress of the ruling Rassemblement Démocratique du Peuple Camérounais...

Paul Biya's glamorous young wife Francesco Smalto suits and frequent private trips to Europe may suggest a political playboy...

We hear that French Cooperation Minister Jacques Godfrain made a lightning escale in Yaoundé (between trips to Niger and Chad) to stress French support for Boutros helped by host Paul Biya...