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Africa > Cameroon > Government

CAMEROONIAN GOVERNMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Capital city Yaounde
Corruption 2.2 [140th of 160]
Parliamentary seats > Female 6% [103rd of 143]
Procedures to enforce a contract > number 58 ... [9th of 170]
Procedures to register property > number 5 ... [103rd of 167]
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > % 8.9 % ... [130th of 174]
Start-up procedures to register a business > number 12 ... [33rd of 171]
Status pseudo-democracy
Suffrage
20 years of age; universal
Time required to build a warehouse > days 444 days ... [8th of 168]
Time required to enforce a contract > days 800 days ... [25th of 171]
Time required to register property > days 93 days ... [47th of 167]
Time required to start a business > days 37 days ... [79th of 171]
Time to prepare and pay taxes > hours 1,300 hours ... [3rd of 169]
Time to resolve insolvency > years 3.2 years ... [62nd of 151]
Total businesses registered > number 1,693 ... [64th of 71]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
Joint Border Commission with Nigeria reviewed 2002 ICJ ruling on the entire boundary and bilaterally resolved differences, including June 2006 Greentree Agreement that immediately cedes sovereignty of the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon with a phase-out of Nigerian control within two years while resolving patriation issues; implementation of the ICJ ruling on the Cameroon-Equatorial Guinea-Nigeria maritime boundary in the Gulf of Guinea is pending due to imprecisely defined coordinates and a sovereignty dispute between Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon over an island at the mouth of the Ntem River; only Nigeria and Cameroon have heeded the Lake Chad Commission's admonition to ratify the delimitation treaty, which also includes the Chad-Niger and Niger-Nigeria boundaries
UN membership date 20 Sep. 1960
United Nations mission
http://www.cameroonmission.org/
Washington, D.C. embassies > Neighborhood Embassy Row

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Transparency International; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; World Development Indicators database; electionworld.org; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wisconsin High School Model United Nations; Wikipedia: List of Washington, D.C. embassies

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Cameroon, Republic of Cameroon

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COMMENTARY     

Paschal Tiku Ayuk
24th May 2005
Whether you accept with the sessionist or not the truth is that Anglophones are poorly treated in the Republic of Cameroon.Their Cry is thus founded.
Enow Ida
1st November 2005
Can you pleas update your information on cameroon, The head of government is nort Pter Mafany Mosonge but Inoni Euphraim.
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