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Cameroon*

H.E. Enow Abrams Egbe,
President, ELECAM

PArt i 11. Literacy Levels

CoUNtrY ProfiLE Male: 82.63% Female:71.59%
Total: 77.07% (2018)
PArt ii
1. Official Name
Republique du Cameroun (fr) LEgisLAtivE sYstEM

2. Government
PresidentialRepublic LEGISLATURE

3. Head of State Designation 1. Structure of National Legislature:
President Paul BIY Bicameral

4. Head of government Designation 2. Names of the Houses in vernacular and English
Prime Minister Joseph Dion NGUTE Upper House-Sénat (Senate)

5. Capital Lower House- Assemblée Nationale (National As-
Yaounde sembly)

6. Currency 3. Total no. of members in each house elected/
CommunauteFinanciereAfricaine franc (XAF) nominated
In the National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale),
7. Ethnic Groups (with %age population) there are total 180 seats. 34 members are elected
Cameroon Highlanders 31%, Equatorial Bantu 19%, by plurality vote in single-member constituencies
Kirdi 11%, Fulani 10%, Northwestern Bantu 8%, to serve 5-year terms and 146 members are elect-
Eastern Nigritic 7%, other African 13%, non-African ed by plurality vote in multi-member constituen-
less than 1% cies to serve 5-year terms.

8. Date of Independence 4. Popular House
1 January 1960 (for areas formerly ruled by Assemblée Nationale
France) and 1 October 1961 (for territory formerly
ruled by Britain) 5. Type of Electoral System

9. Date of adoption of Democratic Constitution
2 June 1972, amended in 14 April 2008

10. Language (s)
French and English (Both Official)

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