Paul Biya's Health: The Confidences Of A French Journalist

After the publication on Friday, February 09, 2018, the first draft of the article of our colleague, Nicolas Beau under the title of "Paul Biya goes bad" - the answering machine and the e-mail box of lecourrierducameroun.com were assailed messages from Cameroonian diaspora based in France.

Here is a striking excerpt: "The information on the state of health of President Biya published by mondafrique.com and taken over by your news site is a fake news.Je would like to reassure you, first: that the French president Emmanuel Macron has never presided over a security council on Cameroon, secondly: that the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaule that is mentioned in the article is being quarreled for six months and that it will return to sea in 2020 Moreover, the article published by mondafrique.com, supposedly signed by Nicolas Beau, has been circulating on social networks for more than 72 hours now.

Paul Biya's Health: The Confidences Of A French Journalist

A few hours after the publication of the article "Paul Biya goes wrong", the editorial office of mondafrique.com has just been dismissed, describing as unfounded rumors, the information - all written in the conditional - on the critical health of the tenant Etoudi. Even more, the title of the article and many passages have been deliberately changed.
Regarded as a veteran in the French journalistic microcosm, Nicolas Beau worked for the world dailies and liberation in turn before joining the duck duck.

Director of publication mondafrique.com site, the subject also practices as associate professor at the Maghreb Institute (Paris 8).