Mario Nawfal(@MarioNawfal):🇨🇲 Cameroon's 93-year-old president has been out of the country since June, and no one will say why. Paul Biya has ruled Cameroon for more than 40 years. He left on June 7 for a "brief private stay in Europe" and still hasn't come back. The government says he's in Geneva, Switzerland and wasn't hospitalized, but won't say what he's doing there or when he's returning. When a leader that old vanishes into a Swiss city for two months, people start asking the obvious: is he even still able to run the country, or even alive? The longer the silence drags on, the harder "everything's fine" is to believe. Source: CNN / Writer: Daniyal

2026.08.16 00:00

🇨🇲 Cameroon's 93-year-old president has been out of the country since June, and no one will say why. Paul Biya has ruled Cameroon for more than 40 years. He left on June 7 for a "brief private stay in Europe" and still hasn't come back. The government says he's in Geneva, Switzerland and wasn't hospitalized, but won't say what he's doing there or when he's returning. When a leader that old vanishes into a Swiss city for two months, people start asking the obvious: is he even still able to run the country, or even alive? The longer the silence drags on, the harder "everything's fine" is to believe. Source: CNN / Writer: Daniyal