The 55 bilingual countries in the world

French is the preferred language for education, diplomacy, and business. Apart from Lebanon, thousands of expatriates from France and other French-speaking countries are found in other Middle Eastern countries especially Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Qatar.

Western Africa, region of the western African continent comprising the countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.

Studies of Ethiopians belonging to Semitic and Cushitic ethnic groups mostly from the north of the country (the Oromo, Amhara, Tigray, and Gurage) estimate approximately 40% of their autosomal ancestry to be derived from an ancient non-African back-migration from the near East, and about 60% to be of local native …

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The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo, as well as the United Kingdom Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da …

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The 15 members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.

Member states The only former member of ECOWAS is Arabic-speaking Mauritania, which was also one of the founding members in 1975 and decided to withdraw in December 2000. Mauritania recently signed a new associate-membership agreement in August 2017. Morocco officially requested to join ECOWAS in February 2017.

President Nana Akufo-Addo

Although it is not an ECOWAS member state, it is geographically and historically in West Africa; the Southern Cameroons, which now form its North West and South West Regions, have particularly strong links to West African history. Cameroon became a German colony in 1884 known as Kamerun.

Cameroon is often known as “Africa in miniature” because of its geographical and cultural diversity. The Central African country has one of the highest literacy rates on the continent, but its economic progress has been hampered by corruption and decades of authoritarian rule.

Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

Nationality: Cameroonian(s); French noun and adjective–Camerounais(e). Ethnic groups: About 250. Religions: Christian 53%, Muslim 22%, indigenous African 25%. Languages: French and English (both official) and about 270 African languages and dialects, including pidgin, Fulfulde, and Ewondo.

Cameroon is a lower-middle-income country with a population of over 25 million (2018).

Muslim Hausa and Fulani are the predominant ethnic groups in Nigeria’s northern region. Though the groups originated in different parts of West Africa, religion, intermarriage and adoption of the Hausa language by the Fulani have unified the groups over time.

Violent crime, such as armed robbery and carjacking, is common throughout Cameroon. The U.S. government has limited ability to provide emergency services to U.S. citizens in North, Far North, Northwest, Southwest, and Parts of Adamawa and East Regions of Cameroon due to current official travel restrictions.

A recent worldwide survey ranks Douala, Cameroon, as the most expensive city in Africa.

The anglophone proportion of the country is in constant regression, having decreased from 21% in 1976 to 20% in 1987 and to 17% in 2005, and is estimated at 16% in 2015 (whose fourth census should take place in 2015).

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While many people in Cameroon speak Pidgin English, English and French are the official languages in Cameroon: there are over 600 indigenous languages spoken throughout the country. The most widely spoken by total number of speakers is Swahili.

240 tribes

With 109,002 km² of territory, it is the largest region in the nation as well as the most sparsely populated….East Region (Cameroon)

People of Cameroon There are three main linguistic groups: the Bantu-speaking peoples of the south, the Sudanic-speaking peoples of the north, and those who speak the Semi-Bantu languages, situated mainly in the west. The first Bantu groups included the Maka, Ndjem, and Duala.

The country’s main industries are food processing, sawmill, the manufacture of light consumer goods and textiles. The tertiary sector accounts for 51.5% of the GDP and employs 42% of the active population. It benefits from the economic activity created around large-scale energy projects.