Cameroon's Paul Biya, 91, has not been seen for about a month, sending the rumour mill into overdrive.
Speculation over the wellbeing and whereabouts of Cameroon’s 91-year-old President Paul Biya has become a hot topic across Africa this week.
Other sources suggested this was because he needed to rest under medical supervision after a heavy diplomatic schedule in July and August. And the head of the president's private office, with him in Geneva, insisted he was “in excellent health”. Even back home, with his measured speech and cautious tone, Biya has for many years spaced his personal interventions, largely delegating the day-to-day running of the government, and handling of technical dossiers, to a succession of prime ministers.
As a wave of multi-party democratising change swept across much of Africa at the beginning of the 1990s, Biya was one of several incumbent leaders to shrewdly adapt, allowing sufficient reform to take the heat out of mass protest while nevertheless firmly keeping control. In 2016 teachers and lawyers in the two mainly English-speaking regions, South-West and North-West, protested over the failure to properly resource English language rights and public services.
Some Cameroonians are, however, comfortable with Biya’s restrained approach to leadership and his readiness to leave successive prime ministers to handle routine decisions.Certainly, this representational role is a dimension of the presidency with which he has seemed at ease.
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