{"id":240930,"date":"2026-08-12T08:15:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T06:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroons-biya-reshuffles-military-during-2-month-absence\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T08:15:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T06:15:31","slug":"cameroons-biya-reshuffles-military-during-2-month-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroons-biya-reshuffles-military-during-2-month-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon&#8217;s Biya Reshuffles Military During 2-Month Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"71\">Cameroon President Paul Biya reshuffled the military command while abroad, replacing commanders in 4 of the country&#8217;s 5 joint military regions and promoting the head of the Presidential Guard. The changes were made through 3 decrees signed on Aug. 3 and announced on state radio. Biya, 93, left Cameroon on June 7 for what his office called a private stay in Europe and had not returned when the decrees were announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Colonel Beko&#8217;o Abongo Raymond Jean Charles, commander of the Presidential Guard,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608110734.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>Cameroon President Paul Biya reshuffled the military command while abroad, replacing commanders in 4 of the country&#8217;s 5 joint military regions and promoting the head of the Presidential Guard. The changes were made through 3 decrees signed on Aug. 3 and announced on state radio. Biya, 93, left Cameroon on June 7 for what his [&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":[55130,11086,258,256,7862,377,4331,3318,257,15174,254],"class_list":["post-240930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-2month","tag-absence","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-biya","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cameroons","tag-military","tag-news","tag-reshuffles","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240930","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=240930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240930\/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=240930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}