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Succession is taboo as Cameroon's Biya set for 40 years at helm
Succession is taboo as Cameroon's Biya set for 40 years at helm
by  AFP

Cameroon's 89-year-old president, Paul Biya, on Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of his rise to power amid splashy ceremonies where the word on everyone's mind -- succession -- will almost certainly be absent. The Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (RDPC), which Biya founded in 1985, says it will hold "a big party" up and down the country to mark the anniversary.

Paul Biya, Cameroon's wily veteran leader
Paul Biya, Cameroon's wily veteran leader
by  AFP

When Paul Biya first took the helm of Cameroon, Ronald Reagan was in his second year of presidency, Madonna had not yet made the charts and the Soviet Union was still nearly a decade away from break-up. "We are all the creatures or the creations of President Paul Biya," his minister for higher education, Jacques Fame Ndongo, said in 2011.

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