{"id":212867,"date":"2025-11-07T20:54:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-worlds-oldest-ruler-92-paul-biya-sworn-in-for-eighth-term-in-cameroon\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T20:54:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:54:32","slug":"cameroon-worlds-oldest-ruler-92-paul-biya-sworn-in-for-eighth-term-in-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-worlds-oldest-ruler-92-paul-biya-sworn-in-for-eighth-term-in-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: World&#8217;s Oldest Ruler, 92, Paul Biya Sworn in for Eighth Term in Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Cameroon&#8217;s longtime leader,\u00a0and the world&#8217;s oldest leader, President Paul Biya, has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cj978zlgp7go\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sworn in\u00a0<\/a>for an eighth consecutive term, vowing to restore order after deadly post-election violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">In his inaugural speech, Biya\u00a0promised to stay faithful to the confidence of the Cameroonian people and pledged to work for a &#8221;united, stable and prosperous&#8221; country.\u00a0He expressed condolences to victims of the unrest and blamed &#8220;irresponsible politicians&#8221; for the chaos, while assuring citizens that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511070125.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 longtime leader,\u00a0and the world&#8217;s oldest leader, President Paul Biya, has been\u00a0sworn in\u00a0for an eighth consecutive term, vowing to restore order after deadly post-election violence. In his inaugural speech, Biya\u00a0promised to stay faithful to the confidence of the Cameroonian people and pledged to work for a &#8221;united, stable and prosperous&#8221; country.\u00a0He expressed condolences to victims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":212868,"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\/00671619:6847846c8296e5bb53b90583fe89e357:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,7862,4698,377,20065,257,20135,10695,17797,254,9141,7557,7787],"class_list":["post-212867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-biya","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-eighth","tag-news","tag-oldest","tag-paul","tag-ruler","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sworn","tag-term","tag-worlds"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671619:6847846c8296e5bb53b90583fe89e357:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212867","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=212867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}