Cameroon: Bride-Price - Should a Limit Be Fixed?

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Cameroon: Decentralisation Board - New Permanent Secretary Equipped For Work

Otsili Medzogo Evelyne Koa had a technical handing over ceremony with the outgoing Permanent Secretary of the National Decentralisation Board, Luc Messi Atangana on May

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World War I Overview - Campaigns in the Middle East and Africa

Previous: 1916 - A War of Attrition | World War I: 101 | Next: 1917 - America Joins the Fight

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Cameroon: Security Arrests People Without Masks as COVID-19 Cases Increase

Police in Cameroon have detained several hundred people for not wearing face masks in public, as COVID-19 cases in the central African state continue to

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The Colonial Names of African States

After decolonization, state boundaries in Africa remained remarkably stable, but the colonial names of African states often changed. Explore a list of current African countries according to their former colonial names, with explanations of border changes and amalgamations of

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Afrikaners in South Africa - Overview and History

The Afrikaners are a South African ethnic group who are descended from 17th century Dutch, German, and French settlers to South Africa. The Afrikaners slowly developed their own language and culture when they came into contact with Africans and Asians. The word “Afrikaners” means

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Cameroon

Parliament amended Cameroons constitution in April 2008 to allow President Biya to run for a third seven-year term in 2011. He won the 2011 election in a landslide, taking 78% of the vote. His opponents and international observers alleged the election was unfair.

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Burkina Faso: Credibly Investigate Apparent Executions

Nairobi — Burkina Faso authorities should credibly and independently investigate alleged extrajudicial executions of 12 men detained by gendarmes on May 11, 2020 during a counterterrorism operation near the eastern town of Fada N'Gourma, Human Rights Watch said

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Gabon

This West African country with the Atlantic as its western border is also bounded by Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, and the Congo. Its area is slightly less than Colorados. Most of the country is covered by a dense tropical

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Cameroon's Unity Day Celebrations Canceled As COVID-19 Masks Internal Tensions

The coronavirus pandemic and lockdown forced Cameroonian President Paul Biya to cancel the government's planned feasts and parades to celebrate Cameroon's annual Unity

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Guinn v. United States (1915): The Grandfather Clause

OPINION IN GUINN v. UNITED STATES

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Ghana coronavirus: jumbo recoveries, prez assents to 'People's Vaccine'

April 16: 5,530 cases, jumbo recoveries

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Africa's Media Hit Hard By COVID-19 Crisis

In normal times, reporters at the Nigerian independent radio network Dandal Kura International earn the equivalent of around $100

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Egypt: No Pretense of Judicial Review for Hundreds

They said that Supreme State Security prosecutors and criminal court judges have renewed detentions, including for scores of their clients, without transporting detainees to hearings or giving lawyers the opportunity to enter

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Ghana coronavirus: 5,127 cases; Obuasi becomes latest hotspot

April 12: Cases hit 5,127; gold-rich Obuasi new hotspot

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Cameroon president delivers first coronavirus address

Cameroon’s 87-year-old President Paul Biya has made a televised address to his people ending more than two months of silence as the central African nation dealt with a burgeoning coronavirus

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Cameroon: Striving to Keep the Economy Afloat!

As the world battles under the yoke of the new coronavirus, call it Covid-19, that is wreaking havoc on lives and livelihoods across the globe, Cameroon's Head of State believes concerted efforts are more than ever needed for the economy to remain buoyant after

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Antananarivo, Madagascar (1600s- )

Antananarivo (formerly known as “Analamanga” and “Tananarive”) is the capital of the Republic of Madagascar and its largest city. It is located on a high plateau overlooking the Ikopa and Besiboka Rivers. In the southern part of the city lay Lake Anosy, an artificially

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Yoruba Americans

Yoruba Americans are Americans of Yoruba descent. The Yoruba people (Yoruba: Àwọ̀n ọ́mọ́ Yorùbá) are an ethnic group originating in southwestern Nigeria and southern Benin in West

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Armed Black Activists Swarm Satilla Shores District Where Ahmaud Arbery Was Murdered

Legally armed black citizens and members of the New Black Party recently showed up in the predominately white neighborhood of Satilla Shores in Brunswick, Georgia where Ahmaud Arbery was killed, according to News

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Cameroon University Suspends Professor for Asking a Legal Question in a Law Class – Free Press of Jacksonville

Cameroon’s University of Buea suspended a law instructor more than a month after he asked students a legal question during a political and constitutional history

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

Cameroon

Cameroon kăm˝əro͞on´ [key], Fr. Cameroun, officially Republic of Cameroon, republic (2005 est. pop. 16,380,000), 183,568 sq mi (475,442 sq km), W central Africa. It is bordered on the southwest by the Gulf of Guinea, on the northwest by Nigeria, on the northeast by Chad, on the southeast by the

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Chad

A landlocked country in north-central Africa, Chad is about 85% the size of Alaska. Its neighbors are Niger, Libya, the Sudan, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, and Nigeria. Lake Chad, from which the country gets its name, lies on the western border with Niger and Nigeria. In the north is

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Chad

In June 2000 the World Bank agreed to provide more than $200 million to build a $3.7-billion pipeline connecting the oil fields in Chad to those in Cameroon. Oil revenues are estimated to earn $2.5 billion over the next 30 years. Human rights groups were concerned that the project would only

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The Legacy of World War I in Africa

When World War I broke out, Europe had already colonized much of Africa, but the need for manpower and resources during the war led to the consolidation of colonial power and sowed the seeds for future

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Geography of Nigeria

Population: 152,217,341 (July 2010

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Identifying Race-Based Stereotypes and Myths

Race-based stereotypes and myths pose a great threat to racial equality. That’s because they can lead to prejudice and hatred, which, in turn, lead to discrimination against entire ethnic groups. The people who make up any given racial group are so unique that no generalization can capture who they

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Idi Amin

Idi Amin , in full Idi Amin Dada Oumee (born 1924/25, Koboko, Uganda—died August 16, 2003, Jiddah, Saudi Arabia), military officer and president (1971–79) of Uganda whose regime was noted for the sheer scale of its

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The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: One Tennessee Community's Odyssey from Slavery to Freedom

When I was in the seventh grade, I spotted a photograph of four former slaves in my social studies textbook. Although the photograph was entitled Black Tennesseans, I noticed a strong family resemblance between them and my family members. When my grandmother told me that two of them were actually

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Reed, Frankie A. (1954- )

Frankie Annette Reed is a career Foreign Service officer who has held a variety of diplomatic postings in Europe, Africa, and Pacific Island nations. Between 2011 and 2013, she served as concurrent Ambassador to the Republic of the Fiji Islands, the Republic of Nauru, the Kingdom of

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