French Colonies, Overseas Territories

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In August 1986, this disaster struck a part of the village of Cameroon, where 220,000 tons of toxic carbon dioxide gas flowed out of Lake Nios, over 1,700 people and many cows died.

Extensive statistics on regional geography, people, government, economy, telecommunications infrastructure, transportation, military

Is it a good time to call someone in Cameroon? You will find it by checking the correct time of the capital's local time.

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The Federal Consumer Information Center provides information on Cameroon's passport and visa requirements.

Amnesty International offers mass news, annual reports and archives on allegations of human rights violations in Cameroon.

According to ethnography, Cameroon has 279 amazing living languages ​​and dialects. It is the official language of Cameroon, but the population using English and French is small. The average literacy rate nationwide is 63.4%.

This site is part of Atlas of the University of Texas at Austin's Perry-Castañeda library, showing political, geographical and other maps of many African countries.

A non-profit, manually compiled database provides a convenient link to Cameroon, including English and French.

BBC News provided Cameroon with this historical timeline from Portuguese slave trade (beginning in 1520) to the 21st century.

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Since the 16th century the French colonial empire formed overseas colonies under French rule and protected the country and its territory. There is a distinction between the "first colony empire" that existed before 1814 and the "second colony empire" which conquered Algiers in 1830. The second colonial empire ended after the subsequent deaths of Indochina (1954) and Algeria (1962) and relatively peaceful colonial release in other places in 1960.

The German colonial empire (German: Deutsches Kolonialreich) constitutes the overseas colonies, affiliates, and territories of the German Empire. The prime minister for this period was Otto von Bismarck. The short-term colonization attempt of the German countries took place during the first few centuries, but decisive colonial efforts began in the 1884 African war. Germany has succeeded in establishing the third largest colonial empire after Britain and France, demanding that most colonies were not required in the African battle. At the beginning of the First World War in 1914, Germany lost control and its colony was occupied by enemies during the first few weeks of the war. But in 1915 Germany 's West Africa and South Africa surrendered, Cameroon surrendered in 1916 and only East Germany' s East Africa was released in 1918.

Côte d'Ivoire was a constituent unit of the French Western African Union from 1904 to 1958, it was the overseas territory and colony of the third Republic. Corps from Cote d'Ivoire fought until the end of the First World War of France when all West African administrative duties were supervised in Paris. French colonial policy integrates the concept of coalition and assimilation. Through the assimilation policy, France was able to expand its customs, laws, institutions and languages ​​to colonies. The association, on the other hand, allows local people to keep their customs, but only if they are for France's interests.