A name, a document, a future: Cameroon’s fight to register every child
- Garoua and Tiko, Cameroon – A year ago, Oumarou Sanda, mayor of Garoua 2 in northern Cameroon, raised a trophy above his head after his municipality was named Cameroon’s Citizenship Champion for its efforts to expand birth registration.
- Under Cameroon’s civil status law, every child has the right to a birth certificate.
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- Garoua and Tiko, Cameroon – A year ago, Oumarou Sanda, mayor of Garoua 2 in northern Cameroon, raised a trophy above his head after his municipality was named Cameroon’s Citizenship Champion for its efforts to expand birth registration.
- Under Cameroon’s civil status law, every child has the right to a birth certificate.
Sources: Al Jazeera