)note: data are in 2017 dollars, 3.65% (2021 est. [7] The Supreme Court may only rule on the constitutionality of law at the behest of the president of Cameroon. Biya was brought into the CNU Central Committee and Political Bureau and was elected as the Vice-President of the CNU. The judgement was severely criticized by human rights groups including Amnesty International. )proven reserves: 0 metric tons (2019 est. Feb. 24, 2022. The attack was carried out of `` the Everything American Presidents Book '' ``. The US and Europe are preferred destinations, but, with tighter immigration restrictions in these countries, young Cameroonians are increasingly turning to neighboring states, such as Gabon and Nigeria, South Africa, other parts of Africa, and the Near and Far East. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. )$3,800 (2019 est. a syndicated feed. ) twisted the existing Equal Protection message to your email address Court made of! They are also probing how Adnan managed to bring a pistol inside the Peshawar High Court premises. [6], As an official in post-independence 1960s Cameroon, Biya rose to prominence under President Ahmadou Ahidjo. )$7.364 billion (31 December 2016 est. The 1996 constitutional revision addressed, albeit nominally, popular demand for decentralization of the government; that was the impetus for provinces being replaced in 2008 by rgions, which were supposed to be administered by councils composed of indirectly elected members and representatives of traditional leaders. ), 35.13 births/1,000 population (2023 est. They may also seek compensation through the courts. Supreme Court President, Justice Alexis Dipanda Mouelle, has continued to hang onto office after his retirement date expired in May this year. All rights reserved. Supreme Court judge Supreme Court justice Supreme Court of Berlin Supreme Court of British Columbia Supreme Court of Cameroon; Supreme Court of Canada Supreme Court of Canada justice Supreme Court of Canada Liaison Supreme Court of Illinois supreme court of judicature Supreme Court of New Zealand Supreme Court of Nunavut Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut fired off . [8] The body typically decides appeals only on point of law. ), 7.105 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est. The Anglophone protests in late 2016 were led by English-speaking lawyers in protest against the use of French in Cameroonian courts, which led to violent clashes with police. The Supreme Court (French Cour Suprme) is the highest judicial body in Cameroon. John Fru Ndi was his nearest rival, polling 10%. Cameroons limited resources make it dependent on UN support to host more than 480,000 refugees and asylum seekers as of December 2022. ), conventional long form: Republic of Cameroonconventional short form: Cameroonlocal long form: Republique du Cameroun (French)/Republic of Cameroon (English)local short form: Cameroun/Cameroonformer: Kamerun, French Cameroon, British Cameroon, Federal Republic of Cameroon, United Republic of Cameroonetymology: in the 15th century, Portuguese explorers named the area near the mouth of the Wouri River the Rio dos Camaroes (River of Prawns) after the abundant shrimp in the water; over time the designation became Cameroon in English; this is the only instance where a country is named after a crustacean, name: Yaoundegeographic coordinates: 3 52 N, 11 31 Etime difference: UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)etymology: founded as a German colonial settlement ofJaunde in 1888 and named after the local Yaunde (Ewondo) people, 10 regions (regions, singular - region); Adamaoua, Centre, East (Est), Far North (Extreme-Nord), Littoral, North (Nord), North-West (Nord-Ouest), West (Ouest), South (Sud), South-West (Sud-Ouest), 1 January 1960 (from French-administered UN trusteeship), State Unification Day (National Day), 20 May (1972), history: several previous; latest effective 18 January 1996amendments: proposed by the president of the republic or by Parliament; amendment drafts require approval of at least one third of the membership in either house of Parliament; passage requires absolute majority vote of the Parliament membership; passage of drafts requested by the president for a second reading in Parliament requires two-thirds majority vote of its membership; the president can opt to submit drafts to a referendum, in which case passage requires a simple majority; constitutional articles on Cameroons unity and territorial integrity and its democratic principles cannot be amended; amended 2008, mixed legal system of English common law, French civil law, and customary law, accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction; non-party state to the ICCt, citizenship by birth: nocitizenship by descent only: at least one parent must be a citizen of Cameroondual citizenship recognized: noresidency requirement for naturalization: 5 years, chief of state: President Paul BIYA (since 6 November 1982)head of government: Prime Minister Joseph Dion NGUTE (since 4 January 2019); Deputy Prime Minister Amadou ALI (since 2014)cabinet: Cabinet proposed by the prime minister, appointed by the presidentelections/appointments: president directly elected by simple majority popular vote for a 7-year term (no term limits); election last held on 7 October 2018 (next to be held in October 2025); prime minister appointed by the presidentelection results: Paul BIYA reelected president; percent of vote - Paul BIYA (CPDM) 71.3%, Maurice KAMTO (MRC) 14.2%, Cabral LIBII (Univers) 6.3%, other 8.2% (2018), description: bicameral Parliament or Parlement consists of:Senate or Senat (100 seats; 70 members indirectly elected by regional councils and 30 appointed by the president; members serve 5-year terms)National Assembly or Assemblee Nationale (180 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by simple majority vote to serve 5-year terms)elections: Senate - last held on 25 March 2018 (next to be held in 2023)National Assembly - last held on 9 February 2020 (current term extended by president); note - the Constitutional Court has ordered a partial rerun of elections in the English speaking areas; date to be determinedelection results: Senate - percent of vote by party - CDPM 81.1%, SDF 8.6%, UNDP 5.8%, UDC 1.16%, other 2.8%; seats by party - CPDM 63, SDF 7; composition as of March 2022 - men 74, women 26, percent of women 26%National Assembly - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - CPDM 139, UNDP 7, SDF 5, PCRN 5, UDC 4, FSNC 3, MDR 2, Union of Socialist Movements 2; 13 vacant; composition as of March 2022 - men 119, women 61, percent of women 33.9%; note - total Parliament percent of women 31.1%, highest court(s): Supreme Court of Cameroon (consists of 9 titular and 6 surrogate judges and organized into judicial, administrative, and audit chambers); Constitutional Council (consists of 11 members)judge selection and term of office: Supreme Court judges appointed by the president with the advice of the Higher Judicial Council of Cameroon, a body chaired by the president and includes the minister of justice, selected magistrates, and representatives of the National Assembly; judge term NA; Constitutional Council members appointed by the president for single 9-year termssubordinate courts: Parliamentary Court of Justice (jurisdiction limited to cases involving the president and prime minister); appellate and first instance courts; circuit and magistrates' courts, Alliance for Democracy and Development [Marcel YONDO]Cameroon People's Democratic Movement or CPDM [Paul BIYA]Cameroon People's Party or CPP [Edith Kah WALLA]Cameroon Renaissance Movement or MRC [Maurice KAMTO]Cameroonian Democratic Union or UDC [Adamou Ndam NJOYA]Cameroonian Party for National Reconciliation or PCRN [Cabral LIBII]Front for the National Salvation of Cameroon or FSNC [Issa Tchiroma BAKARY]Movement for the Defense of the Republic or MDR [Dakole DAISSALA]Movement for the Liberation and Development of Cameroon or MLDC [Marcel YONDO]National Union for Democracy and Progress or UNDP [Maigari BELLO BOUBA]Progressive Movement or MP [Jean-Jacques EKINDI]Social Democratic Front or SDF [John FRU NDI]Union of Peoples of Cameroon or UPC [Provisionary Management Bureau] [Cecil ODHIAMBO]Union of Socialist Movements, ACP, AfDB, AU, BDEAC, C, CEMAC, EITI (compliant country), FAO, FZ, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LCBC, MIGA, MNJTF, MONUSCO, NAM, OIC, OIF, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNHRC, UNIDO, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, chief of mission: Ambassador Henri ETOUNDI ESSOMBA (since 27 June 2016)chancery: 2349 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008telephone: [1] (202) 265-8790FAX: [1] (202) 387-3826email address and website: cs@cameroonembassyusa.orghttps://www.cameroonembassyusa.org/mainFolder/index.html, chief of mission: Ambassador Christopher J. LAMORA (since 21 March 2022)embassy: Avenue Rosa Parks, Yaoundmailing address: 2520 Yaounde Place, Washington, DC 20521-2520telephone: [237] 22251-4000/[237] 22220-1500FAX: [237] 22220-1500, Ext. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States, was born in Buffalo, New York, January 27, 1955. However, on 12 July 2005 the National Assembly (Assembl Nationale) approved a law to harmonize the country's criminal procedure code. )wind: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est. Sep-Dec 1979", "Chiefs of State and Cabinet members of foreign governments / National Foreign Assessment Center. Cameroon (4,095 m), which last erupted in 2000, is the most frequently active volcano in West Africa; lakes in Oku volcanic field have released fatal levels of gas on occasion, killing some 1,700 people in 1986, sometimes referred to as the hinge of Africa because of its central location on the continent and its position at the west-south juncture of the Gulf of Guinea; throughout the country there are areas of thermal springs and indications of current or prior volcanic activity; Mount Cameroon, the highest mountain in Sub-Saharan west Africa, is an active volcano, noun: Cameroonian(s)adjective: Cameroonian, Bamileke-Bamu 24.3%, Beti/Bassa, Mbam 21.6%, Biu-Mandara 14.6%, Arab-Choa/Hausa/Kanuri 11%, Adamawa-Ubangi, 9.8%, Grassfields 7.7%, Kako, Meka/Pygmy 3.3%, Cotier/Ngoe/Oroko 2.7%, Southwestern Bantu 0.7%, foreign/other ethnic group 4.5% (2018 est. Conservative justices currently hold a 4-3 majority on the states Supreme Court, but that majority could be lost with conservative Justice Patience Roggensack Confirmed Taft, with only four dissenting votes are supposed to have retired on August 11, 2007 Jewish democratic. Police suspected the attack was carried out of "personal enmity". The office of the prosecutor general requested that Bolsonaro be included in the probe into the January 8 storming of public offices in Brasilia. He was originally appointed as a Justice on 1 October 2013. ), 4.509 million YAOUNDE (capital), 4.063 million Douala (2023), at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female0-14 years: 1.02 male(s)/female15-64 years: 0.98 male(s)/female65 years and over: 0.87 male(s)/femaletotal population: 0.99 male(s)/female (2023 est. He $7.449 billion (2021 est. Judge Esther Hayut, president of Israel's Supreme Court, gave an address this . The preamble of the constitution adopted in 1996 incorporates parts of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. )2.45% (2019 est.). )exports: 1,603,156,000 cubic meters (2019 est. Judge Merchan, a former prosecutor with 16 years on the bench, is In addition, the country has appeal courts, circuit courts and magistrates courts. )$7.731 billion (2019 est. The Court of Impeachment passes judgment on the president in case of high treason and on other government ministers in the event of a plot against the government. A person who considers that their rights may have been violated may take their case either to the statutory courts or to the traditional courts. Cameroons constitution has undergone various developments since the country achieved independence. [2], Biya initially took some steps to open up the regime, culminating in the decision to legalize opposition parties in 1990. )crude oil and lease condensate exports: 62,200 bbl/day (2018 est. The Supreme Court is made up of seven judges: the Chief Justice, who is the President of the Court, the Deputy Chief Justice, who is the Vice-president of the Court, and five other judges. Thanks to the retirement of Republican Justice Patience Roggensack, the GOPs slim 4-3 advantage was on the line in this highly-watched contest. The comments came after Merchan decided against imposing a gag order on the In early 2005, the Ministry of Justice became responsible for administering the prison system due to unrest in the prisons. Emmanuel Banmi. 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