noun
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"We expect thousands more in the coming weeks," says Samuel Cameroun at Minawao refugee camp, which currently hosts 17,000 people.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2014
"He's from French-speaking Cameroun and I'm from Liberia," said one of the pair.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Western observers hastily advised that world reaction might be derisive, and Cameroun settled for a prosaic tricolor.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In the Cameroun port town of Douala, shop and office windows are festooned with signs reading "No help needed."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Cameroun happily prepared to embellish its flag with a shrimp, since the country's name derives from the Portuguese word for shrimp, camar?o.
From Time Magazine Archive
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