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An article (in french) on traditional marriage in western Cameroon, written by a friend of mine - I took these photos during the preparation of the ceremony...
Le mariage traditionnel bamiléké au Cameroun
Regard occidental sur mariage traditionnel
La fumée qui s’échappe de la cuisine des femmes est impressionnante. Une sauce jaune or jaillit par intermittence d’une marmite posée sur des rondins de bois enflammés. Le mariage traditionnel bamiléké requière que la famille de la future épouse accueille celle du prétendant pour lui remettre la jeune fille après le versement de la dot. Et les femmes s’activent ainsi à préparer les mets traditionnels à base de poisson et de viande pour l’occasion. Elles le font en l’absence de tout homme mais dans un grand échange de conseils culinaires, confidences de toutes sortes et complicité qui fait que la fête a déjà commencé même si le travail lui-même est rude.
Le mariage a été précédé par les fiançailles. Dans cette ethnie de l’ouest du Cameroun, la parole est reine et l’exercer est un art. Cette cérémonie prénuptiale s’intitule « cogner à la porte ». Le fiancé se présente ainsi un soir - car les événements importants se passent toujours de nuit dans cette ethnie – avec les siens à la porte de la demeure du chef de famille de sa future promise pour demander l’hospitalité et lui faire savoir que, quelque chose lui ayant plu dans sa maison, il désirait l’obtenir. L’objet de la visite - obtenir la main de la jeune fille choisie - est donc dissimulé sous le choix d’un symbole (un objet, une plante, un animal etc…) qui la représente. Dans le cas présent, le thème choisi est le rejeton d’un bananier plantain, représentation très expressive des attributs de fécondité et de bonne gestion ménagère qu’une femme épousable doit posséder dans un pays qui reste machiste. Les palabres, qui peuvent durer des heures, tournent autour des conditions de cession (en pratique la dot) du rejeton à la famille du futur marié. Les négociations se font à travers une conversation imagée à laquelle participe tous les membres des deux familles, hommes et femmes, sous la direction du fiancé et du chef de famille de la future épousée. Celle-ci, autrefois absente des discussions, y assiste aujourd’hui, assise dans un coin de la pièce et ignorée de tous, par respect de la tradition. Prenant la parole à tour, la famille de la femme s’enquiert ainsi si le futur lieu de plantation du rejeton sera suffisamment approprié pour lui permettre de porter des fruits, ce à quoi la famille de l’homme ne manque pas de répondre que la terre est bonne et l’endroit ombragé. Ces joutes verbales sous forme de jeux où chacun s’efforce de faire preuve du plus d’esprit possible s’achèvent par un accord sur le montant de la dot. Outre la compensation financière parfois si élevée qu’elle fait aujourd’hui hésiter nombre de jeunes camerounais à se marier, la dot comporte une liste hétéroclite de tous les biens que la famille de l’épousée désire, bouteilles de whisky, tissus, couvertures, ustensiles de cuisine, cochon, mets variés… Son versement est la condition préalable du mariage coutumier, qui est en fait la remise de la fiancée à la famille de l’homme.
A quelques mois d’intervalle, les femmes de la famille de la fiancée s’emploient donc à cuisiner pour accueillir la famille de l’homme venue chercher leur future fille, sœur et épouse. Les palabres reprennent ainsi toujours de nuit dans la maison familiale. Après les salutations d’usages, le fiancé s’emploie à expliquer qu’il est venu chercher le rejeton qu’il a choisi et acquis. Le représentant de la famille de la fiancée rétorque alors que si il veut ce rejeton particulier, il doit le reconnaître. Mais pour accepter de le montrer, la famille de la femme a encore besoin d’argent : pour financer le transport, la nourriture durant le voyage, une protection pour l’envelopper, un accompagnateur pour le protéger… La vie est chère au Cameroun. Les représentants des deux familles se délectent à faire durer ces échanges verbaux, chacun s’employant à démontrer aux yeux de tous sa force de persuasion et son esprit de réparti. Si, au terme donc de longues négociations, la liasse de billets concédée leur parait suffisamment importante, la famille de la femme amène alors une jeune fille entièrement dissimulée sous des vêtements variés, appartenant à la fiancée ou non. Elle reste muette, la famille de la femme donnant, selon son bon vouloir, des indications justes ou erronées sur son identité. Malheur au fiancé qui ne reconnaît pas le rejeton désiré. Cela lui coûtera alors très cher pour renvoyer la mauvaise pousse et renégocier la venue de celle à son goût. En pratique ce manège dure jusqu’au moment, où sentant la famille du marié lassée par les tractations, la mariée est enfin amenée et finalement reconnue par son futur époux. La cérémonie se poursuit alors par l’échange de noix de cola, symbole de fertilité, entre les deux familles. Le mariage se termine par un immense dîner où les multiples mets traditionnels mettent en valeur les talents culinaires des femmes et où les boissons alcoolisées traditionnelles, et en particulier le vin de palme, se mêlent aux boissons occidentales.
La célébration de ces cérémonies traditionnelles, aujourd’hui, dans la Yaoundé moderne, au cœur de familles dont les représentants ont pu étudier en Europe, nous amène à nous interroger sur la persistance des coutumes africaines au côté des usages européens, à une certaine alliance au quotidien entre tradition et modernité. La cérémonie matrimoniale est de fait double en Afrique, traditionnelle au village où l’on retourne pour honorer les ancêtres et occidentale en ville qui allie laïcité à la mairie et religion quelle qu’elle soit. A nos yeux occidentaux, les deux concepts ne finissent d’ailleurs pas de s’entrelacer, puisque le futur époux seul choisit à la mairie le régime conjugal du couple : polygamie ou monogamie. Et si la fascination de l’Afrique n’était pas aussi dans ces emprunts jamais totalement assimilés…
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In Cameroon, a fertility doll is made and decorated by a young man and given to his fiancé. The young woman carries the doll in special bags or in her clothes to represent their future child. After having a child, the doll is placed in a home altar, put away or passed on to her children.
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio
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Hi ha lloc de sobres. There's room for everyone. Aquí cabe todo el mundo. Il y a la place pour tout le monde
This is the village of Oudzilla in the Extreme North Province of Cameroon. An area with a Sahelo-Soudanian climat with low rainfall and high temperatures. The local communities have adapted their way of living over the centuries resulting in this intensively terraced agriculture system. Water availability is one of the main issues in this area and the terraces are built to retain water during the wet season. In the dry season people often have to walk 10 km just to get drinking water...
CIFOR reforestation in Mandjou, East Cameroon.
Photo by Emily Pinna/CIFOR
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Photo taken during a study project in support of family farmers in the central region of Cameroon, in coordination with ACEFA, a national programme for the improvement of agropastoral families' competitiveness. ©FAO/Helena Moreno Gonzalez
Cameroon face mask. Painted with lime to represent the spirit world, this carved face mask of the Bafo people conveys and fierce and powerful presence despite being damaged. Cameroon, late 19th century.
CIFOR reforestation in Mandjou, East Cameroon.
Photo by Emily Pinna/CIFOR
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4-year-old Aissatou Hamadou takes her malaria medication at her home in Balaza on 23rd September 2021. Community Health Worker Abdoulaye Bakary gave her the medication when her malaria test returned positive.
Photo Credit: Mwangi Kirubi, PMI Impact Malaria
H.E. Lejeune Mbella, Minister of External Relations of Cameroon, speaking at the High-level meeting on Action for Peacekeeping (#A4P), 25 September 2018
The Minister stated that the challenge facing peacekeeping is to adapt to new conflicts, especially asymmetric threats. The Minister stated that efforts are needed to make peacekeeping effective and efficient. Capacity-building for African troops and police to participate in peacekeeping is required, and Cameroon has set up a training centre for this purpose. The Minister also expressed Cameroon’s desire to contribute to global peace and security.
Photo: Valeria Bove
The Republic of Cameroon (French: République du Cameroun) is a unitary republic of central and western Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the Bight of Bonny, part of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean. The country is called "Africa in miniature" for its geological and cultural diversity. Natural features include beaches, deserts, mountains, rainforests, and savannas. The highest point is Mount Cameroon in the southwest, and the largest cities are Douala, Yaoundé, and Garoua. Cameroon is home to over 200 different ethnic and linguistic groups. The country is well known for its native styles of music, particularly makossa and bikutsi, and for its successful national football team. English and French are the official languages.
Early inhabitants of the territory included the Sao civilisation around Lake Chad and the Baka hunter-gatherers in the southeastern rainforest. Portuguese explorers reached the coast in the 15th century and named the area Rio dos Camarões ("River of Prawns"), the name from which Cameroon derives. Fulani soldiers founded the Adamawa Emirate in the north in the 19th century, and various ethnic groups of the west and northwest established powerful chiefdoms and fondoms. Cameroon became a German colony in 1884.
After World War I, the territory was divided between France and Britain as League of Nations mandates. The Union des Populations du Cameroun political party advocated independence but was outlawed in the 1950s. It waged war on French and Cameroonian forces until 1971. In 1960, French Cameroun became independent as the Republic of Cameroun under President Ahmadou Ahidjo. The southern part of British Cameroons merged with it in 1961 to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon. The country was renamed the United Republic of Cameroon in 1972 and the Republic of Cameroon in 1984.
Compared to other African countries, Cameroon enjoys relatively high political and social stability. This has permitted the development of agriculture, roads, railways, and large petroleum and timber industries. Nevertheless, large numbers of Cameroonians live in poverty as subsistence farmers. Power lies firmly in the hands of the president, Paul Biya, and his Cameroon People's Democratic Movement party, and corruption is widespread. The Anglophone community has grown increasingly alienated from the government, and Anglophone politicians have called for greater decentralization and even the secession of the former British-governed territories.
History
The territory of present day Cameroon was first settled during the Neolithic. The longest continuous inhabitants are groups such as the Baka. The Sao culture arose around Lake Chad c. AD 500 and gave way to the Kanem and its successor state, the Bornu empire. Kingdoms, fondoms, and chiefdoms arose in the west.
Portuguese sailors reached the coast in 1472. They noted an abundance of prawns and crayfish in the Wouri River and named it Rio dos Camarões, Portuguese for "River of Shrimp", and the phrase from which Cameroon is derived. Over the following few centuries, European interests regularised trade with the coastal peoples, and Christian missionaries pushed inland. In the early 19th century, Modibo Adama led Fulani soldiers on a jihad in the north against non-Muslim and partially Muslim peoples and established the Adamawa Emirate. Settled peoples who fled the Fulani caused a major redistribution of population.
The German Empire claimed the territory as the colony of Kamerun in 1884 and began a steady push inland. They initiated projects to improve the colony's infrastructure, relying on a harsh system of forced labour.With the defeat of Germany in World War I, Kamerun became a League of Nations mandate territory and was split into French Cameroun and British Cameroons in 1919. The French carefully integrated the economy of Cameroun with that of France and improved the infrastructure with capital investments, skilled workers, and continued forced labour.
The British administered their territory from neighbouring Nigeria. Natives complained that this made them a neglected "colony of a colony". Nigerian migrant workers flocked to Southern Cameroons, ending forced labour but angering indigenous peoples. The League of Nations mandates were converted into United Nations Trusteeships in 1946, and the question of independence became a pressing issue in French Cameroun. France outlawed the most radical political party, the Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC), on 13 July 1955. This prompted a long guerrilla war and the assassination of the party's leader, Ruben Um Nyobé. In British Cameroons, the question was whether to reunify with French Cameroun or join Nigeria.
On 1 January 1960, French Cameroun gained independence from France under President Ahmadou Ahidjo, and on 1 October 1961, the formerly British Southern Cameroons united with its neighbour to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon. Ahidjo used the ongoing war with the UPC and fears of ethnic conflict to concentrate power in the presidency, continuing with this even after the suppression of the UPC in 1971.
His political party, the Cameroon National Union (CNU), became the sole legal political party on 1 September 1966 and in 1972, the federal system of government was abolished in favour of a United Republic of Cameroon, headed from Yaoundé. Ahidjo pursued an economic policy of planned liberalism, prioritising cash crops and petroleum exploitation. The government used oil money to create a national cash reserve, pay farmers, and finance major development projects; however, many initiatives failed when Ahidjo appointed unqualified allies to direct them.
Ahidjo stepped down on 4 November 1982 and left power to his constitutional successor, Paul Biya. However, Ahidjo remained in control of the CNU and tried to run the country from behind the scenes until Biya and his allies pressured him into resigning. Biya began his administration by moving toward a more democratic government, but a failed coup d'état nudged him toward the leadership style of his predecessor.
An economic crisis took effect in the mid-1980s to late 1990s as a result of international economic conditions, drought, falling petroleum prices, and years of corruption, mismanagement, and cronyism. Cameroon turned to foreign aid, cut government spending, and privatised industries. With the reintroduction of multi-party politics in December 1990, Anglophone pressure groups called for greater autonomy, with some advocating complete secession as the Republic of Ambazonia. In February 2008, Cameroon exprienced its worst violence in 15 years when a transport union strike in Douala escalated into violent protests in 31 municipal areas.
Geography
At 475,442 square kilometres (183,569 sq mi), Cameroon is the world's 53rd-largest country. It is comparable in size to Papua New Guinea and somewhat larger than the U.S. state of California. The country is located in Central and West Africa on the Bight of Bonny, part of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean. Tourist literature describes Cameroon as "Africa in miniature" because it exhibits all major climates and vegetation of the continent: coast, desert, mountains, rainforest, and savanna. The country's neighbours are Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south.
Cameroon is divided into five major geographic zones distinguished by dominant physical, climatic, and vegetative features. The coastal plain extends 15 to 150 kilometres (9 to 93 mi) (10 to 90 mi) inland from the Gulf of Guinea and has an average elevation of 90 metres (295 ft).Exceedingly hot and humid with a short dry season, this belt is densely forested and includes some of the wettest places on earth, part of the Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests.
The South Cameroon Plateau rises from the coastal plain to an average elevation of 650 metres (2,133 ft). Equatorial rainforest dominates this region, although its alternation between wet and dry seasons makes it is less humid than the coast. This area is part of the Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests ecoregion.
An irregular chain of mountains, hills, and plateaus known as the Cameroon range extends from Mount Cameroon on the coast—Cameroon's highest point at 4,095 metres (13,435 ft)—almost to Lake Chad at Cameroon's northern tip. This region has a mild climate, particularly on the Western High Plateau, although rainfall is high. Its soils are among Cameroon's most fertile, especially around volcanic Mount Cameroon. Volcanism here has created crater lakes. On 21 August 1986, one of these, Lake Nyos, belched carbon dioxide and killed between 1,700 and 2,000 people. This area has been delineated by the World Wildlife Fund as the Cameroonian Highlands forests ecoregion.
The southern plateau rises northward to the grassy, rugged Adamawa Plateau. This feature stretches from the western mountain area and forms a barrier between the country's north and south. Its average elevation is 1,100 metres (3,609 ft), and its temperature ranges from 22 °C (71.6 °F) to 25 °C (77 °F) with high rainfall. The northern lowland region extends from the edge of the Adamawa to Lake Chad with an average elevation of 300 to 350 metres (984 to 1,148 ft). Its characteristic vegetation is savanna scrub and grass. This is an arid region with sparse rainfall and high median temperatures.
Cameroon has four patterns of drainage. In the south, the principal rivers are the Ntem, Nyong, Sanaga, and Wouri. These flow southwestward or westward directly into the Gulf of Guinea. The Dja and Kadéï drain southeastward into the Congo River. In northern Cameroon, the Bénoué River runs north and west and empties into the Niger. The Logone flows northward into Lake Chad, which Cameroon shares with three neighbouring countries.
Other info
Oficial Name:
Republique Unie du Cameroun
Independence:
France, 1 January 1960
U.K. 1 October 1961
Area:
475.440 km2
Inhabitants:
16.740.000
Capital: Yaoundé
Dialects /Languages spoken began with T... A...:
Abar ,Afade ,Aghem ,Akoose ,Akum ,Ambele ,Arabic, Atong, Awing ,Baba ,Babanki ,Bafanji Bafaw-Balong Bafia Bafut Baka Bakaka Bakoko Bakole Baldemu Balo Bamali Bambalang Bambili-Bambui Bamenyam Bamukumbit Bamun Bamunka Bana Bangandu Bangolan Bankon Barombi Basaa Bassossi Bata Batanga Bati Beba Bebe Bebele Bebil Beezen Befang Bekwil Beti Bikya Bishuo Bitare Bokyi Bomwali Bonkeng Bubia Buduma Bulu Bum Bung Busam Busuu Buwal Byep Caka Cung Cuvok Daba Dama Dek Denya Dii Dimbong Doyayo Duala Dugun Dugwor Duupa Dzodinka Ejagham Elip Eman English Esimbi Eton Evant Ewondo Fali Fang Fe'fe' French Fulfulde Gavar Gbaya, Ghomálá' Gidar Gimme Gimnime Giziga Glavda Gude Gvoko Gyele Hausa Hdi Hijuk Hya Iceve-Maci Ipulo Isu Isu Iyive Jimi Jina Jukun Takum Kako Kamkam Kanuri Karang Kare Kemezung Kendem Kenswei Nsei Kenyang Kera Kol Kolbila Kom Koma Koonzime Korop Koshin Kuk Kung Kuo Kutep Kwa' Kwaja Kwakum Kwanja La'bi Lagwan Laimbue Lamnso' Lefa Limbum Longto Luo Mada Mafa Majera Makaa Malgbe Malimba Mambai Mambila Manta Masana Maslam Matal Mazagway Mbe' Mbedam Mbembe Mbo Mbonga Mbu' Mbuko Mbule Mbum Medumba Mefele Mendankwe-Nkwen Mengaka Mengisa Menka Merey Mesaka Meta' Mfumte Mina Mmaala Mmen Mofu Mofu-Gudur Mokpwe Moloko Mom Mono Mpade Mpiemo Mpongmpong Mser Mundabli Mundang Mundani Mungaka Musey Musgu Muyang Naki Ncane Ndai Ndaktup Nda'nda' Ndemli Ndoola Ngamambo Ngambay Ngemba Ngie Ngiemboon Ngomba Ngombale Ngong Ngoshie Ngumba Ngwe Ngwo Nimbari Njen Njyem Nkongho Nomaande Noone Nsari Nubaca Nugunu Nyong Nzakambay Nzanyi Oblo Oku Oroko Osatu Pam Pana Parkwa Peere Pévé Pidgin Pinyin Pol Psikye Samba Leko Sharwa So Suga Tibea Tikar Tiv To Tsuvan Tuki Tunen Tuotomb Tupuri Twendi Usaghade Vame Vemgo-Mabas Vengo Vute Wandala Wawa Weh Wumboko Wushi Wuzlam Yamba Yambeta Yangben Yasa Yemba Yukuben Zhoa Zizilivakan Zulgo-Gemzek Zumaya
Meaning of the country name:
From Portuguese Rio de Camarões ("River of Shrimps"), the name given to the Wouri River by Portuguese explorers in the 15th century.
Description Flag:
The national flag of Cameroon was adopted in its present form on May 20, 1975 after Cameroon became a unitary state. The previous flag of Cameroon had a similar colour scheme, but with two stars. The colour scheme uses the traditional Pan-African colours, and the tricolor design is adapted from the flag of France. The centre stripe stands for unity: red is the colour of unity, and the star is referred to as "the star of unity". The yellow stands for the sun, and also the savannas in the northern part of the country, while the green is for the forests in the southern part of Cameroon.
Coat of arms:
The National Emblem of Cameroon consists of a shield with a banner above and below it. Behind the shield are two crossed fasces. The shield has the same color pattern as the Flag of Cameroon, and in the center is a map of the nation. The scales of justice are superimposed on top of the map of the nation.
The banner at the bottom gives the name of the nation, and its date of independence in French. The top banner contains the national motto: Paix, Travail, Patrie. The fasces are a symbol of the republic's authority, and the scales of justice represent justice.
Motto:
"Peace - Work - Fatherland"
National Anthem: O Cameroon, Cradle of Our Forefathers
CHANT DE RALLIEMENT
O Cameroun berceau de nos ancêtres,
Va, debout et jaloux de ta liberté.
Comme un soleil ton drapeau fier doit être,
Un symbole ardent de foi et d'unité,
Que tous tes enfants du Nord et Sud,
De l'Est à l'Ouest soient tout amour!
Te servir que ce soit le seul but
Pour remplir leur devoir toujour.
CHORUS
Chère Patrie, terre chérie,
Tu es notre seul et vrai bonheur.
Notre joie, notre vie,
A toi l'amour et le grand honneur.
Tu es la tombe où dorment nos pères,
Le jardin que nos aïeux ont cultivé.
Nous travaillons pour te rendre prospère,
Un beau jour enfin nous serons arrivés.
De l'Afrique sois fidèle enfant
Et progresse toujours en paix,
Espérant que tes jeunes enfants
T'aimeront sans bornes à jamais.
CHORUS
Internet Page: www.prc.cm
Cameroon in diferent languages
eng | glv: Cameroon
ces | dsb | est | eus | fao | fin | hrv | hsb | hun | ibo | jav | lin | mlt | nor | pol | slk | slv | sme | swa | swe | tgl | tur | wol | zza: Kamerun
cat | cos | fur | ina | ita | lld | roh | ron | rup: Camerun
aze | bos | crh | kaa | slo | tuk | uzb: Kamerun / Камерун
arg | ast | glg | spa: Camerún
kin | run | smo | sqi: Kameruni
afr | fry | nld: Kameroen
dan | fra | jnf: Cameroun
deu | ltz | nds: Kamerun / Kamerun
bre | cor: Kameroun
frp | oci: Cameron
ind | msa: Kamerun / كاميرون
scn | srd: Camerùn
bam: Kamirunu
cym: Y Camerwn
epo: Kameruno
gla: Camarun
gle: An Camarúin / An Camarúin; Camarún / Camarún
hat: Kamewoun
hau: Kamaru
isl: Kamerún
kmr: Kamêrûn / Камерун / کامێروون
kur: Kamerûn / کامەروون; Kamrûn / کامروون
lat: Camarunia; Camerunia; Cameronia
lav: Kamerūna
lit: Kamerūnas
mlg: Kamerona
mol: Camerun / Камерун
nrm: Cameroune
por: Camarões
que: Kamirun
rmy: Kameruno / कामेरुनो
sag: Yaundu; Yaunde
smg: Kamerūns
som: Kameruun; Kamaruun; Kamaroon; Kaameruun
szl: Kamerůn
tet: Kamaroins
vie: Ca-mơ-run
vol: Kamerän
vor: Kamõrun
wln: Camrone
zul: iKamerunu
abq | alt | bul | che | chm | chv | kbd | kir | kjh | kom | krc | kum | mkd | mon | oss | rus | tyv | udm | ukr: Камерун (Kamerun)
bak | srp | tat: Камерун / Kamerun
bel: Камерун / Kamierun; Камэрун / Kamerun
kaz: Камерун / Kamerwn / كامەرۋن
tgk: Камерун / کمرون / Kamerun
ara: الكاميرون (al-Kāmīrūn); الكامرون (al-Kāmirūn); الكميرون (al-Kamīrūn)
fas: کامرون (Kāmrūn / Kāmerūn)
prs: کامرون (Kāmrūn)
pus: کامرون (Kāmrūn); کامېرون (Kāmerūn); کمېرون (Kamerūn)
uig: كامېرۇن / Kamérun / Камерун
urd: کیمرون (Kæmarūn); کیمیرون (Kæmerūn)
div: ކެމެރޫން (Kemerūn)
heb: קמרון (Qamerûn); קאמרון (Qâmerûn)
lad: קאמירון / Kamerun
yid: קאַמערון (Kamerun)
amh: ካሜሩን (Kamerun)
ell: Καμερούν (Kameroýn)
hye: Կամերուն (Kameroun)
kat: კამერუნი (Kameruni)
hin: केमेरून (Kemerūn); कामेरान (Kāmerān); कामरून (Kāmarūn); कैमरून (Kæmarūn)
ben: ক্যামেরুন (Kæmerun)
pan: ਕੈਮਰੂਨ (Kæmarūn)
kan: ಕ್ಯಾಮೆರೂನ್ (Kæmerūn); ಕ್ಯಾಮರೂನ್ (Kæmarūn)
mal: കാമറൂണ് (Kāmaṟūṇ)
tam: கமரூன் (Kamarūṉ); கேமரூன் (Kēmarūṉ)
tel: కామెరూన్ (Kāmerūn)
zho: 喀麥隆/喀麦隆 (Kāmàilōng)
jpn: カメルーン (Kamerūn)
kor: 카메룬 (Kamerun)
bod: ཁ་མེ་རུང་ (Kʰa.me.ruṅ.)
mya: ကင္မာရ္ဝန္း (Kĩmaẏũ)
tha: แคเมอรูน (Kʰǣmə̄rūn)
lao: ກາເມຣູນ (Kāmēlūn)
khm: កាមេរ៉ូន (Kāmerūn); កាមេរូន (Kāmerūn)
Exclusive breastfeeding and Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC), which involves holding the baby skin-to-skin on the motherʼs or other caregiverʼs chest, are high-impact investments that save lives. In 2019, the GFF, Grand Challenges Canada, Fondation Kangourou Cameroun, Social Finance, MaRS Centre for Impact Investing, Nutrition International, and the World Bank, launched a first-of-its-kind development impact bond in Cameroon to scale up KMC in the country and to help newborns survive and thrive.. Photo Dominic Chavez/World Bank
TOP: river in Garoua, Far North Cameroon BOTTOM LEFT: village in the northwest region BOTTOM RIGHT: fishermen on the Mbalmayo river in the central region.
A woman supported by a FAO project (GCP/SFC/001/MUL) watering her crops in Nkolondom, Yaoundé (Cameroon). ©FAO/Gerbert Dossa
Glass beads, cloth, metal, leather, cowrie shells, and other materials
In Cameroon, a fertility doll is made and decorated by a young man and given to his fiancé. The young woman carries the doll in special bags or in her clothes to represent their future child. After having a child, the doll is placed in a home altar, put away or passed on to her children.
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On the occasion of the #16days of Activism Campaign in Cameroon, UN Women Africa - ONU Femmes Afrique, in partnership with the International Telecommunications Union, launched the first toll-free telephone line for GBV survivors at the Gender Café 6 forum. The call centre will offer psychological, administrative, judicial, legal and health assistance to survivors. In order to involve in prevention of gender-based violence, 40 journalists from all 10 regions in Cameroon converged on Douala to receive training from key facilitators.
In this photo: The Orange Campaign steams across Douala town as young girls join the Gender Café 6 and the launch of the GBV Call Cente.
Photo: UN Women Cameroon/Ivo Tanku Tapang