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	Cameroon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Republic of Cameroon is a unitary republic of central Africa.
		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).
		Cameroon is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cameroon (1010 words)

	Politics of Cameroon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		The government adopted legislation in 1990 to authorize the formation of multiple political parties and ease restrictions on forming civil associations and private newspapers.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Cameroon (1069 words)

	Cameroon on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Cameroon remains one of the world's leading cocoa producers; coffee, bananas, palm products, tobacco, peanuts, and rubber, all grown mainly on plantations, are also commercially important.
		Cameroon's mineral resources include bauxite and iron ore. The Edéa Dam on the Sanaga River provides the bulk of the country's electricity and powers a large aluminum smelter; all the finished aluminum is exported.
		Cameroon's fans dance to the rhythms of drums next to an Egyptian policeman guarding the stands during a knock-out football match between Angola and Cameroon for the African Nations Cup (CAN), 21 January 2006 in Cairo 21.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/CameroonR1e.asp (2121 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)

	Cameroon history, politics
		The Republic of Cameroon is as diverse geographically as it is in culture.
		Yaounde, Cameroon's capitol is the urban centre for the countries 15.4 million inhabitants.
		Cameroon has had its share of political, economical and health problems but with the aid of organization like Rotary and the World Health Organization it may certainly have a promising future.
	www.onlinedemocracy.ca /cameroon/cameroonhistory.html (915 words)

	Africa Update Archives
		Another important problem that has characterized multipartism in Cameroon and most of the Third World is the confusion that has often been manifested by parties of the opposition in terms of their role in the democratic process and their objectives as political actors.
		For some political parties, their awarenessof the role of the political party in the democratic process seems quite high, and for these the prospects seem good that they will contribute enormously to the sustenance of not only multipartism, but also of the democratic process.
		Cameroon is characterized by an extraordinary geographical, cultural, and linguistic diversity.
	www.ccsu.edu /AFSTUDY/fall96.html (4576 words)

	MOST Ethno-Net publication: Democracy and Good Governance
		In French speaking Cameroon, reforms in 1956 for democracy and democratic governance took off on very shaky grounds - shaky because they were entrenched with the politics of "exclusion" by the French colonial masters who believed in nothing but the politics of assimilation, monopoly and destruction particularly when something was beyond their reach.
		Today Cameroon is not harvesting the fruits of its pioneership but leaking the wounds of its failure and inflexibility to act and push forward or nurture the child it conceived some 15 years ago.
		The inter-marriage between political democracy and economic development in Africa is not surprising given the state of abject poverty and misery that looms over the continent and its marginalisation in global affairs both economically and technologically.
	www.ethnonet-africa.org /pubs/p95forje.htm (7312 words)

	CAMEROON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		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.
		Cameroon has generally enjoyed stability, which has permitted the development of agriculture, roads, and railways, as well as a petroleum industry.
		In 1961 the French and British portions of Cameroon were united, the French portion having gained independence a year earlier.
	www.yotor.org /wiki/en/ca/Cameroon.htm (429 words)

	Country Pages: Cameroon
		Situated on Africa's western coast, Cameroon is a nation of incredible diversity, both in its geography and its people.
		From the desert in the north, to the tropical rain forests of the south, to the savannahs, mountains, national parks, and game reserves throughout the country, the variation in Cameroon's landscape is remarkable.
		Cameroon's per capita income and rates of school attendance are among the highest in sub-Saharan Africa.
	www.cies.org /country/cameroon.htm (560 words)

	History of CAMEROON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In the early 19th century there is considerable activity in Cameroon by British and American missionaries, but a German connection begins only when the Woermann Company of Hamburg builds a warehouse in 1868 on the estuary of the Wouri river.
		Gustav Nachtigal arrives in Cameroon in that year to make a treaty with one of the local kings and to annexe the region for the German emperor.
		One is a long-running constitutional dispute between the English-speaking southwest of the country (one of the former British Cameroons) and the French-speaking majority.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ad39 (1049 words)

	Current State of Democracy in the Republic of Cameroon
		President Paul Biya has dominated politics in Cameroon since 1982 when, as then prime minister, he was appointed president of the one-party state following the unexpected resignation of President Ahmadou Ahidjo.
		The first multiparty presidential and legislative elections were held in 1992 and were administered by Cameroon's Ministry of Territorial Administration (Interior), despite requests by the opposition for an independent election commission to conduct the poll.
		Most Cameroon observers and political analysts believe that the allocation of seats contrasts sharply with the representation of party support across the country.
	www.tffcam.org /foundation/democracy.htm (676 words)

	Africa Today--Politics and Constitution-Making in Francophone Cameroon, 1959-1960
		The exercise was undertaken in partnership with the African political elite, and its outcome was a wholesale reproduction of metropolitan models, with some adjustments to local situations.
		The colonialists, in their capacity as midwives of the new nation-states in the offing, often played the role of umpires and guides and ensured that the final constitutional document was a compromise, one that was the expression of the will of the people and would be a viable instrument of governance.
		In Nigeria, for instance, the politics of constitution-making touched on issues such as the extent of the devolution of power to the component units of the federation, the rights of minorities, and state secularism (Akander 1982; Nwabueze 1982).
	www.iupress.indiana.edu /journals/africatoday/aft49-4.html (380 words)

	Cameroon: democratization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Traces the economic basis of the current political crisis in Cameroon, where the demand for democracy has been met with violence from President Paul Biya and his government.
		Cameroon's first multi-candidate presidential election ever, in October 92, largely appears to have escaped international attention.
		The bulk of literature on democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa is marked by the absence of analysis of the function of democratization at the local level.
	www.eldis.org /ggov/afri_cam.html (507 words)

	Islamic World.Net: Countries
		Elephants of Cameroon - join the North Carolina Zoo and a team of researchers on an interactive project to track and study elephants in Northern Cameroon.
		Muna, Bachot - a vocalist, composer, and pianist from Cameroon.
		Cameroon Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members - from the CIA.
	islamic-world.net /countries/cameroon.htm (441 words)

	Cameroon - Country Brief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In December 1958, the French-administered region was granted self-government as the Republic of Cameroon.
		Cameroon enjoys relative political stability, unlike most other countries in the turbulent Central African sub-region.
		Cameroon ’s PRSP, which was based on extensive consultations and a thorough poverty analysis, identifies development challenges, especially improving governance.
	web.worldbank.org /WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/CAMEROONEXTN/0,,menuPK:343823~pagePK:141132~piPK:141107~theSitePK:343813,00.html (989 words)

	POLITICS-CAMEROON: Church Vows to Exorcise "Demons of Electoral Fraud"
		Since the return of multiparty politics to Cameroon in 1991, there have been serious irregularities in the elections (one municipal and legislative, two presidential) that have been held in the country.
		In April this year, the supreme court ruled that elections should be re-held in six council areas in Cameroon to rectify irregularities from the joint municipal and legislative election held in June 2002.
		Although Cameroon is a secular state, the Church exerts some influence in all ten of the country's provinces through its network of schools, training centers - and a Catholic university.
	www.ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=24067 (1156 words)

	afrol News - Cameroon gears up for presidential poll
		The election campaign is strongly dominating the political life in Cameroon less than a week to go before the important polls.
		The large number of presidential candidates are touring the provinces and holding political rallies explaining their programmes.
		Mr Fru Ndi and his party, which normally focuses on the lack of democracy and transparency in Cameroon, meanwhile are rallying with a programme to fight poverty and strengthen the education and health sectors.
	www.afrol.com /articles/14461 (899 words)

	globalinfo.org - Aug 25, CAMEROON (#31902)
		While this might be part and parcel of the manoeuvring that precedes most elections, it has also dampened hopes that the opposition will be able to unite behind a single candidate who is capable of defeating the incumbent head of state, Paul Biya.
		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.
		Henri Hogbe Nlend, former secretary general of the Union of the People of Cameroon (Union des populations du Cameroun, UPC) and UNDP Vice-President Celestin Bedzigui are amongst those who supported Biya but have since shifted their allegiance back to the opposition.
	www.globalinfo.org /eng/reader.asp?ArticleId=31902 (941 words)

	Journal of Third World Studies: "MOTIONS OF SUPPORT" AND ETHNO-REGIONAL POLITICS IN CAMEROON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Ahidjo's success in transforming Cameroon from a multiparty to a centralized monolithic, and authoritarian State was in line with the political economy espoused by most social scientists of the immediate post-independence period.
		Several researchers11 point to the strong ethnic configuration of political parties in Cameroon, and the essentially "ethno-regional trends of global results of legislative and presidential elections of October 1992." The results of subsequent elections have not deviated significantly from this trend.
		While these so-called "home-town" associations were said to be formed to help historically marginalized groups and communities increase their participation in governance and the economy, these organizations have served primarily as vehicles for the maximization of the interests of the elites who lead them.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3821/is_200404/ai_n9399322/pg_4 (1094 words)

	World History Connected \| Vol. 2 No. 1 \| 'The World in Miniature': Cameroon in World History as seen through Documents, ...
		His story and the still living psychological, social and political legacy of the slave trade in the region are explored at http://www.mandaras.info/NorthernMontagnards.html (click on the "slavery" link in the first paragraphs of the text).
		Their joint transnational approach is a potent political statement in and of itself as to the legitimacy of colonial boundaries.
		Cameroon is also a major battleground of environmental resistance against rainforest loss, with much of its pristine rainforest having been sold off to French industry.
	worldhistoryconnected.press.uiuc.edu /2.1/mgilbert.html (3368 words)

	Cameroon
		Cameroon is a Central African nation on the Gulf of Guinea, bordered by Nigeria, Chad, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon.
		Mount Cameroon (13,350 ft; 4,069 m), near the coast, is the highest elevation in the country.
		Cameroon, Mount - Cameroon, Mount, active volcano, 13,354 ft (4,070 m) high, in the Cameroon Highlands, W Cameroon;...
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107382.html (709 words)

	POLITICS-CAMEROON: Another Seven Years for the ôAbsentee Captain” By Sylvestre Tetchiada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Paul Biya was re-elected with a comfortable 70.9 percent of the vote, echoing his victory during the last election in 1997 when he received more than 90 percent of ballots cast.
		Observers from the Commonwealth voiced concern at the fact that ômany people who wished to vote were not on the Voters' Register, so were denied the right to vote.” However, the observers also believed the result of the poll reflected the will of those who managed to cast ballots.
		This poll was boycotted by the opposition, which had also alleged vote rigging in the 1992 presidential election û the first to be held in Cameroon after the change to multi-party politics in the country.
	www.chasque.apc.org /ips_eng/notas/2004/10/27/14:11:32.html (975 words)

	Africa Today: Politics and constitution-making in Francophone Cameroon, 1959-1960.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		This essay examines politics in Francophone Cameroon and its impact on the making of the Cameroonian constitution of 1960.
		Politics in Francophone Cameroon was characterized by violence, bloodshed, and the suppression of civil liberties.
		This political turmoil was the handiwork of French administrators, who indulged themselves in the uphill task of exterminating anti-French Cameroonians.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:106472812&refid=holomed_1 (200 words)

	anb396-e01
		They react to day-to-day events by stressing specific notions such as: Responsible parenthood; marriage in Cameroon’s legal system; women in paid employment; single mothers and their children in Cameroon’s legal system; the land reforms of 6 July 1974 and their effect on women; women and their civil and political rights.
		The seminar’s theme was: «Women in Cameroon and the fight against poverty» and aimed «to bring together women’s leaders from the ten provinces of Cameroon, and provide them with the necessary know-how to discover what is presently available for them».
		These projects are all-important if Cameroon’s women are to occupy their true place in society, but can only be brought to fulfilment when carried out with the support and encouragement of their menfolk.
	ospiti.peacelink.it /anb-bia/nr396/e01.html (1191 words)

	02/12/01 -- First Issue of Inside Cameroon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The government of Cameroon will be awarded a prize for its forest and environmental policies" by the international community", reports the Cameroon Tribune on February 2.
		It is interesting to note that, whereas the sole justification for ongoing industrial logging has always been the notion that it generates substantial revenue for Cameroon, the study clearly reveals that neither the State, let alone the local communities, benefit from this type of forest exploitation.
		Sources close to agro-food research institutes in Cameroon have indicated that the cultivation of genetically modified corn is underway in this country.
	www.forests.org /archive/africa/incamer1.htm (4309 words)

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