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Presidential elections: Biya's last stand

Cameroonian President Paul Biya, 78, knows that he is taking a big gamble by standing for re-election in October's presidential poll. In office for the past 29 years, the discreet, inscrutable Biya knows that his sheen of international respectability in [...] (655 words)

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