The Cameroonian government has banned the media from speculating about the health of long-serving leader, Paul Biya.

The 91-year-old Biya, who has served as President since 1982, has not been seen in public since early September, fuelling speculation that he is ill, or worse.

The Cameroonian government said discussion around the health of the President was a matter of national security and would thus be banned.

Biya is Africa’s second-longest-serving leader, after Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.

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