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  AfricaPlanet.com Network - Cameroon
The Republic of Cameroon is a unitary republic of central Africa.
Cameroon, a German colony at the time of World War I, was split among the French and British as war spoils after the defeat of Germany.
It was renamed the United Republic of Cameroon in 1972, and the Republic of Cameroon or République du Cameroun in 1984 (its official languages are English and French).
www.cameroon.net /index.phtml?page=Cameroon   (434 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Republic of Cameroon is a unitary republic of central and western Africa.
Cameroon's western region is split into four smaller provinces: The Littoral (Littoral) and Southwest (Sud-Ouest) provinces are on the coast, and the Northwest (Nord-Ouest) and West (Ouest) provinces are in the Cameroon grassfields.
Cameroon is one of the few tropical countries to have competed in the Winter Olympics.
www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Cameroon   (5139 words)

  
  emblem - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about emblem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The first emblem book was by Andrea Alciato (1492–1550) of Milan; first printed in Augsburg in 1531, it had some 175 editions in several languages.
The Scottish emblem of the thistle is said to date from the 8th century, when a Danish night assault on Stirling Castle was foiled because one of the attackers cried out as he trod on one, though the thistle is not recorded as a royal emblem in Scotland until the 15th century.
The lily (fleur-de-lis) is the emblem of France, and the maple leaf that of Canada.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /emblem   (567 words)

  
 Cameroon Travel Agencies, ASFA Members, travel agents for cheap airline tickets and discount air fares
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a unitary republic of central Africa.
Cameroon, a German colony at the time of World War I, was split among the French and British as war spoils after the defeat of Germany.
Cameroon's coastal plain extends 10 to 50 miles (15–80 km) inland from the Gulf of Guinea (part of the Atlantic Ocean) to the edge of a plateau.
www.specialfares.net /country.php?country=7   (2002 words)

  
 WTO | Trade policy review - Cameroon 1995
Cameroon and other countries using the CFA franc issued by the Bank of Central African states were subject to a 50 per cent devaluation of the CFA franc in January 1994.
Cameroon's import tariffs are all ad valorem and applied in four tiers, with an average of 18.8 per cent.
Cameroon's trade liberalization and fiscal reform are part of a larger market-oriented economic reform programme aimed at reversing a prolonged economic downslide triggered by the halving of world petroleum prices in 1986.
www.wto.org /english/tratop_e/tpr_e/tp2_e.htm   (4653 words)

  
 Cameroon
Cameroon's western region is split into four smaller provinces: The Littoral and Southwest provinces (Sud-Ouest) are on the coast, and the Northwest (Nord-Ouest) and West provinces (Ouest) are in the Cameroon grassfields.
Cameroon is sometimes described as "Africa in miniature" because it exhibits all major climates and vegetation of the continent: coastland, desert, mountains, rain forest, and savanna.
Southern Cameroon is inhabited by the predominantly Christian speakers of Bantu and Semi-Bantu languages.
pedia.counsellingresource.com /openpedia/Cameroon   (3734 words)

  
 Rejoinder of The Federal Republic of Nigeria - January 2001 - Part V chapter 16 Appendix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Cameroon's presentation of its factual case remains full of uncertainties, which are not only sufficient to deprive it of any basis for an individual claim of responsibility, but also to deprive it of any legal weight in support of any claim of breaches by Nigeria of more general legal obligations.
Cameroon now seeks to explain the inadequacy of its supporting material by saying that the reports it was relying on were not designed to be exhaustive accounts of the incidents referred to, but only to provide a "brief résumé of the events".
Cameroon ignores these discrepancies and, choosing between various possibilities, now states that the version of events which is to be believed (and by implication that its other documents submitted in evidence are not to be believed) is that the alleged seizure took place in Blaram, between Blangoua and Kofia.
www.icj-cij.org /icjwww/idocket/icn/icnpleadings/icn_rejoinder/icn_ipleadings_nigeria_rejoinder_20010101_Ch16App.htm   (15328 words)

  
 People's Daily Online -- China-Cameroon cooperation posts steady growth
Chinese President Hu Jintao will arrive in Yaounde Tuesday for a state visit to Cameroon, which is expected to usher in a new stage in bilateral relations.
Cameroon exports cotton, logs and lumber to China, from which it imports footwear, tractors and mechanical and electrical products.
In January 2006, China's Shaanxi Province reached an agreement with Cameroon to invest 60.5 million dollars in the African nation in projects linked to rice growing, cassava processing and ostrich raising.
english.people.com.cn /200701/30/eng20070130_346059.html   (388 words)

  
 ICRC regional delegation: Yaoundé
Cameroon’s dispute with Nigeria over the Bakassi peninsula, on the other hand, presented no threat to regional security as both countries awaited a decision by the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
The activities of the secessionist Southern Cameroon’s National Council also remained peaceful in 2000, despite the continued detention of its leader following his invasion of the Buea radio station at the end of 1999 to proclaim the independence of the English-speaking southern Cameroon.
Relations with Cameroon, however, remained strained as Yaoundé maintained its refusal to expel opponents of the Equatorial Guinean government who had taken refuge there.
www.icrc.org /web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList176/BE56B836B89F0A43C1256B6600603A8A   (1286 words)

  
 Trade Compliance Center - Making America's Trade Agreements Work for You!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The authorities were satisfied that Cameroon's objectives for the Round had been attained, although concerns linger in relation to subsidized agricultural exports and the erosion of the preference margins enjoyed by Cameroon under the Lomandeacute; Convention.
Cameroon is granted trade preferences in accordance with existing GSP schemes by developed countries and enjoys preferential access to the European Union's market under the Lomandeacute; Convention.
To address these problems, Cameroon embarked on a trade liberalization programme in 1990, including a coordinated plan with the other CACEU members to reform their common external tariff which led to the adoption of new tariff and fiscal randeacute;gimes in January 1994.
tcc.export.gov /Country_Market_Research/All_Research_Reports/exp_005714.asp   (4617 words)

  
 FOR THE RECORD 2003
During the period 1996-2000, the implementation of the Convention was fostered by the Government’s determination to endow Cameroon with the most liberal and republican laws possible and to establish the sustainable rule of law and democratic pluralism, accompanied by institutional and other checks and balances and the emergence of civil society.
Cameroon is a decentralized, unitary, democratic State with a semi-presidential system characterized by the separation of the executive, legislature and judiciary.
The international human rights conventions to which Cameroon is party form an integral part of the instruments with which the gendarmerie ensures compliance both on the part of citizens and the gendarmes themselves through their exemplary behaviour.
www.hri.ca /fortherecord2003/documentation/tbodies/cat-c-34-add17.htm   (6675 words)

  
 African Union   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The image of the flag illustrated on this page shows the emblem with the map of Africa in brown, which seems to be incorrect.
The emblem should be of the same colour as the two thin stripes, that is dark yellow.
The proportions are changed from the old OAU flag, with the stripes having the ratio 3:1:8:1:3 and the emblem proportionately larger.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/int-oau.html   (1467 words)

  
 Cameroon information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Cameroon's coastal plain extends 10 to 50 miles (15–80 km) inland from the Gulf of Guinea (part of the Atlantic Ocean) to the edge of a plateau.
From the forested southern plateau the land rises northward to the grassy, rugged Adamaoua (Adamawa) highlands.
Cameroon · Central African Republic · Chad · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Equatorial Guinea · Gabon · Republic of the Congo · São Tomé and Príncipe
c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Cameroon   (2000 words)

  
 Iranian Underground Art Mainstream » Skull Symbol   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Alchemic: With the raven and the grave, the skull is a symbol of the flening and mortification of the first stage of the Lesser Work, `earth to earth’, and signifies dying to the world; but it is also that which survives and so is used as a reminder of-life and transmutation.
It is an emblem of Yama, god of the dead, and of Tara in her dark aspect.
The skull as an emblem occurs frequently in christianity, inspired by golgotha, the place of the skull, where christ was crucified.
www.kolahstudio.com /Underground/?p=174   (2030 words)

  
 Cameroon Injustice-#12  Print Page
The irony of the situation is that the Cameroon government spent the last year striving to prove itself as a Heavily Indebted Poor Country, by driving the living standard of it’s citizens to levels lower than ever experienced before.
Nyansako Ni-Nku has said Cameroon's last 20 years have been a period of waste and prayed that with her abundant resources, the country should not stoop so low as to solicit the world's sympathy again.
Government slammed a ban on the press conference organized by the National Episcopal Conference of Cameroon in Yaounde, May 12.The press conference was aimed at launching a report on the conduct of the 2004 Presidential elections and proposals on the amendment of electoral law.
www.angelfire.com /dc2/glenn/shame12-print.htm   (4754 words)

  
 China-Cameroon cooperation posts steady growth
Cameroon exports cotton, logs and lumber to China, from which it imports footwear, tractors and mechanical and electrical products.
The Chinese-funded conference building and the maternity and child care center in the Cameroonian capital Yaounde have become an emblem of the China-Cameroon friendship.
In January 2006, China's Shaanxi Province reached an agreement with Cameroon to invest 60.5 million dollars in the African nation in projects linked to rice growing, cassava processing and ostrich raising.
chinadaily.com.cn /china/2007-01/30/content_796522.htm   (396 words)

  
 Art/Auctions: Art of Africa, Oceania &The Americas auction at Sotheby's May 17, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Lot 14 is a Cameroon Fang female reliquary guardian figure, 16 9 1/16 inches high, that was in the Guy Piazzini collection in Paris and the Kuhn Collection in Los Angeles and was auctioned at Sotheby's Nov.
It has fragmentary feet pieced through the ankles transversely and bound with a braided rope of hair and a large rectangular fetish cavity in the center of her stomach inset with a nail.
Lot 71, "a fine and rare Ejagham Ekpe Society emblem," is a remarkable work of art, 35 inches high, that was posted on either a center post or a wall which demarcated the inner sanctum and it is redolent with mystery and potency.
www.thecityreview.com /s02strib.html   (2871 words)

  
 The Colourful City of Jaipur - DestinWorld Travel Article
This is a city where almost all houses are painted with the same pink colour and the imposing relics of her imperial past in the form of palaces and fortresses are a common sight.
On the swastika emblem that was made infamous by Nazi Germany, he told us that it was an old Hindu religious symbol.
I was later to confirm his assertion as I saw it many times over on other Hindu temples and also witnessed that the central tables at a marriage ceremony in Agra were arranged in the form of a swastika.
www.destinworld.com /features/feat_jaipur.htm   (951 words)

  
 National Emblem India
The State Emblem of India is an adaptation from the Samath Uon Capital of Asoka as preserved in the Sarnath Museuip.
In the original of Sarnath Capital, there are four lions, standing back to back, mounted on an abacus with a frieze carrying sculpture in high relief of an elephant, a galloping horse, a bull and a lion separated by intervening wheels (chakras) over a bell-shaped lolus.
In the State Emblem adopted by the Government only three lions are visible, the fourth being hidden from view.
travels.talash.com /india-culture/national-emblem-india.html   (170 words)

  
 PICAM - Cameroon
East Cameroon gained its independence on January 1, 1960 and the flag was confirmed by the constitution 21 Feb 1960.
Fang is spoken in southern Cameroon, northern Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea.
Although gaining grounds in most urban settings in Cameroon, Ben-skin is closely associated with the Western Province of Cameroon (the Bamileke people), who have been responsible for developing and promoting this genre of music.
www.picam.org /cameroon.htm   (1533 words)

  
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Franquin said Cameroon has deployed elite security forces to protect the local population and the Central Africans, as cross-border assaults are common.
Security forces from Cameroon and CAR in 2005 launched a joint operation to flush out the assailants.
Franquin said it first appeared as though the Mbororo people were roaming Cameroon as pastoralists looking for grazing areas, but the number crossing the border in recent months has escalated and people appear to be settling in.
www.alertnet.org /thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/b8af9f0787d6a6992452c7d665862815.htm   (623 words)

  
 KFOR: KFOR Chronicle:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The evening of September 1st, the French Marines celebrated the anniversary of what became the emblem of their strength, dedication and commitment to fight: the historic Battle of Bazeilles.
From 1940 to 1945, Syria, Cameroon and Chad.
Today, this house has become a museum, and is very well known as la "Maison de la derniere cartouche" the "Last Bullet House".
www.nato.int /kfor/chronicle/2004/chronicle_10/07.htm   (465 words)

  
 Address by at the unveiling of the Fifa soccer world cup South Africa 2010 emblem
The unveiling of this Emblem is part of the continuation of this journey of consolidating the progress, the glorious passion and dazzling display of football in Africa and ensuring that we move forward faster.
Today we unveil this Emblem because in our march we are led by these giants of global and continental football.
Today, in the Tempodrom, as we unveil the 2010 Emblem, we showcase in the Exhibition Hall a new forward-looking and dynamic South Africa with cutting-edge broadcast technology required by FIFA such as high definition television via broadband and television on mobile and handheld telephones.
www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/mbeki/2006/tm0707.html   (2032 words)

  
 Emblem of Cameroon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The National Emblem of Cameroon consists of a shield with a banner above and below it.
The shield has the same color pattern as the Flag of Cameroon, and in the center is a map of the nation.
The scales of justice are superimposed on top of the map of the nation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emblem_of_Cameroon   (145 words)

  
 INTERNATIONAL PROJECT
Though being a bi-cultural and bi-linguistic nation sequel to its colonial experiences inherited from the French and British, dress prescription has been a culture in the English-speaking part of the country where it has rather been mandatory both for public and private school going children to wear school uniforms to and from school.
Generally in the country, the wearing of T.shirts in school is not compulsory as this does not necessarily constitute part of the school uniform.
At the end of the first world in 1919, the former German colony of Cameroon was shared between Britain and France as trust territories, with France given about three quarters of the whole territory, while Britain had just about one quarter.
www.tqnyc.org /NYC040609/ppa/kumba.htm   (1029 words)

  
 THE ROYAL EMBLEM
The Royal Emblem depicts the Royal Cipher of His Majesty the King in a golden yellow colour, the colour of His Majesty’s day of Birth.
It is trimmed in gold on a golden blue background, which is the colour of the Monarchy, and encircled by diamonds, first of gems, meaning the wise men, important authors of the court, well known craftsmen, important elephants, graceful ladies, valiant soldiers, courtiers.
All the background of the Emblem is coloured green mixed gold, which means: the might of the Royal day of Birth and also the prosperity and fertility of the land which His Majesty has reigned over and nurtured most strenuously ever since He acceded to the Throne.
www.tatnews.org /THAILAND_GRAND_EVENTS/2839.asp   (314 words)

  
 Anglophonism and Francophonism in Cameroon
The mandatory occupation of Cameroon by France and Britain decreed by the League of Nations (1919) saw the introduction of French in the part (East Cameroun) ruled by France and a cementation of English in the area governed by Britain (Southern Cameroons).
French Cameroon was typically French in its governance […] Under the French, the language alone became the language of primary education, and the vernacular and Pidgin English were banned from schools as obviously as German.
In 1961, upon independence, British Cameroon reunited with the French Cameroon, with English as its official language under the name, the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
www2.univ-reunion.fr /~ageof/text/74c21e88-654.html   (4647 words)

  
 cameroononline.org :: Cameroon news, Actualité du Cameroun, yellow pages, chat, images, pages jaunes, annuaire, hotels
Now we represent Ghana and Africa." A shock defeat of the reigning World Cup champions would be the greatest victory in African football history and match the best Cup runs by an African side, the quarter-final runs by Cameroon in 1990 and Senegal in 2002.
A witness said the vehicles were both travelling at high speed when they collided o­n a road 70km (43 miles) outside Yaounde.
At least 800 died o­n Cameroon's roads last year, the transport ministry said.
www.cameroononline.org /index.php?module=shortnews&startnum=901   (1252 words)

  
 From the Grasslands(Grassfields) Exhibition, Cameroon
The Grasslands is a large cultural area located in central Cameroon inhabited by a number of related peoples including the Bamun, the Bamileke and the Bamenda Tikar.
Most Bamileke art (and the work of other kingdoms of the Cameroon Grasslands) relates to kings and important chiefs, who defined their power by the display of prestige objects during important ceremonies.
Their governing complex was usually next to the royal palace and they worked with the king to rule.
www.hamillgallery.com /EXHIBITIONS/Grasslands.html   (1304 words)

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