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407 relations: Adamawa Emirate, Adamawa Plateau, Adamawa Region, Adamawa–Ubangi languages, Africa Cup of Nations, African Pygmies, African trypanosomiasis, African Union, Africanews, Ahmadou Ahidjo, Ambasse bey, Ambazonia, Amphibian, Anglophone Crisis, Anglophone problem, Animism, Anne-Marie Nzié, Ansarul Islam (Sahel), ArtBakery, Artist-run space, Assiko, Assumption of Mary, Atelier Viking, Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests, Atlantic Ocean, Baggara Arabs, Baka people (Cameroon and Gabon), Bakassi, Bakassi conflict, Bamileke people, Bamum language, Bamum people, Bamum script, Banana, Bank of Central African States, Bantu expansion, Bantu languages, Basket weaving, Bélabo, Bénoué National Park, BBC News, Beach, Beadwork, Benue River, Beti-Pahuin peoples, Bight of Biafra, Bikutsi, Bird, Biu–Mandara languages, Boko Haram, ... Expand index (357 more) »
- 1960 establishments in Cameroon
- Central African countries
- Republics in the Commonwealth of Nations
Adamawa Emirate
The Adamawa Emirate (Fula: Lamorde Adamaawa,, 𞤤𞤢𞤥𞤮𞤪𞤣𞤫 𞤢𞤣𞤢𞤥𞤢𞥄𞤱𞤢; translit; Adamaua; Adamaoua) is a traditional state located in Fombina, an area which now roughly corresponds to areas of Adamawa State and Taraba state in Nigeria, and previously also in the three northern regions of Cameroon (Far North, North, and Adamawa), including minor Parts of Chad and the Central African Republic.
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Adamawa Plateau
The Adamawa Plateau (Massif de l'Adamaoua) is a plateau region in west-central Africa stretching from south-eastern Nigeria through north-central Cameroon (Adamawa and North Provinces) to the Central African Republic.
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Adamawa Region
The Adamawa Region (Région de l'Adamaoua) is a constituent region of the Republic of Cameroon.
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Adamawa–Ubangi languages
The Adamawa–Ubangi languages are a geographic grouping and formerly postulated family of languages spoken in Nigeria, Chad, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan, by a total of about 12 million people.
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Africa Cup of Nations
The Africa Cup of Nations, commonly abbreviated as AFCON and officially known as the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons, is the main quadrennial international men's association football competition in Africa.
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African Pygmies
The African Pygmies (or Congo Pygmies, variously also Central African foragers, "African rainforest hunter-gatherers" (RHG) or "Forest People of Central Africa") are a group of ethnicities native to Central Africa, mostly the Congo Basin, traditionally subsisting on a forager and hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
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African trypanosomiasis
African trypanosomiasis is an insect-borne parasitic infection of humans and other animals.
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African Union
The African Union (AU) is a continental union of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa.
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Africanews
Africanews (styled as africanews) is a 24/7 pan-African multilingual news network located in Lyon, France previously headquartered in Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo.
Ahmadou Ahidjo
Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo (24 August 192430 November 1989) was a Cameroonian politician who was the first president of Cameroon, holding the office from 1960 until 1982.
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Ambasse bey
Ambasse bey or ambas-i-bay is a style of folk music and dance from Cameroon.
Ambazonia
Ambazonia, alternatively the Federal Republic of Ambazonia or State of Ambazonia, is a political entity proclaimed by Anglophone separatists who are seeking independence from Cameroon.
Amphibian
Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniotic, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class Amphibia.
Anglophone Crisis
The Anglophone Crisis, also known as the Ambazonia War or the Cameroonian Civil War, is an ongoing armed conflict in the English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon, between the Cameroonian government and separatist rebel groups, part of the long-standing Anglophone problem.
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Anglophone problem
The Anglophone problem is a socio-political issue in the modern Republic of Cameroon, rooted in the country's German, British, and French colonial legacies.
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Animism
Animism (from meaning 'breath, spirit, life') is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.
Anne-Marie Nzié
Anne-Marie Nzié (1932 – 24 May 2016) was a Cameroonian bikutsi singer.
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Ansarul Islam (Sahel)
Ansarul Islam is a militant Islamist group active in Burkina Faso and in Mali.
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ArtBakery
ArtBakery is an art centre based in the village of Bonendale a few kilometers from Douala and founded by Goddy Leye.
Artist-run space
An artist-run space or artist-run centre (Canada) is a gallery or other facility operated or directed by artists, frequently circumventing the structures of public art centers, museums, or commercial galleries and allowing for a more experimental program.
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Assiko
The Assiko is a popular dance from the South of Cameroon.
Assumption of Mary
The Assumption of Mary is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church.
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Atelier Viking
Atelier Viking is a studio and an artist-run initiative based in Douala, Cameroon.
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Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests
The Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests, also known as the Congolian coastal forests (French: Forêts côtières équatoriales atlantiques, Spanish: Bosques costeros atlánticos ecuatoriales, Portuguese: Florestas costeiras atlânticas equatoriais), are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of Central Africa, covering hills, plains, and mountains of the Atlantic coast of Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Angola, and Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
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Baggara Arabs
The Baggāra (translit "heifer herder") or Chadian Arabs are a nomadic confederation of people of mixed Arab and Arabized indigenous African ancestry, inhabiting a portion of the Sahel mainly between Lake Chad and the Nile river near south Kordofan, numbering over six million.
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Baka people (Cameroon and Gabon)
The Baka people, known in the Congo as Bayaka (Bebayaka, Bebayaga, Bibaya), are an ethnic group inhabiting the southeastern rain forests of Cameroon, northern Republic of the Congo, northern Gabon, and southwestern Central African Republic.
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Bakassi
Bakassi is a peninsula on the Gulf of Guinea.
Bakassi conflict
The Bakassi conflict is an ongoing armed dispute over the Bakassi Peninsula of Cameroon.
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Bamileke people
The Bamiléké are a group of 90 closely related peoples who inhabit the Western High Plateau of Cameroon.
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Bamum language
Bamum (Shü Pamom, or Shümom), also known as Shupamem, Bamun, or Bamoun, is an Eastern Grassfields language of Cameroon, with approximately 420,000 speakers.
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Bamum people
The Bamum, sometimes called Bamoum, Bamun, Bamoun, or Mum, are a Grassfields ethnic group located in now Cameroon.
Bamum script
The Bamum scripts are an evolutionary series of six scripts created for the Bamum language by Ibrahim Njoya, King of Bamum (now western Cameroon).
Banana
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.
Bank of Central African States
The Bank of Central African States (Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale, BEAC) is a central bank that serves six central African countries which form the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo.
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Bantu expansion
The Bantu expansion was a major series of migrations of the original Proto-Bantu-speaking group, which spread from an original nucleus around West-Central Africa.
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Bantu languages
The Bantu languages (English:, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu peoples of Central, Southern, Eastern and Southeast Africa.
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Basket weaving
Basket weaving (also basketry or basket making) is the process of weaving or sewing pliable materials into three-dimensional artifacts, such as baskets, mats, mesh bags or even furniture.
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Bélabo
Bélabo is a town and commune in Cameroon, lying on the Yaoundé – N'Gaoundéré railway line.
Bénoué National Park
Bénoué National Park is a national park of Cameroon and a UNESCO designated Biosphere Reserve.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Beach
A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles.
Beadwork
Beadwork is the art or craft of attaching beads to one another by stringing them onto a thread or thin wire with a sewing or beading needle or sewing them to cloth.
Benue River
Benue River (la Bénoué), previously known as the Chadda River or Tchadda, is the major tributary of the Niger River.
Beti-Pahuin peoples
The Beti-Pahuin are a Bantu ethnic group located in Center region of Cameroon.
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Bight of Biafra
The Bight of Biafra, also known as the Bight of Bonny, is a bight off the west-central African coast, in the easternmost part of the Gulf of Guinea.
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Bikutsi
Bikutsi is a musical genre from Cameroon.
Bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
Biu–Mandara languages
The Biu–Mandara or Central Chadic languages of the Afro-Asiatic family are spoken in Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon.
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Boko Haram
Boko Haram, officially known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād (lit), is an Islamist jihadist organization based in northeastern Nigeria, which is also active in Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon, and Mali.
Bonabéri
Bonabery is a district of Douala, the largest city and economic capital of Cameroon.
Breast ironing
Breast ironing, also known as breast flattening, is the pounding and massaging of a pubescent girl's breasts, using hard or heated objects, to try to make them stop developing or disappear.
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British Cameroon
British Cameroon or the British Cameroons was a British mandate territory in British West Africa, formed of the Northern Cameroons and Southern Cameroons.
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Bureau of International Labor Affairs
The Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) is an operating unit of the United States Department of Labor which manages the department's international responsibilities.
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Bushmeat
Bushmeat is meat from wildlife species that are hunted for human consumption.
Calabash
Calabash (Lagenaria siceraria), also known as bottle gourd, white-flowered gourd, long melon, birdhouse gourd, New Guinea bean, New Guinea butter bean, Tasmania bean, and opo squash, is a vine grown for its fruit.
Cameroon Armed Forces
The Cameroon Armed Forces (Forces armées camerounaises (FAC)) are the military of the Republic of Cameroon.
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Cameroon at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Cameroon sent a delegation to compete at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States from 8–24 February 2002.
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Cameroon line
The Cameroon line (Linha dos Camarões) is a long chain of volcanoes that includes islands in the Gulf of Guinea and mountains on the African mainland, from Mount Cameroon on the coast towards Lake Chad on the northeast.
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Cameroon national football team
The Cameroon national football team (French: Équipe du Cameroun de football), also known as the Indomitable Lions (French: les lions indomptables), represents Cameroon in men's international football.
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Cameroon People's Democratic Movement
The Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM; Rassemblement démocratique du Peuple Camerounais, RDPC) is the ruling political party in Cameroon.
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Cameroon Radio Television
Cameroon Radio Television (CRTV) is a major radio and television broadcasting company in Cameroon.
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Cameroon Tribune
The Cameroon Tribune is a major newspaper in Cameroon.
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Cameroon War
The Cameroon War (also known as the Hidden War, or the Cameroonian War of Independence) is the name of the independence struggle between Cameroon's nationalist movement and France.
Cameroon women's national football team
The Cameroon national women's football team, also known as the Indomitable Lionesses, is the national team of Cameroon and is controlled by the Cameroon Football Association.
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Cameroonian cuisine
Cameroonian cuisine is one of the most varied in Africa due to Cameroon's location on the crossroads between the north, west, and center of the continent; the diversity in ethnicity with mixture ranging from Bantus, Semi-bantus and Shuwa Arabs, as well as the influence of German, French and English colonialization.
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Cameroonian economic crisis
The Cameroonian economic crisis was a downturn in the economy of Cameroon from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s.
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Cameroonian Highlands forests
The Cameroonian Highlands forests, also known as the Cameroon Highlands forests, are a montane tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion located on the range of mountains that runs inland from the Gulf of Guinea and forms the border between Cameroon and Nigeria.
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Cameroonian Pidgin English
Cameroonian Pidgin English, or Cameroonian Creole (Wes Cos, from West Coast), is a language variety of Cameroon.
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Camfranglais
Camfranglais, Francanglais, or Francamglais (portmanteau of the French adjectives camerounais, français, and anglais) is a vernacular of Cameroon, containing grammatical and lexical elements from Cameroonian French, Cameroonian English and Cameroonian Pidgin English, in addition to lexical contributions from various indigenous languages of Cameroon.
Campo River
The Campo (Spanish: Río Campo, French: Rivière Ntem) or Ntem River is a border river in Cameroon, mainland Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
Camrail
Camrail is a company operating passenger and freight traffic between the two largest cities in Cameroon and several smaller cities.
Cash crop
A cash crop, also called profit crop, is an agricultural crop which is grown to sell for profit.
Cassava
Manihot esculenta, commonly called cassava, manioc,--> or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America, from Brazil, Paraguay and parts of the Andes.
Catholic Church in Cameroon
The Catholic Church in Cameroon is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
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Cavayé Yéguié Djibril
Cavayé Yéguié Djibril (born c. 1940Simon Meyanga,, CPDM website, 2009.) is a Cameroonian politician who has been the President of the National Assembly of Cameroon since 1992.
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Central Africa
Central Africa is a subregion of the African continent comprising various countries according to different definitions.
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Central African CFA franc
The Central African CFA franc (French: franc CFA or simply franc; ISO code: XAF; abbreviation: F.CFA) is the currency of six independent states in Central Africa: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
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Central African Republic
The Central African Republic (CAR), formerly known as Ubangi-Shari, is a landlocked country in Central Africa. Cameroon and Central African Republic are central African countries, French-speaking countries and territories, member states of the African Union, member states of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, member states of the United Nations and states and territories established in 1960.
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.
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Central Sudanic languages
Central Sudanic is a family of about sixty languages that have been included in the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family.
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Centre Region (Cameroon)
The Centre Region (région du Centre) occupies 69,000 km2 of the central plains of the Republic of Cameroon.
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CFA franc
The CFA franc (franc CFA), or Franc of the Financial Community of Africa (originally the Franc of the French Colonies in Africa,; colloquially franc; abbreviation: F.CFA), is the name of two currencies, the West African CFA franc, used in eight West African countries, and the Central African CFA franc, used in six Central African countries.
Chad
Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. Cameroon and Chad are central African countries, French-speaking countries and territories, member states of the African Union, member states of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, member states of the United Nations and states and territories established in 1960.
Chad Basin campaign (2018–2020)
The Chad Basin campaign of 2018–2020 was a series of battles and offensives in the southern Chad Basin, particularly northeastern Nigeria, which took place amid the ongoing Boko Haram insurgency.
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Chadian Arabic
Chadian Arabic (لهجة تشادية), also known as Shuwa Arabic, Western Sudanic Arabic, or West Sudanic Arabic (WSA), is a variety of Arabic and the first language of 1.6 million people, both town dwellers and nomadic cattle herders.
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Chechia
The chechia (Arabic: شاشية) is a traditional headgear worn in the Maghreb.
Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping
On the night of 14–15 April 2014, 276 mostly Christian female students aged from 16 to 18 were kidnapped by the Islamic terrorist group called Boko Haram from the Government Girls Secondary School at the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria.
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Chiefdom
A chiefdom is a political organization of people represented or governed by a chief.
Child labour
Child labour is the exploitation of children through any form of work that interferes with their ability to attend regular school, or is mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful.
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. Cameroon and China are member states of the United Nations.
Christian Koloko
Christian Junior Koloko (born 20 June 2000) is a Cameroonian professional basketball player who last played for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Civil law (legal system)
Civil law is a legal system originating in Italy and France that has been adopted in large parts of the world.
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Coffee
Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted coffee beans.
Common law
Common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions.
Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire from which it developed.
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Concession (contract)
A concession or concession agreement is a grant of rights, land, property, or facility by a government, local authority, corporation, individual or other legal entity.
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Congo River
The Congo River, formerly also known as the Zaire River, is the second-longest river in Africa, shorter only than the Nile, as well as the third-largest river in the world by discharge volume, following the Amazon and Ganges rivers. It is the world's deepest recorded river, with measured depths of around.
Constitution of Cameroon
The Constitution of Cameroon is the supreme law of the Republic of Cameroon.
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Contemporary art
Contemporary art is a term used to describe the art of today, and it generally refers to art produced from the 1970s onwards.
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Cooking banana
Cooking bananas are a group of starchy banana cultivars in the genus Musa whose fruits are generally used in cooking.
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Corruption in Cameroon
Since independence, corruption has been more than prevalent in Cameroon.
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Court of Appeal of Cameroon
The Courts of Appeal are appellate courts in Cameroon.
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Cronyism
Cronyism is a specific form of in-group favoritism, the spoils system practice of partiality in awarding jobs and other advantages to friends or trusted colleagues, especially in politics and between politicians and supportive organizations.
Cross–Sanaga–Bioko coastal forests
The Cross–Sanaga–Bioko coastal forests are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of west-central Africa.
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Crustacean
Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.
Cultural assimilation
Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assimilates the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.
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Customary law
A legal custom is the established pattern of behavior within a particular social setting.
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D. J. Strawberry
Darryl Eugene "D.
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Dance in Cameroon
Dance in Cameroon is an integral part of the tradition, religion, and socialising of the country's people.
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Daniel Kamwa
Daniel Kamwa (born 14 April 1943) is a filmmaker and actor from Nkongsamba, Cameroon.
Debundscha
Debundscha is a village in the south-western Region of the republic of Cameroon.
December 2014 Cameroon clashes
The December 2014 Cameroon clashes were a number of incidents that occurred between 28–29 December 2014 in variety of locations in Cameroon's Far North Region.
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Demographics of Cameroon
The demographic profile of Cameroon is complex for a country of its population.
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Dengue fever
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease caused by dengue virus, prevalent in tropical and subtropical areas.
Desert
A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biomes and ecosystems.
Diarrhea
Diarrhea (American English), also spelled diarrhoea or diarrhœa (British English), is the condition of having at least three loose, liquid, or watery bowel movements in a day.
Dictatorship
A dictatorship is an autocratic form of government which is characterized by a leader, or a group of leaders, who hold governmental powers with few to no limitations.
Dja River
The Dja River (also known as the Ngoko River) is a stream in west-central Africa.
Dominant-party system
A dominant-party system, or one-party dominant system, is a political occurrence in which a single political party continuously dominates election results over running opposition groups or parties.
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Dorothy L. Njeuma
Dorothy L. Njeuma is a Cameroonian academic and politician.
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Doual'art
doual'art is a non profit cultural organisation and art centre founded in 1991 in Douala, Cameroon and focussed on new urban practices of African cities.
Douala
Douala is the largest city in Cameroon and its economic capital.
Douala International Airport
Douala International Airport (Aéroport international de Douala) is an international airport located in Douala, the largest city in Cameroon and the capital of Cameroon's Littoral Region.
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Dry season
The dry season was a yearly period of low rainfall, especially in the tropics.
East Region (Cameroon)
The East Region (Région de l'Est) occupies the southeastern portion of the Republic of Cameroon.
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East Sudanian savanna
The East Sudanian savanna is a hot, seasonally dry tropical savanna ecoregion of Central and East Africa.
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Economic Community of Central African States
The Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS; Communauté Économique des États de l'Afrique Centrale, CEEAC; Comunidad Económica de los Estados de África Central, CEEAC; Comunidade Económica dos Estados da África Central, CEEAC) is an Economic Community of the African Union for promotion of regional economic co-operation in Central Africa.
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Ecoregion
An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than a biogeographic realm.
Embroidery
Embroidery is the art of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to stitch thread or yarn.
Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
Endonym and exonym
An endonym (also known as autonym) is a common, native name for a group of people, individual person, geographical place, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside a particular group or linguistic community to identify or designate themselves, their homeland, or their language.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea (Guinea Ecuatorial; Guinée équatoriale; Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (República de Guinea Ecuatorial, République de Guinée équatoriale, República da Guiné Equatorial), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa, with an area of. Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea are central African countries, French-speaking countries and territories, member states of the African Union, member states of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie and member states of the United Nations.
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Ernest Ouandié
Ernest Ouandié (1924 – 15 January 1971) was a leader of the struggle for independence of Cameroon in the 1950s who continued to resist the government of President Ahmadou Ahidjo after Cameroon became independent in 1960.
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Ertharin Cousin
Ertharin Cousin (born 1957) is an American lawyer who served as the twelfth executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme from 2012 to 2017.
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Evidence-based medicine
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.
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Far North Region (Cameroon)
The Far North Region, also known as the Extreme North Region (from Région de l'Extrême-Nord), is the northernmost and most populous constituent province of the Republic of Cameroon.
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Fauna
Fauna (faunae or faunas) is all of the animal life present in a particular region or time.
Félix-Roland Moumié
Félix-Roland Moumié (1 November 1925 – 3 November 1960) was an anti-colonialist Cameroonian leader, assassinated in Geneva on 3 November 1960 by an agent of the SDECE (French secret service) with thallium, following official independence from France earlier that year.
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Feast of the Ascension
The Feast of the Ascension of Jesus Christ (also called the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, Ascension Day, Ascension Thursday, or sometimes Holy Thursday) commemorates the Christian belief of the bodily Ascension of Jesus into Heaven.
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Federal republic
A federal republic is a federation of states with a republican form of government.
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Federation
A federation (also called a federal state) is an entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a federal government (federalism).
Female genital mutilation
Female genital mutilation (FGM) (also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision) is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the vulva.
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Ferdinand Oyono
Ferdinand Léopold Oyono (14 September 1929 – 10 June 2010, Jeune Afrique, 10 June 2010.) was a diplomat, politician and author from Cameroon.
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Filariasis
Filariasis, is a filarial infection caused by parasitic nematodes (roundworms) spread by different vectors.
Fish
A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.
Flag of Cameroon
The national flag of Cameroon (drapeau du Cameroun) was adopted in its present form on 20 May 1975 after Cameroon became a unitary state.
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Flora
Flora (floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. The corresponding term for animals is fauna, and for fungi, it is funga.
Fon (title)
A Fon is a chieftain or king of a region of Cameroon, especially among the Ngie, Widikum, Tikar, and Bamiléké peoples of the Bamenda grass fields (the Northwest, West Region) and the Lebialem of the South West Region.
Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
The men's football tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held in Sydney and four other cities in Australia from 15 to 30 September.
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Forced labour
Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, or violence, including death or other forms of extreme hardship to either themselves or members of their families.
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Foreign relations of Cameroon
Cameroon's noncontentious, low-profile approach to foreign relations puts it squarely in the middle of other African and developing country states on major issues.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Cameroon and France are French-speaking countries and territories, member states of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie and member states of the United Nations.
Francis Bebey
Francis Bebey (15 July 1929 in Douala, Cameroon – 28 May 2001 in Paris, France) was a Cameroonian musicologist, writer, composer, and broadcaster.
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Francis Ngannou
Francis Zavier Ngannou (born 5 September 1986) is a Cameroonian and French professional mixed martial artist and professional boxer who is currently signed to the Professional Fighters League (PFL).
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Freedom House
Freedom House is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. It is best known for political advocacy surrounding issues of democracy, political freedom, and human rights.
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Freedom of religion
Freedom of religion or religious liberty is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance.
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French Cameroon
French Cameroon, also known as the French Cameroons (Cameroun), was a French mandate territory in Central Africa.
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French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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French Third Republic
The French Third Republic (Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) was the system of government adopted in France from 4 September 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940, after the Fall of France during World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government.
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Fufu
Fufu (or fufuo, foofoo, foufou) is a pounded meal found in West African cuisine.
Fula people
The Fula, Fulani, or Fulɓe people are an ethnic group in Sahara, Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region.
Gabon
Gabon (Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (République gabonaise), is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, on the equator, bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo on the east and south, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west. Cameroon and gabon are central African countries, French-speaking countries and territories, member states of the African Union, member states of the Commonwealth of Nations, member states of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, member states of the United Nations, republics in the Commonwealth of Nations and states and territories established in 1960.
Garoua
Garoua (also Garua; Fula: 𞤺𞤢𞤪𞤱𞤢, Garwa) is a port city and the capital of the North Region of Cameroon, lying on the Benue River.
Gbaya languages
The Gbaya languages, also known as Gbaya–Manza–Ngbaka, are a family of perhaps a dozen languages spoken mainly in the western Central African Republic and across the border in Cameroon, with one language (Ngbaka) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and several languages with few speakers in the Republic of the Congo.
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Gendarmerie
A gendarmerie is a military force with law enforcement duties among the civilian population.
German Empire
The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.
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Global Innovation Index
The Global Innovation Index is an annual ranking of countries by their capacity for, and success in, innovation, published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
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Greentree Agreement
The Greentree Agreement is a formal treaty which resolved the Cameroon–Nigeria border dispute over the oil and natural gas-rich Bakassi peninsula.
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Gulf of Guinea
The Gulf of Guinea is the northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean from Cape Lopez in Gabon, north and west to Cape Palmas in Liberia.
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Gustav Nachtigal
Gustav Nachtigal (born 23 February 1834 – 20 April 1885) was a German military surgeon and explorer of Central and West Africa.
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Hausa people
The Hausa (autonyms for singular: Bahaushe (m), Bahaushiya (f); plural: Hausawa and general: Hausa; exonyms: Ausa; Ajami: مُتَنٜىٰنْ هَوْسَا / هَوْسَاوَا) are a native ethnic group in West Africa.
Hawker (trade)
A hawker is a vendor of merchandise that can be easily transported; the term is roughly synonymous with costermonger or peddler.
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High Court of Justice (Cameroon)
The High Court of Justice is a political court in Cameroon.
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Highlife
Highlife is a Ghanaian music genre that originated along the coastal cities of present-day Ghana in the 19th century, during its history as a colony of the British and through its trade routes in coastal areas.
HIV
The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of Lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans.
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HIV/AIDS
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system.
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.
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Ibrahim Njoya
Sultan Ibrahim Njoya (Bamum:, Iparəim Nʃuɔiya, formerly spelled in Bamum as, and Germanicized as Njoja) in Yaoundé, was seventeenth in a long dynasty of kings that ruled over Bamum and its people in western Cameroon dating back to the fourteenth century, and Neographer having invented the Bamum syllabary.
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Idriss Déby
Idriss Déby Itno (إدريس ديبي; 18 June 1952 – 20 April 2021) was a Chadian politician and military officer who was the 6th president of Chad from 1991 until his death in 2021 during the Northern Chad offensive.
Igbo people
The Igbo people (also spelled Ibo" and historically also Iboe, Ebo, Eboe, / / Eboans, Heebo; natively Ṇ́dị́ Ìgbò) are an ethnic group in Nigeria.
Imane Ayissi
Imane Ayissi (born 1969) is a Cameroonian dancer, performer, model, and haute couture fashion designer.
Index of Cameroon-related articles
Articles (arranged alphabetically) related to Cameroon include.
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Intercity bus service
An intercity bus service (North American English) or intercity coach service (British English and Commonwealth English), also called a long-distance, express, over-the-road, commercial, long-haul, or highway bus or coach service, is a public transport service using coaches to carry passengers significant distances between different cities, towns, or other populated areas.
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International Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice (ICJ; Cour internationale de justice, CIJ), or colloquially the World Court, is the only international court that adjudicates general disputes between nations, and gives advisory opinions on international legal issues.
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International Futures
International Futures (IFs) is a global integrated assessment model designed to help with thinking strategically and systematically about key global systems (economic, demographic, education, health, environment, technology, domestic governance, infrastructure, agriculture, energy and environment).
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International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 190 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is regarded as the global lender of last resort to national governments, and a leading supporter of exchange-rate stability.
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Irreligion
Irreligion is the absence or rejection of religious beliefs or practices.
Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
Islam in Cameroon
Cameroon is a Christian majority nation, with Islam being a minority faith practiced by around 30.6% of the total population as of 2022.
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January 2015 raid on Kolofata
The January 2015 raid on Kolofata was an unsuccessful assault on a Cameroonian military base at Kolofata, Far North Region, perpetrated by Boko Haram.
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Jean-Paul Ngassa
Jean-Paul Ngassa is a Cameroonian filmmaker.
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Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa
Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa (born 1940) is a Cameroonian film director and writer.
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Joel Embiid
Joel Hans Embiid (born 16 March 1994) is a Cameroonian-American professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
John Fru Ndi
Ni John Fru Ndi (7 July 1941 – 12 June 2023) was a Cameroonian politician who served as first and founding Chairman of the Social Democratic Front (SDF), the main opposition party in Cameroon, from party foundation in 1990 to his death in 2023.
Joseph Ngute
Joseph Dion Ngute (born 12 March 1954) is a Cameroonian jurist and politician serving as the 9th prime minister of Cameroon, following his appointment in January 2019.
Kadéï River
The Kadéï River is a tributary of the Sangha River that flows through Cameroon and the Central African Republic.
Kagwene Gorilla Sanctuary
The Kagwene Gorilla Sanctuary was proclaimed by the Cameroonian government on April 3, 2008.
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Kamerun
Kamerun was an African colony of the German Empire from 1884 to 1920 in the region of today's Republic of Cameroon.
Kanem–Bornu Empire
The Kanem–Bornu Empire existed in areas which are now part of Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Libya and Chad.
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Kanuri people
The Kanuri people (Kanouri, Kanowri, also Yerwa, Barebari and several subgroup names) are an African ethnic group living largely in the lands of the former Kanem and Bornu Empires in Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon, as well as a diaspora community residing in Sudan.
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Kirdi
The Kirdi are the many cultures and ethnic groups who inhabit northwestern Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria.
Kofi Annan
Kofi Atta Annan (8 April 193818 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006.
Korup National Park
Korup National Park is in the Southwest Province of Cameroon and extends over 1,260 km2 of mostly undisturbed primary forest.
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Kumba
Kumba is a metropolitan city in the Meme department, Southwest Region, Western Cameroon, commonly referred to as "K-town" colloquially.
Lagos–Mombasa Highway
The Lagos–Mombasa Highway (also known as the Mombasa-Lagos Highway) or TAH 8 is Trans-African Highway 8 and is the principal road route between West and East Africa.
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Lake Chad
Lake Chad (Kanuri: Sádǝ) is an endorheic freshwater lake located at the junction of four countries: Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon in western and central Africa respectively, with a catchment area of.
Lake Nyos
Lake Nyos is a crater lake in the Northwest Region of Cameroon, located about northwest of Yaoundé, the capital.
Lamido
Lamido (Adlam: 𞤂𞤢𞤥𞤭𞤣𞤮, pl. Lamibe 𞤂𞤢𞤥𞤭𞤦𞤫) is the Anglicisation of a term from the Fula language or Fulfulde, used to refer to a ruler.
League of Nations mandate
A League of Nations mandate represented a legal status under international law for specific territories following World War I, involving the transfer of control from one nation to another.
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Leather crafting
Leather crafting or simply leathercraft is the practice of making leather into craft objects or works of art, using shaping techniques, coloring techniques or both.
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Leishmaniasis
Leishmaniasis is a wide array of clinical manifestations caused by protozoal parasites of the Trypanosomatida genus Leishmania.
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Lepidophthalmus turneranus
Lepidophthalmus turneranus (formerly Callianassa turnerana), the Cameroon ghost shrimp, is a species of "ghost shrimp" or "mud lobster" that lives off the coast of West Africa.
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Les Têtes Brulées
Les Têtes Brulées are a Cameroonian band known for a pop version of the bikutsi dance music.
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LGBT rights in Cameroon
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Cameroon face severe challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents.
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Limbé, Cameroon
Limbé or Limbe (known as Victoria from 1858 to 1982) is a seaside city in the South-West Region of Cameroon, At the 2005 Census, the population was 84,223.
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List of countries and dependencies by area
This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies by land, water, and total area, ranked by total area.
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List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor
The List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor is an annual publication issued by the United States Government's Bureau of International Labor Affairs at the U.S. Department of Labor.
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List of presidents of Cameroon
This is a list of presidents of Cameroon since the country gained independence from France in 1960 to the present day.A total of two people have served as President of Cameroon.The current President of Cameroon is Paul Biya, since 6 November 1982.
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List of presidents of the National Assembly of Cameroon
List of presidents of the National Assembly of Cameroon.
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List of UFC champions
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) champions are fighters who have won UFC championships.
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Literacy
Literacy is the ability to read and write.
Littoral Region (Cameroon)
The Littoral Region (Région du Littoral) is a region of Cameroon.
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Logone River
The Logon or Logone River is a major tributary of the Chari River.
Loincloth
A loincloth is a one-piece garment, either wrapped around itself or kept in place by a belt.
Louis-Marie Pouka
Louis-Marie Pouka was a Cameroonian poet who advocated the assimilation of Cameroonian peoples into French culture.
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Lower respiratory tract infection
Lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) is a term often used as a synonym for pneumonia but can also be applied to other types of infection including lung abscess and acute bronchitis.
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Luc Mbah a Moute
Luc Richard Mbah a Moute (born 9 September 1986) is a Cameroonian former professional basketball player.
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Maggi
Maggi is an international brand of seasonings, instant soups, and noodles that originated in Switzerland in the late 19th century.
Maize
Maize (Zea mays), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain.
Makossa
Makossa is a music genre originating in Douala, Littoral Region, French Cameroons in the late 19th century.
Malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates.
Mama Ohandja
Mama Ohandja is a Cameroonian singer, musical arranger, dancer and choreographer.
Mammal
A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.
Management of HIV/AIDS
The management of HIV/AIDS normally includes the use of multiple antiretroviral drugs as a strategy to control HIV infection.
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Mangambeu
Mangambeu is a popular musical style of the Bangangte people of Cameroon.
Mangrove
A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline or brackish water.
Manu Dibango
Emmanuel N'Djoké "Manu" Dibango (12 December 1933 – 24 March 2020) was a Cameroonian musician and songwriter who played saxophone and vibraphone.
Marcel Niat Njifenji
Marcel Niat Njifenji (born 26 October 1934Armand Essogo,, Cameroon Tribune, 13 June 2013.) is a Cameroonian politician who has been President of the Senate of Cameroon since 2013.
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Maroua
Maroua (Fula: Marwa,, 𞤥𞤢𞤪𞤱𞤢) is the capital of the Far North Region of Cameroon, stretching along the banks of the Ferngo and Kaliao Rivers, in the foothills of the Mandara Mountains.
Mbam Djerem National Park
The Mbam Djerem National Park is found in Cameroon.
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Mbum languages
The Mbum or Kebi-Benue languages (also known as Lakka in narrower scope) are a group of the Mbum–Day branch of the Adamawa languages, spoken in southern Chad, northwestern Central African Republic, northern Cameroon and eastern Nigeria.
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Meningitis
Meningitis is acute or chronic inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, collectively called the meninges.
Millet
Millets are a highly varied group of small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food.
Mining industry of Cameroon
Despite being a mineral rich country, Cameroon has only recently begun to investigate mining on an industrial scale.
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Ministry of Justice of Cameroon
The Ministry of Justice of Cameroon is the Department responsible for administering the Cameroon justice system.
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Missionary
A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.
Mollusca
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals, after Arthropoda; members are known as molluscs or mollusks.
Mongo Beti
Alexandre Biyidi Awala (30 June 1932 – 8 October 2001), known as Mongo Beti or Eza Boto, was a Cameroonian author and polemicist.
Moni Bilé
Moni Bilé (born August 1957) is a Cameroonian makossa musician.
Monogamy
Monogamy is a relationship of two individuals in which they form an exclusive intimate partnership.
Montane ecosystems
Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains.
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Mount Cameroon
Mount Cameroon is an active volcano in the South West region of Cameroon next to the city of Buea near the Gulf of Guinea.
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Mount Cameroon Race of Hope
The Mount Cameroon Race of Hope (in French, "La Course de l'Espoir") is an annual, televised footrace held at Mount Cameroon in the Southwest Region of Cameroon in January or February.
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Mountain
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock.
Musgum people
The Musgum or Mulwi are a Chadic ethnic group in Cameroon and Chad.
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Music of Cameroon
The music of the Cameroon includes diverse traditional and modern musical genres.
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Music of Nigeria
The music of Nigeria includes many kinds of folk and popular music.
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National Anti-Corruption Observatory
The National Anti-Corruption Observatory is a government body in Cameroon that investigates political corruption,"2005 Investment Climate Statement".
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National Assembly (Cameroon)
The National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) is the lower house of the Parliament of Cameroon. Cameroon and National Assembly (Cameroon) are 1960 establishments in Cameroon.
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National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).
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National Climatic Data Center
The United States National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), previously known as the National Weather Records Center (NWRC), in Asheville, North Carolina, was the world's largest active archive of weather data.
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National Day (Cameroon)
The National Day of Cameroon, also known as Unitary State Day (fête nationale de l'État unitaire), is celebrated annually on 20 May.
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Ngaoundéré
Ngaoundéré or N'Gaoundéré (Fula: N'gamdere,, 𞤲'𞤺𞤢𞤥𞤣𞤫𞥅𞤪𞤫𞥅) is the capital of the Adamawa Region of Cameroon.
Niger River
The Niger River is the main river of West Africa, extending about. Its drainage basin is in area. Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in south-eastern Guinea near the Sierra Leone border. It runs in a crescent shape through Mali, Niger, on the border with Benin and then through Nigeria, discharging through a massive delta, known as the Niger Delta, into the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean.
Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. Cameroon and Nigeria are countries and territories where English is an official language, member states of the African Union, member states of the Commonwealth of Nations, member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, member states of the United Nations, republics in the Commonwealth of Nations and states and territories established in 1960.
Non-Aligned Movement
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a forum of 120 countries that are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc.
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Non-denominational Muslim
Non-denominational Muslims are Muslims who do not belong to, do not self-identify with, or cannot be readily classified under one of the identifiable Islamic schools and branches.
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North Region (Cameroon)
The North Region (Région du Nord) makes up 66,090 km2 of the northern half of The Republic of Cameroon.
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Northwest Region (Cameroon)
The Northwest Region, or North-West Region is one of ten regions of Cameroon.
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Nyong River
The Nyong (formerly Yong) is a river in Cameroon.
O Cameroon, Cradle of Our Forefathers
"Chant de Ralliement" ("The Rallying Song"), also known as "Ô Cameroun berceau de nos ancêtres" ("O Cameroon, Cradle of our Forefathers") is the national anthem of Cameroon and former national anthem of French Cameroon.
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Official language
An official language is a language having certain rights to be used in defined situations.
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OHADA
OHADA (Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa) is a system of corporate law and implementing institutions adopted by seventeen West and Central African nations in 1993 in Port Louis, Mauritius before it was revised in 2008 in Quebec, Canada.
Olusegun Obasanjo
Chief Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Ogunboye Aremu Obasanjo (Olúṣẹ́gun Ọbásanjọ́; born 5 March 1937) is a Nigerian general and statesman who served as Nigeria's head of state from 1976 to 1979 and later as its president from 1999 to 2007.
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Organisation internationale de la Francophonie
The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF; sometimes shortened to the Francophonie, La Francophonie, sometimes also called International Organisation of italic in English) is an international organization representing countries and regions where French is a lingua franca or customary language, where a significant proportion of the population are francophones (French speakers), or where there is a notable affiliation with French culture. Cameroon and Organisation internationale de la Francophonie are French-speaking countries and territories.
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Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC; Munaẓẓamat at-Taʿāwun al-ʾIslāmī; Organisation de la coopération islamique), formerly the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, is an intergovernmental organization founded in 1969.
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Outline of Cameroon
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Cameroon: The Republic of Cameroon is a unitary republic located in Middle Africa.
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Palm oil
Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of oil palms.
Parliament of Cameroon
The Parliament of Cameroon (Parlement du Cameroun) is the legislature of Cameroon.
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Pascal Siakam
Pascal Siakam (born 2 April 1994) is a Cameroonian professional basketball player for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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Paul Biya
Paul Biya (born Paul Barthélemy Biya'a bi Mvondo; 13 February 1933) is a Cameroonian politician who is the second president of Cameroon since 6 November 1982, having previously been the prime minister of Cameroon from 1975 to 1982.
Peanut
The peanut (Arachis hypogaea), also known as the groundnut, goober (US), goober pea, pindar (US) or monkey nut (UK), is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds.
Petit-Pays
Petit-Pays (born Adolphe Claude Moundi in Douala, Cameroon on 5 June 1967) is a Cameroonian musician.
Petroleum
Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations.
Planned liberalism
Planned liberalism is an economic policy followed in Cameroon since the 1960s that aims to merge the best concepts of capitalism and socialism.
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Polygamy
Polygamy (from Late Greek πολυγαμία, "state of marriage to many spouses") is the practice of marrying multiple spouses.
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. Cameroon and Portugal are member states of the United Nations.
Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Portuguese maritime exploration
Portuguese maritime exploration resulted in the numerous territories and maritime routes recorded by the Portuguese as a result of their intensive maritime journeys during the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Potato
The potato is a starchy root vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world.
Poverty threshold
The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.
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Prefect
Prefect (from the Latin praefectus, substantive adjectival form of praeficere: "put in front", meaning in charge) is a magisterial title of varying definition, but essentially refers to the leader of an administrative area.
President of Cameroon
The president of Cameroon is the executive head of state and de facto head of government of Cameroon and is the commander in chief of the Cameroon Armed Forces. Cameroon and president of Cameroon are 1960 establishments in Cameroon.
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Presidential system
A presidential system, or single executive system, is a form of government in which a head of government, typically with the title of president, leads an executive branch that is separate from the legislative branch in systems that use separation of powers.
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Prime Minister of Cameroon
Under the current Constitution of Cameroon, the prime minister of Cameroon is a relatively powerless position. Cameroon and prime Minister of Cameroon are 1960 establishments in Cameroon.
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Prince Nico Mbarga
Nico Mbarga (1 January 1950 – 23 June 1997), better known as Prince Nico Mbarga, was a Cameroonian-Nigerian highlife musician, born to a Nigerian mother and a Cameroonian father in Abakaliki, Nigeria.
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Privatization
Privatization (rendered privatisation in British English) can mean several different things, most commonly referring to moving something from the public sector into the private sector.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
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Public holidays in Cameroon
The following holidays are public holidays but the date on which each occurs varies, according to its corresponding calendar, and thus has no set date.
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Purchasing power parity
Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a measure of the price of specific goods in different countries and is used to compare the absolute purchasing power of the countries' currencies.
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Pygmy peoples
In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short.
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Rainforest
Rainforests are forests characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire.
Regional Council (Cameroon)
Regional Councils are, nominally, the governing bodies of the regions of Cameroon.
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ReliefWeb
ReliefWeb (RW) is a humanitarian information portal founded in 1996.
Religion in Cameroon
Christianity is the majority religion in Cameroon, with significant minorities of the adherents of Islam and traditional faiths.
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Reptile
Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with usually an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development.
Republic
A republic, based on the Latin phrase res publica ('public affair'), is a state in which political power rests with the public through their representatives—in contrast to a monarchy.
Republic of the Congo
The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, West Congo, Congo Republic, ROC, ROTC, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located on the western coast of Central Africa to the west of the Congo River. Cameroon and Republic of the Congo are central African countries, French-speaking countries and territories, member states of the African Union, member states of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, member states of the United Nations and states and territories established in 1960.
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Rice
Rice is a cereal grain and in its domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Asia and Africa.
Ring languages
The Ring or Ring Road languages, spoken in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon, form a branch of the Narrow Grassfields languages.
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Risk & Compliance Portal
The Risk & Compliance Portal (formerly The Business Anti-Corruption Portal) is a powerhouse for business anti-corruption information offering tools on how to alleviate or reduce risks and costs of corruption when doing business abroad.
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Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje
Ruben Bertrand Boumtje-Boumtje (born 20 May 1978) is a Cameroonian professional basketball executive and former player who last served as the assistant general manager of the Delaware Blue Coats of the NBA G League.
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Ruben Um Nyobè
Ruben Um Nyobè (1913 – 13 September 1958) was an anti-colonialist Cameroonian leader, slain by the French army on 13 September 1958, near his natal village of Boumnyebel, in the department of Nyong-et-Kellé in the maquis Bassa.
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Salafi movement
The Salafi movement or Salafism is a revival movement within Sunni Islam, which was formed as a socio-religious movement during the late 19th century and has remained influential in the Islamic world for over a century.
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Sanaga River
The Sanaga River (formerly Zannaga) is the largest river in Cameroon located in East Region, Centre Region and Littoral Region.
Sankie Maimo
Sankie Maimo (1930 – 4 September 2013) was a writer from British Southern Cameroons.
Sao civilisation
The Sao civilization (also called So) flourished in Central Africa from ca.
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Sarong
A sarong or a sarung is a large tube or length of fabric, often wrapped around the waist, worn in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Western Asia, Northern Africa, East Africa, West Africa, and on many Pacific islands.
Savanna
A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.
Schistosomiasis
Schistosomiasis, also known as snail fever, bilharzia, and Katayama fever, is a disease caused by parasitic flatworms called schistosomes.
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Semi-Bantu
The Semi-Bantu or Semibantu are specific inhabitants of the Western grassfields of Cameroon (portions of the Adamawa, West, Northwest, and Southwest regions), who speak languages that have certain characteristics to the Bantu language family but are excluded from them.
Senate (Cameroon)
The Senate is the upper house of the Parliament of Cameroon.
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Shia Islam
Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.
Shrimp
A shrimp (shrimp (US) or shrimps (UK) is a crustacean (a form of shellfish) with an elongated body and a primarily swimming mode of locomotion – typically belonging to the Caridea or Dendrobranchiata of the order Decapoda, although some crustaceans outside of this order are also referred to as "shrimp".
Shum Laka
The archaeological site of Shum Laka is the most prominent rockshelter site in the Grasslands region of the Laka Valley, northwest Cameroon.
Silicon Mountain
Silicon Mountain is a nickname coined to represent the technology ecosystem (cluster) in the Mountain area of Cameroon, with its epicenter in Buea.
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Social Democratic Front (Cameroon)
The Social Democratic Front (Front Social Démocrate) is the main opposition party of Cameroon.
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Soukous
Soukous (from French secousse, "shock, jolt, jerk") is a genre of dance music originating from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) and the Republic of the Congo (formerly French Congo).
Soul music
Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African-American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
South Cameroon Plateau
The South Cameroon Plateau or Southern Cameroon Plateau (Plateau Sud-Camerounais) is the dominant geographical feature of Cameroon.
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South Region (Cameroon)
The South Region (Région du Sud) is located in the southwestern and south-central portion of the Republic of Cameroon.
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Southern Cameroons
The Southern Cameroons was the southern part of the British League of Nations mandate territory of the British Cameroons in West Africa.
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Southern Cameroons National Council
The Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) is a political organisation seeking the independence of the former anglophone Southern Cameroons from the predominantly francophone Republic of Cameroon (République du Cameroun) and achieving the unification with neighbouring Nigeria.
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Southwest Region (Cameroon)
The Southwest Region or South-West Region is a region in Cameroon.
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Subsistence agriculture
Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families on smallholdings.
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Sufism
Sufism is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism and asceticism.
Supreme Court of Cameroon
The Supreme Court (French Cour Suprême) is the highest judicial body in Cameroon.
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Sweet Mother
"Sweet Mother" is a highlife song by the Cameroonian and Nigerian singer Prince Nico Mbarga and his band Rocafil Jazz.
Syncretism
Syncretism is the practice of combining different beliefs and various schools of thought.
Takamanda National Park
The Takamanda National Park is a protected area in Cameroon, set up in 2008 to help protect the endangered Cross River gorilla.
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Talking drum
The talking drum is an hourglass-shaped drum from West Africa, whose pitch can be regulated to mimic the tone and prosody of human speech.
Tea
Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to East Asia which probably originated in the borderlands of southwestern China and northern Myanmar.
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Telecommunications in Cameroon
Telecommunications in Cameroon include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
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Telephone numbers in Cameroon
The following are the telephone codes for Cameroon.
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Thérèse Sita-Bella
Thérèse Sita-Bella (1933–27 February 2006), born Thérèse Bella Mbida, was a Cameroonian film director who became the first woman filmmaker of Africa and Cameroon.
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The Diplomat
The Diplomat is an international online news magazine covering politics, society, and culture in the Indo-Pacific region.
The Economist
The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The World Factbook
The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.
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Total fertility rate
The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime, if they were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through their lifetime, and they were to live from birth until the end of their reproductive life.
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Tourism in Cameroon
Tourism in Cameroon is a growing but relatively minor industry.
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Traditional African religions
The beliefs and practices of African people are highly diverse, including various ethnic religions.
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Traditional medicine
Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous medicine or folk medicine) comprises medical aspects of traditional knowledge that developed over generations within the folk beliefs of various societies, including indigenous peoples, before the era of modern medicine.
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Transparency International
Transparency International e.V. (TI) is a German registered association founded in 1993 by former employees of the World Bank.
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Transport in Cameroon
This article provides a breakdown of the transportation options available in Cameroon.
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Tripoli–Cape Town Highway
The Tripoli–Cape Town Highway or TAH 3 is Trans-African Highway 3 in the transcontinental road network being developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the African Development Bank (AfDB), and the African Union.
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Tsamassi
Tsamassi is a musical style of the Bamileke of Cameroon.
Unification Day (Cameroon)
Unification Day is a public holiday in Cameroon.
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Union of the Peoples of Cameroon
The Union of the Peoples of Cameroon (- UPC) is a political party in Cameroon.
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Unitary state
A unitary state is a sovereign state governed as a single entity in which the central government is the supreme authority.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland. Cameroon and United Kingdom are member states of the Commonwealth of Nations and member states of the United Nations.
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development.
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United Nations Trusteeship Council
The United Nations Trusteeship Council is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, established to help ensure that trust territories were administered in the best interests of their inhabitants and of international peace and security.
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United States Department of Labor
The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government.
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Veja (magazine)
(English: see, look) is a Brazilian weekly news magazine published in São Paulo and distributed throughout the country by media conglomerate Grupo Abril.
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Volcanic crater lake
A volcanic crater lake is a lake in a crater that was formed by explosive activity or a collapse during a volcanic eruption.
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Water conflict
Water conflict typically refers to violence or disputes associated with access to, or control of, water resources, or the use of water or water systems as weapons or casualties of conflicts.
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Waza National Park
Waza National Park is a national park in the Department of Logone-et-Chari, in Far North Region, Cameroon.
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West Africa
West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R.
West Africa Time
West Africa Time, or WAT, is a time zone used in west-central Africa.
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West Region (Cameroon)
The West Region (Région de l'Ouest) is 14,000 km2 of territory located in the central-western portion of the Republic of Cameroon.
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Western High Plateau
The Western High Plateau, Western Highlands or Bamenda Grassfields is a region of Cameroon characterised by high relief, cool temperatures, heavy rainfall and savanna vegetation.
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Wet season
The wet season (sometimes called the rainy season or monsoon season) is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs.
Winter Olympic Games
The Winter Olympic Games (Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice.
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Wodaabe
The Wodaabe (Woɗaaɓe, وٛطَاٻٜ, 𞤏𞤮𞤯𞤢𞥄𞤩𞤫) is a name that is used to designate a subgroup of the Fula ethnic group who are traditionally nomadic found primarily in Niger and Chad.
Women's Africa Cup of Nations
The Women's Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), known for sponsorship purposes as the TotalEnergies Women's Africa Cup of Nations and formerly the African Women's Championship, is a biennial international women's football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) since 1998 as the qualification for the FIFA Women's World Cup for African nations.
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World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.
World Food Programme
The World Food Programme (WFP) is an international organization within the United Nations that provides food assistance worldwide.
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World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
World Wide Fund for Nature
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is a Swiss-based international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment.
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Wouri River
The Wouri (also Vouri or Vuri) is a river in Cameroon.
Xinjiang
Xinjiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country at the crossroads of Central Asia and East Asia.
Xinjiang internment camps
The Xinjiang internment camps, officially called vocational education and training centers (w) by the government of China, are internment camps operated by the government of Xinjiang and the Chinese Communist Party Provincial Standing Committee.
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Yam (vegetable)
Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae) that form edible tubers (some other species in the genus being toxic).
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Yaoundé
Yaoundé is the capital of Cameroon and, with a population of more than 2.8 million, the second-largest city in the country after the port city Douala.
Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport
Yaounde Nsimalen International Airport (Aéroport international de Yaoundé-Nsimalen), also known as Nsimalen airport or just Nsimalen, is the second busiest and largest public airport in Cameroon.
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Yoruba people
The Yoruba people (Ọmọ Odùduwà, Ọmọ Káàárọ̀-oòjíire) are a West African ethnic group who mainly inhabit parts of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo.
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Zeid bin Ra'ad
Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad bin Zeid al-Hussein (زيد ابن رعد الحسين; born 26 January 1964) is a Jordanian former diplomat who is the Perry World House Professor of the Practice of Law and Human Rights at the University of Pennsylvania.
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.cm
.cm is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Cameroon.
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13th parallel north
The 13th parallel north is a circle of latitude 13 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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17th meridian east
The meridian 17° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
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1982 FIFA World Cup
The 1982 FIFA World Cup was the 12th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in Spain from 13 June to 11 July 1982.
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1984 Cameroonian coup attempt
An attempted coup d'état occurred in Cameroon in 1984, when presidential palace guards unsuccessfully tried to overthrow President Paul Biya.
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1990 FIFA World Cup
The 1990 FIFA World Cup was the 14th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams.
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1st parallel north
The 1st parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 1 degree north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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2008 Cameroonian anti-government protests
The 2008 Cameroon protests were a series of violent demonstrations in Cameroon's biggest cities that took place from 25 to 29 February 2008.
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2020 African Nations Championship
The 2020 African Nations Championship, known as CHAN 2020 for short and the Total African Nations Championship for sponsorship purposes, was the 6th edition of the biennial association football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), featuring national teams consisting of players from their respective national leagues.
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2020 Cameroonian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Cameroon on 9 February 2020, together with municipal elections.
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2021 Africa Cup of Nations
The 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (also referred to as AFCON 2021 or CAN 2021), known as the TotalEnergies 2021 Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons, was the 33rd edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the biennial international men's football championship of Africa organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
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8th meridian east
The meridian 8° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
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See also
1960 establishments in Cameroon
- Cameroon
- List of ambassadors of the United States to Cameroon
- Lycée classique de Dschang
- Miss Cameroon
- National Assembly (Cameroon)
- President of Cameroon
- Prime Minister of Cameroon
Central African countries
- Angola
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Equatorial Guinea
- Gabon
- Guinea
- Republic of the Congo
- Rwanda
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- South Sudan
Republics in the Commonwealth of Nations
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Botswana
- Cameroon
- Cyprus
- Dominica
- Fiji
- Gabon
- Ghana
- Guyana
- India
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Malta
- Mauritius
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Republics in the Commonwealth of Nations
- Rwanda
- Samoa
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Tanzania
- The Gambia
- Togo
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Uganda
- Vanuatu
- Zambia
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