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africanews
April 29, 2018
In September 2017, Cameroon president Paul Biya made the Congo Basin a key part of his address to the United Nations General Assembly. “For Africa, there are two major challenges. Firstly, ongoing forest degradation in Central Africa. Let us save the Congo Basin, the earth's second lung. “Secondly, theÃâà...
News24
April 29, 2018
... a fifth of the population, stepped up a campaign for greater autonomy. President Paul Biya rejected their demands, prompting radicals to make a full-blown declaration of independence last October. * Sign up to News24's top Africa news in your inbox: SUBSCRIBE TO THE HELLO AFRICA NEWSLETTER.
AllAfrica.com
April 21, 2018
Hereunder is a press release from the Prime Minister's Office. The Prime Minister, Head of Government, Mr Philemon Yang is representing the President of the Republic H.E. Paul Biya at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit, (GHOGM), from the 18th to 20th of April 2018 in London, UnitedÃâà...
africanews
April 21, 2018
After holding what he described as important talks with the Premier who represented President Paul Biya, Johnson added: “Urgent need to pursue dialogue, decentralisation and respect human rights in Anglophone Regions as President Paul Biya has previously committed. “ He stressed that the UK willÃâà...
African Arguments
April 18, 2018
On the podium for the World's Longest-Serving President, Paul Biya currently holds the silver medal. At an impressive 35-plus years in office, the Cameroonian leader's ability to keep hold of power over the decades has been remarkable – perhaps all the more so because of how little he actually exercises itÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 11, 2018
While presenting the motion of support on behalf of traditional rulers of the Littoral Region, Chief Salomon Madiba Songue, President of NGONDO and Paramount ruler of the Bakokos, said President Paul Biya is the man who can bring solutions to the worries of Douala in particular and the Littoral Region inÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 11, 2018
While presenting the motion of support on behalf of traditional rulers of the Littoral Region, Chief Salomon Madiba Songue, President of NGONDO and Paramount ruler of the Bakokos, said President Paul Biya is the man who can bring solutions to the worries of Douala in particular and the Littoral Region inÃâà...
Cameroon Radio Television
April 7, 2018
The President of the Republic, Paul Biya has signed three decrees appointing new administrative officials in the South West region and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development. He also enacted into law four bills adopted during the March parliamentary session.
Business in Cameroon
March 30, 2018
(Business in Cameroon) - During Paul Biya's state visit in China on March 22-24, 2018, Cameroon secured five cooperation agreements. These are namely an economic and technical cooperation agreement between China and Cameroon, a MoU on the development of human resources and one for anÃâà...
MFA China
March 26, 2018
On March 22, 2018, President Xi Jinping held talks with President Paul Biya of Cameroon at the Great Hall of the People. The two heads of state agreed to give full play to such advantages as the profound foundation of the friendship and great potential for cooperation between the two countries, so as toÃâà...
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
March 25, 2018
But while his longevity in office is a talking point at home, the time he spends out of the country has stirred international comment - as Paul Melly, an associate fellow of Chatham House, explains. Criticised by some for a supposedly "hands-off" style of rule, Cameroon's President Paul Biya recently held aÃâà...
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
March 25, 2018
But while his longevity in office is a talking point at home, the time he spends out of the country has stirred international comment - as Paul Melly, an associate fellow of Chatham House, explains. Criticised by some for a supposedly "hands-off" style of rule, Cameroon's President Paul Biya recently held aÃâà...
BBC News
March 25, 2018
Cameroon's President Paul Biya has been in power for 35 years. But while his longevity in office is a talking point at home, the time he spends out of the country has stirred international comment - as Paul Melly, an associate fellow of Chatham House, explains. Criticised by some for a supposedlyÃâà...
BBC News
March 25, 2018
Cameroon's President Paul Biya has been in power for 35 years. But while his longevity in office is a talking point at home, the time he spends out of the country has stirred international comment - as Paul Melly, an associate fellow of Chatham House, explains. Criticised by some for a supposedlyÃâà...
Cameroon Radio Television
March 24, 2018
On day two of the State visit to the People's Republic of China, President Paul Biya made important contacts after visits to strategic structures. He began the day with exchanges with two top government officials. First was the Chinese Prime Minister, Li Keqiang with whom the President re-echoed his resolveÃâà...
Cameroon Radio Television
March 24, 2018
On day two of the State visit to the People's Republic of China, President Paul Biya made important contacts after visits to strategic structures. He began the day with exchanges with two top government officials. First was the Chinese Prime Minister, Li Keqiang with whom the President re-echoed his resolveÃâà...
BBC News
March 24, 2018
Cameroon's President Paul Biya has been in power for 35 years. But while his longevity in office is a talking point at home, the time he spends out of the country has stirred international comment - as Paul Melly, an associate fellow of Chatham House, explains. Criticised by some for a supposedlyÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 22, 2018
While pledging their allegiance to the Head of State, the custodians of tradition gave their motion of support to the President through Territorial Administration, Minister. Chiefs of the West Region have called on President Paul Biya, National President of the Cameroon People's Democratic MovementÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 22, 2018
While pledging their allegiance to the Head of State, the custodians of tradition gave their motion of support to the President through Territorial Administration, Minister. Chiefs of the West Region have called on President Paul Biya, National President of the Cameroon People's Democratic MovementÃâà...
Xinhua
March 21, 2018
BEIJING, March 21 (Xinhua) -- Cameroonian President Paul Biya will pay a state visit to China from Thursday to Saturday at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping. The following is a brief introduction to the Cameroonian leader. Biya, 85, obtained a bachelor's degree in international public law inÃâà...
The New Indian Express
March 19, 2018
From Isaias Afwerki to Paul Biya: The world's longest-serving leaders. By AFP | Published: 19th March 2018 03:12 AM |. Last Updated: 19th March 2018 03:12 AM | A+A A- |. Cameroon President Paul Biya (File | AP). PARIS: Vladimir Putin won Russia's presidential election on Sunday, giving him a fourth term that will takeÃâà...
Business in Cameroon
March 16, 2018
(Business in Cameroon) - For the first time since the government reshuffle on March 2, 2018, Paul Biya met with the new government. During the meeting, he prescribed a government roadmap to the new ministers. “It is necessary to pursue the smooth implementation of the Programme concluded with theÃâà...
Cameroon Radio Television
March 13, 2018
Ambassador Wei Wen Hua emphasised that it will be an honour to President Paul BIYA – who will be the first foreign dignitary to be received by the new leadership in China. The audience was also an occasion to review excellent bilateral ties between Cameroon and China. The Chinese diplomat alsoÃâà...
Voice of America
March 7, 2018
There are two notable firsts in the new Cabinet of President Paul Biya. Nalova Lyonga from Cameroon's English-speaking southwest region becomes the minister of secondary education. Paul Atanga Nji from the English-speaking northwest region assumes the job of minister of territorial administration.
africanews
March 6, 2018
I have insisted that since 1982, the head of state Paul Biya has given Anglophones preferential treatment. “He has done that for the Anglophones. And I believe that this is the proof (his appointment as Interior Minister) and Anglophones cannot say ever that he hasn't given them their due,” he stressed.
Cameroon Concord
March 5, 2018
The weak have been transformed into uncontestable traitors and time killers. Paul Biya installs three close collaborators within the his close collaborators in a manner that facilities the precipitation of the head of state in governance. The Close collaborators of the President of the Republic are as follows:Ãâà...
Cameroon Concord
March 5, 2018
The Prime Minister Philemon Yang was maintained. The following ministers were dropped from their ministerial portfolio: Minister Mebo Ngo'o of transport, Atangana Kouna of water and energy and the emblematic Director of the Civil Cabinet, Belinga Eboutou. Ministers that have had their ministerialÃâà...
Cameroon Concord
March 3, 2018
Cameroon's president, Paul Biya, likes to travel abroad. As a result, he's missed some far-reaching events in the country he rules from afar. In October 2016, when an overloaded train derailed in the small town of Eseka, killing over 75 people, Biya was on a “brief private visit to Europe” which is how hisÃâà...
Cameroon Radio Television
March 3, 2018
The series of decrees signed by President Paul Biya this 2nd March 2018 brings in new officials while others change portfolio and six quit the government. 1. Sacked from government. # Mebe'e Ngo Edgard Alain, former Minister of Transport. #Michel Ange Angouin former Minister of the Public Service andÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
March 2, 2018
Cameroonian President Paul Biya has used special security and military units trained by Israeli security companies to quell demonstrations against his rule. The groups that received training from officers and soldiers have been active in Israeli Naval Commando elite units, Shayetet, which also providedÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 1, 2018
New research published this month reveals that Cameroon's President Paul Biya has spent at least four and a half years on private travel during his time in power. A group of journalists analysed copies of the state-backed Cameroon Tribune newspaper spanning the last 35 years to determine exactly howÃâà...
African Arguments
February 23, 2018
Tomorrow, 24 February, marks the four-year anniversary of his release from a maximum-security prison in Cameroon, following a decree issued by President Paul Biya several days prior. In total, Atangana spent 17 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit, much of it in solitary confinement, in a dingyÃâà...
Cameroon Radio Television
February 22, 2018
The most significant of them is the creation of a fifth combined military region with command post in Bamenda. The North West Eegion has been curved out of the second military region, a region that formerly grouped the Littoral, South West and North West Regions. The newly created combined militaryÃâà...
OCCRP
February 18, 2018
As a result, he's missed some far-reaching events in the country he rules from afar. Pages from the Cameroon Tribune relating to Paul Biya's travels. OCCRP journalists used the state newspaper as a primary source to chart the president's numerous foreign trips since taking office. (Image: OCCRP / Authors.)Ãâà...
Business in Cameroon
February 12, 2018
(Business in Cameroon) - On February 10, 2018, during the traditional speech for the eve of the Youth day which is celebrated every February 11, Paul Biya declared that 473, 303 jobs were created for the youth as at December 31, 2017. “It is better than the four hundred thousand target that we set but weÃâà...
Voice of America
February 11, 2018
Cameroon President Paul Biya has addressed his countrymen, saying tensions in the English-speaking regions that began more than a year ago have ... Cameroon President Paul Biya, in a nationwide message, thanked the country's youth, saying they have been instrumental in bringing peace and orderÃâà...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
The wait is over! The Senate now has its 100 members to function properly after the Head of State on Thursday appointed the remaining 30 members. as provided for by the Constitution. Below is the full list by region. Adamawa. Senators. Mohaman Gabdo Moussa Sambo Djaratou Mohamadou. Alternate.
WorldStage
December 31, 1999
The President of the Republic of Cameroon, Paul Biya, ratified the agreement to establish the African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) on April 13, 2018 in the presence of his cabinet. Cameroon is the 25th Member State to ratify the treaty. Read More. Where you are today is a function of self-discovery. In a world abounds with
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
Published on 10.04.2018 at 12h40 by Journal du Cameroun. Share. The Head of State's presence at the next Commonwealth summit will be highly honoured, this is according to the British High Commissioner to Cameroon Rowan James Laxton. The British diplomat was speaking at the weekend in Kribi during a dinnerÃâà...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
President Biya is expected to meet his Chinese colleague, Xi Jinping, where they will have a closed door session. According to State broadcaster, CRTV, Biya arrived in Beijing at 12:00 pm (Chinese time). He is expected to take part in an official welcoming ceremony scheduled for 5 pm. It will be followedÃâà...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
President Biya is expected to meet his Chinese colleague, Xi Jinping, where they will have a closed door session. According to State broadcaster, CRTV, Biya arrived in Beijing at 12:00 pm (Chinese time). He is expected to take part in an official welcoming ceremony scheduled for 5 pm. It will be followedÃâà...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
The Head of State Paul Biya has convened a Ministerial Council for Thursday March 15 at the Unity Palace. This is the first meeting after the partial cabinet shake up on March 02. The Head of State will meet the entire government this Thursday, March 15, 2018 at the Unity Palace in Etoudi. This high-levelÃâà...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
The Head of State Paul Biya is expected to pay a State visit later this month to China on invitation from the Chinese President Xhi Zhi Ping. Paul Biya on Tuesday at the Unity Palace received the Chinese Ambassador to Cameroon HE Wei Wen Hua who was bearer of an invitation from the ChineseÃâà...
Eyewitness News
December 31, 1999
DAKAR - Cameroon's octogenarian President Paul Biya, who has ruled the central African country with zero tolerance for dissent for a third of a century, will hold his first Cabinet meeting since 2015 on Thursday, his office announced. Little discussion is expected at the gathering, which is behind closedÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
December 31, 1999
On the afternoon of March 23, 2018, Premier Li Keqiang met at the Great Hall of the People with President Paul Biya of Cameroon, who was in China for a state visit. Li Keqiang expressed that China and Cameroon enjoy a long-standing traditional friendship. On March 22, President Xi Jinping held fruitfulÃâà...
MFA China
December 31, 1999
On March 23, 2018, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) Li Zhanshu met with President Paul Biya of Cameroon at the Great Hall of the People. Li Zhanshu expressed that in recent years, China-Cameroon relations have always maintained a sound and stableÃâà...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
Malego Joseph Asse was on Friday appointed as the pioneer Secretary General of the Constitutional council. He was appointed by Presidential decree signed by the Head of State Paul Biya and read on the national station. His appointment comes just few weeks before the members of the constitutionalÃâà...
