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  Country Summary - Cameroon
The President is the chief of state; the prime minister is the head of government.
The president is empowered to name and dismiss cabinet members, judges, generals, provincial governors, prefects, sub-prefects, and heads of Cameroon's parastatal (about 100 state-controlled) firms, obligate or disburse expenditures, approve or veto regulations, declare states of emergency, and appropriate and spend profits of parastatal firms.
In Cameroon, the doctor to patient ratio is 1: 12,500, the infant mortality rate exceeds six percent, and less than half the population has access to safe drinking water.
www.tulane.edu /~internut/Countries/Cameroon/cameroonxx.html   (861 words)

  
 Cameroon - LoveToKnow 1911
The English usage until nearly the end of the 19th century was to confine the term "the Cameroons" to the mountain range, and to speak of the estuary as the Cameroons river.
The north of Cameroon is inhabited by Fula and Hausa and allied tribes, the south by Bantuspeaking races.
Cameroon and the neighbouring coast were discovered by the Portuguese navigator, Fernando Po, towards the close of the 15th century.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Cameroon   (3798 words)

  
 British Empire page
A British Governor General was appointed with his capital in Calcutta, and subsidiary governors in the provinces.
After the Suez Canal was built in Egypt the Canal Zone was a British base to protect it and Egypt itself became a protectorate, and Aden at the southern tip of Arabia was a fueling point for ships passing from Suez to India and a Naval base for patrolling the Red Sea and Indian Ocean.
From here British traders extended to the island of Borneo where two colonies were formed in the north, one the quasi-feudal state of Sarawak, ruled by the so-called White Rajahs of the Brooks family on behalf of the Sultan of Brunei, the other North Borneo (now Sabah).
www.angelfire.com /mac/egmatthews/worldinfo/europe/empire.html   (3981 words)

  
 MapUp.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Cameroon (13,353 ft.) in the southwest is the highest peak in West Africa and the sixth in Africa.
Following government pledges to reform the strongly centralized 1972 constitution, the National Assembly adopted a number of amendments in December 1995, which were promulgated in a new constitution in January 1996.
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.
mapup.com /africa/cameroon.html   (2420 words)

  
 Map Zones : Cameroon Map   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Cameroon has achieved one of the highest rates of school attendance in Africa, although the literacy rate is still just 94 percent.
Cameroon, republic in western Africa, bounded on the north by Lake Chad; on the east by Chad and the Central African Republic; on the south by the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea; and on the west by the Bight of Biafra (an arm of the Atlantic Ocean) and Nigeria.
The population of Cameroon (2001 estimate) is 15,803,220.
kids.mapzones.com /world/cameroon   (2807 words)

  
 Cameroon
The colours of the flag of Cameroon are the pan-African colours, green/red/yellow.
In 1972 the federal system was replaced by a unitary government, and in 1975 the two stars were removed from the green and a single yellow star was placed on the red portion of the flag.
British Cameroon was divised in two: British Nothern Cameroon (split in two non continguos piece) and British Southern Cameroon both ruled from Nigeria which became independent 1-10.60.
www.fotw.net /flags/cm.html   (1296 words)

  
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Whether implementation of the revised constitution satisfies calls for government decentralization, independence of the judiciary, or greater balance among the branches of government remains to be seen.
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.
www.umsl.edu /services/govdocs/backgroundnotes/cameroon.txt   (2476 words)

  
 Africa: News & Videos about Africa -- CNN.com
Ethiopians fret as 'Lucy' skeleton heads to U.S. Ethiopians worried on Tuesday that the fragile bones of their world-famous skeleton -- the remains of a more than 3-million-year-old female hominid known as "Lucy" -- may not survive a six year U.S. tour.
Three-year-old British girl Margaret Hill is recovering in Nigeria after she was released by kidnappers who had held her for four days.
Nigerian kidnappers released a 3-year-old British girl on Sunday after holding her for four days, and no ransom was paid, according to Nigerian police sources close to the investigation.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/africa/archive   (3624 words)

  
 Heads - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Heads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The human head contains the brain and specialised sense organs such as the nose, tongue, ears, and eyes.
In the embryo, as in evolution, the distinction between the head and the trunk by the formation of a cervical constriction occurs comparatively late, though long before this constriction appears the characteristic features of the parts have become developed.
At first the head may be said to consist wholly of the cranial part, the face developing later.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Heads   (136 words)

  
 Cameroon (10/06)
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.
Cameroon has repeatedly demonstrated its preference for resolving its border dispute with Nigeria in the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula through peaceful legal means after having submitted the case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Cameroon is a member of CEMAC (Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa) and supports UN peacekeeping activities in Central Africa.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/26431.htm   (3730 words)

  
 British Pages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Nor is it co-extensive with "the British Isles" because it excludes the Republic of Ireland which is the larger part of the island of Ireland.
The word "British" is also used to signify allegiance to the Crown so that a technical term for any person owing allegiance to the Crown is "British subject" and at the height of the British Empire that included a very substantial part of the population of the globe.
Once known as the British Commonwealth, and often called by that name, either for historical reasons, or to distinguish it from other institutions describing themselves as "commonwealths", the Commonwealth is a free association of 53 independent states the majority of which were once part of the British Empire.
www.eurolegal.org /british.shtml   (2691 words)

  
 2002 FIFA World Cup - Teams - Cameroon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Cameroon's success in Africa, where a lot of nations have neither the money nor the resources to compete, has a way of giving the team a false sense of security heading into a talented pool of teams at the World Cup.
Cameroon has enjoyed stability the past four decades, which has allowed for progress and the growth of agriculture, roads, and railways, as well as a petroleum industry.
That's always been the knock against Cameroon, is that they play fire-engine soccer and in their desire to play an attractive offensive game, they sometimes completely neglect what they have to do at the other end.
www.cbc.ca /sports/soccer/teams/cameroon-new.html   (1632 words)

  
 Governance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Cameroon's strategy has been guided by the need to formulate and implement policies that will contain the challenges of human, ecological and climatic diversities.
Instead of being an efficient instrument to execute government policies, most civil servants for want of favours are politicians, thus compromising the administrative machinery to the detriment of the government.
The government of Cameroon is still reviewing its budgetary heads for reforms and Governance which will be presented to the National Assembly in June 1997.
www.uneca.org /unsia/cluster/govern/cameron.htm   (3729 words)

  
 Background Notes Archive - Africa
Mt. Cameroon in the Southwest is the third highest peak (13,353 ft.) in Africa.
Following government pledges to reform the strongly centralized 1972 constitution, the National Assembly adopted a number of amendments in December 1995.
This is a test of the Cameroonian Government's commitment to the political and economic reform required to revitalize its faltering economy.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/af/cameroon9603.html   (2482 words)

  
 Background Notes: Cameroon
From 1961 until spring 1972, Cameroon was governed as a federation, with east (formerly French) Cameroon and west (formerly British) Cameroon having individual governments--each with a parliament and ministries--in addition to the federal government structure.
Although France still is Cameroon's primary foreign investor, the government concluded an investment guaranty agreement with the United States in 1967, and a bilateral investment accord with the United States was ratified in 1989.
Each year, the US Government invites Cameroonian Government officials, media representatives, educators, and scholars to visit the United States to become better acquainted with the American people and to exchange ideas and views with their American colleagues.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/af/cameroon9206.html   (2192 words)

  
 afrol News - Cameroon, Nigeria to withdraw from Bakassi
In early 1994, the government of Nigeria's dictator General Sani Abacha sent troops to Bakassi to respond to increased Cameroonian gendarme pressure against local resident, most of which is claiming to be Nigerian citizens.
Nigeria claims another interpretation of British protection contracts of 1884 with the villages of Bakassi and is backed by the local population, mostly claiming to be Nigerian.
Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Sao Tomé and Principe are all involved in oil production in the Gulf of Guinea, and much is at stake as the first maritime borders are to be defined.
www.afrol.com /News2002/cam013_nig_bakassi2.htm   (733 words)

  
 Paul Biya heads confidently towards re-election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The long-serving head of state faces a divided opposition which has already accused him of preparing to rig the poll.
Although his government is view by the Berlin-based corruption watchdog Transparency International as one of the most corrupt in Africa, Biya promised to fight graft.
Pointing out that he had managed to keep Cameroon, a country formed by the union of former French and British colonies, stable and peaceful, Biya derided his opponents as a bunch of opportunists, full of unrealistic promises.
www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=43584   (1257 words)

  
 Charles Zorgbibe*   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In 1867 Canada is established as a “dominion,” with a government responsible before a local parliament and possessing internal autonomy; Australia and New Zealand follow in 1900 and 1907, then South Africa and Newfoundland: five dominions coexist with crown colonies at the beginning of the war in 1914.
During the Commonwealth conference of Heads of Government held in Lusaka (Zambia) at the beginning of August 1979, Margaret Thatcher not only failed to rally her peers to an international recognition of the internal settlement, but is forced to join them.
Henceforth the British government is determined to establish an “authentic Black majority government”; it admits that the constitution of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia is “imperfect from certain points of view,” particularly from the point of view of the by the predominance Whites in the administration, the judiciary authorities and the army.
www.african-geopolitics.org /show.aspx?ArticleId=3687   (2466 words)

  
 Africa 2001
In September, the agreement was extended to include Cameroon's second city, Douala, and the town of Bamenda in the English-speaking southwestern province.
Ngono, head of the popular private broadcaster Radio Television Siantou (RTS), was arrested by police officers on his way home from a party in Cameroon's capital, Yaoundé.
Soboth's piece chastised government efforts to curtail freedom of movement in Cameroon's English-speaking provinces ahead of the 40th anniversary of the country's reunification, a political achievement still challenged by militant groups in those provinces.
www.cpj.org /attacks01/africa01/cameroon.html   (1151 words)

  
 The Forgotten War in Maysan Province - by Michael Schwartz and Tom Engelhardt
According to Capt. Andy McLannahan, the British commander, the local attitude was, "What are you doing here?" As far as the locals were concerned, "it was they who ousted Hussein's forces, not the U.S. invasion." When the British imposed their authority and displaced the insurgent government, the residents were bitter.
At this point, the guerrillas abandoned their failed effort to confront the British army directly and settled into the pattern that characterizes the war everywhere in the country: IEDs by roadsides and hit-and-run attacks targeting the patrols of the occupying power.
One British official expressed this imperial attitude perfectly when he told Struck, "The province is clearly in need of a strong authority." The comment reflects a British decision to continue to root out the resistance by military means, which in turn guarantees both ongoing misery for the local population and a growing guerrilla war.
www.antiwar.com /engelhardt/?articleid=7892   (2925 words)

  
 Core Reports - Cameroon - HRI/CORE/1/Add.109 (2000)
Cameroon is characterized by a great diversity of the natural environments found in different parts of Africa.
Cameroon was a de facto one-party State from 1966 to 1990, when Act No. 90/56 of 19 December 1990 concerning political parties was adopted.
Technically speaking, decentralization is also implemented in Cameroon through numerous administrative, industrial and commercial State corporations, as well as through a variety of parastatal enterprises active in various sectors of the economic and social life of the country.
www.bayefsky.com /core/cameroon_hri_core_1_add.109_2000.php   (2931 words)

  
 Welcome to Nigeria Planet.com
Nigeria shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, Niger in the north, and borders the Gulf of Guinea in the south.
As Biafra was now perceived as expansionist, this provoked a violent response from the federal military government who retook the Midwest with ease, escalating the conflict into a full-scale war which resulted in between 1 to 3 million deaths and the reincorporation of Biafran territory into the republic after a victory for the federation.
The Shagari government was viewed as corrupt and incompetent by virtually all sectors of Nigerian society, so when the regime was overthrown by the military coup of Mohammadu Buhari shortly after the regime's fraudulent re-election in 1984, it was generally viewed as a positive development by most of the population.
www.nigeria-planet.com   (2019 words)

  
 Cameroon starts probe into air crash | International | Reuters
MBANGA PONGO, Cameroon (Reuters) - Cameroon opened an inquiry on Tuesday into the crash of a Kenya Airways plane which rescuers took two days to find, and forensic experts began trying to identify the remains of the 114 victims.
Celeste Mandeng of Cameroon's Civil Protection Service said investigators would cover all possibilities, including whether the pilot turned back and tried to land again at Douala.
Cameroon Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni ordered Transport Minister Dakole Daissala to lead a formal government inquiry into the crash, which once again threw the spotlight on air safety in Africa, the continent with the world's worst record.
www.reuters.com /article/worldNews/idUSL084164320070508?feedType=RSS   (466 words)

  
 Milk production in Cameroon: A review
This population growth is prompting many governments to aim at a policy of food self sufficiency.
The Republic of Cameroon is located in Central Africa and ranges from the equatorial forest to the Sahelian zone in Lake Tchad with a total land area of 475 440 km
The Western Highland of Cameroon is an area free of Tse Tse fly.
www.cipav.org.co /lrrd/lrrd17/6/baye17060.htm   (7124 words)

  
 Heads of state of Cameroon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Summary of the 11 October 2004 Cameroon presidential election results
Kamerun National Democratic Party British Cameroon-based, from 1966: part of UNC
(Cameroon Union) French Cameroon-based, from 1966: part of UNC
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_Cameroon   (162 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for language code:eng
SVO; prepositions; genitives after noun heads; articles, adjectives, numerals before noun heads; question word initial; word order distinguishes subject, object, indirect objects, given and new information, topic and comment; active and passive; causative; comparative; consonant and vowel clusters; nontonal.
Used in government, education, and by educated speakers as first or second language.
Multilingual Cameroon: Reader in Cameroonian languages / Cameroun multilingue: Lectures en langues camerounaises.
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=eng   (1761 words)

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