For more information see the Cameroon profile.

The Republic of Cameroon, is located on the continental "hinge" between West and Central Africa. It is a geographically diverse nation, with desert in the far north in the Lake Chad basin, mountains in the west, dry savanna plateau in the intermediate area, dense tropical rainforest in the south, and the Atlantic Ocean in the southwest.

Cameroon is a secular state which guarantees religious freedom. There were controls on Christian activities in the more Islamized north and promotion of Islam nationwide until the change in leadership in 1982. At the present time, there is religious freedom, church growth, and localized touches of revival. Yet the overall situation, political uncertainty, the danger of civil war, and corruption in government gives rise for concern.