{"id":87417,"date":"2026-04-06T17:58:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87417"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:58:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:58:42","slug":"worlds-oldest-leader-to-get-a-deputy-for-first-time-in-43-year-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/06\/worlds-oldest-leader-to-get-a-deputy-for-first-time-in-43-year-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s oldest leader to get a deputy for first time in 43-year rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/556\/cpsprodpb\/6678\/live\/1f9ddb10-304d-11f1-b4a1-71281f71e968.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Biya wearing a dark suit and tie sitting in a gold-backed chair. \" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Cameroon&#8217;s President Paul Biya, the world&#8217;s oldest leader, is set to get a vice-president for the first time in his four-decade rule following controversial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2e95xqn10o\">Read More\u00a0<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Cameroon&#8217;s President Paul Biya, the world&#8217;s oldest leader, is set to get a vice-president for the first time in his four-decade rule&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Paul-Biya1.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87418,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87417\/revisions\/87418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}