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Cameroon’s President Paul Biya, the world’s oldest serving head of state at 92, has announced he will run in this year’s presidential election in October. <\/em><\/p>\n “I am a candidate in the presidential election. Rest assured that my determination to serve you matches the urgency of the challenges we face,” he posted on his X (formerly Twitter) account<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n A new term would keep Biya<\/a> in office until he is nearly 100. He came to power more than four decades ago in 1982, when his predecessor Ahmadou…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Cameroon’s President Paul Biya, the world’s oldest serving head of state at 92, has announced he will run in this year’s presidential election in October. “I am a candidate in the presidential election. Rest assured that my determination to serve you matches the urgency of the challenges we face,” he posted on his X (formerly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202489,"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\/00660215:73992d42d4277566ce02846b64ef3caf:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4334,10798,7862,377,4331,20065,257,8089,2450,254,7557],"class_list":["post-202488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-announces","tag-bid","tag-biya","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cameroons","tag-eighth","tag-news","tag-office","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-term"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/202488","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=202488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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