Hauts-Plateaux is a department of West Province in Cameroon . The department covers an area of 415 km and as of 2005 had a total population of 80,678. The capital of the department lies at Baham . The department was created in 1995 when the Mifi department was split up.
3-967: The department is divided administratively into 4 communes and in turn into villages. This West Region (Cameroon) location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Communes of Cameroon The Divisions of Cameroon are the third-level units of administration in Cameroon . They are organised by divisions and sub divisions of each province (now Regions). As of 2005 (and since 1996) there are 2 urban communities ( Douala and Yaoundé ) divided into 11 urban districts (5 in Douala and 6 in Yaounde), 9 towns with special status ( Nkongsamba , Bafoussam , Bamenda , Limbe , Edéa , Ebolowa , Garoua , Maroua and Kumba ), 11 urban communes and 305 rural communes. The councils are headed by mayors and municipal councillors who are elected. The councils have
6-456: A responsibility in principle for the management of local affairs under the supervision of the State. Under Cameroonian law, the councils provide and regulate administrative, economic and social development, define and enforce work practices to increase efficiency and improve the quality of services, promote training and retraining of municipal staff. The ballot for the election of municipal elections
9-426: Is a mixed system with both a majority system and a proportional representation system. The party which obtains the absolute majority of votes wins all the seats. If no party receives an absolute majority, the party that obtains the plurality gets half the seats, with the other half allocated in proportion to the votes of each party. The law requires the parties to take account of the various sociological components of
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