Southern Cameroons Profile

  • Land size: 16,581 square miles

    Larger in size than 30 UN Member States and 12 AU Member States

  • Circa 7 million

    More populated than 60 UN Member States and 18 AU Member States

  • Complete International boundaries established by international treaties described and recognized in League of Nations Mandate and in UN Trusteeship Instruments

  • League of Nations' Mandate: 1922-1946

    United Nations Trust Territory: 1946-1961 (Maps at Appendix 5)

  • Self-governing Territory with own Constitution, Parliament and Ministerial government 1954-1961

    Conducted general elections in 1959 resulting in a peaceful change of government

  • Occupied and annexed by Republic of Cameroon (Former French Cameroun) which acceded to independence on 1st January 1960 while Southern Cameroons was still a UN Trust Territory.

  • November 2017, Republic of Cameroon declares the invasion of Southern Cameroons. The war escalates into genocide to enforce Territorial Claim over the Southern Cameroons.