ABSTRACT
Membership was not contemplated for some states, such as Sudan, which, although under British control for a time, had not been formally classed as British dependencies. On the other hand, it was granted in 1980 to Vanuatu, formerly a British-French condominium; and in 1995 to Cameroun, the larger part of which had been under French rule. (These two, and other Commonwealth states, including Canada, also joined the ‘Francophonie’ association, many of whose 49 members had been French dependencies.) Mozambique, formerly a Portuguese dependency, was admitted to the Commonwealth in 1995 ‘as an exceptional case’.
