Paul Biya

(Newser) - Cameroon's 91-year-old president is rumored to be in ill health, and we're allowed to tell you that because we're not in Cameroon. The country has banned any discussion of Paul Biya's health, with Interior Minister Paul Atanga Nji declaring that it is a matter of national...

(Newser) - All 78 students kidnapped by anti-government separatists in Cameroon Sunday have been freed, officials now say, but the ordeal isn't over for everyone. The BBC reports that the children taken from Presbyterian Secondary School in Bamenda are now being questioned by authorities before they get to go home to...

(Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI set down strategy for his church in Africa today, telling bishops to protect the traditional values of the African family and to spare the poor from the impact of globalization. The pontiff, beginning his first African pilgrimage in Cameroon, also said that the exuberant local African rites...