Henri Eyebe Ayissi

{{short description|Cameroonian politician and diplomat|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Infobox officeholder 
|name               = Henri Eyebe Ayissi
|image              = Meeting Foreign Minister of Cameroon (6170457990) cropped.jpg
|office1            = Cameroon Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
|term_start1        = 02 October 2015
|president1         = [[Paul Biya]]
|primeminister1     = [[Philémon Yang]]
|predecessor1       = Lazare Essimi Menye

|office2            = Minister Delegate at the Presidency in charge of Supreme State Control
|term_start2        = 09 December 2011
|term_end2          = 1 October 2015
|president2         = [[Paul Biya]]
|primeminister2     = [[Philémon Yang]]
|predecessor2       = Siegfried David Etame Massoma
|successor2         = [[Fomudam Rose Ngwari]]

|office3            = Cameroon Minister of External Relations
|term_start3        = 7 September 2007
|term_end3          = 8 December 2011
|president3         = [[Paul Biya]]
|primeminister3     = [[Ephraïm Inoni]]<br/>[[Philémon Yang]]
|predecessor3       = [[Jean-Marie Atangana Mebara]]
|successor3         = [[Pierre Moukoko Mbonjo]]

|office4            = Cameroon Minister of Urban Planning and Housing
|term_start4        = 8 September 1990
|term_end4          = 26 November 1992
|president4         = [[Paul Biya]]
|primeminister4     = [[Sadou Hayatou]]
|predecessor4       = 
|successor4         =

|birth_date         = {{birth date and age|1955|09|24|df=y}}
|birth_place        = [[Douala]] ([[Cameroon]])
|nationality        = [[Cameroon]]ian
|party              = [[Cameroon People's Democratic Movement|CPDM]]
|alma_mater         = [[University of Yaoundé]]<br/>[[National School of Administration and Magistracy (Cameroon)|ENAM]]
|profession         = 
}}

'''Henri Eyebe Ayissi''' (born September 24, 1955<ref name=Off>[http://www.spm.gov.cm/showgouv.php?module=showindividu&lang=fr&pers=202 Page on Ayissi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060117153751/http://www.spm.gov.cm/showgouv.php?module=showindividu&lang=fr&pers=202 |date=2006-01-17 }} at Cameroonian government website {{in lang|fr}}.</ref><ref name=Ans>Justin Blaise Akono, [http://www.camerounlink.net/fr/news.php?nid=32127&kat=1&seite=36 "Henri Eyebe Ayissi : 15 ans après ..."], ''Mutations'', September 8, 2007 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref>) is a [[Cameroon]]ian politician and diplomat who served in the government of Cameroon as [[foreign minister|Minister of Foreign Relations]] from 2007 to 2011. He was Minister-Delegate at the Presidency for the Higher Audit Office from 2011 to 2015 and has been Minister of Agriculture since 2015.

==Biography==
Eyebe Ayissi was born in Mbellé, a village in Obala District, [[Lekie Department]], [[Center Province]].<ref name=Off/><ref name=Ans/> After working at the ''Inspection Générale'' of the State from November 1981 to September 1982, he worked under the Prime Minister as Head of the Department of Legal Studies and Deputy Director of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs from September 1982 to February 1984. From August 1984 to September 1985 he worked at the Ministry of Public Service as Head of the Division of Research and Regulations. From September 1985 to January 1987, he was First ''Chargé d'études'' in the Division of Legal Affairs at the Ministry of Planning, and on January 7, 1987, he became Secretary of Ministerial Councils at the Presidency.<ref name=Off/><ref name=Amba>[http://ambacamfrance.org/ambacam%20MINREX%202.htm Biography of Ayissi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080321003607/http://www.ambacamfrance.org/ambacam%20MINREX%202.htm |date=2008-03-21 }} at the website of the Cameroonian embassy to France {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> He was then appointed to the government as Minister of Urban Planning and Housing on September 7, 1990, serving in that position until he was replaced in the government named on November 27, 1992.<ref name=Off/><ref name=Ans/><ref name=Amba/>

In 1998, Eyebe Ayissi became Inspector-General of the Services of the Ministry of Higher Education,<ref name=Amba/> and he subsequently served as Inspector-General on Electoral Issues at the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation.<ref name=Amba/><ref name=Gov>[http://www.spm.gov.cm/detail_art.php?id_art=1414&type=simpl&lang=en "Prime Minister installs newly appointed members of government"] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20071024221604/http://www.spm.gov.cm/detail_art.php?id_art=1414&type=simpl&lang=en |date=2007-10-24 }}, Cameroonian government website.</ref> He was appointed as Foreign Minister by President [[Paul Biya]] on September 7, 2007, replacing [[Jean-Marie Atangana Mebara]],<ref name=Ans/><ref name=Gov/><ref>[http://apanews.net/apa.php?page=show_article_eng&id_article=41343 "Cameroonian leader reshuffles his cabinet"]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, African Press Agency, September 7, 2007.</ref> and he was installed in office on September 10, 2007.<ref name=Gov/>

He was moved to the post of Minister-Delegate at the Presidency for the Higher Audit Office in December 2011 and then to the post of Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development on 2 October 2015.<ref>Omer Mbadi, [http://www.jeuneafrique.com/269266/politique/cameroun-paul-biya-procede-a-remaniement-gouvernemental/ "Cameroun : Paul Biya procède à un remaniement gouvernemental"], ''Jeune Afrique'', 2 October 2015 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref><ref>Monda Bakoa, [https://www.cameroon-tribune.cm/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=92614:ils-changent-de-portefeuille&catid=1:politique&Itemid=3 "Ils changent de portefeuille"], ''Cameroon Tribune'', 4 October 2015 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref>
[[File:Meeting Foreign Minister of Cameroon (6170457990).jpg|center|thumb|Minister for Africa Henry Bellingham met Cameroon's Foreign Minister Henri Ayissi in New York]]

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