- Vol 54 No 10
- 10th May 2013
President Paul Biya has now appointed 30 Senators, bringing the new parliamentary upper house to its full complement of 100. Elections on 14 April – by an electoral college of local councillors whose terms had already expired – had already seen Biya’s Ras...
- Vol 54 No 7
- 29th March 2013
After 17 years, President Paul Biya has now decided to hold elections for a national senate on 14 April. The new body will have no real powers but may be a suitable berth for Biya's son, Franck Emmanuel Olivier Biya.
- Vol 54 No 2
- 18th January 2013
After 30 years in in charge, the President seems as secure as ever. Yet worries are growing that his legacy will be a political vacuum
- Vol 54 No 2
- 18th January 2013
One person who is never spoken of as a successor to President Paul Biya is his son Franck Biya, who is not a member of the ruling party and has never held political office or been in the army. Yet his father’s advisors and officials are attempting to lim...
- Vol 53 No 16
- 3rd August 2012
The President was enraged by a massive fraud at the national airline but has been biding his time before taking his revenge
- Vol 53 No 16
- 3rd August 2012
In 2001, President Paul Biya said he wanted a new presidential aircraft to replace his predecessor's ageing machine. However, since Cameroon was then applying for inclusion in the Highly Indebted Poor Countries Initiative of the World Bank and Internatio...
- Vol 52 No 22
- 4th November 2011
President Paul Biya’s sixth – and surely final – election on 9 October was marked by a dearth of congratulatory messages from fellow heads of government. Neighbour President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba of Gabon bucked the trend while the United States prodded o...
- Vol 52 No 20
- 7th October 2011
Paul Biya heads for almost certain victory over a fractured and uninspiring opposition, leaving voters more apathetic than indignant
- Vol 52 No 20
- 7th October 2011
At dawn on 29 September, a group of soldiers shot into
the air on the bridge across the River Wouri that links central Douala
with the industrial suburb of Bonabéri. They unfurled a banner calling
for an end to President Paul Biya’s rule, said local me...
- Vol 52 No 2
- 21st January 2011
Ayah Paul Abine, the Rassemblement démocratique du peuple camerounais member of parliament for Akaya, Manyu Division of South West Region, has quit the ruling RDPC, claiming he fears for his life and for his family’s safety (AC Vol 52 No 1).