{"id":241805,"date":"2026-08-22T08:36:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroons-president-biya-returns-home-after-months-long-absence\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T08:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:36:40","slug":"cameroons-president-biya-returns-home-after-months-long-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroons-president-biya-returns-home-after-months-long-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon&#8217;s President Biya Returns Home After Months-Long Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em>Mr Biya&#8217;s prolonged absence during these weeks intensified concerns about the health of the 93-year-old leader.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">President <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PR_Paul_BIYA\" rel=\"nofollow\">Paul Biya<\/a><\/strong> has returned to Cameroon after spending two months in Switzerland, his longest recorded stay outside the country since taking power four decades ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Mr Biya arrived at the international airport in the capital, Yaound\u00e9, on Thursday aboard a flight from Geneva, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">He left the country on 7 June. His office had described the trip as a &#8220;brief private stay in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608210146.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>Mr Biya&#8217;s prolonged absence during these weeks intensified concerns about the health of the 93-year-old leader. President Paul Biya has returned to Cameroon after spending two months in Switzerland, his longest recorded stay outside the country since taking power four decades ago. Mr Biya arrived at the international airport in the capital, Yaound\u00e9, on Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":241806,"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":[11086,258,256,7862,377,4331,8849,55243,257,2450,5068,254],"class_list":["post-241805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-absence","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-biya","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cameroons","tag-home","tag-monthslong","tag-news","tag-president","tag-returns","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/241805","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=241805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}