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Paul Biya (born Paul Barthélemy Biya'a bi Mvondo; 13 February 1933) is a Cameroonian politician who is the second president of Cameroon since 1982, having previously been the fifth prime minister from 1975 to 1982.
Biya came to power in 1982 and by 2004 had ruled Cameroon for 22 years. [1] Multi-party democracy was introduced for the 1992 election but Biya was accused of rigging the election to ensure victory. [1] The last presidential election in 1997 saw Biya re-elected with 93% of the vote after opposition parties boycotted the election. [2]
In March 2024, the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) denounced “intense repression” by the Cameroonian government against the opposition, after the government of Paul Biya declared the grouping of its main parties in two platforms “illegal”.
Cameroonian President Paul Biya secured approval from lawmakers on Tuesday to delay parliamentary and local elections until 2026, a move opposition parties fear could make it harder for them to ...
On September 10, 2019, President of Cameroon Paul Biya announced in a televised speech that a "grand national dialogue" would take place before the end of the month. The dialogue would take place "within the context of the constitution", hence ruling out Ambazonian independence, and would include the Anglophone Cameroonian diaspora. [7]
In February 1984 he was sentenced to death in absentia for alleged involvement in the 1983 coup plot, although the sentence was subsequently commuted to life imprisonment by Biya. In early April 1984, President Biya ordered a transfer of all presidential palace guards who came from the predominantly Muslim north, probably because he had been ...
In September, President Paul Biya announced the Major National Dialogue, a political dialogue that would be held before the end of the month. [190] While separatists were quick to reject the initiative, citing the recent life sentences handed to the separatist leaders, [ 191 ] opposition parties in Cameroon showed interest in the initiative and ...