|
| |
| | Elections in Cameroon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Cameroon elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. | | | An election is a process in which a vote is held to elect candidates to an office. | | | It is the mechanism by which a democracy fills elective offices in the legislature, and sometimes the executive and judiciary, and in which electorates choose local government officials. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Cameroon
|
|
| |
| | Cameroon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The last elections were held on October 11, 2004. | | | The President of Cameroon holds executive power in the government of Cameroon. | | | This provision was part of the reforms instituted in 1996 to the Constitution, that had been originally written in 1972. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameroon
|
|
| |
| | Cameroon (01/05) |
| | Cameroon has a bilateral investment treaty with the United States. | | | Cameroon maintains an embassy in the United States at 2349 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008 (tel.: 202-265-8790). | | | The president is empowered to name and dismiss cabinet members, judges, generals, provincial governors, prefects, sub-prefects, and heads of Cameroon's parastatal (about 100 state-controlled) firms, obligate or disburse expenditures, approve or veto regulations, declare states of emergency, and appropriate and spend profits of parastatal firms. |
|
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/26431.htm
|
|
| |
| | Cameroon |
| | Although the country's first local government elections were held in 1996, President Biya limited their scope by expanding the number of municipal governments headed by presidentially appointed "delegates" rather than permitting the election of mayors, especially in pro-opposition regions. | | | Elections are held by balloting that officially is described as secret but may permit voters to leave the polling place with evidence of how they voted. | | | Following the unexpectedly strong showing of opposition parties in the region in the 1996 municipal elections, Titus Edzoa, a ruling CPDM member from southern Cameroon, a former Minister of Health, and a longtime presidential aide, declared himself a candidate to oppose incumbent President Biya in the October 1997 election. |
|
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/1999/231.htm
|
|
| |
| | Polity IV Country Report 2003: Cameroon |
| | While the Supreme Court annulled election results in four constituencies, nevertheless, the ruling party won 16 out of 17 seats in the re-run elections. | | | Cameroon was originally a UN Trustee Territory administered by France and the UK prior to its independence in 1960. | | | As a result of the July 2002 elections the ruling CPDM increased its share of seats in the National Assembly from 116 to 144. |
|
http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/polity/Cao1.htm
|
|
| |
| | alomepeter Cameroon 3 |
| | A presidential election was held in October 1992; Biya was re-elected with 39.9% of the vote (in 1988 he had stood unopposed, winning 98% of the vote). | | | The 1997 general election, postponed from March, took place in May. Before the election there was an outbreak of violence in the North-West Province which was attributed to the Anglophone separatist movement; a curfew was then enforced and public meetings banned. | | | In the run-up to the election, the leading opposition parties, the SDF and the UNDP, were urging reform of the presidential electoral system, and introduction of a two-tier process. |
|
http://users3.ev1.net/~alomepe/cameroon/cmr_2.html
|
|
| |
| | Background Notes Archive - Africa |
| | In 1982, Ahidjo resigned as President of Cameroon and was constitutionally succeeded by his Prime Minister, Paul Biya, a career official from the Bulu-Beti ethnic group. | | | An election schedule for the new Senate and regional councils has yet to be determined. | | | The 1994 "Country Report on Human Rights Practices" reports a number of human rights abuses, including limitations on political activity by opposition parties, restrictions on the press, numerous beatings of suspected criminals by the police and government interference in the judicial process. |
|
http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/bgnotes/af/cameroon9603.html
|
|
| |
| | Freedom in the World 2003 |
| | In the June 2002 elections, the ruling CPDM increased the number of its seats in the 180-member National Assembly from 116 to 149. | | | The International Court of Justice at The Hague in October 2002 ruled in favor of Cameroon in its long-running dispute with Nigeria over ownership of the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula. | | | In 1996, the constitution extended the presidential term to seven years and allowed President Paul Biya to run for a fourth term. |
|
http://www.freedomhouse.org/research/freeworld/2003/countryratings/cameroon.htm
|
|
| |
| | Cameroon -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002 |
| | In a UN-sponsored plebiscite in early 1961, the northern zone voted for union with Nigeria, and the southern for incorporation into Cameroon, which was subsequently reconstituted as a federal republic with two prime ministers and legislatures but a single president. | | | Ahidjo resigned from the presidency in 1982 and named Paul Biya as his successor. | | | Cameroon's Minister of Women'A affairs responds to experts' questions in Women's Anti-Discrimination Committee. |
|
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/CameroonRe_History.asp
|
|
| |
| | EUROPA - Development - Countries - Cameroun |
| | Cameroon is a Constitutional Republic, governed by a President. | | | In December 1958, the French-administered region was granted self-government as Cameroon, and Ahmadou Ahidjo became the country's first President. | | | In 1961, British Southern Cameroon was federated with the Republic of Cameroon, while British Northern Cameroon joined Nigeria. |
|
http://europa.eu.int/comm/development/body/country/country_home_en.cfm?cid=cm&lng=en&status=old
|
|
| |
| | Bamenda, Cameroon - Current News & Information |
| | This is the report of the Commonwealth Observer Group which was present for the Presidential Election in Cameroon, held on 11 October 2004. | | | Cameroon's president sworn in for another seven-year term | | | CAMEROON President Paul Biya has been re-elected for a fifth term in office, with more than 75 per cent of votes cast in the October 11 ballot, according to... |
|
http://www.4newz.net/world/am/Bamenda.html
|
|
| |
| | Cameroon |
| | The president of Cameroon since independence, Ahmadou Ahidjo was replaced in 1982 by the prime minister, Paul Biya. | | | In British Cameroon, unification was also promoted by the leading party, the Kamerun National Democratic Party, led by John Foncha. | | | In 1961 the southern part of the British territory joined the new Federal Republic of Cameroon and the northern section voted for unification with Nigeria. |
|
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107382.html
|
|
| |
| | Cameroon: Parliamentary elections must not lead to further human rights violations |
| | The Government of Cameroon should take decisive steps to ensure that all citizens can freely exercize their right to vote without fear of arrest, detention and ill-treatment during the parliamentary elections scheduled for 17 May, Amnesty International said today. | | | "We are seriously concerned that further human rights violations may occur during the parliamentary elections," Amnesty International said."The government must ensure that the fundamental rights of every Cameroonian to freedom of expression and association are respected during the elections. | | | Amnesty International acknowledges the government's responsibility to bring to justice those responsible for criminal acts. |
|
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/35/182.html
|
|
| |
| | Junta's Reform Pledge Lifts Hopes for Ivory Coast, December 1999 |
| | The elections were supposed to have been observed by many groups, including a National Electoral Observatory: and according to reports confirmed by the Supreme Court, all went on fine except for a few constituencies where elections had to be redone or re-carried out on September the 15th 2002. | | | Then came the 1992 Presidential elections, marred by post election violence and the declaration of a state of emergency in parts of the country. | | | CRTV: Particularly the last election, there were just about four million registered voters; I think that was not very positive for the nation. |
|
http://www.tffcam.org/press/crtv.htm
|
|
| |
| | Pambazuka News |
| | In addition to the stuffing of ballot boxes and the use of bogus ones, they denounced intimidation by traditional chiefs, bussing of voters, multiple voting, voting by minors (minimum voting age is 20 years), and discriminatory voter registration to the detriment of the opposition. | | | According to the bishops, the monitors reported "serious and multiple violations of our citizens' freedom of voting by means of corruption through vote-buying, by setting up bogus polling stations, or through a system of selective registration on voters' lists and selective issuing of voter's cards". | | | They called on Cameroonian President Paul Biya to "use his constitutional prerogatives to annul the double elections of 30 June", whose results they said they would not accept. |
|
http://www.pambazuka.org/index.php?id=8737
|
|
| |
| | The Post Online (Cameroon): September 2004 |
| | Northwest Provincial and Divisional monitors of the National Elections Observatory, NEO, were, during their swearing in ceremony, August 25, at the Bamenda Court of Appeal, told to shun corruption and other electoral malpractices. | | | An AIDS drug dealer, Batiston Ikome Lyonga, has dragged the Minister of Public Health, Urbain Olanguena Awono and the state of Cameroon to the Administrative Bench of the Supreme Court, for suspending the launching of his anti-retroviral drug, AUREA CENTO 100. | | | Though registration of voters was, by law, supposed to automatically end with the convening of the electorate by the Head of State, Paul Biya, on September 11, there have been reports that DOs in Douala are continuing with the exercise. |
|
http://www.postnewsline.com/2004/09
|
|
| |
| | Cameroon Elections News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News |
| | the government in the lead-up to presidential elections, which were held in October 2004. | | | New York City Mayoral Election 2005 - Latest News | | | from Egypt to South Africa before the elections are conducted. |
|
http://www.einnews.com/cameroon/newsfeed-CameroonElections
|
|
| |
| | Cameroon Campaign Group (CCG) |
| | He took the participants through the various major political, constitutional and electoral processes that have taken place in Cameroon since 1990 including the highly flawed presidential elections of 1992 and the subsequent ones of 1997 and 2002. | | | Free and fair elections in Cameroon will come through the setting up of an Independent Electoral Commission, a new legal framework and civil society involvement in electoral processes. | | | In a keynote address that lasted one hour, the guest speaker at the conference, Dr Christopher Fomunyoh, Senior Associate for Africa at the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and adjunct Professor of African Politics at Georgetown University, Washington D.C, outlined the political timeline in Cameroon in the past decade. |
|
http://www.tffcam.org/press/ccg.htm
|
|
| |
| | Cameroon |
| | President Paul Biya was elected with 92% of the vote in the October 1998 elections and re-elected in October 2004. | | | The CPDM ruled the country for a quarter-century before 1992 and after losing its monopoly following those elections, still retained control of the government with a plurality of seats. | | | However, the opposition boycotted the elections because of earlier electoral misconduct in 1992 by Biya’s party, the Cameroon People’s Democratic Party (CPDM). |
|
http://www.elca.org/countrypackets/cameroon/country-print.html
|
|
| |
| | Cameroon bibliography |
| | Stability and Instability in Politics: The Case of Nigeria and Cameroon. | | | Vernon-Jackson, H.O.H. Language, Schools and Government in Cameroon. | | | The Administration of Justice in a Bi-Jural Country : the United Republic of Cameroon. |
|
http://www.ambafrance-cm.org/lmth/camero/biblio/cameroon.htm
|
|
| |
| | Cameroon -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Paul Biya's Cameroon People's Democratic Movement crushed the opposition in the country's June 30, 2002, legislative elections, increasing its majority of the 180 seats from 116 to 133. | | | Late in 2002 the International Court of Justice ruled in favour of Cameroon in the territorial dispute over possession of the Bakassi peninsula. | | | Includes links to political parties, and election information. |
|
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9389676
|
|
| |
| | globalinfo.org - Oct 11, CAMEROON (#32792) |
| | Biya, who heads the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (Rassemblement démocratique du peuple camerounais, RDPC), won more than 90 percent of the vote during the last presidential election in 1997, which was boycotted by the opposition. | | | However the incumbent, Paul Biya, is heavily favored to win the poll this despite the fact that most of his campaigning was done by Cameroon's prime minister, Peter Mafany Musonge. | | | This community, located along the country's western border with Nigeria, is demanding that Cameroon re-adopt the federalist system of government it had at independence in 1960, until the end of September in 1961. |
|
http://www.globalinfo.org/eng/reader.asp?ArticleId=32792
|
|
| |
| | Africa News Service - Cameroon |
| | This weekend's vote, which is being boycotted by three of Cameroon's main opposition parties, is Cameroon's second national election this year. | | | Abidjan - Cameroon: Special Briefing on Presidential Elections from the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for West Africa. | | | Washington - The International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES), a Washington, DC-based non-governmental organization, has decided not to observe the October 12, 1997 presidential election in Cameroon. |
|
http://www.inwent.org/v-ez/lis/kamerun/camnews.htm
|
|
| |
| | BBC SPORT Football African Cameroon elections delayed |
| | There are fears that the Cameroon government's decision violates Fifa rules which state that there should be no governmental interference in the running of national football associations. | | | As a result, the Fecafoot congress that was scheduled to elect a new president on Saturday has been indefinitely postponed. | | | The government's decision to postpone the elections may cause Fifa to put a ban on Cameroon, just as the body did in 1998 when the Cameroon government imposed caretaker managers of Fecafoot against Fifa's will. |
|
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/africa/3657741.stm
|
|
| |
| | Elections in Cameroon |
| | The last elections were held October 12, 1997. | | | The voting age for government elections is 20. | | | The election process in Cameroon is neither independent of government influence or safe for opposition party members. |
|
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~nvsobhan/camelections.html
|
|
| |
| | Mali - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Upon his reelection in 1997, President Konaré pushed through political and economic reforms and fought corruption. | | | In 2002 he was succeeded in democratic elections by Amadou Toumani Touré. | | | Rule by dictatorship was brought to a close in 1991 with a transitional government, and in 1992 when Mali's first democratic presidential election was held. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali
|
|
| |
| | Comparative and Foreign Governments on the Internet; Africa |
| | Human Rights Report 2000: Cameroon - U.S. Dept. of State | | | Nations and Associated Jurisdictions of the World Legal Resources, Law Library of Congress: Cameroon | | | Freedom in the World: Country Ratings - Cameroon |
|
http://www.library.ubc.ca/poli/compartaf.html
|
|
| |
| | Elections in Cameroon |
| | Freedom House rated the country on political rights with a 6 and on civil rights with a 6, both on a scale of 1 to 7 (in which 1 is the most free). | | | Freedom House considers Cameroon to be a not free country. | | | Union Démocratique du Cameroun (Democratic Union of Cameroon): oppositional party |
|
http://www.electionworld.org/cameroon.htm
|
|
| |
| | SECRETARY-GENERAL DISPATCHES SPECIAL ENVOY FOR CAMEROON ELECTIONS |
| | The Secretary-General has dispatched Seydou Diarra, former Prime Minister of Côte d’Ivoire, to Cameroon as his Special Envoy for the legislative and municipal elections scheduled for 23 June 2002. Mr. | | | Diarra, who will stay in Cameroon from 17-25 June, will convey the Secretary-General’s personal and the United Nations' continued support for Cameroon’s efforts towards democratization and appeal to all political parties to carry out the elections in a smooth and transparent manner. Mr. | | | Diarra will also invite political parties and other national stakeholders to address the country’s complex problems peacefully. |
|
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2002/sga807.doc.htm
|
|
| |
| | Postwatch (Cameroon): No 007 |
| | Election fraud in Cameroon is enhanced, advanced, state of the art and even refined with every election. | | | Biya always before, during and after every election. | | | Continue reading "Election Rigging in Cameroon: A State of the Devil's Art " » |
|
http://www.postwatchmagazine.com/no_007
|
|
| |
| | IllumiRate Directory Regional & Local Africa Cameroon |
| | Cameroon's prime minister provides speech transcriptions, information on the economy and the fight against poverty and corruption, and news [ 1 opinion ] | | | Browse through presidential and parliamentary election results, basic political facts and links to further sources of information. | | | You are in: Home / Regional & Local / Africa / Cameroon (16) |
|
http://www.illumirate.com/categories.cfm?cat_id=110542
|
|
| |
| | Douala on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Cameroon -- The government must throw more light on the disappearance of 9 children in Douala. | | | It later became part of a German protectorate (1884) and of the French Cameroons (1919). |
|
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/D/Douala.asp
|
|
| |
| | [No title] |
| | #2: Cameroon votes, opposition alleges fraud - [CNN] |
|
http://www.omniknow.com/common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Elections_in_Cameroon
|
|
|
