Ambazonia

Ambazonia

Ambazonia or Ambazania is the name given to the Southern Cameroons by organisations that struggle for the dissolution of the 1961 union of the Southern Cameroons with Cameroun.

The "Republic of Ambazonia" was declared by the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCAC) as an independent state on 31 December 1999. This declaration has not been recognised by other countries or by the United Nations (UN). The area remains under the control of the Republic of Cameroon. Southern Cameroonians in exile formed the Ambazonia Liberation Party (ALIP) in July 2004. [ [http://www.postnewsline.com/2004/07/strongambazonia.html "Ambazonia Political Party Formed". The Post Online] ] In 2005 the Southern Cameroons / Republic of Ambazonia became a member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO). On 31 August 2006 the independence of the "Republic of Ambazania", to include the disputed territory of Bakassi was formally proclaimed by the Southern Cameroons Peoples Organisation (SCAPO). [ [http://www.ambazania.org/1024_768/input/SCAPOFormallyProclaimstheRepublicofAmbazania.pdf The Proclamation of the Independence of the Republic of Ambazania] ]

It has a land size of 43,000 square kilometers and a population of approximately 6 million people. It is thus slightly larger than the Netherlands, ranked the 131st largest country and has about as many inhabitants as Paraguay, the world's 100th largest country in terms of population. (In other terms, Ambazonia is more populous than at least 60 UN and 18 African Union (AU) Member States, and is larger in area than at least 30 UN and 12 AU Member States.) If independent, Ambazonia would share maritime boundaries with Nigeria, the Republic of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.

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* [http://uscis.gov/graphics/services/asylum/ric/documentation/CMR03002.htm INS Resource Information Center document on "Ambazonia"]
* [http://ambazonia.indymedia.org/ Ambazonia on Indymedia]
* [http://www.freeambazonia.org/ Free Ambazonia]


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