{"id":202484,"date":"2025-07-15T15:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T13:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/africa-all-of-africa-today-july-15-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T15:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T13:02:30","slug":"africa-all-of-africa-today-july-15-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/africa-all-of-africa-today-july-15-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: All of Africa Today &#8211; July 15, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><strong>Cameroon President Paul Biya, 92, Announces Re-election Bid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"142\">President Paul Biya announced <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/africa\/20250714-cameroon-president-biya-92-announces-bid-for-eighth-term-in-office\" rel=\"noopener\">his candidacy<\/a> for the presidential election. The announcement, made on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PR_Paul_BIYA\/status\/1944472229149847941\">social media<\/a>, came amid ongoing concerns about his age and health. Biya, who has ruled since 1982 after Ahmadou Ahidjo&#8217;s resignation, removed term limits in 2008 and won the 2018 election despite opposition claims of electoral irregularities. Members of the ruling Cameroon People&#8217;s Democratic Movement (<a target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-text-neutral-tertiary underline cursor-pointer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rdpcpdm.cm\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">CPDM<\/a>) and other supporters have&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507150081.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Cameroon President Paul Biya, 92, Announces Re-election Bid President Paul Biya announced his candidacy for the presidential election. The announcement, made on social media, came amid ongoing concerns about his age and health. Biya, who has ruled since 1982 after Ahmadou Ahidjo&#8217;s resignation, removed term limits in 2008 and won the 2018 election despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":202485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660790:31c3b799d93fc32e89804bf0300237d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,11170,1407,257,254,6637],"class_list":["post-202484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-july","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660790:31c3b799d93fc32e89804bf0300237d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202484","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}