• However, we remain positive that a decision to order Her Majesty's Government to take immediate action to protect the people of the Southern Cameroons whose British Protected Persons (BPP) status remains extant in law despite the botched independence process of 01 October 1961 (that purportedly terminated the BPP Status for the Southern Cameroons) will be reached at some point. (icicemac.com)
  • Since 1961, it has been part of the Republic of Cameroon, where it makes up the Northwest Region and Southwest Region. (wikipedia.org)
  • Referendums were held in 1959 and 1961 in the Cameroons to determine union with Nigeria or Cameroun. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1961, Northern Cameroons voted for union with Nigeria and Southern Cameroons for union with (the formerly French) Cameroun. (wikipedia.org)
  • Southern Cameroons became part of Cameroon on 1 October 1961. (wikipedia.org)
  • citation needed] Pro-independence groups claim that UN Resolution 1608 21 April 1961, which required the UK, the Government of the Southern Cameroons and Republic of Cameroun to engage in talks with a view to agreeing measures for union of the two countries, was not implemented, and that the Government of the United Kingdom was negligent in terminating its trusteeship without ensuring that proper arrangements were made. (wikipedia.org)
  • The area was a German colony in the late 19th century, but the territory was divided into British and French mandates after the German Empire's defeat in World War I. The mandates were united in an independent Cameroon in 1961. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • A region with a majority anglophone population which, in 1961, became part of the Republic of Cameroon, an overall majority francophone country. (unpo.org)
  • Cameroon's anglophone-francophone rift dates back to 1961 when the British-administered Southern Cameroons united with Cameroon after its independence from France in 1960. (sabcnews.com)
  • Following a referendum, British-run Southern Cameroons joined the French-speaking Republic of Cameroon in 1961, while Northern Cameroons voted to join English-speaking Nigeria. (wxxinews.org)
  • The study examines the extent to which this has been achieved in the Anglophone subsystem of Education by presenting what was learnt in the colonial history classroom in the British Southern Cameroons between 1916 and 1961. (scielo.org.za)
  • Following a 1961 referendum, the northern part of British Cameroon joined Nigeria while the southern part merged with the Republic of Cameroon in a federation. (a2zdirectory.org)
  • A 1961 referendum led to what is currently Northwest and Southwest Cameroon joining a newly-independent French Cameroon, instead of English-speaking Nigeria to the north despite a history of English rule. (cameroonintelligencereport.com)
  • Cameroon was once thought to be an island of stability in a sea of instability, but that mirage started to crumble in 2016, as President Paul Biya mishandled what many in the outside world call the "Anglophone Crisis," but what to many Cameroonians (English and French speakers alike) is just further evidence of the lack of political freedom, accountability, and competence that has plagued the country since 1961. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • Cameroun gained independence from France on Jan. 1, 1960 and 22 months later on Oct. 1, 1961, gained independence from British Southern Cameroons by vote of the UN General Assembly and joined with French Cameroon to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon, a date which is now observed as Unification Day , a public holiday . (comptonherald.org)
  • This regrettable and condemnable move notwithstanding, The Consortium seizes this opportunity to remind the United Nations that the people of the former UN Trust Territory of British Southern Cameroons have come of age and know exactly what they want, and no one will force annexation on us them anymore like it was the case in 1961. (bareta.news)
  • It was then governed by the British Administration as a United Nations Trust Territory from 1945 -1961. (ideasforpeace.org)
  • On February 11, 1961, a United Nations sponsored plebiscite with limited options, saw Southern Cameroonsians vote to attain independence by joining La Republique du Cameroun, which had attained independence from France in January 1960. (ideasforpeace.org)
  • Southern Cameroons and La Republique du Cameroun then founded a union known as the Federal Republic of Cameroon, which came into force on 1st October 1961, a date which is today celebrated by the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), and other groups fighting for the restoration of their statehood, as Independence Day for Southern Cameroons. (ideasforpeace.org)
  • Unlike during the plebiscite of 1961, wherein only Southern Cameroonsians voted to decide on their destiny, the referendum of May 1972 was extended to all the people of La Republique du Cameroun. (ideasforpeace.org)
  • The annexation of Southern Cameroons was completed in 1984, when Ahidjo's hand picked successor, Paul Biya, using Decree No 84-00 of February 4, 1984 changed the name of the country from the United Republic of Cameroon, to La Republique du Cameroun: the name which French speaking Cameroon used to enter into the union with Southern Cameroons in 1961. (ideasforpeace.org)
  • The Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia represents the People of the Former British Southern Cameroons and their aspirations as declared on 1st of October 2017: To restore their Independence, which was voted for, on 11 February 1961 and endorsed by United Nations General Assembly in Resolution 1608(XV) of 21 April 1961. (ambazoniagov.org)
  • Overall, this research project studies, from a predominantly linguistic perspective, the instantiations of colonial contact and postcolonial heritages that are embodied in, and transmitted through, letters written during British colonisation of Southern Cameroons (1916-1961). (colonial-letters.de)
  • They renamed the British Southern Cameroons as Ambazonia (from Ambas Bay). (wikipedia.org)
  • The crisis brewing in South Cameroon/Ambazonia may be presented by some international sources as a surprise, but the reality is that the conflict in which the West African country is currently engulfed reflects decades of ethnic imbalance. (unpo.org)
  • Ambazonia had been under British rule and Nigerian administration, while Cameroon had been a French territory. (unpo.org)
  • Ambazonia, then called South Cameroon, was initially afforded sovereignty, but, following a controversial referendum, it was merged with French Cameroon in a federation. (unpo.org)
  • President Biya announces the deployment of the Cameroon military in the Anglophone provinces on the day Ambazonia commemorates its independence from previous colonial rule. (unpo.org)
  • The separatists chose Oct. 1, the anniversary of the official reunification of the anglophone and francophone parts of Cameroon, to declare independence for "Ambazonia", the name of the state they want to create. (dailysabah.com)
  • Artist Adjani Okpu-Egbe, interrogates sovereignty and solidarity in southwest Cameroon, for what is known as Ambazonia, and beyond. (africasacountry.com)
  • Some of you are from French Cameroon while some of you are from Ambazonia. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • If you have a friend, a brother or a sister or a husband or a relative in the Cameroon army, advise them not to go to Ambazonia. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • We are servants and guardians of the Restoration of Statehood, Independence, and Sovereignty of the People of the former Southern Cameroons as the Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia. (ambazoniagov.org)
  • This loss of autonomy for Southern Cameroons created a strong movement there to break away and form the independent Republic of Ambazonia. (african-volunteer.net)
  • Secessionist militants in the English-speaking region of Cameroon have also sought violence against government forces and began attacking military troops in November 2017. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • A food market in Bamenda, Cameroon, in November 2017. (wxxinews.org)
  • Washington, 9 January 2017 - The Movement for the Restoration of the Independence of Southern Cameroons (MoRISC) congratulates the people of Southern Cameroons on the successful organization of ghost town operations on this 9th day of January 2017. (morisc.org)
  • In February 2017, he joined other leaders of the struggle in a unified platform to advance the course of the Southern Cameroons struggle under a unified umbrella called SCACUF. (africanbookscollective.com)
  • He led several delegations to the Whitehall in London and to Washington DC to widen international understanding on the Southern Cameroons annexation and the 2017 invasion and genocide. (africanbookscollective.com)
  • Although the This move comes as no surprise, given the complacent attitude of the current Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guteres since the outbreak of the conflict in the Southern Cameroons in 2017. (bareta.news)
  • The Southern Cameroons was the southern part of the British League of Nations mandate territory of the British Cameroons in West Africa. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is important to note that the advent of British colonization of Africa coincided with the era of scientific racism as represented by social Darwinism (survival of the fittest). (encyclopedia.com)
  • But things changed with the British Empire 's entrance into Africa. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Companies such as the United African Company and United Trading Company in West Africa, the Imperial British East Africa Company, and the British South Africa Company were formed by businesspersons who were interested only in exploiting and plundering the rich natural resources of the territories of Africa that they were allowed to govern. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The Imperial British East Africa Company, founded in 1888, colonized Kenya for Britain, ruling there until 1893. (encyclopedia.com)
  • With a multidisciplinary perspective, Planning Power examines British and French colonial town and country planning efforts in Africa. (routledge.com)
  • Town Planning in British Colonial West Africa 5. (routledge.com)
  • Town Planning in Colonial British Southern Africa 9. (routledge.com)
  • Planning Ideology and Practice in British East Africa 10. (routledge.com)
  • Bechuanaland Protectorate, Northern and Southern Rhodesia take up a large area of southern Africa. (linns.com)
  • In Africa, the largest segment of the Germany colony of Kamerun (known as Cameroon in English) became the French mandate Cameroun. (linns.com)
  • Okpu-Egbe here politically mobilizes what we might call "legitimization," countering the "delegitimization" of the exhibition's title-a reference to all-too-common attributions of African conflicts to ancient tribal hatreds ("the myth of violent Africa"), or to scant coverage of Cameroon in the international media despite thousands dead and more than 700,000 displaced in recent years. (africasacountry.com)
  • Cameroon is an independent nation in Central Africa. (a2zdirectory.org)
  • More than 1 million Cameroonians have been displaced internally, tens of thousands have fled to Nigeria, and thousands more from other countries have escaped to Cameroon to flee Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), or violence in the Central African Republic. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • This weblog is based on DIBUSSI TANDE's personal views on people, places, issues and events in Cameroon, Africa and the world! (dibussi.com)
  • No. 18: Boulenger, George Albert 1916: Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). (igl-home.de)
  • Letters were one of the major means of communication during the 19th-20th Century British colonialism of Africa. (colonial-letters.de)
  • For instance, Burns (2006) takes up the contact and clash between knowledges of herbal treatment and medical treatment as played out in the letters of Louisa Mvemve in South Africa during British colonisation and white settler rule. (colonial-letters.de)
  • To assess human exposure to Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in west central Africa, we looked for SIV infection in 788 monkeys that were hunted in the rainforests of Cameroon for bushmeat or kept as pets. (cdc.gov)
  • Because humans come in frequent contact logging concessions in southeastern Cameroon (n=305), as with primates in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, additional well as 215 pet animals from these same areas (Table 1). (cdc.gov)
  • As Cameroun and Nigeria prepared for Independence, South Cameroons nationalists debated whether their best interests lay with union with Cameroun, union with Nigeria or total independence. (wikipedia.org)
  • Groups such as the Cameroon Anglophone Movement (CAM) demanded greater autonomy, or independence, for the provinces. (wikipedia.org)
  • Martin Ayong Ayim: Former British Southern Cameroons Journey Towards Complete Decolonization, Independence, and Sovereignty. (postnewsline.com)
  • Armed separatists have kidnapped nearly 80 people, the majority of them students, in an English-speaking region of Cameroon witnessing an armed campaign for independence, a governor has said. (aljazeera.com)
  • Cameroon, once a German colony, was divided between Britain and France after World War I. The French colony gained independence in 1960 and became Cameroon. (aljazeera.com)
  • Cameroon bans pro-independence rallies , public meetings, and travel in a mainly English-speaking region ahead of a protest to demand independence for the area. (unpo.org)
  • Cameroon has launched a probe into recent deadly violence linked to a symbolic declaration of independence in the west African nation's English-speaking region, the defence minister said Friday. (sabcnews.com)
  • It then goes on to discuss the process of reform in the History curriculum of the Anglophone subsystem of education in Cameroon since independence. (scielo.org.za)
  • After World War II, both French and British Cameroon demanded independence and a reunification of the country. (a2zdirectory.org)
  • Is Independence the Answer for S. Cameroons? (ideasforpeace.org)
  • By 1946, when both mandates were renewed as UN Trusteeships, French Cameroun was pressing hard for independence, a movement coordinated by the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon which was founded on April 10, 1948, while the British, aware that the political tide was turning, pondered whether to let their part of the country merge with that held by the French or to incorporate it within Nigeria. (african-volunteer.net)
  • In the event, French Cameroun (above) gained independence from France on 1st January 1960 as the Republic of Cameroun under President Ahmadou Ahidjo and, the following year, Northern Cameroons voted to be integrated into the newly independent Nigeria, whilst Southern Cameroons opted to be part of the newly emerging Federal Republic of Cameroon under the stewardship of President Ahmadou Ahidjo (below), the then leader of French Cameroun. (african-volunteer.net)
  • Despite independence, the country was still marred by guerrilla tactics from the rebel Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC) and President Ahidjo used this conflict as a means to strengthen the presidency making his party, the Cameroon National Union (CNU), the country's only political force in 1966. (african-volunteer.net)
  • They were administered from, but not joined to, the British territory of Nigeria through the British Resident (although some incumbents had the rank of District Officer, Senior Resident or Deputy Resident) with headquarters in Buea. (wikipedia.org)
  • Southern Cameroons was divided in 1949 into two provinces: Bamenda (capital Bamenda, hence also thus named) and Southern (capital Buea). (wikipedia.org)
  • Yet the residential type of administration was continued with a single British Resident at Buea, but in 1949 Edward John Gibbons was appointed Special Resident, and on 1 October 1954, when political power shifted to the elected government, succeeded himself as first of only two commissioners. (wikipedia.org)
  • The British agreed, and Southern Cameroons became an autonomous region with its capital still at Buea. (wikipedia.org)
  • The checkpoints in Buea are related to Cameroon's Anglophone crisis, which is rooted in conflict between the English- and French-speaking areas of Cameroon. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Buea in Cameroon. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • PostNewsLine is an interactive feature of 'The Post', an important newspaper published out of Buea, Cameroons. (postnewsline.com)
  • Photo - A Government Practicing School in Buea, Cameroon. (warwick.ac.uk)
  • In April 1993, under the banner of the All Anglo-phone Conference (AAC1) in Buea, and May 1994 at (AAC 2) in Bamenda, Southern Cameroonsians convened in thousands to intensify their demands for a return to the Federation. (ideasforpeace.org)
  • For example, the British chose the Arab minority to lord it over the majority Africans in the Sudan and favored the Fulani in Nigeria. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Interestingly, the 1923 atlas still gives the place its German name 'Kamerun' (Figure 3), but color keys the large area as being 'under French control' and the narrow strip that shares a border with Nigeria as being 'under British control. (linns.com)
  • He has served as Vice President of Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) for many years, and is currently chair of the Southern Cameroons People's Organization (SCAPO) which he co-founded with other Southern Cameroonians and thereafter initiated a series law suits and litigations in Nigeria and at the African Commission on Human and People's Rights in Banjul on the right of Self-determination for former British Southern Cameroons. (africanbookscollective.com)
  • He especially highlights ten incarcerated activists, whom he dubs "the Nera 10," who had been arrested at the Nera Hotel in Abuja, Nigeria in January 2018 and subsequently extradited to Cameroon. (africasacountry.com)
  • France took four-fifths of the land area, while the British received the fifth that ran along the border with Nigeria in the northwest. (a2zdirectory.org)
  • The British did not invest as much in developing British Cameroon, but administered the area as part of their colony of Nigeria with local chieftains who were allowed to implement British policy. (a2zdirectory.org)
  • The Urhobos are people from southern Nigeria who dwell near the Niger Delta in the northwest. (bscholarly.com)
  • While the French adopted their part of Cameroon into France, the British merely administered their mandates of Northern Cameroons and Southern Cameroons from their other nearby colony of Nigeria, effectively making the British Cameroons a colony of a colony. (african-volunteer.net)
  • Southern Cameroons was handed to Britain by the League of Nations after WW1, and was ruled by the British Colonial Governor in Nigeria - reason why the letters were sent there. (colonial-letters.de)
  • This triangle of communication, Cameroon-Nigeria-Britain, captures the complex trajectory of knowledge movement and the entanglements involved. (colonial-letters.de)
  • Southern Cameroons Regional Assembly Map of the Southern Cameroons consisting of 4 Divisins: Victoria, Kumba, Mamfe and Bamenda. (wikipedia.org)
  • These include Ruben Um Nyobé, a founder of the Union des populations du Cameroon (UPC) who died at the hands of the French military in 1958, and Félix Moumié, another UPC leader whose poisoning in Geneva in 1960 by the French secret service was never brought to justice. (africasacountry.com)
  • French Cameroon became independent in 1960 and the following year the current Republic of Cameroon was formed. (a2zdirectory.org)
  • Illiterate African leaders were conned into signing over their sovereignty to the British. (encyclopedia.com)
  • We support all groups and individuals that advocate for the sovereignty of former British Southern Cameroons. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • The country was renamed the United Republic of Cameroon in 1972 and the Republic of Cameroon in 1984. (comptonherald.org)
  • In 1972, the President of the Federation, Arnadou Ahidjo, violated Article 47 of the Federal Constitution which prohibited any action that threatened the existence of the Federation, and abrogated the federal arrangement with proclamation DF 72- 270 of February 6 , 1972, abolishing all federal legislative, judicial and administrative institutions, and removing all guarantees that protected the rights of the minority Southern Cameroons in the Federation. (ideasforpeace.org)
  • The federal system of government which had given the former Southern Cameroons relative autonomy was abolished in 1972 and the country was reborn as the United Republic of Cameroon in that year. (african-volunteer.net)
  • Let it be known by all and sundry, that the people of the former UN Trust Territory of British Southern Cameroons shall either live live either freely or die fighting for that which they believe in: self-determination. (bareta.news)
  • Following the Treaty of Versailles, the German territory of Kamerun was divided on June 28, 1919, between a French and a British League of Nations Mandate, the French, who had previously administered the whole occupied territory, getting the larger. (wikipedia.org)
  • The British mandate comprised two adjacent territories, Northern Cameroons and Southern Cameroons. (wikipedia.org)
  • Southernmost region of the British Mandate territory of British Cameroons. (unpo.org)
  • Issued in 1925 during the French mandate period, this 2-centime stamp of Cameroon shows a herder and cattle. (linns.com)
  • A narrow strip of northwestern Cameroon became a British mandate called 'Cameroons. (linns.com)
  • After Germany's defeat in World War I, Kamerun became a League of Nations Mandate territory being split into British Cameroon and French Cameroun in 1919. (african-volunteer.net)
  • In 1953, however, the Southern Cameroons representatives, unhappy with the domineering attitude of Nigerian politicians and lack of unity among the ethnic groups in the Eastern Region, declared a "benevolent neutrality" and withdrew from the assembly. (wikipedia.org)
  • At a conference in London from 30 July to 22 August 1953, the Southern Cameroons delegation asked for a separate region of its own. (wikipedia.org)
  • With the capital city of Yaounde, Cameroon 2020 population is estimated at 26,545,874 according to countryaah . (a2zdirectory.org)
  • The United Nations approved the Trusteeship Agreements for British Cameroons to be governed by Britain on 6 December 1946. (wikipedia.org)
  • But Britain supports his regime and conducted six secret counter-terrorism operations in Cameroon last year, it can be revealed. (consortiumnews.com)
  • Britain is building training villages in Salak for elite Cameroon units, documents obtained by Declassified show. (consortiumnews.com)
  • Alongside the military support, Britain signed a £200 million trade deal with Cameroon last year. (consortiumnews.com)
  • When Germany was defeated in the First World War, its territory was shared by the victorious allies, France and Britain, with Britain taking over control of Southern Cameroons. (ideasforpeace.org)
  • Through them, the instructions, intensions, decisions, complaints, justifications and agenda of resident British colonial officers, local colonial administrators and collaborators, colonial officials in Britain and colonised subjects (individuals, villages) were transmitted across time and space. (colonial-letters.de)
  • Southern Cameroonsian nationalists, such as Gorji Dinka and Albert Mukong, who protested the ill treatment of their people by the Yaoundé regime, were arrested and detained. (ideasforpeace.org)
  • When they felt their demands were met with contempt and total disregard, they took their case back to the United Nations and protested the annexation of their territory by La Republique du Cameroon. (ideasforpeace.org)
  • In the subsequent election thirteen Southern Cameroonian representatives were elected to the Eastern Nigerian House of Assembly in Enugu. (wikipedia.org)
  • That strip of land was additionally divided into North and South Cameroons, both of which used Nigerian postage stamps. (linns.com)
  • Although there are several groups involved in the struggle for the restoration of the statehood of Southern Cameroons, the Southern Cameroons National Council, which is the governing organ of the Southern Cameroons People Conference, is the most prominent. (ideasforpeace.org)
  • British colonialism in particular was structured as a dictatorship, using violence to pacify the colonial subjects and to maintain order. (encyclopedia.com)
  • There was no input from the colonized in the way that they were governed: The British Colonial Office in London made all the decisions concerning the colonies. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The British preferred ethnic societies with dictatorial and hierarchical systems like their own, and they recruited members of these ethnicities in disproportionate numbers into the colonial military. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The British system of government affected the type of racial or ethnic problems that all of Britain's African colonies had during the colonial period, the immediate postcolonial period, and from the 1980s into the twenty-first century. (encyclopedia.com)
  • This unique comparative analysis of British and French colonial town planning - covering the entire sub-Saharan African region - takes theories from a wide range of disciplines, including political science, history, urban and regional planning, economics and geography to paint a comprehensive picture of the subject. (routledge.com)
  • A 1-mark German colonial stamp for Cameroon issued in 1900. (linns.com)
  • After being governed by German colonial rule from the late 19th century until World War I, Cameroon was divided under League of Nations mandates (later United Nations " trust territories ") into a small western British zone and a much larger French zone. (africasacountry.com)
  • The French Intelligence Activities in the British Southern Cameroon: An Unveiled Side of Colonial Rivalries. (ijhssnet.com)
  • Today's Cameroon is an amalgam of territories that were controlled by the French and British during the colonial era. (cameroonintelligencereport.com)
  • French Cameroon was placed directly under French rule and the cultural influence of the colonial power became strong. (a2zdirectory.org)
  • In spite of developments in the past quarter of a century which have largely stripped Limbe of its erstwhile colonial feel, this is still a quintessential colonial town where vestiges of British - and German - colonial rule abound. (dibussi.com)
  • British Colonialism, Economics and Spatial Structures 4. (routledge.com)
  • In Cameroon, and particularly for the Anglophone subsystem of education, this debate is far from over despite the fact that the destiny of the country has rested in the hands of those who fought against colonialism for over fifty years now. (scielo.org.za)
  • In British Cameroon, liberation from colonialism slowed. (a2zdirectory.org)
  • Planning in the Cameroons and Togoland 8. (routledge.com)
  • and, Germany took areas in the southwest and the east of the continent as well as Cameroon and Togoland meanwhile Ethiopia and Liberia were untouched (ibid: 12). (researchkey.net)
  • Unrest in Cameroon has been ongoing since 2016, when the country's Anglophone community began protests to demand the return of federalism. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Most of Cameroon is French-speaking, while the country's western portion is populated by English speakers. (wxxinews.org)
  • The Anglophone Crisis has ravaged an area of Cameroon that is home to more than 3.5 million people - approximately a seventh of the country's population - and yet it remains one of the world's forgotten conflicts. (cameroonintelligencereport.com)
  • This paper examines bodily transformation and well-being within the context of a millenarian movement that emerged during the 1840s in the area surrounding Mount Roraima at the periphery of Brazil, Guyana (British Guiana at the time), and Venezuela. (bvsalud.org)
  • One recent U.K. operation, codenamed ODYSSEAN, saw a British special forces officer draft a "crisis management" doctrine for Cameroon's president. (consortiumnews.com)
  • UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) releases statement on Cameroon crisis criticising both sides for Human Rights violations , singling out the government's "heavy-handed" approach in sparking the waves of violence. (unpo.org)
  • A phone call at the beginning of March succeeded in defusing the resulting tensions between France and Cameroon, but did little to advance prospects of a peaceful resolution to the crisis. (cameroonintelligencereport.com)
  • For the second year in a row, the Norwegian Refugee Council selected Cameroon as the most neglected displacement crisis in the world. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • The British devoted themselves to trade and to exploiting mining resources of the territory. (wikipedia.org)
  • Name given to the self-declared and unrecognised state covering the historical territory of Southern Cameroons and its anglophone population, regarded by the international community as part of Cameroon. (unpo.org)
  • Southern Cameroons was administered as a League of Nations mandated territory from 1918 until 1945, when the United Nations came into existence. (ideasforpeace.org)
  • The High commissioner of Canada to Cameroon, His Excellency Richard Bale, on Tuesday, November 10, 2020 graced the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cameroon with his presence at exactly 9 am. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • The European power has a close security cooperation with Cameroon, particular in the fight against Boko Haram in the North. (unpo.org)
  • A British foreign minister met President Biya in March 2021 to discuss "investment opportunities", which include a Guinness factory. (consortiumnews.com)
  • Where as President Biya prides himself in describing Cameroon as an oasis of peace in a turbulent sub region, the people of Southern Cameroons have been subjected to wanton intimidation, arrests without warrants, assassinations, ethnic cleansing, acute marginalization and economic deprivation. (ideasforpeace.org)
  • Okpu-Egbe, as both artist and activist, focuses on conditions in Anglophone southwestern Cameroon, where he was born in 1979 (in Kumba) and lived until 2004. (africasacountry.com)
  • Both the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide report that Cameroon is at risk for mass atrocities and urgent action is needed. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • The Consortium has received with shock and consternation, news of the United Nations General Secretariat assigning the sum of about USD 17 million to the baby-killing, autocratic regime of President Paul Biya of Cameroon to ease its ongoing genocide on unarmed civilians in Southern Cameroons. (bareta.news)
  • The Southern Cameroonians felt further marginalised. (wikipedia.org)
  • This is once more a clarion call on Southern Cameroonians once mire more to take their destiny into their own hands. (bareta.news)
  • Representatives of Southern Cameroons at the tripartite talks of 1991, proposed a return to the Federation, but the leaders of La Republique ignored them. (ideasforpeace.org)
  • Nationals of the Southern Cameroons residing especially those in London are strongly encouraged to take the public gallery and watch this first ever debate on the plight of the people of the Southern Cameroons since the start of the Revolution. (icicemac.com)
  • Cameroon police forces open fire on protestors , killing 17 people. (unpo.org)
  • Of all the peoples in Cameroon, the pygmy people baka (or bakola) have lived the longest in the area. (a2zdirectory.org)
  • Archaeological finds in various parts of Cameroon indicate that people lived there already 50,000 years ago, but little is known about this period. (a2zdirectory.org)
  • In the 11th century AD, the Muslim Fulani people from the Niger basin in the northwest came to the northern part of today's Cameroon. (a2zdirectory.org)
  • Based in Las Vegas, Nevada, the Southern Nevada Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization working to connect people with their public lands. (wildtribute.com)
  • Southern Cameroons lost its autonomous status and became the Northwest Province and Southwest Province of the Republic of Cameroun. (wikipedia.org)
  • The modern Republic of Cameroon continues to issue stamps. (linns.com)
  • Fast forward to the present day, and what used to be French Cameroun is now the independent Republic of Cameroon. (linns.com)
  • The Southern Cameroons comprises of the English speaking provinces of North West, and South West, of the Republic of Cameroons. (ideasforpeace.org)
  • However, the dissenting voices of Southern Cameroonsians rejecting the centralized United Republic of Cameroon were dwarfed by the wide majority of La Republique. (ideasforpeace.org)
  • Cameroon does all it can to reduce the international consequences of its failed militarization strategy against legitimate grievances in its Anglophone regions. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • However, the English-speaking peoples of the Southern Cameroons (now West Cameroun) did not believe that they were fairly treated by the French-speaking government of the country. (wikipedia.org)
  • Up Station Mountain Club: Shortlisted Authors for 2011 EduART Awards for Cameroon Literature in English. (postnewsline.com)
  • Augustine Ndangam studied English Language and Literature at the Federal University of Cameroon and at the School of English of the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. (africanbookscollective.com)
  • His instructional books Evans Cameroon Primary English with British co-author David Weir were a leading English language text book for children in primary schools in Cameroon for close to 30 years. (africanbookscollective.com)
  • Kouega, J-P. (2002), 'Uses of English in Southern British Cameroon. (warwick.ac.uk)
  • In the English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon, teenagers are kidnapped and mutilated by separatist militants who want to discourage them from attending schools. (cameroonintelligencereport.com)
  • Cameroon is beset with two major violent conflicts but also faces rising ethno-political tensions on- and offline. (crisisgroup.org)
  • Cameroon was colonised by Germany and then split into British and French areas after World War One," the BBC explains . (wxxinews.org)
  • In the 1923 atlas, British, Dutch and French Guiana snuggle together in the northeast corner of South America. (linns.com)
  • Yesterday, September 25, Cameroon and French Utility company EDF signed a. (stopblablacam.com)
  • The Germans were driven away during the First World War and Cameroon was divided into a French and a British zone. (a2zdirectory.org)
  • During the First World War, French, British and Belgian forces jointly expelled the Germans from Cameroon. (a2zdirectory.org)
  • After the end of the war in 1918, the area was divided into a French and a British zone. (a2zdirectory.org)
  • In French Cameroon, a number of political parties were formed. (a2zdirectory.org)
  • The absence of leadership from the British and French governments, whose forerunners laid the groundwork for this powder keg, is a particularly striking failure. (cameroonintelligencereport.com)
  • For that kind of dialogue to happen, French and British absenteeism must end. (cameroonintelligencereport.com)
  • Human Rights Watch releases a report where details emerge of Cameroon government forces torching entire villages. (unpo.org)
  • The following year, British-ruled Southern Cameroon was amalgamated into it, giving rise to tension in the northwest and southwest regions. (aljazeera.com)
  • Its highest point is Mount Cameroon in the Southwest region at 13,500 feet. (comptonherald.org)
  • Portuguese sailors arrived in the area of ​​today's Cameroon in 1472. (a2zdirectory.org)
  • Cameroon gained its name from what Portuguese settlers had named the River of Shrimp, Rio dos Camaroes, after they reached the coast in 1472. (african-volunteer.net)