Jeanne-Irène Biya

Jeanne- Irène Biya ( born 1935 in endom; † July 29, 1992 in Yaoundé ) was the first wife of Paul Biya, who has been president of Cameroon in 1982.

The marriage of the born as Jeanne- Irène Biya Atyam first wife with the later Cameroonian President was on September 2, 1961 in Antony, a southern suburbs of Paris, instead. She studied at the midwifery school of Nantes and was after her return to Cameroon as a qualified midwife in the pavilion Baudelocque at the Central Hospital of Yaoundé working. She was active socially, especially for children.

In connection with the death of officially died after a short illness, First Lady of Cameroon and the simultaneous absence of Paul Biya's at a conference in Dakar, arrived in Cameroon rumors that the death of Jeanne- Irène Biya was arrangierterweise come in an unnatural way into being and the President I stayed out of alibi reasons at this time out of the country.

Jeanne- Irène Biya died in Yaounde at the age of 57 or 58 years and was in Mvomeka'a, the birthplace of her husband, buried.