French president Nicholas Sarkozy finally gave a timid welcome back into the Francophonie fold to Paul Biya, president of the oil rich Central African Nation, Cameroon.
Eight days after his election under dubious circumstances, the aged Biya, who is 78 years old had been waiting for endorsements from Western Democracies and none was coming his way.
Last week, he had to send his External Relations minister, Henri Ayissi Eyebe, to France to plead for a congratulatory message. He got firm instructions instead to fully implement the 1996 constitution from France. Sarkozy and US president Barack Obama don't have any love for despots and have made no bones about this.
At least, Sarkozy made a statement and for this, Henri Eyebe Ayissi WILL BE in the next government. That is how Biya's autocratic, despotic, ethnocentric and tribalistic regime works!
Biya had it coming. No matter how you read it, the message he got from Sarkozy reads more like a scolding from a teacher than a diplomatic message destined to a head of State.
US president Barack Obama has not bothered to acknowledge that anything significant happened in Cameroon. Even when Biya insists and gets installed in the presidential palace, he should know that the clock is ticking, and Sarkozy, Obama, the International Community and Cameroonians can turn their backs on him at any time. His tribalism infused ruling Cabal or his friends from the Communist People's Republic of China won't be able to protect him, when the hour of reckoning comes.
He can show some degree of good will in the new younger faces in his next government. The world will be watching.
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