Two weeks before the legislative and local elections on 30 September the ruling Rassemblement démocratique du peuple camerounais (RDPC) has caused a shock by recruiting Aminatou Ahidjo youngest daughter of Founding President Ahmadou Ahidjo President Paul Biya's predecessor...
Twice postponed the elections are now scheduled for 30 September President Paul Biya announced on 15 July...
President Paul Biya's sixth presidential election in October 2011 in which he took 78% of the vote was widely criticised as unfair and corrupt by among many others France and the United States...
President Paul Biya has now appointed 30 Senators bringing the new parliamentary upper house to its full complement of 100 (AC Vol 54 No 7 Biya's second house)...
After 17 years President Paul Biya has now decided to hold elections for a national senate on 14 April...
In November President Paul Biya was conspicuous by his absence from any of his supporters’ nationwide celebrations of his 30 years in power...
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...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 6 |
- CAMEROON
- CHINA
President Paul Biya made the completion of landmark projects such as the Mbalam mine and its associated infrastructure the main plank of his 2011 presidential election campaign...
Benguigui said that Hollande’s absence would be taken as offensive by ‘African friends’ like Presidents Ali Ben Bongo of Gabon and Paul Biya of Cameroon whose elections were also both tainted by fraud...
Many think the motive for the trial is President Paul Biya's belief that Marafa is a political threat...
