{"id":39234,"date":"2025-09-30T12:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/09\/30\/where-is-paul-biya-cameroons-incumbent-absent-as-presidential-campaigning-picks-up\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T12:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:02:08","slug":"where-is-paul-biya-cameroons-incumbent-absent-as-presidential-campaigning-picks-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/09\/30\/where-is-paul-biya-cameroons-incumbent-absent-as-presidential-campaigning-picks-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is Paul Biya? Cameroon&rsquo;s incumbent absent as presidential campaigning picks up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>As campaigning starts on Saturday for Cameroon&rsquo;s presidential election, the nation is puzzling over the whereabouts of the lead candidate: its 92-year-old leader, Paul Biya, the world&rsquo;s oldest head of state. In power since 1982 and seeking an eighth term in office in the October 12 polls, Biya left the central African country on Sunday for a \u00ab\u00a0private trip to Europe\u00a0\u00bb, his office said, without elaborating. Story by Laurent Berstecher.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As campaigning starts on Saturday for Cameroon&rsquo;s presidential election, the nation is puzzling over the whereabouts of the lead candidate: its 92-year-old leader, Paul Biya, the world&rsquo;s oldest head of state. In power since 1982 and seeking an eighth term in office in the October 12 polls, Biya left the central African country on Sunday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-39234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}