Cameroon’s President  Paul Biya Celebrates His 90th Birthday

Cameroon is celebrating the 90th birthday of President Paul Biya, the world’s oldest head of

government, in Capital Yaounde and other regions in the State.

Biya has been Cameroon’s president since 1982. He took over from Cameroon’s first president, Ahmadou Ahijo in 1982 . Biya served as prime minister for seven years before becoming president.

Biya was born on 13th February , 1933 in South of Cameroon

He has won all multiparty elections since 1992, Biya’s ruling Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement party

In 2008, he removed term limits from the constitution, allowing him to serve indefinitely. His current mandate ends in 2025.

If Biya were to win the 2025 election, he would be 95 when the mandate ends in 2030.

The 90-year-old Biya is the world’s oldest

serving leader and Africa’s second-longest serving president after his neighbor Teodoro Obiang  , president of Equatorial Guinea. Obiang has been in power since 1979.

Cameroon is a country in West Africa, its  triangular in shape and is bordered by Nigeria to the northwest, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, the Republic of the Congo to the southeast, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the southwest.

In 1960 Cameroon has officially declared its independence from France , Later in 1963 joined the African Union (AU),  and between 1996 -1997 Cameroon chair the AU.