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Paul Biya appoints Rémy Nama to head Cameroon’s Constitutional Council

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Paul Biya appoints Rémy Nama to head Cameroon’s Constitutional Council

Paul Biya has appointed Rémy Nama and Abdoullaye Daouda to Cameroon’s Constitutional Council to fill the two vacancies left by the deaths of Clément Atangana and Bah Oumarou Sanda. By decree dated 16 October 2026, Rémy Nama was also named president of the institution, reports Stopblablacam.

In two decrees signed on 16 October 2026, Cameroonian President Paul Biya appointed Rémy Nama to head the Constitutional Council and Abdoullaye Daouda as a member of the institution, according to Stopblablacam. The two appointments fill vacancies left by the deaths of Clément Atangana and Bah Oumarou Sanda.

A magistrate outside the judicial hierarchy who trained at the National School of Administration and Magistracy, Rémy Nama becomes the second president of the Constitutional Council since it became operational in February 2018. He served as deputy prosecutor in Bertoua and a judge in Garoua, and later held posts at the Ministry of Justice.

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