Elections to the French National Assembly were held inFrenchCameroons on 2 January 1956. The four seats allocated to the constituency were elected on...
FrenchCameroon, also known as the FrenchCameroons (French: Cameroun), was a French mandate territory in Central Africa. It now forms part of the independent...
and Yaounde, the French Administration repressed these riots. On December 18, 1956, the UPC began boycotting legislativeelections. They enacted a “zone...
Legislative elections were held on 23 December 1956 and the resulting Assembly passed a decree on 16 April 1957 which made FrenchCameroon a state. It...
French Togoland (French: Togo français) was a French colonial League of Nations mandate from 1916 to 1946, and a UN trust territory from 1946 to 1960 in...
Cameroon became Frenchin 1919 according to the Treaty of Versailles. The French government now forced the moving of Alexandre Douala-Bell to France,...
(Assofecam) in 1950 and the first woman to run for legislativeelectionsinCameroonin November 1951. Julienne Niat was born in 1927 in Bana. She belonged...
Weigert, Stephen L., ed. (1996), "Cameroon: The UPC Insurrection, 1956–70", Traditional Religion and Guerrilla Warfare in Modern Africa, London: Palgrave...
further French supervised elections because it claimed that the PTP was receiving French support. By statute in 1955, French Togoland became an autonomous...
POMP-id-oo, French: [ʒɔʁʒ(ə) pɔ̃pidu] ; 5 July 1911 – 2 April 1974) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1969 to his death in 1974...
institutions in Guzang, Ambo, and Eka-Bifang, then went on to the Cameroon Protestant College, Bali for secondary school studies, graduating in 1973. He later...
Vichy France (French: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State (État français), was the French rump state headed by...
causa de un infarto (in Spanish) Le cinéaste Claude Fournier s'éteint à 91 ans (inFrench) British writer and historian Patrick French dies of cancer at...
in the Free French Forces from 1942 to 1945. He then studied at Dakar Medical School, qualifying as a surgeon to 1947, when he returned to Cameroon....
a unicameral legislature and a court system influenced by French civil law. Between 1956 and 2011, Tunisia operated as a de facto one-party state, with...
Then, in 1546, the Ottoman Empire established control there, holding sway for over 300 years, until 1881, when the French conquered Tunisia. In1956, Tunisia...
in the U.S. (d. 1921) 1830 – Hector Malot, French author (d. 1907) 1838 – Jules Méline, French lawyer and politician, 65th Prime Minister of France (d...
disputed and culminated in the Hundred Years War. Normandy was held until 1204 but forfeited to French kings, and remaining French land was held with them...
Prior to the revolution, elections were held every five to six years, and elected both the president and members of both legislative branches. Following the...
voters in the Southern Cameroons opted to join formerly French-administered Cameroon over integration with Nigeria as a separate federated region. In the...
French colonies. Some, like Cameroon and French Equatorial Africa, joined the Free French, but others, including the North African colonies, French West...
district in 1906, in order to give the Theotokis party a safe district. A notable case of gerrymandering in Greece was in the 1956legislativeelection. While...
elections have taken place in Kenya since 1920, when the first elections to the Legislative Council were held. The legislature initially had 11 elected Europeans...
colleges and universities. From 1956 to 1958 the Andhra Pradesh Legislature was unicameral. In 1958, when the State Legislative Council was formed, it became...
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