{"id":3903,"date":"2010-10-18T10:19:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T09:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3903"},"modified":"2010-10-18T10:20:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T09:20:13","slug":"forgotten-world-221-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3903","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten World (221): Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of the regular weeks of postings in  my   long-running series called Forgotten World \u2013 a look at parts of the    world that too rarely feature in our media or thoughts. You can check the  previous 220 entries <a href=\"..\/..\/2010\/currentaffairs.shtml\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The modern state of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cameroon\">Cameroon<\/a> &#8211; an African country of some 19 million &#8211; was created in 1961 by the unification of two former colonies, one British and one French. Since then it has struggled from one-party rule to a multi-party system  in which the freedom of expression is severely limited. There are still tensions over the two mainly English-speaking southern provinces. A secessionist movement, the Southern Cameroon National Council (SCNC), emerged in the 1990s and has been declared as illegal.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2008, Cameroon&#8217;s parliament passed a controversial amendment to the constitution enabling the veteran President Paul Biya  &#8211; who has ruled the country since 1982 &#8211; to run for a third term of office in 2011. Cameroon has one of the highest literacy rates in Africa. However, the country&#8217;s progress is hampered by a level of corruption that is among the highest in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of the regular weeks of postings in my long-running series called Forgotten World \u2013 a look at parts of the world that too rarely feature in our media or thoughts. You can check the previous 220 entries here. The modern state of Cameroon &#8211; an African country of some 19 million &#8211; was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3903"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4064,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions\/4064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}