05/06/2026
🔴 BREAKING NEWS: CAVAYE YEGUIÉ DJIBRIL HAS DIED
Former Speaker of Cameroon’s National Assembly, Cavaye Yeguié Djibril, has reportedly died this Wednesday at the age of 86.
After Marcel Niat Njifenji, the former President of the Senate, and after Senator Nfor Tabetando Ndieb-Nso, the 2nd Vice-President of the Senate, another major figure of Cameroon’s old political establishment has left the stage.
Yes, death is death. In such moments, we must still preserve some humanity. No one should celebrate the death of another human being. But in Cameroon, even mourning becomes political, because many of those leaving today are the same men who occupied the highest offices for decades while the country kept waiting for real change.
Cavaye Yeguié Djibril spent a lifetime at the heart of power.
He leaves only weeks after being removed from the parliamentary seat he had occupied for so long. His death raises a heavy question: what remains of a system when its pillars are aging, falling, and disappearing, but the country itself remains trapped in the same decay?
By tonight, he may already have been buried according to Muslim tradition. But beyond the burial, there is a national conversation to be had: about the age of power, succession, the health of our institutions, and a Cameroonian youth that receives this kind of news not only with sadness, but with anger, fatigue, and deep disillusionment.
We will go deeper tonight.
For now, remember this: a man has died. But the system he served is still standing.
