Cameroon's Biya, 92, heads for eighth term despite clamour to step aside


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  • Monday, 06 Oct 2025

FILE PHOTO: President of Cameroon, Paul Biya, addresses the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 22, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

YAOUNDE (Reuters) -Announcing his bid for an eighth term in July, Paul Biya, Cameroon's 92-year-old president, said he was heeding "numerous and insistent" calls to stay in office, but this year's election cycle has also featured striking appeals for him to step aside.

First came Catholic Archbishop Samuel Kleda, who went on French radio last Christmas to say it was "not realistic" for Biya to keep doing the job.

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