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So finally the government spokesman, René Sadi, issued a formal denial of the rumours, adding that the president would return home "in the next few days".

But some of the senior regime figures most frequently tipped, such as Laurent Esso and René Sadi, are by now themselves far from youthful.

In a separate statement, government spokesperson René Sadi said Biya would return to Cameroon "in the next few days".

Throughout 132 years of French colonisation the streets were respectively known as rue d'Isly, Boulevard Michelet and rue Sadi Carnot.

Therefore the three central streets of Algiers took on the names of revolutionaries: Didouche Mourad replaced Michelet, rue D'Isly became Larbi Ben M'Hidi and Sadi Carnot conceded its place to the young heroine Hassiba Ben Bouali.