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Ngaoundéré once held one of the largest Norwegian contingencies any place in the world, with over 100 Norwegians living there in the 1980s.
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Ngaoundéré is one of Cameroon's fastest growing cities due to its location at the terminus of Cameroon's north-south railroad.
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Being the largest city in Adamaoua by far, Ngaoundéré attracts numerous settlers from the surrounding rural areas, including Díi from further north, Gbaya from the Meiganga area, and Pere from the west.
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Volcanic rock occurs in the northwest just east of the Gotel Mountains and northeast of Ngaoundéré, the provincial capital, along the border with the North Province.
Near Ngaoundéré and Banyo, these are called Peul zebu, large and meaty animals with dark-brown hides and white spots.
A regional airport services Ngaoundéré with flights to Yaoundé, Douala, Garoua, and Maroua.
There is a paved road of good standard, albeit with some potholes, extending from Ngaoundéré to Garoua and Maroua, and Chad.
In cooperation with the local Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cameroon EELC and the American ELCA the NMS has built the Protestant Hospital of Ngaoundéré, a high school and several other institutions.
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The Cameroonian armed forces have bases spread all over Cameroon, including in Ngaoundéré.
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SODEBLE grows wheat on 100 km² at Wassandé, near Ngaoundéré.
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He worked on assignments in several major cities throughout the country, including Douala, Ngaoundéré, Bertoua, and Mokolo.
The train comes from Douala and Yaoundé and passes through Bélabo before heading north to Ngaoundéré in the Adamawa Province.
Train lines travel from Yaoundé to Douala and to Ngaoundéré in the north.
One or all of these populations founded Banyo, Tibati, and Ngaoundéré.
Adama's emirate ( known as the Adamawa Emirate ) was divided into districts under governors ; the Adamawa Plateau fell into the Ngaoundéré subdivision.
Around 1830, the Fulbe conquered the Mbum village of Delbé, which they renamed Ngaoundéré, after a nearby hill.
Tibati fell a month later, and Ngaoundéré followed on 20 September 1901.
Road construction, in particular, accelerated during French rule, and the colonials had a road built from Foumban to Garoua via Banyo, Tibati, and Ngaoundéré.
The railroad followed soon thereafter, construction beginning in 1961 and reaching Ngaoundéré ten years later.
He also absorbed the University of Ngaoundéré into the national system.
The headwaters of the Vina River flow just north of Ngaoundéré before the river enters the North Province.
Among the most well known are Lakes Tison ( Tyson, Tisson ) and Mbalang near Ngaoundéré.
Altitude dips to as low of 500 m in the Djérem and Mbéré valleys and at the border north of Ngaoundéré.
East of Ngaoundéré are the Dii, who have larger territories in the North Province.
The sedentary Fulbe are more numerous and inhabit most of the province's major towns, including Banyo, Tibati, Tignère, and Ngaoundéré, the capital.
For example, leatherworking is an important industry in Ngaoundéré, as evidenced by the Société des Tanneries et Peausseries du Cameroun ( STPC ) factory.
Ngaoundéré is the gateway to the province, and it is most easily accessible from southern Cameroon via the " Transcam II " rail line.
Roads within the Adamawa itself are mostly unpaved and are often in poor condition ( particularly south of Ngaoundéré ) due to little maintenance.
The road north from Ngaoundéré into the North Province is paved, however, meaning that those traveling via train can continue to the North and Far North without too much discomfort.
National Road 15 comes from Sangbé in the Centre Province to Tibati and on to Ngaoundéré.
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, a medieval festival commemorating local history has been held in the village once in every year since 2004, on a July weekend in the summer.
It has been calculated that one quarter of all citizens must at one time in their lives have held the post, which could be held only once in a lifetime.
Most of the annual magistracies at Athens could only be held once in a lifetime.
This was almost inevitable since, with the notable exception of the generals ( strategoi ), each office could be held by the same person only once.
Consensus once held that today's baseball is a North American development from the older game rounders, popular in Great Britain and Ireland.
The Sudirman Cup, a gender-mixed international team event held once every two years, began in 1989.
Among the tournaments in this series is the venerable All-England Championships, first held in 1900, which was once considered the unofficial world championships of the sport.
Place names in Ireland that contain remnants of the word ' Bealtaine ' include a number of places called ' Beltany ' – indicating places where Bealtaine festivities were once held.
Without their best general and his veterans, the French suffered a series of defeats and it was not until Bonaparte returned to become First Consul that France once again held a position of strength on mainland Europe.
Today it no longer houses collections of natural history, and the books and manuscripts it once held now form part of the independent British Library.
Clausewitz's father was once a lieutenant in the Prussian army and held a minor post in the Prussian internal revenue service.
Species are proposed for inclusion in or deletion from the Appendices at meetings of the Conference of the Parties ( CoP ), which are held approximately once every three years, the most recent of which ( CoP 15 ) was held in Qatar in March 2010.
Phyllis Pearce ( Jill Summers ) was hailed as the new Ena Sharples in 1982, the Duckworths moved into No. 9 in 1983 and slipped into the role once held by the Ogdens, while Percy Sugden ( Bill Waddington ) appeared in 1983 and took over the grumpy war veteran role from Albert Tatlock.
In 1982, the post of Chairman was abolished, and the General Secretary, at this time held by the same man as the post of Chairman, once again became the supreme office of the Party.
They are held once every two years, although this pattern has twice been interrupted.
The governing body of the CPSU was the Party Congress which was held once in 1 – 5 years, depending on the historical period, with an exception of a long break from 1939 to 1952.
; Royal prerogative: Reserve powers of the Canadian Crown, being remnants of the powers once held by the British Crown, reduced over time by the parliamentary system.
Divers older than 18, or advanced divers of younger ages, can qualify for the senior national championships, which are held twice each year, once roughly in March and once in June or July.
In Swansea's maritime quarter are the Dylan Thomas Theatre, home of the Swansea Little Theatre of which Thomas was once a member, and the former Guildhall built in 1825 and now occupied by the Dylan Thomas Centre, a literature centre, where exhibitions and lectures are held and setting for the annual Dylan Thomas Festival.
Similarly, once held uniquely human traits such as formant perception, combinatorial phonology and compositional semantics are now thought to be shared with at least some nonhuman animal species.
Twice she accompanied him in tickling Elizabeth, and once held her while he cut her black gown " into a thousand pieces.
In a letter to a friend, Erasmus once had written: " That you are patriotic will be praised by many and easily forgiven by everyone ; but in my opinion it is wiser to treat men and things as though we held this world the common fatherland of all.
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