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President Paul Biya and wife,Chantal Biya returned to the nation’s capital, Yaoundé on Monday 14 March 2016 from a brief private visit to Europe amid the scandal that rocked the nation over the weekend at the Lanquintinie Hospital in Douala. There was an ironical festive mood at the Nsimalen International airport marked by drum beats and dancing from CPDM militants and other well-wishers who turned out in large numbers to greet the presidential couple downplaying the grieve that plaqued the whole nation from the incident in Douala.
After brief discussions with some of his closest acolytes, the presidential motorcade made its way to Unity Palace as more "jubilant" die-heart supporters thronged the streets of Yaoundé right up to the entrance of the presidential palace.It's unclear whether or not Mr Biya will take action or address the nation concerning the incident at Lanquintinie Hospital . However, it is now evidently clear that when Yaounde breaths, the whole nation is alive and active.
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Cardinal Christian Tumi. the former Archbishop of Douala, 85 who retired in 2009 has made a clarion call to President Paul Biya to step down from office. The much respected Cardinal said at 83, President Biya should ask the political bureau of the ruling CPDM party to nominate someone else to take over.
Since last month,senior government officials and prominent elite deep within the ruling class have been clamoring for President Biya to continue as head of state. Some Biya acolytes have even gone further suggesting that he changes the constitution and demanding early presidential election legally scheduled for 2018.
Asked by the pan African newspaper, Jeune Afrique why the Cardinal was against Biya's candidacy? Cardinal Tumi revealed that: "I am not against the candidacy of the head of state, but you see, we have almost the same age, and that age regardless endurance or physical strength, we are weakened. When one is old, he may be good to play an advisory role. But we can no longer run such a young and complex country".
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Hundreds of young people from the town of Maroua, the regional capital of the Far North have disassociated themselves from the current political trend aimed at addressing a motion of support to President Biya to seek another term in the next presidential election to be held in 2018.
The youth massively attended a national forum last February 26 at the council hall in Maroua and openly challenged the idea of Mr Biya running again for president. The young men and women chanted anti Biya slogans in the room at the time when a girl picked from the crowd was about reading a motion reportedly prepared by an acolyte of Minister Amadou Ali.
Our Maroua correspondent hinted that the youth predominantly from the ruling CPDM party made it abundantly clear that the motion was not included in the official program and that it was an attempt by government officials to politicize the workshop on youth.
Asabe Issatou who spoke to the media immediately after the controversy started revealed that "In our country, we want to politicize everything. Why must we submit a motion of support to the president just because we attended a workshop? I think we have been misruled for three decades. This is how they will collect signatures from workshop participants to say they strongly support Paul Biya".
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President Paul Biya reportedly left the country for a short private visit to Europe since February 23, the same day as the Sultan of Bamoum, Mbombo Mjoya. Informed opinions in Yaounde say both men have held a meeting on the state of the nation and Biya's bid for 2018. Cameroon Concord's senior political editor hinted that everything seems to suggests Biya and Njoya have met in France and agreed on the holding of early presidential elections.
The Sultan-CPDM Senator had made his position public during a section conference of the ruling party in Bafoussam where he observed that it has become very urgent and imperative to consider convening an extraordinary congress of the ruling party to discuss the worrying situation that is on the horizon, "that may seriously threaten the peace which is very dear, and which has been hard-won in Cameroon".
Some reports have suggested the former cabinet minister and supreme leader of the Foumban people is not happy with the current cabinet and has been heard murmuring privately that "it lacks respect".
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President Biya has revealed to the youths that efforts over the past few years have started paying off despite the fact that government’s capacities to create jobs have been crippled by external factors related to the external environment and some domestic red tape. A beaming head of state noted that the role of the youth in economic development was one of the major concerns of his ruling CPDM party. He urged the entire nation to resolutely mobilize and support the numerous initiatives undertaken by young people in the country in diverse fields. Biya, 83 hinted that the Yang Philemon Government should systematically and effectively continue setting up appropriate infrastructure, but also cleaning up and properly regulating this key sector in the interest of the national economy and the development of youth employment. President Biya added that public or private training institutions are called upon to fully play their role in identifying new trades. The Cameroonian dictator said large enterprises and other public and private entities should set the example by progressively carrying out their own digital switch over.
In a speech described by many as empty, Mr Biya also noted that financial institutions definitely stand to benefit by developing specific programs to support youth-initiated projects in this new economy and that it is through such collective commitment that Cameroon will be able to rise to the challenge of digital transition. With age telling on him, President Paul Biya dabbled to defend his failed leadership saying that the agriculture and digital economic sectors requires continues effort which included stepping up the professionalization of secondary education. Mr Biya told the Cameroonian youth that his government has opened three Pilot Centers of Excellence in Douala, Limbe and Sangmelima. The projects that cost about 21 billion CFA francs, will provide retraining and upgrading skills for senior technicians and other skilled workers.
Biya who remained defiant on the failures already recorded by his 2035 Emergence Plan recalled the launching of an extensive industrialization program outlined on 31 December last year which he again observed should create many job opportunities. The youths were told to courageously plunge and become the agricultural entrepreneurs describing it as a noble and rewarding trade in the so-called real economy.
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Spain's ambassador to Cameroon,Marcelino Cabanas Ansorena and President Biya held a fifty minutes talk on Thursday. It was a farewell audience granted by the Cameroonian dictator President Paul Biya at Unity Palace to the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Spain. Both the president and the outgoing ambassador shared similar views on all topics discussed. Marcelino Cabanas Ansorena declared his admiration for the determination of Cameroon in the fight against terrorism, for its hospitality to refugees and for its resilience in the current difficult economic situation.President Paul Biya gave a souvenir gift to Mr. Marcelino Cabanas.
Cameroon reportedly has seven agreements with Spain dating from 1964. They include politics and diplomacy; Economy, finance and technology; culture and science. According to government sources, Spain was in 2004 and 2005 Cameroon's first trading partner in terms of exports. Revenues from exports in both years amounted respectively to 223 412 and 357 599 million CFA francs. Following the structural adjustment program in 1989, Yaoundé and Madrid agreed for a rescheduling of 675 339 525 CFA francs debt. Since 1990, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has archived as many as 25 projects funded by Spain in Cameroon.
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