A 45-year-old law passed by Cameroon's first President Ahmadou Ahidjo prohibits the National Assembly from scrutinising the so-called 'sovereignty budgets' - the budgets of the Presidency of services attached to the Presidency and of Defence...
The army has been rife with suspicion since the failure of a bloody coup attempt in 1984 allegedly sponsored by Cameroon's first President Ahmadou Ahidjo who had voluntarily handed power to Biya in 1982...
Whatever his plans he must hope for a better retirement than that of President Ahmadou Ahidjo who went into exile after Biya accused him of plotting a coup in 1983...
Biya owes his hold on power to a north-south (or Peul-Béti) alliance of the same kind used by the country's first President Ahmadou Ahidjo and the northern vote is key to giving him another seven-year term as President...
President Paul Biya fears a similar fate to Cameroon's first President Ahmadou Ahidjo who died in exile...
Vol 41 No 1 |
- CENTRAL AFRICA
The body of Cameroon's first President Ahmadou Ahidjo (who was implicated in an attempted coup in 1984) is to be flown home and given a state burial in Garoua the north's political capital...
Samuel Eboua a Sawa of 69 was Presidency Secretary General under Ahmadou Ahidjo...
Until Biya took power in November 1992 Ayissi was regarded as President Ahmadou Ahidjo's most likely successor...
Biya's supporters also exploited fears among the Beti that if the UNDP won it would settle tribal scores arising from an attempted coup by ex-President Ahmadou Ahidjo's followers in 1984...
A political bruiser from the Ahmadou Ahidjo era Mvodo lost out in the struggle with Biya for the presidency in 1982...