Nationality in Cameroon is governed by the 1968 Code de la Nationalité. The law provides both women and men rights to transmit nationality to children, subject to rules establishing descent for children born out of wedlock. It also provides that a child born in Cameroon who does not acquire any other nationality at birth is Cameroonian. However, a woman has no right to transmit her nationality to a foreign husband.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has expressed concern regarding the large number of births which are not being registered, despite such registration being obligatory.
Since Cameroon is composed of over 200 different ethnic groups, with many different languages and customs, an increasing concern is the importance of autochthony over citizenship. It is becoming increasingly common that people identify first as being from the area from which the come than being citizens of the same nation, which has led to discrimination of Cameroonians by other Cameroonians from different ethnic areas.
The resolution of the conflict over the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula, which in 2006 was officially transferred from Nigeria to Cameroon territory, has led to the risk of statelessness. The people who left Bakassi to remain in Nigeria have been unable to vote in local elections, as they have no proof of residence in their new localities. Many who have remained in now-Cameroonian Bakassi also have not been able to obtain Cameroonian citizenship, also preventing them from enjoying full citizenship rights.
Editorial The government could do more to cushion the plight of Bakassi people Following heavy-handed laws and state-sponsored violence from the Cameroonian authorities, thousands of Nigerians have fled Abana, the headquarters of Bakassi Peninsula which is currently under the sovereignty…
Du 28 juin au 30 juin 2017 l’Etat du Cameroun a convié les camerounais de l’étranger au Forum de la diaspora baptisé «Fodias 2017». Durant ces assises qui ont eu lieu à Yaoundé dans la Région du Centre, le Quotidien…
By Anietie Akpan Calabar — About 97 Nigerians are feared killed as Cameroon Gendermes allegedly attacked residents of Bakassi over failure to pay a N100,000 boat levy.It was learnt that the attackers sacked mainly Nigerians from Akwa Ibom, Cross River…
ABUJA – Natives of Bakassi Peninsula have cried out to the international community for assistance to be fully integrated into either Nigeria or Cameroon, saying they are at present, nearly stateless. They said since the 2002 judgment of the International…
De nombreux internautes ont violemment critique le president de Paddec, qui fut candidat aux présidentielles camerounaises de 2011, lorsqu’il a annonce qu’il votait le mardi 08 novembre 2016 pour le candidat républicain, Donald Trump. Lire la suite.
Par Lore E. SOUHE Le sujet qui ne cesse d’alimenter diverses chroniques au sein de l’opinion pourrait livrer un épilogue avec le retour prochain du Chef de l’État. Depuis le récent décret du Premier Ministre, Philémon Yang, au sujet de…
Par Pierre Arnaud NTCHAPDA Et si le récit de l’artiste Richard Bona qui raconte tout le temps l’histoire de ce ministre camerounais qui présenta devant lui un passeport français dans un aéroport n’était pas une fable ? Dans sa parution du…
Par Peter KUM D’après le journal nigérian Daily Trust, les populations installées sur la presqu’île de Bakassi, dans la Région du Sud-Ouest du Cameroun, ne pourraient plus se justifier de leur nationalité. Selon le journal, ladite révélation a été faite le…
Au Cameroun, alors que certains de nos dirigeants possèdent une double nationalité, et ne sont pas inquiétés dans la gestion des affaires, on constate une interdiction formelle à des artistes camerounais d’accéder aux hautes fonctions dans les sociétés de gestion…
THIS certainly is not the best of time for Nigerian communities located along the borders with the Republic of Cameroun. Indeed, 13 years after the ceding of the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroun by the International Court of Justice, ICJ,…