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\"President President Paul Biya has long been criticised for the amount of time he spends away from Camroon<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cameroon’s president is in “excellent” health, senior officials have insisted after a long public absence stoked widespread speculation about the 91-year-old leader’s condition.<\/p>\n

President Paul Biya has not been seen in public since 8 September, when he attended a China-Africa forum in Beijing.<\/p>\n

He has since missed events he was scheduled to be at, such as the United Nations General Assembly in New York.<\/p>\n

But in a statement, the head of Cameroon’s civil cabinet said Biya was well and condemned the “mischievous individuals” speculating about the president’s health and “eventual death”.<\/p>\n

The statement came after days of opposition parties and civil society groups calling for information on Biya’s health and exact whereabouts.<\/p>\n

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“The head of state continues to exercise his duties in Geneva and has never departed the [Swiss] city following his visit to Beijing,” Samuel Mvondo Ayolo, director of the civil cabinet said on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

Biya has long been criticised for the amount of time he spends outside the country – and in Switzerland in particular.<\/p>\n

In 2018, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) reported that since coming to power in 1982, Biya had spent the equivalent of four-and-a-half years on overseas trips.<\/p>\n

The Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva is said to be his favourite destination.<\/p>\n

In a separate statement, government spokesperson Ren\u00e9 Sadi said Biya would return to Cameroon “in the next few days”.<\/p>\n

He dismissed reports of Biya’s ailing health as “pure fantasy”.<\/p>\n

After 42 years in power, Biya is one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders.<\/p>\n

Under his rule, Cameroon has moved from being a one-party state to multi-party politics, but it has also been marked by endemic corruption.<\/p>\n

Democratic gains have also been reversed, leading to the abolition of presidential term limits in 2008.<\/p>\n

Cameroon is also in the grips of a secessionist war that has killed more than 6,000 people in the west of the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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