Exactly at the head of the gulf the great peak of the Cameroon, on a line of volcanic action continued by the islands to the south-west, has a height of, while Clarence Peak, in Fernando Po, the first of the line of islands, rises to over.

This has made significant progress, but the process has been complicated by the opposition of Bakassi's inhabitants to being transferred to Cameroon.

UN has said that up to 20, 000 people left the region, taking refuge in nearby Cameroon and Nigeria.

Delimitation of international boundaries in the vicinity of Lake Chad, the lack of which led to border incidents in the past, has been completed and awaits ratification by Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria.

The low South Cameroon Plateau, rising from the coastal plain and dominated by tropical rain forest, has an average elevation of.

This area of tropical forest has been categorised by the World Wildlife Fund as the Cameroonian Highlands forests ecoregion with Mount Cameroon considered separately because as an active volcano it has a distinct environment from the other mountains.

Cameroon, has an average annual rainfall of.

Yet because of its oil reserves and favorable agricultural conditions, Cameroon still has one of the best-endowed primary commodity economies in sub-Saharan Africa.

" China has an ongoing military-military relationship with Cameroon, which includes training for Cameroonian military students each year in China, technical advisors to assist in repairing Cameroonian military vehicles and naval vessels, and Chinese military sales.

The People's Republic of China has a number of health and infrastructure projects underway in Cameroon.

Cameroon has a dispute with Equatorial Guinea over the exclusive maritime economic zone, which is currently before the ICJ.

Cameroon has particularly close ties with France, with whom it has numerous military, economic, and cultural agreements.

Cameroon has repeatedly demonstrated its preference for resolving this conflict through peaceful legal means and has submitted its case to the International Court of Justice.

Russia has an embassy in Yaoundé, and Cameroon has an embassy in Moscow.

Equatorial Guinea has cordial relations with neighbouring Cameroon, although there was criticism in Cameroon in 2000 about perceived mistreatment of Cameroonians working in Equatorial Guinea.

* G. c. antiquorum, the Kordofan giraffe, has a distribution which includes southern Chad, the Central African Republic, northern Cameroon and north-eastern DR Congo.

Hausa is also spoken various parts of Cameroon and Chad, which combined the mixed dialects of Northern Nigeria and Niger Republic, French has made a great influence in the way Hausa is spoken by the native Hausa speakers.

In English-language teaching Bobda shows how Cameroon has moved away from a mono-cultural, Anglo-centered way of teaching English and has gradually appropriated teaching material to a Cameroonian context.

A number of African nations, including Uganda, Senegal, Ghana, Namibia, Kenya, Nigeria, Réunion, Somalia, and Cameroon have Dragon Boat Associations which are members of the International Dragon Boat Federation.

However when the transfer of fellow Cameroonian Jean II Makoun to Lyon, the number 17 shirt was used by Makoun, who stated on wearing the number: " In memory of Marc, for me and for the whole Cameroon, this will be for something.

* August 30 – While taxiing out for takeoff at Douala International Airport outside Douala, Cameroon, Cameroon Airlines Flight 786, a Boeing 737-2H7C with 116 people on board, suffers an uncontained compressor failure in its number two engine which starts a fire.

According to users in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, only 3 grams of shredded bark are required for a single dosage, or cup. The Iboga tree is the central pillar of the Bwiti spiritual practice in West-Central Africa, mainly Gabon, Cameroon and the Republic of the Congo, which uses the alkaloid-containing roots of the plant in a number of ceremonies.

The province contains one petroleum system, the " Tertiary Niger Delta ( Akata-Agbada ) Petroleum System " ( classified as number 701901 ), the majority of which lies within the borders of Nigeria, with suspected or proven access to Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and São Tomé and Príncipe.

Government efforts in the 1980s to improve the number and quality of hospitals in Cameroon have made healthcare more available in the region.

This suit was registered with the Bamenda High Court in the Northwest region of Cameroon as case number HCB28 / 92.

Ambazonia has a land size of 43, 000 square kilometres and a population of approximately 6 million people according to the Cameroon state census ( the census has long been subject to political manipulation ; the number is likely closer to 8 million ).

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The Adamawa is sometimes dubbed the " water tower " of Cameroon, since a large number of the country's rivers rise in the area.

In 2001, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child identified a number of problems with the education system in Cameroon, including rural / urban and regional disparities in school attendance ; limited access to formal and vocational education for children with disabilities ; children falling behind in their primary education ; a high dropout rate ; lack of primary school teachers ; and violence and sexual abuse against children in schools.

Nonetheless, an emerging number of private higher technical institutions of learnng like the Nacho university, Fonab Polythenic, and many others are beginning to reshape the predominantly general style of education that for over three decades has been the turf of most anglophone students in Cameroon.

They constitute approximately 3. 5 % of Nigeria's total population, and number over 6 million individuals throughout Nigeria and Cameroon.

This number was actually achieved and realized a few years back in 1986 African Cup of Nations Final match which was held in Egypt and Egypt won against Cameroon.

The Cameroon government held two national censuses during the country's first 44 years as an independent country, in 1976 and again in 1987.

The Commonwealth of Nations — formerly the British Commonwealth — is a voluntary association of 54 independent sovereign states, most of which are former British colonies, or dependencies of these colonies with three exceptions, Mozambique ( which was a Portuguese possession ), Rwanda ( which was a Belgian mandate ) and Cameroon ( which is a union of a French mandate and a British mandate ) plus the United Kingdom itself.

Sometimes a head of state assumes office as a state becomes legal and political reality, before a formal title for the highest office is determined ; thus in the since 1 January 1960 independent republic Cameroon ( Cameroun, a former French colony ), the first President, Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo, was at first not styled président but ' merely ' known as Chef d ' état ( literal French for ' Head of State ') until 5 May 1960 ; in Uganda, military coup leader since 25 January 1971 Idi Amin was formally styled military head of State till 21 February 1971, only from then on regular ( but unconstitutional, not elected ) President.

Here he presided over considerable decolonisation, seeing Nigeria, British Somaliland, Tanganyika, Sierra Leone, Kuwait and British Cameroon become independent, and in Kenya ending the state of emergency and freeing Kenyatta.

The historical context of the time was a period when many former European colonies, such as Cameroon, Congo, Senegal, Algeria, and Jamaica, were becoming independent.

The party refused to sign the Tripartite Declaration of November 1991, and it chose to boycott the March 1992 parliamentary election, along with the Democratic Union of Cameroon, due to the government's failure to meet opposition demands, which included the establishment of an independent electoral commission to oversee the election.

Ahmadou Ahidjo, the President of Cameroon, was unhappy with both Ekangaki's independent style at the OAU and his resignation.

) If independent, Ambazonia would share maritime boundaries with Nigeria, the Republic of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.

Many ISPs in Cameroon had transitioned their connections from independent satellite connections to SAT-3 in mid-2007 creating serious communication difficulties during the seven days.

At the time many former European colonies, such as Cameroon, Congo, Senegal, Algeria, Jamaica, etc., were becoming independent.

Cameroon claims that the judiciary is independent from the executive and the legislature.

Western Cameroon was administered jointly with Nigeria under the protectorate of the British until 1961 when following a plebiscite it attained independence by joining then the already independent République du Cameroun.

Later he joined with other independent candidates to form the National council of Nigeria and Cameroon ( NCNC ).

The American School of Yaounde in Yaoundé, Cameroon is an independent coeducational school founded in 1964 which offers an educational program from nursery through grade 12 for students of all nationalities.

This company is incorporated in Cameroon, and is a joint-venture between the governments of Cameroon and Chad, and the Upstream Consortium, an independent monitoring institution.

Cameroon became independent in 1960.