Cameroon’s president is in “excellent” fitness, senior officers have insisted nearest a protracted population absence stoked prevailing hypothesis concerning the 91-year-old chief’s situation.

President Paul Biya has now not been distinguishable in population since 8 September, when he attended a China-Africa discussion board in Beijing.

He has since overlooked occasions he was once scheduled to be at, such because the United Countries Common Meeting in Brandnew York.

However in a observation, the top of Cameroon’s civil cupboard stated Biya was once neatly and condemned the “mischievous individuals” speculating concerning the president’s fitness and “eventual death”.

The observation got here nearest days of opposition events and civil family teams calling for info on Biya’s fitness and actual whereabouts.

“The head of state continues to exercise his duties in Geneva and has never departed the [Swiss] city following his visit to Beijing,” Samuel Mvondo Ayolo, director of the civil cupboard stated on Wednesday night.

Biya has lengthy been criticised for the volume of future he spends out of doors the rustic – and in Switzerland specifically.

In 2018, the Arranged Crime and Corruption Reporting Mission (OCCRP) reported that since coming to energy in 1982, Biya had spent the similar of four-and-a-half years on out of the country journeys.

The Intercontinental Resort in Geneva is alleged to be his favorite vacation spot.

In a sovereign observation, executive spokesperson René Sadi stated Biya would go back to Cameroon “in the next few days”.

He pushed aside studies of Biya’s ill fitness as “pure fantasy”.

Next 42 years in energy, Biya is one in every of Africa’s longest-serving leaders.

Underneath his rule, Cameroon has moved from being a one-party order to multi-party politics, however it has additionally been marked via endemic corruption.

Democratic positive factors have additionally been reversed, well-known to the abolition of presidential time period limits in 2008.

Cameroon could also be within the grips of a secessionist conflict that has killed greater than 6,000 crowd within the west of the rustic.