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Cameroon president returns home after 10-week absence
Cameroon's President Paul Biya returned home on Thursday after his longest recorded stay abroad since taking power more than four decades ago, ending months of speculation about his health and whereabouts.
Under Cameroon's constitution, in the absence of a vice president, the president of the Senate should assume interim duties if the presidency is declared vacant due to death, resignation, or permanent incapacity.
He waved through a half-open window to hundreds of supporters of the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) who lined the streets of the capital to welcome him home, waving party colours and banners praising the president.
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