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Yaoundé

Yaoundé (yäOOndā') [key], city (1990 est. pop. 750,000), capital of Cameroon. It is the country's administrative, financial, and communications center. Manufactures include cigarettes, dairy products, clay and glass goods, and lumber. Yaoundé is a regional trade center for coffee, cacao, copra, sugarcane, and rubber. The city is at a highway junction and is on Cameroon's main railroad. Yaoundé was founded in 1888 by German traders as a base for tapping the ivory trade. It was occupied by Belgian troops during World War I and after the war was (except for 1940–46) the capital of French Cameroon. Yaoundé is the site of the Univ. of Yaoundé, which includes schools of teaching and agriculture. The city has many other educational and research institutes, including a school of administration and law and a school of journalism.

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He fought like a real lion ... Marc-Vivien Foe, the adieu: on 7 July, thousands of people jammed the Cameroonian capital, Yaounde, for the burial, with full national honours, of Marc-Vivien Foe, their international midfielder who collapsed and died in France during the Confederations Cup semi-final match against Colombia on 26 June.(Football) (New African)

The prevalence of acne vulgaris in secondary school students in Yaounde, Cameroon.(Report) (The Internet Journal of Dermatology)

Cameroon: you are late, you can't come in; After winning another seven-year term in office last October, President Paul Biya appointed a new prime minister tasked with cleaning up the public sector. He began by clamping down on workers' timekeeping. Tansa Musa reports from Yaounde.(Around Africa) (New African)

Cameroon: the magic of medicinal plants; Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) in the Congo Basin are not only providing medicine and food for the people of the region and beyond, they are also bringing in lots of cash--in foreign exchange. Tansa Musa reports from Yaounde.(Feature) (New African)

On January 1, 2008, John R. Watters, who has done linguistic fieldwork and consultation in Cameroon, Nigeria, and Chad and has taught linguistics at the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Yaounde (Cameroon), completed his maximum term of service as executive director of SIL International and Wycliffe International and the position was divided in two.(Personalia) (International Bulletin of Missionary Research)

Cameroon: too much oil was bad news for cocoa: the government of Cameroon has launched an initiative to revive the country's cocoa and coffee sectors. Tansa Musa reports from Yaounde.(New African Market) (New African)

Cameroon: third term for Biya? President Paul Biya has already spent 23 years in office, but his supporters still want the constitution amended to let him go for a third seven-year term. From Yaounde, Tansa Musa reports that opposition groups are jumping mad.(Around Africa) (New African)

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