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🔴 BREAKING NEWS: CAVAYE YEGUIÉ DJIBRIL HAS DIED
Former Speaker of Cameroon’s National Assembly, Cavaye Yeguié Djibril, has reportedly died this Wednesday at the age of 86.
After Marcel Niat Njifenji, the former President of the Senate, and after Senator Nfor Tabetando Ndieb-Nso, the 2nd Vice-President of the Senate, another major figure of Cameroon’s old political establishment has left the stage.

Yes, death is death. In such moments, we must still preserve some humanity. No one should celebrate the death of another human being. But in Cameroon, even mourning becomes political, because many of those leaving today are the same men who occupied the highest offices for decades while the country kept waiting for real change.
Cavaye Yeguié Djibril spent a lifetime at the heart of power.

He leaves only weeks after being removed from the parliamentary seat he had occupied for so long. His death raises a heavy question: what remains of a system when its pillars are aging, falling, and disappearing, but the country itself remains trapped in the same decay?

By tonight, he may already have been buried according to Muslim tradition. But beyond the burial, there is a national conversation to be had: about the age of power, succession, the health of our institutions, and a Cameroonian youth that receives this kind of news not only with sadness, but with anger, fatigue, and deep disillusionment.

We will go deeper tonight.
For now, remember this: a man has died. But the system he served is still standing.

🔴 BREAKING NEWS : CAVAYE YEGUIÉ DJIBRIL EST DÉCÉDÉ
L’ancien président de l’Assemblée nationale du Cameroun, Cavaye Yeguié Djibril, serait décédé ce mercredi à l’âge de 86 ans.

Après Marcel Niat Njifenji, ancien président du Sénat, puis le sénateur Nfor Tabetando Ndieb-Nso, 2e vice-président du Sénat, une autre grande figure de l’ancien establishment politique camerounais quitte la scène.

Oui, la mort reste la mort. Devant elle, il faut garder une part d’humanité. Personne ne devrait se réjouir de la disparition d’un être humain. Mais au Cameroun, même le deuil devient politique, parce que beaucoup de ceux qui partent aujourd’hui sont aussi ceux qui ont occupé les plus hautes fonctions pendant des décennies, pendant que le pays, lui, attendait toujours un véritable changement.

Cavaye Yeguié Djibril aura passé une vie entière au cœur du pouvoir. Il s’en va seulement quelques semaines après avoir été écarté du perchoir qu’il occupait depuis si longtemps. Sa mort pose une question lourde : que reste-t-il d’un système lorsque ses piliers vieillissent, tombent et disparaissent, mais que le pays, lui, demeure prisonnier des mêmes blocages ?

D’ici ce soir, il pourrait déjà être inhumé selon la tradition musulmane. Mais au-delà de l’enterrement, il y a une conversation nationale à mener : sur l’âge du pouvoir, la succession, la santé de nos institutions, et cette jeunesse camerounaise qui accueille ce genre de nouvelle non seulement avec tristesse, mais aussi avec colère, fatigue et profonde désillusion.

Nous y reviendrons ce soir en profondeur.
Pour l’instant, retenons ceci : un homme est mort. Mais le système qu’il a servi, lui, est toujours debout.

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OFFICIAL: BIDEN QUITS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE

US President Joe Biden has announced that he will end his candidacy for re-election, saying "it is in the best interest of my party and the country".
It comes four months before Americans go to the polls, upending the race for the White House.

It follows weeks of intense pressure from fellow Democrats after a faltering debate performance against Republican Donald Trump at the end of June.
Following the announcement on Sunday evening, President Biden gave his endorsement in the presidential race to Vice President Kamala Harris

What happens now Biden has quit?
There is no precedent in modern US history for a presidential nominee to drop out this close to an election.

The selection of Mr Biden’s replacement will be confirmed at the Democrat National Convention, which this year begins on August 19.

Delegates to the convention anoint the party’s candidate at a formal vote.

It is also possible that the selection could take place in a roll-call vote in a virtual event weeks before the election.

As Mr Biden swept the Democrat primary, in which he faced only a minor challenge from Congressman Dean Phillips, he won almost 3,900 of the party’s 4,000 delegates.