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...
In Cameroon President Paul Biya (who had similar problems in 1985) was playing host to Chirac's special representative Ambassador Ferdinand Wibaux; they too got on the line to Paris...
) The prosecutor alleged that Hughes had hoped to support the Cameroon Anglophone Movement and the Southern Cameroon People's Conference in their resistance to human rights abuses by President Paul Biya's government...