Chantal Biya

On 2 March Biya and his wife Chantal Biya made a surprise visit to Magrabi ICO eye hospital at Oback on the outskirts of the capital Yaoundé...

Chantal Biya is the godmother of the Nanga axis...

Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh the head of the presidential office who hails from Minta the same area as Chantal Biya has been murmuring to diplomats for about five years now that he is next in line...

Chantal Biya got her husband to appoint him Secretary-General of the Presidency in 2011 and used him to limit the influence of now-deceased Martin Belinga-Eboutou the President's close confidant and Director of the Civil Cabinet from 2009 until 2018 shortly before his terminal illness...

Biya brought to St Petersburg his wife Chantal Biya his would-be successor his son Franck Biya and nine ministers...

He has some sway over the army and is very close to First Lady Chantal Biya and normally oversees movements in the army for the president...

After reports in the French daily Le Monde that the First Couple's European holiday was spent on medical treatment in Switzerland (him) and France (her the flamboyant Chantal Biya) Communications Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary once a northern oppositionist denounced foreign attempts to undermine the state...

Biya has three children one with the late Jeanne Irène two with his present wife Chantal Biya...

His young wife Chantal Biya adds to his playboy reputation; he enjoys property foreign holidays and hobnobbing with the likes of French President Jacques Chirac...

Yet travelling without his wife Bernadette he spent the long state banquet at the Etoudi Palace on 18 January flanked by the Cameroonian presidential couple and found conversation with President Paul Biya's wife Chantal Biya some forty years his junior something of a strain we hear...

Martin Eboutou Belinga will control the civil list and the President's discretionary funds as Director of the Civil Cabinet; his deputy will be Antoine Zanga whose niece Chantal Biya is Biya's second wife...