President of Cameroon 🇨🇲 🇨🇲 🇨🇲

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NON PUBLIC LIFE
Paul Biya became born in the village of Mvomeka'a in the South vicinity of Cameroon. He studied at the Lycée preferred Leclerc, Yaoundé, and in France at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris, happening to the Institut des hautes études d'Outre-Mer, in which he graduated in 1961 with a higher training degree in Public law. He married Jeanne-Irène Biya, who did no longer have any kids, although she followed Franck Biya who became born from a relationship of Paul Biya with every other female. After Jeanne-Irène Biya died on 29 July 1992, Paul Biya married Chantal Biya (37 years his junior) on 23 April 1994, and had more kids with her. Biya is a superb buddy of the former Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos.

POLITICAL life
a native of Cameroon's south, Biya rose swiftly as a bureaucrat beneath President Ahmadou Ahidjo within the Nineteen Sixties, serving as Secretary-popular of the Presidency from 1968 to 1975 after which as top Minister of Cameroon from 1975 to 1982. He succeeded Ahidjo as president upon the latter's wonder resignation in 1982 and consolidated energy in a 1983–1984 staged attempted coup in which he eliminated all his rivals.

His regime is supported with the aid of France, which components it with weapons and trains its forces. France is the leading foreign investor, beforehand of the united states. a hundred and five French subsidiaries are positioned in all key sectors (oil, wooden, creation, cellular telephony, delivery, banking, coverage, and so on.).

Biya brought political reforms inside the context of a one-party gadget in the Eighties. underneath extreme strain, he customary the advent of multiparty politics within the early Nineties. He received the contentious 1992 presidential election with 40% of the plural, single-ballot vote and turned into re-elected by means of large margins in 1997, 2004, 2011 and 2018. competition politicians and Western governments have alleged voting irregularities and fraud on every of these occasions. Many unbiased assets have provided evidence that he did not win the elections in 1992, and that next elections had been rampant with fraud.

Biya's tenure as president started out on 6 November 1982, making him the second one-longest-ruling president in Africa (after Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea), the longest-ruling non-royal chief within the international, and the oldest head-of-nation in Africa, at 87 years of age.

Biya has maintained Cameroon's close courting with France, one in all Cameroon's former colonial rulers.