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All of those overtures have been rebuffed by Warner Discovery, according to people familiar with the matter.

Private-equity buyers are often attracted to firms without CEOs, which tend to be more receptive to deal overtures.

Paramount’s overtures to Warner Discovery come less than three months after David Ellison’s Skydance Media took control of the company from Shari Redstone’s National Amusements.

Posters of her face were put up in her neighbourhood and her mother posted pleas on Facebook in Spanish for her return - public overtures that apparently irked the teen.

Biya turned to a mix of repression, regional alliances and overtures to his former rivals to curtail threats to his rule, Arrey Ntui, the International Crisis Group's senior analyst for Cameroon, said.