{"id":203521,"date":"2025-07-29T15:36:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-at-92-paul-biya-declares-eighth-presidential-bid-to-lead-cameroon\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T15:36:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:36:49","slug":"cameroon-at-92-paul-biya-declares-eighth-presidential-bid-to-lead-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-at-92-paul-biya-declares-eighth-presidential-bid-to-lead-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: At 92, Paul Biya Declares Eighth Presidential Bid to Lead Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>Cameroon&#8217;s President Paul Biya has officially confirmed his candidacy for the 2025 presidential election, surprising many by seeking an eighth term in office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">Cameroon&#8217;s President Paul Biya, Africa&#8217;s longest-serving leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PR_Paul_BIYA\/status\/1944472229149847941\">has declared<\/a> his candidacy for an eighth term in the presidential elections set for later this year. The 92-year-old leader, in power since 1982, confirmed his intent to run on July 13 as the presidential flagbearer of the ruling Cameroon People&#8217;s Democratic Movement (CPDM), a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507280076.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 has officially confirmed his candidacy for the 2025 presidential election, surprising many by seeking an eighth term in office. Cameroon&#8217;s President Paul Biya, Africa&#8217;s longest-serving leader, has declared his candidacy for an eighth term in the presidential elections set for later this year. The 92-year-old leader, in power since 1982, confirmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,10798,7862,4698,377,7030,20065,7358,257,10695,6438,254],"class_list":["post-203521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bid","tag-biya","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-declares","tag-eighth","tag-lead","tag-news","tag-paul","tag-presidential","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203521","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=203521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}