Foreigners In Cameroon : Legal Disposition Presented Diplomatic Missions

 
Within the framework of promoting the respect of the law in Cameroon, especially by foreigners, the Ministry of External Relations organised an awareness-raising meeting for diplomatic missions and consular posts accredited to Cameroon on the legal instruments governing foreign workers in the country. It is first meeting of this kind initiated by the Minister of External Relations and chaired by the Secretary General, Chinmoun Oumarou, on behalf of Minister Mbella Mbella on January 24, 2025. The meeting featured two presentations; provisions of entry, stay and exit conditions of foreigners in Cameroon, and the legal framework governing workers of foreign nationality in Cameroon. Divided into several phases, they were done by officials of the Ministry of External Relations, Delegation of National Security, Directorate of External Research, and the Ministry of Employment and Vocational Training.
In his opening address, the Secretary General noted that the meeting served as a dissemination and promoting a forum for good conduct by members of diplomatic representations with focus on expectations from them as concerns legal dispositions applicable to employment of foreigners in Cameroon.
Statistics indicate that an estimated 60,000 foreigners from about 15 different countries are in Cameroon, with the East and Littoral Regions hosts to about 10,000 of them. They are equally foreigner workers in the Centre, South and North Regions.
A presentation by the Inspector General in charge of Consular Affairs at the Ministry of External Relations, Oyono Oyono Jean Stanislas highlighted the different kinds of foreig...