Paul Biya, Cameroon’s Head of State and wife Chantal Biya will pay a three-day state visit to Italy on March 20.

According to a press release signed by the secretary general at the Presidency, Ferdinard Ngoh Ngoh, the presidential visit will is organised at behest of the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella.

Mattarella who visited Cameroon around the same time last year to renew ties between the two countries, had promised  inviting Biya for a return visit. While in Cameroon, the Italian president and Paul Biya held private talks and signed agreements to cooperate in revamping the economy and education sector. The Italian president also met with the Italian community in Yaounde and visited an Italian firm in Yaounde inorder to encourage Italian investments in Cameroon.