# THE PRESIDENT'S YEAR
2013
BEAUTIFUL FRUITS
- Major Projects: ongoing at a good pace
- Elections: in calm and transparency
- Peace and security in Africa: total commitment
- Visits to France, Turkey and The Vatican: brilliant success
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THE PRESIDENT'S YEAR 2013
# Contents
!img-1.jpeg Major projects
!img-2.jpeg Elections
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A Publication of the Civil Cabinet Presidency of the Republic of Cameroon Site web : http://www.prc.cm
Director of publication: Martin BELINGA EBOUTOU, Minister, Director of the Civil Cabinet Coordinator: Joseph LE, Assistant Director of the Civil Cabinet, Head of the Communication Unit Editorial Committee: Oswald BABOKE, Technical Adviser; Churchill EWUMBUE MONONO, Technical Adviser; Jean Luncien Ewangue, Adviser Editors in Chief: Nicolas AMAYENA, Adviser; BANSI Victor SUHYANG, Adviser Editor: Médard NKODO NSOULOU Pictures: Elie NYAT SAF, Victor YENE, ANDJONGO SEME, Salifou CHIGET
THE PRESIDENT'S YEAR
2013
# Paul BIYA: The Architect, The Artist
A man is seen the way he presents himself. And so are Statesmen. Paul BIYA, the President of the Republic is no exception.
Throughout 2013, various pundits were able to air or revise their opinions about the Head of State, as circumstances and events in the President's busy and tight schedule unfolded.
THE PRESIDENT'S YEAR revisits the venues, events and circumstances that shaped his persona. It would be difficult not to be excited, as is often the case, by a personality of such stature.
The same year, Cameroon successfully held three elections, in April and September, thus demonstrating eloquently that it is a land of elections for peaceful democracy. The person behind such a great and wonderful job, and why not admit it, such an exploit that
thrilled all observers, aware that in Africa and sometimes even elsewhere, elections are not necessarily calm, transparent and fair; the maker of such a masterpiece is an artist. He is the architect of the beautiful institutional edifice which Cameroon has built and which will be completed imminently with the putting in place of the Constitutional Council.
The foundation stone laying ceremony of the second bridge over the Wouri River, in Douala, on 14 November revealed an aspect of his aesthetics skills. Paul BIYA translated into concrete, visible and tangible reality, the wildest development dreams of an entire people. The bridge under construction afforded him the opportunity to call on Cameroonians to reflect profoundly on the symbolism of the bridge, "It helps to link the two banks of a river or an arm of the sea, to span a valley or a cliff... it is a means devised by man