{"id":240306,"date":"2026-08-04T07:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T05:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-government-says-president-biyas-prolonged-absence-no-cause-for-concern\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T07:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T05:59:08","slug":"cameroon-government-says-president-biyas-prolonged-absence-no-cause-for-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-government-says-president-biyas-prolonged-absence-no-cause-for-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon Government Says President Biya&#8217;s Prolonged Absence No Cause for Concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\"><em> President Paul Biya left Cameroon in early June for what his office described as a &#8220;short private stay in Europe.&#8221; Addressing the concerns regarding this prolonged absence, a government spokesperson has told RFI the 93-year-old head of state is healthy and hard at work, even while abroad. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">In an exclusive interview with RFI, the Minister of Communication and government spokesperson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spm.gov.cm\/site\/?q=en\/content\/sadi-ren%C3%A9-emmanuel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ren\u00e9 Emmanuel Sadi<\/a>, announced Biya&#8217;s imminent return to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/cameroon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cameroon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Addressing reports that the president is ill and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608040004.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>President Paul Biya left Cameroon in early June for what his office described as a &#8220;short private stay in Europe.&#8221; Addressing the concerns regarding this prolonged absence, a government spokesperson has told RFI the 93-year-old head of state is healthy and hard at work, even while abroad. In an exclusive interview with RFI, the Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[11086,258,256,16128,4698,377,7167,6427,257,2450,9911,254],"class_list":["post-240306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-absence","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-biyas","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-concern","tag-government","tag-news","tag-president","tag-prolonged","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240306","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=240306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}