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A constitutional referendum was held in Cameroon on 21 February 1960. The new constitution would make the country a federal presidential republic with a unicameral federal parliament. [1] It was passed by 60% of voters with a 75.5% turnout.
The option of full independence was not on the ballot, having been opposed by Andrew Cohen, the UK representative to the UN Trusteeship Council, as well as African and anti-colonial delegations, notably by E. M. L. Endeley, who favoured independence by joining Nigeria, and John Ngu Foncha, who favoured independence by joining Francophone Cameroon.
→ Cameroun / Cameroon (from 1 January 1960) Capital: Yaoundé. Republic of Cameroun (from 1 January 1960 to 1 October 1961) [14] Federal Republic of Cameroon (from 1 October 1961) [14] Widely-recognized independent state. UN member state (from 20 September 1960). After 1 October 1961, Cameroon was a federation of two regions. [15]
Parliamentary elections were held in Cameroon on 10 April 1960. They were the first elections held in accordance with the new constitution, approved in a referendum in February, which created a unicameral federal National Assembly. The result was a slim victory for the Cameroonian Union, [1] forcing it to govern in coalition. However, the ...
Cameroon (formerly Cameroun) achieved independence on the first day of 1960 (unifying with part of the British Cameroons in 1961). Togo (formerly French Togoland) achieved independence on 27 April; Mali Federation became independent on 20 June, then split into Mali and Senegal on 20 August; Madagascar became independent on 26 June
As a medical student in 1939, he helped form the Cameroon Youth League (CYL) in Lagos and became its General Secretary. In 1944, he was a founding member of the Bakweri Improvement Union . In 1946, after the United Nation 's approved a British trusteeship for Eastern Cameroon, a development corporation was established to stimulate growth in ...
Cameroon, [a] officially the Republic of Cameroon, [b] is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea , Gabon , and the Republic of the Congo to the south.
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