| Order of Merit Ordre du Mérite Camerounais |
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| Type | Order |
| Awarded for | High services to the State |
| Precedence | |
| Next (higher) | Order of Valour |
| Next (lower) | Order of Agricultural Merit (Cameroon) |
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Ribbon bar of the order |
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The Order of Merit is an order of knighthood of the Cameroon.
It is regulated by the ordonnance N° 72/24 of 30 November 1972. It is one of the four orders of Cameroon:
The ribbon of the order is yellow since 1972. It was made of red, yellow and green stripes earlier.
The Order of Merit is suddivided into four grades of merit :