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		Several other parties contesting the polls, including the Social Democratic Front, the National Union for Democracy and Progress, and the Democratic Union of Cameroon have expressed concern about possible irregularities in the voter lists in some parts of the country.
		Some 48 political parties including the ruling Rassemblement democratique du peuple camerounais (RDPC- Democratic Rally of the people of Cameroon) are vying for the 180 seats in the National Assembly.
		In early June, the Southern Cameroon National Council called on people in the country's two English-speaking provinces, Southwest and Northwest, to boycott the upcoming elections.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=28427&SelectRegion=West_Africa&SelectCountry=CAMEROON

	Cameroon: country profile
		Democratic Alliance of the People of Cameroon (RDPC, formerly the only party), Movement for the Defense of the Republic, Social Democratic Front (FSD), Social Democratic Movement, National Union for Democracy and Progress (UNDP), Democratic Union of Cameroon, Union of the Peoples of Cameroon.
		The country profiles are drawn from the World Guide 2001/2002, New Internationalist Publications Ltd, 55 Rectory Road, Oxford, OX4 1BW, U.K; Instituto del Tercer Mundo, Jackson 1136, Montevideo 11200, Uruguay.
		Drought and desertification are the main concerns in the southern region, which covers 25 per cent of the nationâs land area, and houses over a quarter of the population.
	gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/country_profile.cfm?Id=227 (286 words)

	Presidential Adress by John Gomomo, COSATU President, at the COSATU 6th National Congress
		As recent as December last year the timely intervention of OATUU's delegation led by me, prevented the Niger government from destabilizing our Niger affiliate, the National Union of Niger Workers (USTN).
		When the Cameroon government started its interference in the affairs of the Cameroon Trade Unions (CSTC) and ejected its Secretary-General Comrade Louise Sombes from his office and official residence, OATUU fielded missions on three occasions, led by our assistant Secretary-General Comrade Demba Diop, to Cameroons.
		African Workers/Trade Unions employers and Governments know, and fully appreciate the role OATUU plays in the defence of not only trade union and human rights, but also the defence of the political and economic rights and interests of Africa.
	www.cosatu.org.za /congress/sp-hass.htm (286 words)

	BBC NEWS Africa Q&A: Cameroon's presidential election
		The RDPC, founded in 1945 as the Cameroon National Union (UNC), remains the most popular party, with support in the Christian-dominated central, southern and eastern regions.
		Mr Njoya is a Muslim, who heads the Cameroon Democratic Union (UDC).
		Victorin Hameni Bieuleu of the Union of Cameroon Democratic Forces (UFDC); Fritz Pierre Ngo of the Cameroonian Ecologists Movement (MEC); Yondo Mandengue Black of the Social Movement for the New Democracy (MSND); Dominique Djeukam Tchameni of the Movement for Democracy and Independence (MDI).
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/3719718.stm (286 words)

	CNN.com - World - Election Watch
		Although several parties participated in the balloting, Cameroon's three largest opposition parties--the Social Democratic Front (SDF), the National Union for Democracy and Progress (UNDP), and the Cameroon Democratic Union (UDC)--decided to actively boycott the election, citing the lack of an independent electoral commission.
		Number of registered voters: 3,882,725 (estimate from May 1997 legislative elections)
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/election.watch/africa/cameroon.html (110 words)

	POLITICS-CAMEROON: A Fractured Opposition Risks Shooting Itself in the Foot
		The Social Democratic Front (SDF), the Democratic Union of Cameroon (Union démocratique du Cameroun, UDC) and the National Union for Democracy and Progress (Union nationale pour la démocratie et le progress, UNDP) are also vying for support — this amidst palpable animosity between Biya and the opposition.
		Apart from Fru Ndi and Ndam Njoya, Samuel Mack-It of the UPC; Djeukam Tchameni, president of the Movement for Democracy and Interdependence; and Victorin Hameni Bieleu, president of the Union of Democratic Forces of Cameroon, have also declared their presidential ambitions.
		At the head of the pack is the ruling Democratic Union of the Cameroonian People which won parliamentary elections in 2002 — also amidst allegations of voting irregularities.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/interna.asp?idnews=25222 (987 words)

	Cameroon: medical concern: prisoners in need of medical attention
		Twenty-eight members of an opposition party, the Union pour la démocratie et le progrès (UNDP), National Union for Democracy and Progress, have been detained for six months in Maroua, Far-North Province, Cameroon.
		In July 1994 28 members of one of Cameroon's opposition parties, the Union pour la démocratie et le progrès, were arrested in the town of Maroua.
		They were charged with "complicity in joint acts of looting, assault occasioning death, obstruction of the public highway and causing slight bodily harm" following clashes in Maroua on 30 July 1994 ("complicité de co-action de pillage en bande, coups mortels, obstacle sur une voie publique et blessures légères").
	www.amnestyusa.org /countries/cameroon/document.do?id=D6BBA5171C220CB1802569A500714DEA (838 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background
		Cameroon has generally enjoyed stability, which has permitted the development of agriculture, roads, and railways, as well as a petroleum industry.
		The government eventually suppressed or came to terms with most political-military groups, settled a territorial dispute with Libya on terms favorable to Chad, drafted a democratic constitution, and held multiparty presidential and National Assembly elections in 1996 and 1997, respectively.
		Democratic rule was interrupted by two military coups in 1987, caused by concern over a government perceived as dominated by the Indian community (descendants of contract laborers brought to the islands by the British in the 19th century).
	www.phatnav.com /factbook/fields/2028.html (838 words)

	Political Parties in Cameroon
		The National Union for Democracy and Progress has 13 seats in the parliament, in addition to three ministers in Biya's coalition government.
		Groups like CAM are designed to represent the demands of the Anglophone peoples of Cameroon who frequently feel disconnected, misrepresented, and/or ignored by French Cameroon.
		However, political parties do not have much power in the Cameroonian government because Cameroon is far from democratic.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~nvsobhan/campolparties.html (838 words)

	Afrol Cameroon Index Page: Links to Cameroon
		Southern Cameroons is not recognized as an independent state, but draws its rights to independence back to the union of British Cameroons and French Cameroun by plebiscite in 1960, and what they see as unconstitutional acts by the government of president Biya.
		(Ministère de la Jeunesse et des Sports du Cameroun) has an internet site figuring mostly information about the pride of Cameroon, the national football team.
		has an internet site figuring mostly information about the pride of Cameroon, the national football team.
	www.afrol.com /Index/countries/cameroonindex.htm (2957 words)

	Cameroon: country profile
		Democratic Alliance of the People of Cameroon (RDPC, formerly the only party), Movement for the Defense of the Republic, Social Democratic Front (FSD), Social Democratic Movement, National Union for Democracy and Progress (UNDP), Democratic Union of Cameroon, Union of the Peoples of Cameroon.
		There are nearly two hundred African languages (Beti and Bulu being the most widely spoken).
	gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/country_profile.cfm?Id=227 (2957 words)

	RIC Query - Cameroon (20 December 2002)
		It is also the name used by some militant elements of the Anglophone movement in Cameroon for a new nation that would result from the dissolution of the 1961 union of the Southern Cameroons with the Republic of Cameroon and the creation of a new independent state-Ambazonia (Krieger 1994, 617; Southern Cameroons Provisional Administration 2002).
		The ruling authority in the country is the British Southern Cameroons Provisional Administration, created in Washington, DC on June 17, 2001, from a coalition of various liberation movements including the SCNC [Southern Cameroon National Council], SCARM [Southern Cameroons Restoration Movement] and Ambazonia" (Southern Cameroons Provisional Administration 2002).
		The website of a group called the Southern Cameroons Provisional Administration, which states its goal is "to gain control of the colonized territory of the Southern Cameroons," provides information on the goals, objectives, strategies, and grievances of those seeking independence for the Anglophone provinces of Cameroon (Southern Cameroons Provisional Administration 2002).
	www.ailc.com /services/asylum/ric/documentation/CMR03002.htm (2957 words)

	POLITICS-CAMEROON: A Vote for Computerization
		�Our real problem is getting birth certificates and national identity cards,� Gregoire Owona, the assistant secretary-general of the ruling Democratic Union of the Cameroonian People (Rassemblement d�mocratique du peuple camerounais, RDPC), told IPS.
		YAOUNDE, Sep 27 (IPS) - With the countdown to presidential elections in Cameroon gathering pace, it might be assumed that officials there are simply putting the finishing touches to polling systems and procedures.
		Djeukam Tchameni, a computer scientist and president of the Movement for Democracy and Interdependence, disagrees that a computerized voting system is beyond the reach of Cameroon.
	www.ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=25621 (2957 words)

	Mail & Guardian Online:
		The Social Democratic Front (SDF), the Democratic Union of Cameroon (Union D�mocratique du Cameroun, or UDC) and the National Union for Democracy and Progress (Union Nationale pour la D�mocratie et le Progress, or UNDP) are also vying for support -- this amid palpable animosity between Biya and the opposition.
		At the head of the pack is the ruling Democratic Union of the Cameroonian People, which won parliamentary elections in 2002 -- also amid allegations of voting irregularities.
		Apart from Fru Ndi and Ndam Njoya, Samuel Mack-It of the UPC; Djeukam Tchameni, president of the Movement for Democracy and Interdependence; and Victorin Hameni Bieleu, president of the Union of Democratic Forces of Cameroon have also declared their presidential ambitions.
	www.mg.co.za /Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Africa&ao=121155 (2957 words)

	Pambazuka News
		Nevertheless, an opposition party - the northern-based National Union for Democracy and Progress (UNDP) - won 68 seats to the RDPC's 88, raising hopes of the gradual evolution of a competitive system of electoral democracy.
		Although the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (RDPC/CPDM) is unlikely to resort to the levels of electoral fraud that have marred previous elections in Cameroon (it may not need to), the inevitability and likely scale of Biya's victory is the latest indication of serious deficiencies at the heart of Cameroon's democratic dispensation.
		The ease with which President Biya will win next week's supposedly competitive election should be a source of significant concern for those interested in the efflorescence of a genuine democratic culture in Cameroon and across the sub-region.
	www.pambazuka.org /index.php?id=25092 (2957 words)

	africanfront.com (AUF)
		National Union for Democracy and Progress or UNDP [Maigari BELLO BOUBA]; Cameroon
		Union for Multiparty Democracy or UMD [Abdullah FUNDIKIRA]; TZ Union for National Democracy and Solidarity or UDS [Adamou N'Diaye MAMA] Benin
		National Union of Independents for Democratic Renewal or UNIRD [Moutari MOUSSA]; Niger
	www.africanfront.com /politicalparties.php (2957 words)

	MSN Encarta - Cameroon
		The main opposition parties are the Social Democratic Front, the Cameroon Democratic Union, the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon, and the National Union for Democracy and Progress.
		The leading political party in Cameroon is the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement, founded in 1966 as the National Cameroonian Union and renamed in 1985.
		Legislative power in Cameroon is vested in the single-chamber National Assembly, which consists of 180 members elected to five-year terms.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576170_4/Cameroon.html (368 words)

	AI REPORT 1997: Cameroon (the Republic of)
		A undp National Assembly member from Mayo Rey, North Province, died after being attacked by men acting on behalf of the lamido of Rey Bouba.
		In October, the Douala Court of Appeal convicted Pius Njawe, editor-in-chief of Le Messager, and a colleague, Eyoum Ngangué, of insulting the President and members of the National Assembly.
		The case against four members of the Mbororo Social and Cultural Association was dismissed by a court in Bamenda in September, after their trial on charges of defamation and abuse was repeatedly adjourned because the complainant failed to appear in court.
	www.amnesty.org /ailib/aireport/ar97/AFR17.htm (2456 words)

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		National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons, Labour Party of Grenada (West Indies), West Indies People's National Party, Nigerian Youth Movement, Nyasaland African Congress (Malawi), African National Congress (South Africa), and Gold Coast Farmer's Association (Ghana).
		Nnamdi Azikiwe of the Ibo-based National Council of Nigeria
		League of Nations mandates:Tanganyika, Rwanda, Burundi, Cameroon, Namibia, Togo.
	www.wku.edu /~john.hardin/360syl9.htm (2064 words)

Politics of Cameroon

Political pressure groups and leaders: Alliance for Change or FAC [leader NA]; Cameroon Anglophone Movement or CAM [Vishe FAI, secretary general]; Southern Cameroon National Council [Henry FOSSUNG]

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www.eurofreehost.com /po/Politics_of_Cameroon_4.html (2064 words)

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		Hameni Bieleu, leader of the Union des Forces democratiques du Cameroun (Union of Democratic Forces of Cameroon) is also part of this movement, which recalls the early 1990s when a union for change was set up to challenge President Paul Biya for the presidency in 1992.
		During a televised broadcast on 3 August, Fru Ndi said that despite the denigrating statements made by his former colleagues, the SDF was in fact a national party, having presented candidates for the legislative elections in 175 of the 180 constituencies.
		During that meeting, and others carried on state radio, he described the defectors as “incapable” and “not representative” of the SDF since they “were not able to win the elections in their region of origin”.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=29295&SelectRegion=West_Africa (1622 words)

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		Meanwhile, Pierre Ngayap, Secretary-General of Cameroon's National Union for Democracy and Progress party, said he was most struck by the difference between the presidential systems in the United States and his home country.
		The foreign observers were invited by the non-profit National Democratic Institute, which runs democracy development programs around the world.
		Fauzia Wahab, a member of Pakistan's national assembly, has a burning question she has not yet gotten an answer to.
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	Cameroon Campaign Group (CCG)
		For the first time that the National Elections Observatory (NEO) functioned side by side the Ministry of Territorial Administration during the legislative and municipal elections of June 2002, a new group of individuals were able to ascertain firsthand complaints of citizens, voters and political parties in Cameroon.
		So, in my opinion, it is difficult to assert, authoritatively, that the current representation of parties in the National Assembly and in local councils in Cameroon is a true reflection of the partisan political landscape of the country.
		This is a serious impediment to participatory democracy in Cameroon, because the very basis of legitimacy for the government is predicated on its support among the citizenry.
	www.tffcam.org /press/speech_ccg_10_11_03.htm (3158 words)

	Cameroon 1999: Country Commercial Guide - (FY-1999)
		The National Office for Industrial Free Zones (NOIFZ) is a non-profit organization to promote the development of exports, attract new investments and supervise and administer the Industrial Free Zone Program for those who wish to invest in Cameroon with the intention of exporting at least 80% of produce.
		After the democratically elected leader was restored to his post by an extraordinary CCTU congress, the government supported the founding of a competing Confederation of Free Cameroonian Trade Unions (USLC), headed by a former CCTU vice president.
		National Assembly elections involving opposition parties were held for the first time in March 1992, and again in May 1997 when forty-four parties vied for 180 seats.
	www.mac.doc.gov /tcc/data/commerce_html/countries/Countries/Cameroon/CountryCommercial/1999/CountryCommercial.html (18344 words)

	Amnesty International 1999 Annual Report on Cameroon (the Republic of)
		In northern Cameroon, traditional rulers, often prominent members of the ruling cpdm, and acting with the tacit approval of the authorities, continued to be responsible for the illegal detention and ill-treatment of political opponents, in particular members of the opposition Union nationale pour la démocratie et le progrès (undp), National Union for Democracy and Progress.
		Captured armed robbers, who included Chadian nationals, and those suspected of armed robbery, were summarily executed or “disappeared” after their arrest.
		Among several other journalists imprisoned during the year was Patrick Tchouwa, director of Le Jeune Détective, who was arrested by police in July following an article which implicated a government minister and member of the National Assembly in misappropriation of government funds.
	www.amnesty.org /ailib/aireport/ar99/afr17.htm (2241 words)

	RIC Query - Cameroon (16 October 2002)
		A Cameroon specialist at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), a Washington, DC-based non-profit organization that promotes democracy world-wide, expressed a similar view of the poor state of Francophone/Anglophone relations in Cameroon.
		In October 2001, following demonstrations in English-speaking provinces for greater political rights in which three people were killed, nine injured and over 100 arrested, Amnesty International called on the Cameroon government to “respect rights of freedom of association and expression” (AI 4 Oct 2001).
		“Over the last decades feelings of political marginalisation and discrimination have grown stronger in the English speaking provinces, leading to the foundation of the various political movements including the SCNC [Southern Cameroon National Council] and the affiliated SCYL [Southern Cameroon Youth League] in the early 1990s.
	uscis.gov /graphics/services/asylum/ric/documentation/CMR03005.htm (1160 words)

	CNN.com - World - Election Watch
		Cameroon has a bicameral legislature composed of the National Assembly and the Senate
		Party: National Union for Democracy and Progress (UNDP)
		Before March 17 election, National Assembly Elections were last held March 1, 1992
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/election.watch/africa/cameroon.parli.html (63 words)

	Cameroon. In: Amnesty International Report 1995 (POL 10/01/95)
		Nigerian nationals resident in the disputed territory of the Bakassi peninsula reported harassment, beatings and killings by Cameroonian gendarmes.
		Members of the opposition Union nationale pour la démocratie et le progrès (undp), National Union for Democracy and Progress, were detained following an incident in Maroua, Far-North Province, on 30 July during which one person was killed and several wounded.
		Among members of opposition political parties arrested was Janvier Deny, a taxi-driver and treasurer of the local section of the Union des forces démocratiques du Cameroun (ufdc), Union of Cameroon Democratic Forces, who was arrested by police on 12 January in Ebolowa, Southern Province.
	www.amnestyusa.org /countries/cameroon/document.do?id=36F6E4DF200C4E1580256A0F005BB4C6 (1980 words)

	Political Parties in Cameroon
		The National Union for Democracy and Progress has 13 seats in the parliament, in addition to three ministers in Biya's coalition government.
		However, political parties do not have much power in the Cameroonian government because Cameroon is far from democratic.
		Currently, the Social Democratic Front is the largest opposition group, holding 23 seats in the parliament.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~nvsobhan/campolparties.html (203 words)

	Facts About Cameroon
		Southern Cameroon National Council [Ayamba Ette OTUN]; Human Rights Defense Group [Albert MUKONG, president]
		Supreme Court (judges are appointed by the president); High Court of Justice (consists of 9 judges and 6 substitute judges, elected by the National Assembly)
		unicameral National Assembly or Assemblee Nationale (180 seats; members are elected by direct popular vote to serve five-year terms; note - the president can either lengthen or shorten the term of the legislature)
	worldfacts.us /Cameroon.htm (885 words)

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