{"id":183075,"date":"2024-10-22T12:54:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T10:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroons-president-returns-home-after-more-than-a-months-absence\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T12:54:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T10:54:01","slug":"cameroons-president-returns-home-after-more-than-a-months-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroons-president-returns-home-after-more-than-a-months-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon&#8217;s President Returns Home After More Than a Month&#8217;s Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Cameroon&#8217;s president returned home Monday after more than a monthlong absence that sparked rumors and speculation about the 91-year-old politician&#8217;s health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Rumors about Paul Biya&#8217;s poor health and possible death became so widespread during his absence that the government issued statements that he was good health before banning any further public discussion on the topic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Biya&#8217;s chartered airplane arrived late Monday afternoon from Geneva at Yaounde Nsimalen International Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">&#8220;Today the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410220023.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroon&#8217;s president returned home Monday after more than a monthlong absence that sparked rumors and speculation about the 91-year-old politician&#8217;s health. Rumors about Paul Biya&#8217;s poor health and possible death became so widespread during his absence that the government issued statements that he was good health before banning any further public discussion on the topic. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":183076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660215:6c1c7c9c1ce97bd4a7192198d6ed076f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[11086,258,256,377,4331,8849,7061,257,2450,5068,254],"class_list":["post-183075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-absence","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cameroons","tag-home","tag-months","tag-news","tag-president","tag-returns","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660215:6c1c7c9c1ce97bd4a7192198d6ed076f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}