Word: cameroun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the capital. "Let's not call it a day off," he told his staff. "Let's call it a fact-finding expedition." Facts, after all, are what he is looking for -and over the next stops on his ten-country, two-week trip-Zambia, the Congo, Cameroun, Nigeria, Ghana and Liberia-Rogers will be looking hard for areas in which U.S. aid can be more effectively used...
...resurrecting the legion, Paris apparently acted out of fear that if a pan-Islamic force gained sway in Chad, there would be trouble in other former French colonies on Chad's border-Niger, the Central African Republic and Cameroun. Backed mainly by the Saras, who account for just 17% of the population, Tombalbaye's one-party dictatorship was near collapse when he asked for French troops under a defense pact with Paris. The French garrison at Fort-Lamy was increased to 2,000 infantry, marines and air force men, but the legionnaires have handled most of the fighting...
...immediate effect of the failure of the Biafran secession was that when representatives of ten French-speaking countries of West and Central Africa met last week in Yaounde, the capital of Cameroun, they promptly patched up their differences. They had fallen out after Gabon's President Albert-Bernard Bongo and the Ivory Coast's Felix Houphouet-Boigny recognized Biafra. The specter of the beaten Biafrans is likely to serve as a warning to secessionist leaders elsewhere in Africa. It may also embolden national governments to crack down more swiftly and effectively on breakaway elements...