Cameroon’s President Paul Biya, who has ruled the central African country with an iron grip for decades, held his first cabinet meeting since 2015.
A brief letter calling his council of ministers to the Unity Palace did not reveal the agenda.
Prime Minister Philemon Yang read out a statement afterwards on state TV, saying Biya had insisted that they “continue working”.
There was no explanation of why he had called the session and no other officials were permitted to speak about what went on in the conclave.
The president had told his cabinet that “the best way to serve the country is to do everything, to make all the sacrifices that are needed,” the prime minister said.
“There are a lot of things to do,” Mr. Biya had added, singling out the Africa Cup of Nations annual soccer tournament that Cameroon is to host in 2019, and the presidential election in October this year.
Minutes are never published, but if past cabinet meetings – often two or three years apart – are anything to go by, there would have been just one man talking.
One in 2011 lasted ten minutes during which Mr. Biya entered, read out a speech, then left.
Biya has ruled virtually by decree since taking over from a retired predecessor in 1982 and then winning an election by 99.98 per cent a year later.
The meeting came as Cameroon faces a violent separatist movement in its western Anglophone region that a military crackdown has failed to quell.
In a clear attempt to regulate this, Mr. Burhan appointed two officials from the region in leading positions earlier this month. The economy is sluggish due to low prices for major exports of oil and cocoa, and crude oil crude production. This is not by helping with an economic closure of its loose Western region, before the first crackdown in 2016 has become an unlikely hub for start-up tech firms. Current Cameroon is 153th in the UN Human Development Index, and the average life expectancy is 56. At the last council in October 2015, shortly after a reshuffle fix, Mr. Biya is like pre-occupied sport, according to local press reports. He instructed ministers to "speed up the preparations for important sports celebrations" to be held in Cameroon, particularly the African Cup of Nations by men who will meet next year and a woman to be held in 2016. Outside such meetings, Mr. meets often. Leaving his airport ministers between private trips abroad with his wife Chantal, famous for a place for her delicate clothes and soft tones. Their favorite destination is Switzerland.
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A brief letter calling his council of ministers to the Unity Palace did not reveal the agenda.
Prime Minister Philemon Yang read out a statement afterwards on state TV, saying Biya had insisted that they “continue working”.
There was no explanation of why he had called the session and no other officials were permitted to speak about what went on in the conclave.
The president had told his cabinet that “the best way to serve the country is to do everything, to make all the sacrifices that are needed,” the prime minister said.
“There are a lot of things to do,” Mr. Biya had added, singling out the Africa Cup of Nations annual soccer tournament that Cameroon is to host in 2019, and the presidential election in October this year.
Minutes are never published, but if past cabinet meetings – often two or three years apart – are anything to go by, there would have been just one man talking.
One in 2011 lasted ten minutes during which Mr. Biya entered, read out a speech, then left.
Biya has ruled virtually by decree since taking over from a retired predecessor in 1982 and then winning an election by 99.98 per cent a year later.
The meeting came as Cameroon faces a violent separatist movement in its western Anglophone region that a military crackdown has failed to quell.
In a clear attempt to regulate this, Mr. Burhan appointed two officials from the region in leading positions earlier this month. The economy is sluggish due to low prices for major exports of oil and cocoa, and crude oil crude production. This is not by helping with an economic closure of its loose Western region, before the first crackdown in 2016 has become an unlikely hub for start-up tech firms. Current Cameroon is 153th in the UN Human Development Index, and the average life expectancy is 56. At the last council in October 2015, shortly after a reshuffle fix, Mr. Biya is like pre-occupied sport, according to local press reports. He instructed ministers to "speed up the preparations for important sports celebrations" to be held in Cameroon, particularly the African Cup of Nations by men who will meet next year and a woman to be held in 2016. Outside such meetings, Mr. meets often. Leaving his airport ministers between private trips abroad with his wife Chantal, famous for a place for her delicate clothes and soft tones. Their favorite destination is Switzerland.
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