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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Cameroon

The list of Cameroon bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2008, comes from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use. Qualified professionals can license data for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and beyond. For details, please visit our licensing information page or

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01 May 2008 (Cameroon Radio Television) Cameroon's President issued a decree making tomorrow, Friday, May 2nd, 2008, a one-off bridge public holiday. • 22 Dec 2007 (Kaï Walaï) Cameroon President, Paul Biya, signed an executive decree making Monday, December 24, 2007, a one-off, bridge public holiday. • 18 May 2007 (CRTV) Late last night, Cameroon President, Paul Biya, decreed May 18 the day of national mourning in memory of the victims of the Kenya Airways flight which crashed on May 5. • 09 Mar 2007 (Cameroon Tribune) International Women's Day (March 8) is fast becoming an un-official public holiday in Cameroon. Reports indicate that, yesterday, in public and private establishments, virtually all the female staff and even some of their male colleagues had abandoned their duty posts to attend celebrations marking the 22nd International Women's Day. In addition, in most schools, classes were suspended. Teachers had asked pupils and students well in advance not to bother to come to school. • 30 Sep 2000 (Cameroon Public Television) Speaking on Cameroon's public television, President Paul Biya announced that Monday, October 1st, 2000, would be a one-off public holiday to celebrate the Cameroon Olympic Football team's gold medal obtained by defeating Spain in the finals. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Cameroon public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Law: Official public holidays in Cameroon are regulated by the 1992 "Labour Code Law No.92/007" and are specified by the "Loi N°73/5 du 7 décembre 1973 fixant le régimes des fêtes légales en République Unie du Cameroun", as amended in 1976. • There are other holidays celebrated, especially Islamic ones, but the above are the official only ones where people are given days off. • Religious Holidays: After decolonization, Cameroon counted many more religious public holidays. But, in the 1960's, to reduce the total number of public holidays, the government let each faith choose 2 holidays. Catholics, represented by Mgr Jean Zoa chose Good Friday and Assumption. Protestants, represented by Reverend Moubitang chose Christmas and Easter. Muslims, for their part, chose Eid al Ftir (End of Ramadan) and Eid al Adha (Tabaski). • International Women's Day (March 8) has recently become a, de facto, un-official, public holiday in Cameroon with public and private institutions closing for the day, as well as many schools telling children not to bother to come to school . • National Mourning Days: by regulation and tradition, days of national mourning are only public holidays if they are accompanied by a "national hommage", which usually means a State Funeral attended by the President and members of the Government. This was the case in August 1986 and February 1998, but not in the recent May 2007, day of mourning for the victimns of the Kenyan Airlines crash (although reports indicate that there was widespread absenteeism on that day in both the private and public sectors). • Unification Day (October 1) is listed in a few online sources as a public hoiliday, but there are no trustworthy sources to corroborate this. • Other Sources of Information For information not covered here, see the following specialized websites: Bank of Central African States (Cameroon central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (maps, demographic and economic statistics), Copp Clark (financial markets' trading hours, settlement holidays and currency non-clearing days), and the IFES Election Guide (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and past voter participation).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Cameroon, the holiday may be regional or non-official or limited to certain religious and/or linguistic groups, or begin at a time other than midnight. Note that religious holidays are included only if they are national public holidays, or if the national labour code has specific holiday allowances for employees of specific religions. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Cameroon that are based on certain religious calendars may be subject to local variations due to differing interpretations between different religious authorities, or to seemingly arbitrary changes in the date a holiday is celebrated because it conflicts with another holiday that is based on another calendar, or because the day of the holiday is deemed inauspicious (bad luck). To find out more about these uncertainties, see the footnote below, if any, for each specific religion.

Muslim Holidays : Muslim bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Cameroon were evaluated using the Umm al-Qura Calendar of Saudi Arabia which is used in Saudi Arabia and in most of the Persian Gulf States. Holidays may occur a day later in countries outside the Gulf region. The sunrises, sunsets, moon phases, moonrises and moonsets used in these calculations are based on the location of Mecca (latitude 21.42°N, longitude, 39.82°E, GMT+3 hours, no summer time rules). For more details on Muslim holidays, see Muslim Calendar Holidays. For Salat (prayer times) calculations, see our Freeware page.

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2008 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Cameroon, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Cameroon, before planning any trip to Cameroon. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.