{"id":183144,"date":"2024-10-23T12:55:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T10:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-after-paul-biya-poverty-uncertainty-and-a-precarious-succession-battle\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T12:55:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T10:55:43","slug":"cameroon-after-paul-biya-poverty-uncertainty-and-a-precarious-succession-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-after-paul-biya-poverty-uncertainty-and-a-precarious-succession-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon After Paul Biya &#8211; Poverty, Uncertainty and a Precarious Succession Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Cameroon&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Paul-Biya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Paul Biya<\/a> is 91 years old. He is Africa&#8217;s oldest head of state and only one has served longer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Teodoro-Obiang-Nguema-Mbasogo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Teodoro Obiang Nguema<\/a> of neighbouring Equatorial Guinea, who is 82 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Biya has been Cameroon&#8217;s president since 1982. Prior to that, he was prime minister from 1975.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">In recent weeks there has been growing speculation about the nonagenarian&#8217;s health. Some rumours even suggested that he had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvgl05rp8r1o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died<\/a>. This led the Cameroonian government to issue a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwye2gljdewo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">banning all&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410220248.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 Paul Biya is 91 years old. He is Africa&#8217;s oldest head of state and only one has served longer: President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of neighbouring Equatorial Guinea, who is 82 years old. Biya has been Cameroon&#8217;s president since 1982. Prior to that, he was prime minister from 1975. In recent weeks there has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":183145,"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\/00660215:73992d42d4277566ce02846b64ef3caf:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,7887,7862,4698,377,257,10695,7121,24320,254,20034,12167],"class_list":["post-183144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-battle","tag-biya","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-news","tag-paul","tag-poverty","tag-precarious","tag-south-africa-today","tag-succession","tag-uncertainty"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660215:73992d42d4277566ce02846b64ef3caf:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183144","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=183144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}