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Cameroon bans media from discussing President Biya’s health amid rumours

...says anyone violating the order would face the full force of the law

Adejayan Gbenga Gsong by Adejayan Gbenga Gsong
October 10, 2024
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(FILES) Cameroon President Paul Biya delivers a speech during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings in Provence during World War II, at the Boulouris National Cemetery ("necropole nationale") in Boulouris-sur-Mer, south eastern France, on August 15, 2024. - After a series of rumors about the health of Cameroonian President Paul Biya, the Cameroonian government denounces "tendentious comments" and assures in a statement that the Head of State who "is doing well will return to Cameroon in the coming days".
"The Government of the Republic states unequivocally" that the rumors circulating on social networks and in the media about the President's condition "are the stuff of fantasy and pure imagination of their authors".
"Moreover, the Head of State is doing well and will return to Cameroon in the coming days", continues the statement signed by the government spokesperson. (Photo by Christophe SIMON / POOL / AFP)

(FILES) Cameroon President Paul Biya delivers a speech during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings in Provence during World War II, at the Boulouris National Cemetery ("necropole nationale") in Boulouris-sur-Mer, south eastern France, on August 15, 2024. - After a series of rumors about the health of Cameroonian President Paul Biya, the Cameroonian government denounces "tendentious comments" and assures in a statement that the Head of State who "is doing well will return to Cameroon in the coming days". "The Government of the Republic states unequivocally" that the rumors circulating on social networks and in the media about the President's condition "are the stuff of fantasy and pure imagination of their authors". "Moreover, the Head of State is doing well and will return to Cameroon in the coming days", continues the statement signed by the government spokesperson. (Photo by Christophe SIMON / POOL / AFP)

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  • Biya has not made a public appearance since early September, fuelling a swirl of rumours online that the veteran president’s health is failing

Cameroon’s government has banned the media from discussing the health of President Paul Biya, Africa’s second-longest-ruling leader, amid rumours the 91-year-old is gravely ill, according to a document obtained by AFP.

Biya, the world’s oldest leader, has not made a public appearance since early September, fuelling a swirl of rumours online that the veteran president’s health is failing.

“The head of state is the principal institution of the republic, and discussions on his condition are a matter of national security,” said the document addressed to regional governors, which was dated October 9 and signed by Territorial Administration Minister Paul Atanga Nji.

“All discussion in the media on the president’s condition is therefore officially banned.”

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The document, which bore a red stamp reading “highly urgent”, added that anyone violating the order would “face the full force of the law”.

It ordered regional governors to create “monitoring cells” charged with tracking content in private media, including social networks.

Biya has been Cameroon’s president for more than 41 years, second in Africa only to 82-year-old Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who has held power in Equatorial Guinea for 45 years.

Biya’s last public appearance was at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing last month.

He did not take part in the subsequent United Nations General Assembly opening in New York or a summit of French-speaking countries in Paris.

The president’s office issued a statement Tuesday saying Biya was in “excellent health”, condemning rumours to the contrary as “disinformation”.

He “is working and attending to his affairs in Geneva,” said a government spokesman, adding Biya would return to Cameroon “in the coming days”.

Biya’s public appearances have grown sparse in recent years — mainly rare televised speeches, pre-recorded and haltingly delivered, and family photos and videos showing him alongside his influential wife, Chantal.

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