The Mechanisms to Address Crisis Situations in Cameroon

Abstract

The coexistence of exceptional situations and inhabitation in Cameroon is inevitable. This extraordinary phenomenon imposes an adapted legal regime, one which permits the substitution of ordinary legality to a permitted temporal illegality. This permitted temporal illegality happens to be a dangerous regime to the rule of law. This study seeks to examine the mechanism in addressing situation of crisis and the gaps it has on the rule of law. To the question of studying the mechanisms of addressing crisis situations in Cameroon law, it was concluded while using the doctrinal and case law interpretation method, that there is a double mechanisms of addressing a situation of crisis in Cameroon’s positive law that is, a formalised mechanism of addressing a situation of crisis and a sui generis mechanism of addressing a situation of crisis.