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	Cameroon (10/06)
		Cameroon (13,353 ft.) in the southwest is the highest peak in West Africa and the sixth in Africa.
		Cameroon' s first multiparty legislative and presidential elections were held in 1992 followed by municipal elections in 1996 and another round of legislative and presidential elections in 1997.
		Cameroon is an active participant in the United Nations, where its voting record demonstrates its commitment to causes that include international peacekeeping, the rule of law, environmental protection, and Third World economic development.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/26431.htm (3690 words)

	Politics of Cameroon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Politics of Cameroon takes place in a framework of a federal presidential republic, whereby the President of Cameroon is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		Cameroon' s first multiparty legislative and presidential elections were held in 1992 followed by municipal elections in 1996 and another round of legislative and presidential elections in 1997.
		One-third of senators are to be appointed by the President, and the remaining two-thirds are to be chosen by indirect elections.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Cameroon (881 words)

	2004 Cameroon Presidential Election Briefing
		The outcome of the October 11 presidential election in Cameroon is a foregone conclusion.
		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 province that evaded it was North-West – the heartland of the SDF leadership.
	www.cdd.org.uk /resources/elections/Briefing_cam2004_Elections.htm (2830 words)

	Transformation: Cameroon
		Cameroon is a bilingual country that was formed from two distinct United Nations mandate territories, and a division persists between Francophone and Anglophone regions, with segments of the Anglophone elite calling for autonomy.
		Cameroon is ranked 141st on the HDI, and marginally qualifies as a country with “medium human development” as the last country in that category of 85.
		Cameroon’s bilateral relationship with Nigeria fluctuates, and is not free of irritations.
	www.bertelsmann-transformation-index.de /87.0.html?L=0 (6008 words)

	Elections in Cameroon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elections in Cameroon gives information on election and election results in Cameroon.
		Cameroon elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature.
		Cameroon is a one party dominant state with the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement in power.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Cameroon (287 words)

	The Danish EU Presidency - eu2002.dk - Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on the elections ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Danish EU Presidency - eu2002.dk - Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on the elections in Cameroon on 30 June 2002
		The EU is pleased that the recent legislative and municipal elections were conducted peacefully and welcomes the establishment of the National Elections Observatory.
		The EU is nevertheless concerned at indications of irregularities in the electoral process and would like to impress upon the government of Cameroon the need for substantial electoral reform before the Presidential elections due in 2004.
	www.eu2002.dk /news/news_read.asp?iInformationID=21491 (129 words)

	Cameroon
		The Republic of Cameroon is a unitary republic of central Africa.
		The former French Cameroon and part of British Cameroons merged in 1961 to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon which in 1972 was renamed the United Republic of Cameroon; since 1984 the country is known as the Republic of Cameroon or République du Cameroun (its official languages are English and French).
		Cameroon has generally enjoyed stability, which has permitted the development of agriculture, roads, and railways, as well as a petroleum industry.
	creekin.net /n32-cameroon.html (436 words)

	Cameroon History Timeline - historic overview of Cameroun, Africa
		Cameroon are doing better than most of the neighbouring countries and a favourite to the European governments.
		The film is inspired by her own childhood in Cameroon and delas with the relations between fl/white, man/woman, child/adult.
		The state of Cameroon remains with a relative healthy economy, but the rate of violent crimes increases as the population faces huge economic and social problems.
	crawfurd.dk /africa/cameroon_timeline.htm (2602 words)

	Background Notes Archive - Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The European presence in Cameroon during the earlier years of contact was primarily devoted to coastal trade and the acquisition of slaves.
		Cameroon's 25,000-person military, including a 13,000-member security force, and a 3,000-person presidential guard, is oriented chiefly toward internal security; there is also a national police force of 15,000 and a domestic intelligence network.
		Cameroon has an investment guaranty agreement and a bilateral accord with the U. investment in Cameroon is about $1 billion, most of it in the oil sector.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/af/cameroon9603.html (2482 words)

	Toolbox: 18. Electoral Assistance and Reform
		Elections are a legitimate means for power to change hands in a democracy; the lack of a participatory system of government is at the heart of many of the intrastate conflicts in the world today.
		Election reform is most needed—and most difficult to achieve—during a political crisis, during violent conflict, or in the immediate aftermath of a civil conflict.
		A key factor in elections is the role of the opposition and the extent to which it is free to campaign, and the nature of its participation in the process.
	www.caii.com /CAIIStaff/Dashboard_GIROAdminCAIIStaff/Dashboard_CAIIAdminDatabase/resources/ghai/toolbox18.htm (1659 words)

	IRIN Africa \| West Africa \| Cameroon \| CAMEROON: Bleak prospects for 2004 elections \| Governance \| Feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Cameroon's umbrella opposition group, the Coalition for National Reconciliation and Reconstruction (CNRR), has called for the 2004 voter registers to be computerised to prevent electoral fraud.
		Cameroon, which with its francophone and anglophone mix is a rarity in the region, is rich in natural resources and has seen growth rates hover at around five percent for the last five years.
		Corruption is the prime drag all over the country from the hot desert plains in the north, to the cool mountains in the centre and the lush tropical rainforest in the south and east.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=42637&SelectRegion=West_Africa&SelectCountry=CAMEROON (2022 words)

	Reason Magazine - Why Poor Countries Are Poor
		It's all too tempting for the visitor in Cameroon to shrug his shoulders and explain the country's poverty by presuming that Cameroonians are idiots.
		Cameroon's tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in check.
		The problem is that Cameroon, like other poor countries, is a topsy-turvy place where it's in most people's interest to take actions that directly or indirectly damage everyone else.
	www.reason.com /news/show/33258.html?id=05dr3 (4285 words)

	afrol News - Your Portal to Africa!
		In addition to the stuffing of ballot boxes and the use of bogus ones, they denounced intimidation by traditional chiefs, bussing of voters, multiple voting, voting by minors (minimum voting age is 20 years), and discriminatory voter registration to the detriment of the opposition.
		Elections in Cameroon have routinely been marred by claims of irregularities.
		The special envoy of the UN Secretary-General to Cameroon, Seydou Elimane Diarra, said in a press communique published on Wednesday, just before his departure from Yaounde, that the postponement had been for the better since it enabled the state to "alleviate certain shortcomings and facilitate the conduct of the elections in serenity”.
	www.afrol.com /html/News2002/cam011_poll_rigged.htm (931 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Cameroon presidential elections begin amid opposition accusations of fraud
		YAOUNDE, Cameroon – Opposition allegations of fraud marred Monday's election in the West African nation of Cameroon where longtime leader Paul Biya was competing against about a dozen candidates in a bid for another seven-year term.
		In 1992, he won Cameroon's first-ever multiparty presidential elections, but the balloting was internationally denounced as fraudulent.
		Cameroon, which combines former British and French colonial holdings, became a federated nation in 1961.
	signonsandiego.com /news/world/20041011-0313-cameroon-elections.html (491 words)

	CAMEROON: parliamentary elections Assemblée nationale, 2002
		Elections were held for all the members of the National Assembly on the normal expiry of the members' term of office.
		Municipal elections were due to be held in 2001, but municipal councillors had their term of office prolonged by one year.
		By-elections were held on 15 September 2002 to fill the 17 seats left vacant further to these decisions.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2053_02.htm (418 words)

	Cameroon Elections Get Underway - 2002-06-30
		Voters in Cameroon cast ballots Sunday in the central African country's first legislative elections in five years after they were postponed last week due to poor organization.
		The opposition accused election officials of being biased in favor of the ruling party after a large number of opposition candidate lists were rejected.
		The postponement of the elections was an embarrassment for the government, and it further fueled accusations of fraud that had been leveled by the main opposition party, the Social Democratic Front.
	www.voanews.com /english/archive/2002-06/a-2002-06-30-14-Cameroon.cfm (497 words)

	Nigeria, Cameroon swap land
		Lagos - Nigeria and Cameroon were to take another step towards solving a longstanding border dispute on Tuesday with an exchange of territory on their long land border, the United Nations said.
		In parallel ceremonies in two border areas, the Nigerian flag is to be hoisted over a community once controlled by Cameroon, and the Cameroonian banner will be raised in a formerly Nigerian settlement, the UN statement announced.
		The west African neighbours have long disputed the ownership of Bakassi, a strip of coastal swamp covering some 1 000 square kilometres that juts into the oil-rich waters of the Gulf of Guinea and is currently controlled by Nigeria.
	www.news24.com /News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1556907,00.html (390 words)

	Pambazuka News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Complaints on the municipal elections, held concurrently with the legislative polls, were yet to be decided by the Court.
		The election saw the ruling Rassemblement démocratique du peuple camerounais (RDPC - Cameroon People's Democratic Movement) increase its seats in parliament from 116 to 133.
		The secretary-general of the SDF, Tazoacha Asongany, commented in the state-owned Cameroon Tribune newspaper that he was disappointed by the decision of the court.
	www.pambazuka.org /newsletter.php?id=9074 (1013 words)

	The Post Online (Cameroon): Law Without Boundaries:Cameroon’s Apocalyptic Democracy
		In March 1992, the first-ever multi-party legislative elections were held though highly boycotted by the main opposition parties on grounds that the rules did not guarantee free and fair elections, and that their militants needed time to register for the elections.
		Elections organised by the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation are often marked by irregularities, fraud, rigging, intimidation and harassment.It is prudent and honourable for the postponement of the upcoming elections just as they did for the harmonised Criminal Procedure Code in order to put ELECAM to test prior to presidential elections.
		Cameroon is a signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by the General Assembly resolution 2200A (XXI) of December 16, 1966 and entry into force on March 23, 1976.
	www.postnewsline.com /2007/02/law_without_bou.html (1295 words)

	Elections in Cameroon
		In East Cameroon, the Cameroonian Union (UC) won the election.
		The RDPC won all of the seats, thus increasing its level of representation in the national assembly to 116.
		The election* was boycotted by three main opposition parties –; The Social Democratic Front (SDF), National Union for Democracy and Progress (UNDP), Cameroon Democratic Union (UDC).
	africanelections.tripod.com /cm.html (484 words)

	AfricaFiles \| Cameroon opposition boycotts elections
		All the major opposition parties are boycotting the elections in protest of poor electoral laws and registration processes that make it very susceptible to the massive fraud by the government that has characterized past elections in Cameroon.
		It will be necessary, therefore, to adjust the date of the elections to enable the first session of the newly elected parliament to start in March, which is the first session of the legislative year, and also give adequate time to the newly appointed members of ELECAM to master the electoral process," Fru Ndi said.
		Elections in Cameroon in the past have been organized by the MINAT, under the eyes of the government's toothless watchdog, the National Elections Observatory.
	www.africafiles.org /article.asp?ID=14536&ThisURL=./index.asp&URLName=HOME (751 words)

	Cameroon: Meaningful elections coming? « The sub-Saharan African roundtable
		When Cameroon opened its political system in 1990, Western governments and donor institutions gambled that Paul Biya, in power since 1982, and his Cameroonian People’s Democratic Movement would live up to the penultimate word in the party’s name.
		As the 1992 elections drew near, it became clear that the opposition Social Democratic Front, based in Anglophone Northwest province and led by John Fru Ndi, was set to stage a remarkable upset.
		Two church-sponsored election reform laws were submitted to Biya’s office in the spring of 2006.
	ssaroundtable.wordpress.com /2007/01/04/cameroon-meaningful-elections-coming (833 words)

	CAMEROON-INFO.NET :: 2007 Elections: Register Now
		Considering that there were no elections in 2005 and 2006, reports from many Sub-divisional Offices stated that neither the population nor political party officials were very much interested in the registration exercise.
		The government on its part is committed to ensure free, fair and transparent elections in the country manifested through the birth of Elections Cameroon (ELECAM), the independent body with the responsibility to organise and control all elections in Cameroon.
		As political parties hold congresses to map out victory strategies ahead of the elections, they should bear in mind that the massive registration of their militants in the voters’ registers is a precondition for voting and getting to power.
	www.cameroon-info.net /cmi_show_news.php?id=18638 (727 words)

	A Global World - Exclusive travel and holiday information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Upcoming Elections: Cameroon's parliamentary and presidential elections are scheduled to occur between March and October 1997.
		Travelers and U.S. citizens resident in Cameroon are advised to avoid gatherings of large crowds, and are also advised to limit their travel during periods surrounding scheduled elections due to potential political unrest.
		The elections and political activity associated with them may cause significant changes in the security situation in certain regions of the country.
	www.aglobalworld.com /Countries/Cameroon.html (857 words)

	Cameroon, Nigeria move to next stage of border settlement - UN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		As was the case in the Lake Chad area, UNOWA said, the populations of the cities and localities concerned speak the same languages and have constantly repeated their rejection of war.
		They expressed their support for the decision taken by Presidents Paul Biya of Cameroon and Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria to implement the ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) governing the settlement.
		In the next few weeks, talks on the withdrawal from the Bakassi Peninsula will carry on, to be followed by further discussions on the delimitation of the maritime border between the two countries, UNOWA said.
	www.un.org /apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=11317&Cr=cameroon&Cr1=nigeria (290 words)

	George Ngwane: George Ngwane: The Independent Intellectual
		We are convinced that the unconditional participation of independent candidates at all electoral levels in Cameroon will refocus political choices on individual merit, will permit the youth, who are increasingly marginalised in party structures, to assert themselves; and will respond to Cameroon’s constitutional provision which places national sovereignty on the people, not on the parties.
		Political parties that were supposed to articulate the social interest of the masses and to provide concrete human and structural development solutions have instead become conduits of immunity for the pornographic personalization of power, the primitive accumulation of wealth and the predatory criminalisation of the state.
		Politicians must recognise that what happens to citizens between elections is as important as what happens during elections; indeed, sometimes it is not elections that fail, it is governments that do.
	www.gngwane.com /2006/11/george_ngwane_t.html (2003 words)

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