Cameroon's president reshuffles military as speculation on whereabouts persists

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: Biya REUTERS - Guglielmo Mangiapane 01:14 Issued on: 05/08/2026 - 11:24 Cameroon's President ⁠Paul Biya ​reshuffled senior military staff, promoting the head of the Presidential ​Guard to a brigadier general and replacing commanders in four of the country's five joint military regions, according to ​three separate ‌presidential decrees signed on August 3. Biya, the world's oldest head ⁠of state, has been out of the public eye since June 7. Keywords for this article