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The Army is under the responsibility of the Chief of Staff, Major-General Nkoa Atenga, whose staff is in Yaoundé. Currently, the organization dates from 2001 with a distribution in several types of units: combat units, response units ( unités d'intervention ), unités de soutien et d'appui , and finally special reserve units as part of 3 ...
The Military ranks of Cameroon are the military insignia used by the Cameroon Armed Forces. Being a former colony of France, ... General / flag officers
General and flag officers who died of illness or natural causes are not included. The rank listed was at the time of their death. In 1954, the United States Congress passed Public Law 83-508, which promoted lieutenant generals who had commanded an army or Army Ground Forces during World War II to the rank of general.
Buchan, John (1922). A History of the Great War.Vol. I. Boston and New York: Fb&c Limited. OCLC 558495465.; Dane, Edmund (2017) [1919]. British Campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914-1918.
The North African campaign of World War II took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943, fought between the Allies and the Axis Powers.It included campaigns in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts (Western Desert campaign, Desert War), in Morocco and Algeria (Operation Torch), and in Tunisia (Tunisia campaign).
The war is believed to have produced some 61,300 to 76,300 civilian deaths, according to estimates from the British embassy assembled in 1964, with 80% of the dead being from the Bamileke Region. General Max Briand, the commander of all French military forces in Cameroon, gave an estimate of 20,000 people killed in the Bamileke Region in 1960 ...
The Rapid Intervention Battalion (Bataillon d'Intervention Rapide, or BIR) is an elite military force [1] and an army combat unit of the Cameroonian Armed Forces. [2]The unit is supported by the United States, reports directly to the president of Cameroon, and has played a large part in the Cameroonian and regional war against Boko Haram.
Free French Africa (French: Afrique française libre, sometimes abbreviated to AFL) was the political entity which collectively represented the colonial territories of French Equatorial Africa and Cameroon under the control of Free France in World War II.