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	Union of the Peoples of Cameroon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Union of the Peoples of Cameroon (French: Union des Populations du Cameroun) is a political party in Cameroon.
		UPC was founded on April 10, 1948, at a meeting in the bar Chez Sierra in Bassa.
		At the second congress of RDA, celebrated in Treichville, Côte d'Ivoire, January 1-5 1949, the membership of UPC in RDA is confirmed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Union_of_the_Peoples_of_Cameroon (478 words)

	Cameroon - Search View - MSN Encarta
		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.
		Cameroon’s traditionally agricultural economy began changing in the late 20th century with the discovery and exploitation of offshore petroleum reserves.
		Cameroon is governed under a constitution promulgated in 1972 and subsequently revised.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761576170__1/Cameroon.html (2387 words)

	Cameroon (01/06)
		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 (3633 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Cameroon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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.
		In the 1950s, guerrilla warfare raged in the French Cameroons, instigated by the nationalist Union of the Peoples of the Cameroons, which demanded immediate independence and union with the British Cameroons.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/CameroonR1e.asp (1657 words)

	Cameroon HISTORY
		Linguistic evidence indicates that the area now known as Cameroon and eastern Nigeria was the place of origin of the Bantu peoples.
		The voters in Southern Cameroons chose union with the Cameroun Republic, while those in Northern Cameroons opted for union with Nigeria, which was accomplished on 1 June 1961.
		The Cameroun Republic became the state of East Cameroon, and Southern British Cameroons became the state of West Cameroon in the new Federal Republic of Cameroon, with Ahmadou Ahidjo as president and John Foncha as vice president.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Africa/Cameroon-HISTORY.html (1710 words)

	List of political parties in Cameroon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cameroon is a one party dominant state with the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement in power.
		Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (Rassemblement démocratique du Peuple Camerounais)
		Union of the Peoples of Cameroon (Union des Populations du Cameroun)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Cameroon (216 words)

	FACT SHEET: The Republic of Cameroon at a Glance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The "Kirdi", non-Islamic or recently Islamic are the peoples of the northern desert and central highlands.
		In 1955, the outlawed Union of the Peoples of Cameroon, based largely between the Bamileke and Bassa ethnic groups, began an armed struggle for independence in French Cameroon.
		Cameroon made international headlines in 1986, when a toxic cloud erupted from a remote volcanic lake in the western mountains, asphyxiating nearly 2000 people in their sleep.
	deploymentlink.osd.mil /deploy/info/africa/cameroon/index.shtml (981 words)

	Background Notes Archive - Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		PEOPLE Cameroon's estimated 250 ethnic groups form five larger regional- cultural groups: (1) western highlanders (or grasslanders), including the Bamileke, Bamoun, and many smaller entities in the Northwest (est.
		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)

	cameroon - ppu infrormation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The nationalist Union of Cameroon Peoples (UPC) was founded in French Cameroon, and in 1955 a UPC rebellion was crushed by French forces.
		In 1960 French Cameroon became an independent republic; another UPC revolt, in the south-west, was crushed and a state of emergency declared.
		Cameroon's sharp experience of war was from 1955 to 1960, during the struggle of French Cameroon to achieve independence.
	www.ppu.org.uk /war/countries/africa/cameroon.html (262 words)

	CAMEROON-INFO.NET :: When I was in Nkongsamba, I saw some of the key members of this coalition up close (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The oldest political party in the history of Cameroon, UPC (Union of the Peoples of Cameroon), which was banned in 1956 by French colonial rulers, was going to hold its first post-independence convention in the town of Nkongsamba, about 50 miles from Douala.
		UPC members, along with most opposition parties, decided to boycott the elections because they were worried about their fairness, especially since it was directly operated and controlled by Biya's own Ministry of the Interior.
		He was apparently a UPC members of the late'50s and constantly snaked his way between UPC, UNC of Ahidjo, and CPDM of Biya before rejoining the party of "first loves" (as Mayi Matip put it) for the occasion of the presidential election.
	www.cameroon-info.net /cmi_show_news.php?id=15291 (8580 words)

	Background Notes: Cameroon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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.
		From 1955 until the mid-1960s, Cameroon had known sustained terrorist activity--begun in opposition to foreign rule and continued after independence against moderates in Cameroon's governments--led by the outlawed Union of Cameroon Peoples and supported by foreign communist and radical African regimes.
		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.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/af/cameroon9206.html (2192 words)

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	www.africa-union.org /About_AU/AbConstitutive_Act.htm (3103 words)

	History of Cameroon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		During the late 1770s and early 1800s, the Fulani, a pastoral Islamic people of the western Sahel, conquered most of what is now northern Cameroon, subjugating or displacing its largely non-Muslim inhabitants.
		Although the Portuguese arrived on Cameroon's coast in the 1500s, malaria prevented significant European settlement and conquest of the interior until the late 1870s, when large supplies of the malaria suppressant, quinine, became available.
		The northern part of Cameroon was an important part of the Muslim slave trade network.
	www.historyofnations.net /africa/cameroon.html (500 words)

	Union of the Peoples of Cameroon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		UPC proposed the flag as national in 1957, but was rejected.
		UPC adopted this flag in their struggle started 1956.
		Smith adds that the flag proposed by the anti-colonialist organization (I guess it was UPC) was a red field bearing a shrimp, and not a crab.
	www.fotw.net /FLAGS/cm}upc.html (436 words)

	Link2exports - Export Country Profiles - in association with the British Chambers of Commerce
		Cameroon generally exercises good relations with its neighbours, and is a member of a number of regional organisations, including the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (Cemac).
		Presidents Paul Biya of Cameroon and Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria met with the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in Paris and pledged to consider international monitoring of troop withdrawal and agreed to avoid inflammatory statements in relation to the Bakassi dispute.
		Cameroon lies on the west coast of Africa, with Nigeria to the west, Chad and the Central African Republic to the east, and the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon to the south.
	www.link2exports.co.uk /regions.asp?lsid=1969&pid=1253 (2869 words)

	“The Government’s Human Rights Record Remained Poor”
		Cameroon is a republic dominated by a strong presidency.
		On June 10, the Cameroon Red Cross and an Austrian NGO, SOS Kinderdorf, signed a convention to protect impoverished children who were at the greatest risk of being trafficked or being involved in the worst forms of child labor.
		The M’Bororo, a semi-nomadic Fulani people whose main economic activity is cattle raising, were given rights over pastoral land in the Northwest Province by the British colonial government; however, in 1986, Alhadji Baba Ahmadou Danpullo, a prominent businessman and member of the ruling party, established a commercial ranch in Ndawara, Northwest Province.
	www.sodomylaws.org /world/cameroon/cmnews001.htm (15115 words)

	Cameroon
		Bantu speakers were among the first groups moved into Cameroon from equatorial Africa, settling in the south and later in the west.
		In February 1961, a plebiscite under United Nations auspices in British (west) Cameroon determined whether people wished union with Nigeria or with the new Republic of 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.
	www.uiowa.edu /~africart/toc/countries/Cameroon.html (346 words)

	The World Guide 2003/2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Drought and desertification are the main concerns in the southern region, which covers 25 per cent of the nation's land area, and houses over a quarter of the population.
		Peoples: There are some 200 ethnic groups, the main ones being the Dualas, Bamilekes, Tikars and Bamauns in the south; the Euondos and Fulbes in the west, and the Fulanis in the north.
		Social organizations: In 1971, the Government banned the Workers' Union of Cameroon, heir to the labor movement from the previous century.
	gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/countries/cmr/index.cfm (298 words)

	Cameroon
		Cameroon is a republic dominated by a strong presidency and has a population of approximately 16.3 million.
		According to a study by the International Circle for the Promotion of Creation and the Cameroon Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, of 722 young girls between 9 and 20 years old interviewed in the cities of Yaounde, Douala, Bamenda, and Bafoussam, 291 were the victims of sexual exploitation.
		The union filed a request for annulment of the agreement with a Douala court, where the case was still pending at year's end.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61558.htm (17828 words)

	In Defense of Animals - Africa
		The former French Cameroon and part of British Cameroon merged in 1961 to form the present country.
		Cameroon has generally enjoyed stability, which has permitted the development of agriculture, roads, and railways, as well as a petroleum industry.
		The president of Cameroon since independence, Ahmadou Ahidjo was replaced in 1982 by the prime minister, Paul Biya.
	www.ida-africa.org /index.php?page_id=210 (856 words)

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		Provisional results indicated that the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) party won all the seats except the Kumba urban constituency, which was taken by the Social Democratic Front (SDF), the national broadcaster reported.
		Cameroon's Supreme Court ordered fresh legislative elections in nine constituencies, with a total of 17 seats, because of irregularities during parliamentary polls held on 30 June.
		The Cameroon Peoples' Union (UPC) increased its tally of parliamentary seats one to three, while two other small parties each lost the single seat they had in parliament.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=29968&SelectRegion=West_Africa (422 words)

	Cameroon
		early 17th century The Douala people migrated to the coastal region from the east and came to serve as intermediaries between Portuguese, Dutch, and English traders and interior tribes.
		1955 The French crushed a revolt by the Union of the Cameroon Peoples (UPC), southern-based radical nationalists.
		1960 French Cameroon became the independent Republic of Cameroon, with the Muslim Ahmadou Ahidjo as president; a UPC rebellion in the southwest was crushed, and a state of emergency declared.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/countryfacts/cameroon.html (793 words)

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		The San, or the Bush people of southern Africa, the Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania, the Nama, Iranian mobile peoples, Saudi Arabian Bedouins, Maoris and Aborigines, are calling for the setting up of an independent commission to redress colonial injustices.
		The indigenous peoples are lobbying to create a high level, independent Truth and Reconciliation Commission, based on the commission that heard confessions of political crimes after South Africa became a democracy in 1994.
		The importance of indigenous peoples in the management of land was mentioned but not issues of central importance such as restitution for lands lost.
	www.ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=20351 (1082 words)

	MapUp.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		His Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) party holds a sizeable majority in the legislature following 2002 elections--149 deputies out of a total of 180.
		By late summer 2004 Cameroon had met most of its PRGF targets.
		Cameroon has a bilateral investment treaty with the United States.
	mapup.com /africa/cameroon.html (2420 words)

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		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.
		The 2002 poll was won by the Democratic Union of the People of Cameroon - formerly the National Union of Cameroon, which governed the country before the return of pluralism.
		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 /news.asp?idnews=24067 (1134 words)

	CPA - Commonwealth Parliamentary Association - Directory of Parliaments and Legislatures Search - Parliament of Cameroon
		Cameroon became a member of the Commonwealth in November 1995.
		Political makeup of government: The Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (RDPC), led by President Biya, retained its overall majority of seats in the National Assembly in the June 2002 general election. ; President Boya was re-elected in October 2004.
		Peter Mafany Musonge of the RDPC, prime minister since September 1996, named a reshuffled cabinet on 24 August 2002, which was dominated by the RDPC but retained members of the National Union for Democracy and Progress (UNDP) and the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon (UPC).
	www.cpahq.org /directory/default.aspx?orgid=46 (262 words)

	FoEI Citizens' Guide to TES: European Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The European Union binds together the 15 current member states, the aim of which is “an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe, in which decisions are taken as closely as possible to the citizen”.
		This 'union' was first established in the Treaty of Rome in 1957 and has been revised four times: in 1987 (the Single Act), in 1992 (the 'Maastricht' Treaty on European Union), in 1997 (Treaty of Amsterdam) and in Nice in 2000.
		During the 1970s and 1980s, it was evident that Japanese and U.S.-based multinationals were increasing their dominance because of their larger, domestic markets; they could afford to invest more in electronics, biotechnology, new fibres etc (ie, the new growth industries of the day).
	www.foei.org /trade/activistguide/eu.htm (1416 words)

	PREAMBLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The escutcheon shall be composed of a star on a field vent and triangle gules, charged with the geographical outline of Cameroon azure, and surcharged with the sword and scales of justice sable.
		National sovereignty shall be vested in the people of Cameroon w ho shall exercise same either through the President of the Republic and Members of Parliament or by way of referendum.
		The legislation applicable in the Federal State of Cameroon and in the Federated States on the date of entry into force of this Constitution shall remain in force insofar as it is not repugnant to this Constitution, and as long as it is not amended by subsequent laws and regulations.
	www.cmseducation.org /wconsts/cameroon.html (7315 words)

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