This article lists events from the year 2012 in Cameroon.
Incumbents President: Paul Biya Prime Minister: Philémon Yang
Events 20 February – Three women are charged with homosexuality, becoming the first such case in Cameroon to involve women.
9 August – Bakassi conflict: separatist militants affiliated with the Bakassi Movement for Self-Determination (BAMOSD) in the Bakassi Peninsula declare independence.
14 August – Cameroon joins the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, an international certification for rough diamonds that aims to prevent the trade of blood diamonds.
August–September – Flooding caused by a month of heavy rainfall in the Far North Region leaves nearly 30 people dead and displaces at least 4,000.
16 August – Bakassi conflict: BAMOSD abducts two Cameroonians and demands F.CFA100 million (€152,000) for their release.
3 October – Symphorian Sangha, a prolific ivory poacher and trader, is arrested in the town of Yokadouma by the local gendarmerie.
4 October – The Yaoundé High Court sentences businessman Michel Thierry Atangana and former secretary-general of the presidency Titus Edzoa to 20 years in prison. The two were held in detention since 1997 under accusations of embezzlement.
10 October – Addax Petroleum's exploratory Paduk-1X well strikes oil off the coast of Cameroon.
6 November – Opposition demonstrators in Yaoundé are dispersed by security forces with teargas.
14 November – Four environmentalist activists protesting the construction of the Herakles plantation are arrested in the town of Mundemba. They are granted a conditional release on 18 November.
Deaths 15 November – Théophile Abega, 58, football player and politician
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