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Order of Merit (Cameroon)

Field	Value
name	Order of Merit
Ordre du Mérite Camerounais
presenter
type	Order
awarded_for	High services to the State
higher	Order of Valour
lower	Order of Agricultural Merit
image2	Order of Merit (Cameroon).svg
image2_size	80px
caption2	Ribbon bar of the order

Ordre du Mérite Camerounais | post-nominals = The Order of Merit is an order of knighthood of the Cameroon.

History

It is regulated by the ordonnance N° 72/24 of 30 November 1972. It is one of the four orders of Cameroon:

Order of Valour
Order of Merit
Order of Agricultural Merit
Order of Sports Merit

Insignia

The ribbon of the order is yellow since 1972. It was made of red, yellow and green stripes earlier.

Grades

The Order of Merit is subdivided into four grades of merit:

Grand Cordon
Commander
Officer
Knight

Recipients

Ulric Cross
Cyprien Katsaris
Henri Romans-Petit
Ahmadou Tidjani

Grand Cordons

Françoise Foning
Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
Josip Broz Tito
Pieter van Vollenhoven

References

[https://web.archive.org/web/20111013033205/http://atangana-eteme-emeran.com/spip.php?article2524 National Orders of Cameroon] (French)

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