{"id":241742,"date":"2026-08-21T20:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroons-president-biya-home-after-73-day-absence-amid-health-speculation\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T20:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:35:16","slug":"cameroons-president-biya-home-after-73-day-absence-amid-health-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroons-president-biya-home-after-73-day-absence-amid-health-speculation\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon&#8217;s President Biya Home After 73-Day Absence, Amid Health Speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><em> Cameroon&#8217;s President Paul Biya has returned to the country after spending 73 days abroad, ending an unusually long absence that has intensified speculation around the 93-year-old&#8217;s health and raised questions over Cameroon&#8217;s political future. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Biya, the world&#8217;s oldest serving head of state, landed in the Cameroonian capital Yaound\u00e9 on Thursday after travelling from Geneva, where he had been staying since 7 June on what the presidency described as a &#8220;short private stay&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Cameroonian media&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608210362.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&#8217;s President Paul Biya has returned to the country after spending 73 days abroad, ending an unusually long absence that has intensified speculation around the 93-year-old&#8217;s health and raised questions over Cameroon&#8217;s political future. Biya, the world&#8217;s oldest serving head of state, landed in the Cameroonian capital Yaound\u00e9 on Thursday after travelling from Geneva, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":241743,"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\/00671619:76885746d62056e7f2178ddf1edf12f3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[55242,11086,258,256,7862,377,4331,5731,8849,257,2450,254,11336],"class_list":["post-241742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-73day","tag-absence","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-biya","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cameroons","tag-health","tag-home","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speculation"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671619:76885746d62056e7f2178ddf1edf12f3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241742","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=241742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}