WORLD WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, UCL AL #366 - History - Cameroon: "The Other Algeria" and the Birth of Françafrique (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

In Cameroon, Paul Biya has just been re-elected for an eighth seven-year term. At 92 years old, he is the oldest serving president. He has been in power since 1982, a total of 43 years. Only one other country has served longer than him: his neighbor in Equatorial Guinea, "President" Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who has been in power since 1979. Cameroon, nicknamed "Africa in miniature" because of the diversity of its climates, landscapes, languages, and ethnic groups, is also the starting point of a long colonial history with metropolitan France and of a war too often overlooked, overshadowed by the Algerian War, much to France's delight. ...

Link:  (en) France, UCL AL #366 - History - Cameroon: "The Other Algeria" and the Birth of Françafrique (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

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