Cameroon: Paul Biya appoints Nama Remy before Atangana is even buried

Paul Biya appointed Nama Remy president of Cameroon’s Constitutional Council by decree on Friday, October 16, 2026. Remy succeeds Clément Atangana, who died in Paris on October 4, after 12 days with the post vacant. The article says Biya passed over the senior anglophone, Professor Paul Nchoji Nkwi, in favor of Remy, a magistrate and mission officer at the presidency. It portrays the swift appointment as an effort to prevent an institutional vacancy.