On 4 September President Paul Biya returned from his customary holiday at Geneva's Intercontinental Hotel to find ruling party politicians accusing each other of being in league with Boko Haram...
He brought 'good news' he told the press that Françoise-Agnès Ali wife of the top minister and confidant of President Paul Biya Ahmadou Ali and other hostages were safe and well (AC Vol 55 No 17 Biya's answer to Boko Haram)...
As further details emerge about Boko Haram's 27 July attempt to capture Amadou Ali one of President Paul Biya's top ministers and confidants questions remain about the adequacy of the government's response...
When Boko Haram kidnapped one of the wives of a Deputy Prime Minister on 27 July killing 16 people in the process it also unleashed the latent competition for the succession to President Paul Biya and caused him one of the most serious embarrassments of his 32-year reign...
Yet to the frustration of human rights and anti-corruption campaigners some of whom held demonstrations outside the State Department for the duration of the summit other long-stay leaders such as Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Congo-Brazzaville's Denis Sassou-Nguesso Cameroon's Paul Biya Uganda's Yoweri Museveni and Burkina Faso's Blaise Compaoré were accorded full diplomatic honours and more discreetly feted by local business groups and lobbyists...
Paris was anxious for relations to improve between Déby Sassou and Cameroon's President Paul Biya (although Biya was not represented at the Luanda mini-summit)...
His fellow leaders especially Cameroon's Paul Biya looked markedly less enthusiastic about the prospect of total war in the region...
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Cameroon's Paul Biya looked at ease along with other leaders meeting Belgian King Philippe I at the royal palace...
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Bozizé's involvement also constitutes a message from President Paul Biya of Cameroon...
Vol 54 No 22 |
- CAMEROON
- VATICAN
President Paul Biya saw Pope Francis on 18 October to re-affirm Biya's officials said ‘the longstanding perfect communion between Yaoundé and Rome'...
