Monthly Archives: June 2020

ICC taking the last kicks of a dying horse to hear appeal against acquittal of President Gbagbo

22, June 2020

ICC taking the last kicks of a dying horse to hear appeal against acquittal of President Gbagbo 0

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda will try on Monday to overturn last year’s shock acquittal of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo on charges of crimes against humanity.

Gbagbo and his right-hand man Charles Blé Goudé were in January 2019 cleared of allegations of masterminding post-electoral violence in the restive west African nation in 2010-11, in which around 3,000 people died.

The one-time Ivorian strongman, the first former head of state to be tried by the ICC, had spent eight years behind bars in The Hague before his surprise acquittal by the court.

Appeals judges will this week listen to arguments by the ICC’s chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, who says the court erred in letting Gbagbo and Blé Goudé go.

The two-day hearing will be “partially virtual” due to the coronavirus pandemic, the ICC said, and it was unclear whether Gbagbo and Blé Goudé would physically be in court or follow hearings remotely.

The ICC last month allowed Gbagbo, 75, to leave Belgium where he was being hosted under strict conditions since his release from the court, but said he must return for the prosecution’s appeal.

The ICC said it “will make its judgment on this appeal at a later stage”.

‘Justice was not served’

Bensouda appealed the trial judges’ decision in October last year, saying they “committed legal and procedural errors” — including that the majority of the judges only issued their written verdict some six months after an oral acquittal.

Judges had also cleared the pair “without properly articulating and consistently applying a clearly defined standard of proof”, Bensouda added.

“In sum, justice was not served in this case. The acquittals of Mr Gbagbo and Mr Blé Goudé should be reversed and a mistrial declared,” Bensouda said in her submission.

Gbagbo’s party, the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI), has called on Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara for “dialogue” over his return to the country.

But an association for victims of the violence expressed “energetic opposition” against Gbagbo coming home as the country braces for tense elections scheduled for October, in which Ouattara will not be running.

ICC under fire

Gbagbo technically faces being jailed on his return after being sentenced in absentia to a 20-year term by an Ivorian court last November for the “looting” of the local branch of the Central Bank of the West African States (BCEAO) during the post-election crisis.

Monday’s hearing comes as Bensouda and her under-fire office fight a string of acquittals and failed cases including that of Congolese politician Jean-Pierre Bemba, acquitted in 2018 of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

It also comes at a time when the ICC, set up in 2002 to try the world’s worst crimes, is under assault from the Trump administration because of the tribunal’s probe into crimes committed by US forces during the war in Afghanistan.

(FRANCE 24 with AFP)

Ambazonia: Secretary Tabenyang Brado asks French Cameroun surrogates to accelerate probe into death of Mamfe Mayor

22, June 2020

Ambazonia: Secretary Tabenyang Brado asks French Cameroun surrogates to accelerate probe into death of Mamfe Mayor 0

Southern Cameroons Secretary of the Economy Hon. Tabenyang Brado has called on two La Republique du Cameroun surrogates, Chief George Tabetando and Minister Victor Mengot to stop the ‘juju” swearing comedy in Manyu and clarify the cause of death of the mayor of Mamfe, Ashu Prisley Ojong.

The Ambazonia Interim Government said in a statement that Secretary Brado Tabenyang will hand over an official note via the French Cameroun embassy in Washington demanding immediate action by the two so-called La Republique leaders in the Manyu County to announce to the people of Southern Cameroons the cause of death of the Mamfe mayor.

According to information Vice President Dabney Yerima received from Ambazonia intelligence services in Manyu, late mayor Ashu Ojong was killed inside a French Cameroun army vehicle accompanied by two Cameroon government army soldiers.

The circumstances around his death are still being hidden by the French Cameroun civil administrator in Manyu but reports from people in the know indicates that Ashu Prisley apparently wanted to be the traditional ruler of Eshobi village in order to enhance his political image and this prompted a ruling CPDM diabolic harsh ploy that took away his life.

During last week’s Interim Government cabinet meeting, Secretary Tabenyang Brado stressed that it was Yaounde’s full responsibility in ensuring the safety of the mayor, who had been under French Cameroun’s pay roll and surveillance.

Comrade Tabenyang Brado is also expected to drive home the importance of this case for Ambazonia public opinion and insist on the need to reveal the cause of death.

By Oke Akombi Ayukepi Akap in Glasgow with additional reporting from Chi Prudence Asong in London

Biya was certainly not a leader for the two Cameroons

22, June 2020

Biya was certainly not a leader for the two Cameroons 0

Paul Biya never aspired to be involved in politics as a young Roman Catholic seminarian. And even after he was lured into the so-called dirty game by the late President Ahmadou Ahidjo, it was actually his kinsman, Ayissi Mvodo who was being groomed to become Ahidjo’s successor.

Biya was a common politician in Yaoundé and his name summoned images of a good man hunted by a Christian upbringing in the Seminary. Biya was also very popular and idolized by taxi drivers in the nation’s capital who often watched him riding his bicycle all over the city. It was only after the CNU Conference of Maturity that everyone became certain Biya would be the next president of Cameroon, after Ahmadou Ahidjo.

Compared to the then Minister of Territorial Administration, Ayissi Mvodo, Biya was not as charismatic or appealing figure.  But after a physical confrontation between Biya and the late Ayissi Mvodo during a cabinet meeting and in the presence of Ahmadou Ahidjo, there was not a trace of Mvodo’s presence anywhere in Yaoundé.

Biya did not seek out recognition or popularity in the presence of his political boss, Ahmadou Ahidjo and the ruling CNU barons from the Northern provinces and he also had no interest in creating a political space for himself even after his appointment as Prime Minister in 1975. Ayissi Mvodo attempted all of the above!

In his early days as Secretary General at the Presidency of the Republic, Biya applied very skilful diplomacy in his dealings with all of the Ahidjo men and women from the North pushing them to perceive him as shy, reserved, weak French Cameroun political elite who was not interested in leadership. This was also the assumptions Biya fed the entire nation with but in one occasion he hinted Chief Emmanuel Tabi Egbe that power is in the presidency and not in the Prime Minister’s office.

On the 6th of November 1982, the invisible hand of history started to sweep away these perceptions and proved everyone wrong when Biya took office as Head of State. Unlike his dynamic kinsman, Ayissi Mvodo, French and English speaking Cameroonians started viewing Biya as someone without the instincts or the drive to lead a country.

Biya was certainly not a leader for the two Cameroons and as I write, after more than 40 years in authority, he cannot stand for anything. To me and many other Cameroon political commentators, Biya’s crossing the carpet from the Union Des Population du Cameroun, UPC to Ahidjo’s Cameroon National Union, CNU while in France was simply to look for a normal, peaceful, luxurious life somewhere in Europe with his late wife Jeanne Irene Biya. The billions of FCFA wasted by him and his family in the International Continental Hotel in Geneva over the last 36 years justify this assertion.

There was one small thing, small but great! While all the Ahidjo acolytes and the entire nation focused on the actions of Ayissi Mvodo and the relationship he was attempting to develop with General Pierre Semengue, Paul Biya was educating himself on the Cameroon political story learning “polite arrogance” from Dr Mrs Dorothy Njeuma and how to place Garoua against Maroua from Amadou Ali and fanning the North West/South West Divide via E.T.Egbe and Simon Achidi Achu and containing the Bamileke money power by establishing a new generation of Beti Ewondo businessmen after T-Bella.

Biya knew he had to always be in Ahidjo’s good books, so he pretended to be dedicated to the United Republic of Cameroon idea which he political calls today, the one and indivisible nation. But underneath his pro United Republic action was an ocean of activities that signaled he was more attracted to the Western style and of course he has been governing from France and Switzerland ever since he became President of the Republic.

When the late President Ahidjo made up his mind and started grooming Biya to become the next president, the former seminarian tactfully avoided the comfortable life in any luxurious home in Yaoundé and continued on as a deeply devoted Ahidjo student while adoring the anonymity that the powerful Ahidjo men such as Moussa Yaya and Maicano Abdoulaye including E.T.Egbe and Ayissi Mvodo offered him. Biya was not in the public eye but privately he was being trained in military affairs by General Pierre Semengue who was a classmate and a personal friend.

The Beti Ewondo hardliners staged a coup on 1984 and used it to transform Biya completely. They succeeded and even Biya’s low, soft, Christian-like voice became tougher, and his political stance and appointments became more confident and powerful. But though Biya changed on the surface, he never changed on the inside. 

From the day he became president, Cameroon was reduced to a holiday resort for him. To be sure, he lives in Europe and only comes home to empty the state coffers and appoint new agents into his ruling CPDM crime syndicate. Western lifestyle is the only thing that occupies Biya’s mind.

In the beginning of his rule, he introduced rigour and moralization, which included some political reforms that would suit the Western-style changes he planned. But when he saw that the reaction to his political shake-up was endangering his own throne, he concocted new policies of encouraging corruption, mass repression and relying on CENER, the secret service and the army to enforce his commands.

Internal clashes and tensions between Biya and Ahidjo’s old guards were ruthlessly crushed and severely dealt with. Biya became aware of the discontent and used his power to retire many of the old guard, sweeping them from power to reduce the conflict he faced with the Grand Nord.

Biya’s acceptance of the IMF policies such as increase neo-liberal policies and privatization exaggerated the inequality between the poor and the rich in Cameroon while a small portion of his Francophone Beti Ewondo political elites and their business associates benefited from these policies.

Unable to control the wind of change that sparked an uprising against his CPDM government in 1990 the old guard members, who had been forced to retire, were brought back to power to address the situation. Name them; Gilbert Andze Tchougui, Jean Forchive, Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya, Joseph Charles Doumba and Robert Mbella Mbappe etc.

Did Biya’s idealistic vision of dividing Cameroon again by taking the nation back into the Francophonie and the Commonwealth — but still consolidating power at the top in Yaounde — play a role in the numerous crises that have rocked the country? Did Biya’s vast and failed economic and neo-liberal reforms, which in the end only benefited his gilded circle, have an impact on the current Southern Cameroons crisis? Perhaps the combination of all of these factors led to the rampant rebellion and mistrust of the people that Biya had been chosen to lead.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

IG-CARE calls for TOTAL LOCKDOWN of the Northern Zone of Ambazonia from 22 to 24 June 2020

21, June 2020

IG-CARE calls for TOTAL LOCKDOWN of the Northern Zone of Ambazonia from 22 to 24 June 2020 0

Fellow Ambazonians,

The neo-colonial regime in Yaoundé will stop at nothing in its pursuit of genocide and deceit in Ambazonia. Despite the horrendous and cruel sufferings it is inflicting on our people, they intend to mislead the world that all is well in the Southern Cameroons.

In a communication signed 17 June 2020, LeleLafriqueAdolphe, is inviting people to attend an awareness and sensitization meeting on the Yaoundé Presidential Plan for the reconstruction of the North West region of Cameroun which happens to be the Northern Zone of Ambazonia. This public stunt is designed to conceal war crimes and lay a flawed and unlawful claim to our land.

After consultation with other frontline movements in the Ambazonia struggle and our self-defence commanders in Ground Zero, the Interim Government of Ambazonia is today calling for a TOTAL LOCKDOWN OF THE NORTHERN ZONE OF AMBAZONIA from Monday 22 to Wednesday 24 June 2020.

All businesses, social events, transport networks, community activities and non-vital services must remain sealed as the Interim Government of Ambazonia cannot guarantee the security of anyone found outside their place of residence, clinics and hospitals.Anyone, including French Cameroun colonial administrative officials, who attempt to violent this Interim Government of Ambazonia order shall be ruthlessly crushed and severely dealt with.  

French Cameroun has blundered in its actions in Southern Cameroons over the last fifty-nine years and continues to blunder in calculating that a whitewash reconstruction plan is an answer to our just goals of justice, freedom and independence. We must not fall for this misguided propaganda. There can be no reconstruction from an enemy during an active campaign of genocide.

Truth and justice have always triumphed over hate, deceit and mass slaughter but the regime in Yaoundé is oblivious to the lessons of history. Our goals are freedom, justice and independence and no matter how long it takes, we shall attain these.

Thanks and God Bless the people of Southern Cameroons-Ambazonia

Dabney Yerima

Vice President

Federal Republic of Ambazonia

US: Thousands of empty seats at Trump’s comeback rally

21, June 2020

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President Donald Trump launched his comeback rally Saturday by defining the upcoming election as a stark choice between national heritage and left-wing radicalism. But his intended show of political force amid a pandemic featured thousands of empty seats and new coronavirus cases on his own campaign staff.

Trump ignored health warnings to hold his first rally in 110 days — one of the largest indoor gatherings in the world during a coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 120,000 Americans and put 40 million out of work. The rally was meant to restart his reelection effort less than five months before the president faces voters again.

“The choice in 2020 is very simple,” Trump said. “Do you want to bow before the left-wing mob, or do you want to stand up tall and proud as Americans?”

Trump unleashed months of pent-up grievances about the coronavirus, which he dubbed the “Kung flu,” a racist term for COVID-19, which originated in China. He also tried to defend his handling of the pandemic, even as cases continue to surge in many states, including Oklahoma.

He complained that robust coronavirus testing was making his record look bad — and suggested the testing effort should slow down.

“Here’s the bad part. When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more cases,” he said. “So I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down.’ They test and they test.”

“Speed up the testing,” Trump’s Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, tweeted later.

In the hours before the rally, crowds were significantly lighter than expected, and campaign officials scrapped plans for Trump to address an overflow space outdoors. When Trump thundered that “the silent majority is stronger than ever before,” about a third of the seats at his indoor rally were empty.

Trump tried to explain away the crowd size by blaming the media for scaring people and by insisting there were protesters outside who were “doing bad things.” But the small crowds of pre-rally demonstrators were largely peaceful, and Tulsa police reported just one arrest Saturday afternoon.

Before the rally, Trump’s campaign revealed that six staff members who were helping set up for the event had tested positive for the coronavirus. Campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh said neither the affected staffers nor anyone who was in immediate contact with them would attend the event.

The president raged to aides that the staffers’ positive cases had been made public, according to two White House and campaign officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly about private conversations.

Trump devoted more than 10 minutes of his 105-minute rally — with the crowd laughing along — trying to explain away a pair of odd images from his speech last weekend at West Point, blaming his slippery leather-soled shoes for video of him walking awkwardly down a ramp as he left the podium. And then he declared that he used two hands to drink a cup of water that day because he didn’t want to spill water on his tie — and proceeded to this time drink with just one hand.

But Trump also leaned in hard on cultural issues, including the push to tear down statues and rename military bases honoring Confederate generals following nationwide protests about racial injustice.

“The unhinged left-wing mob is trying to vandalize our history, desecrate our monuments, our beautiful monuments,” Trump said. “They want to demolish our heritage so they can impose their new repressive regime in its place.”

Trump also floated the idea of a one-year prison sentence for anyone convicted of burning an American flag, an act of protest protected by the First Amendment. And he revived his attacks on Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, who emigrated from Somalia as a child, claiming she would want “to make the government of our country just like the country from where she came, Somalia: no government, no safety, no police, no nothing — just anarchy.”

“And now she’s telling us how to run our country,” Trump continued. “No, thank you.”

After a three-month break from rallies, Trump spent the evening reviving his greatest hits, including boasts about the pre-pandemic economy and complaints about the media. But his scattershot remarks made no mention of some of the flashpoints roiling the nation, including the abrupt firing of a U.S. attorney in Manhattan, the damaging new book from his former national security adviser or the killing of George Floyd.

Large gatherings in the United States were shut down in March because of the coronavirus. The rally was scheduled over the protests of local health officials  as COVID-19 cases spike in many states, while the choice of host city and date — it was originally set for Friday, Juneteenth, in a city where a 1921 racist attack killed as many as 300 people — prompted anger amid a national wave of protests against racial injustice.

But Trump and his advisers forged forward, believing that a return to the rally stage would reenergize the president, who is furious that he has fallen behind Biden in polls, and reassure increasingly anxious Republicans.

But Trump has struggled to land effective attacks against Biden, and his broadsides against the former vice president did not draw nearly the applause as did his digs at his 2016 opponent, Hillary Clinton.

City officials had expected a crowd of 100,000 people or more in downtown Tulsa. Trump’s campaign, for its part, declared that it had received over a million ticket requests. The crowd that gathered was far less than that, though the rally, being broadcast on cable, also targeted voters in battleground states such as Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Florida.

The president’s campaign tried to point fingers elsewhere over the smaller-than-expected crowds, accusing protesters of blocking access to metal detectors and preventing people from entering the rally. Three Associated Press journalists reporting in Tulsa for several hours leading up to the president’s speaking did not see protesters block entry to the area where the rally was held.

The campaign handed out masks and hand sanitizer, but there was no requirement that participants use them and few did. Participants also underwent a temperature check.

“I don’t think it’s anything worse than the flu,” said Brian Bernard, 54, a retired IT worker from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who sported a Trump 2020 hat. “I haven’t caught a cold or a flu in probably 15 years, and if I haven’t caught a cold or flu yet, I don’t think I’m gonna catch COVID.”

(AP)

Cameroon confirmed Covid-19 cases increase to over 11, 000, Sickle Cell patients ask for protection

21, June 2020

Cameroon confirmed Covid-19 cases increase to over 11, 000, Sickle Cell patients ask for protection 0

Sickle cell patients in Cameroon on this year’s World Sickle Cell Day on June 19, asked to be given additional care and support. They say the genetic disorder primarily seen in people of African descent puts them more at risk of COVID-19.

About 200 sickle cell patients visited hospitals and the Cameroon Red Cross office in the capital Yaoundé, Friday to complain that they were being sidelined in efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus in the central African state. Forty-year old Dieudonne Mackiti, father of two children living with the disease, says he expects the government to provide face masks and hand sanitizers free of charge and to ask hospitals to give preferential treatment to sickle cell patients when they visit.

He says he has come out on World Sickle Cell Day to ask the government to pay more attention to its citizens who are living with the genetic disorder and are more likely to have severe complications and die if they are infected with COVID-19. He says he believes that one of his two sons living with sickle cell contracted COVID-19 at the hospital he took the child to for regular health care.

Mackiti said his family was ostractized by his neighbors after information that his son tested COVID-19 positive leaked. He said the stigma from COVID-19 combined with age-old superstitious beliefs that sickle cell is divine punishment for wrongdoing and that children with the disease are mysterious was making live very difficult for his family.

Cameroon’s health ministry says sickle cell patients already have respiratory difficulties which may be very complicated and difficult to handle should they be infected with COVID-19. It says people living with blood disorders such as sickle cell disease have an increased risk of developing serious COVID-19 symptoms and recommends that they should stock up on essential medicines and supplies that can last for several weeks.

Laurantine Mandeng of the Cameroon Association of Young Sickle Cell Patients says most sickle cell patients in Cameroon are poor and cannot raise money to buy COVID-19 protection kits.

Mandeng says only the Cameroon Red cross has been able to assist them with face masks and hand sanitizers. She says she asked that the supplies should be sent to associations of sickle cell patients and specialized hospitals that take care of people living with the genetic disorder because she does not want sickle cell patients to be infected with COVID-19 when they visit regular hospitals.

Cameroon health minister Manaouda Malachie says sickle cell patients like other Cameroons will be given free face masks, buckets and soap and hand sanitizers to protect themselves from the coronavirus. 

Manaouda says he has observed that some sickle cell patients just like many other Cameroonians are refusing to obey barrier measures like keeping a distance of at least a meter and a half from each other, washing hands regularly or using hand sanitizers and wearing face masks. He says for Cameroon to be saved from the killer virus, all its citizens including sickle cell patients must observe measures the government has put in place to stop COVID-19.

Cameroon says the prevalence of sickle cell is 20 percent among its 25 million population. Sickle cell is an inherited red blood cell disorder in which there aren’t enough healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout the body of patients.

Source: VOA

Nigeria repatriates seven Southern Cameroonians

21, June 2020

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Operatives of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) have intercepted seven Cameroonians at the creek of Ikot Obong in Cross River.

This is contained in a statement by the Service Public Relations Officer, Sunday James, and issued on Friday in Abuja.

The statement said the Marine Patrol officers of the Command in Cross River intercepted the foreigners on the Ikot Obong creek in Akpabuyo Local Government Area (LGA), while attempting to enter the country in a boat.

The statement added that the seven Cameroonians were denied entry and returned to their country through the Ikang Control post, while their boat was impounded.

“The arrest is among the series of interceptions by the command, between Cross River and Akwa Ibom States respectively, bothering Cameroon in recent times, amidst the Federal Government’s directive on border closure,” it stated.

The Controller General, NIS, Muhammad Babandede, had directed Commands at the borders to intensify patrol and reconnaissance along the flanks.

He had added that they should also intensify patrol at the creeks, waterways, and in-roads into the country, in order to frustrate the attempts of irregular migrants.

(NAN)

French Cameroun: Boko Haram kills 4 Shepherds in the Far North

21, June 2020

French Cameroun: Boko Haram kills 4 Shepherds in the Far North 0

Four shepherds kidnapped by Boko Haram were found dead in a locality of the Far North border with Nigeria. The mayor of the Far North city of Maroua, Ibrahim Mohammed said the attack took place in Waza (small town in northern Cameroon).

A source said that, “the kidnappers abducted four shepherds and carried away their herds, the bodies of the four victims were found Thursday morning.”

The local official added that, “once alerted, Cameroonian forces launched sweeping operations in this locality and its surroundings. One of the Boko Haram elements was neutralized by the army more than 10 kilometers from the site of the attack and the others managed to flee to Nigeria.”

This new attack by the terrorist group Boko Haram comes after a relative lull thanks in particular to army operations in the Lake Chad area where Boko Haram operates.

Since 2015, the region has been regularly attacked by Boko Haram insurgents who regularly attack farmers, shepherds and loggers whom they accuse of collaborating with the army by transmitting information about the terrorist group to it.

Culled from Persecution.org

World Refugee Day: Vice President Yerima’s message of hope and Ambazonia uncertainties

20, June 2020

World Refugee Day: Vice President Yerima’s message of hope and Ambazonia uncertainties 0

Interim Government Statement on World Refugee Day

Fellow Ambazonians,

Today, we join the rest of mankind to celebrate World Refugee Day. A day like this reminds us of the conditions that triggered many of our mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, and children to flee our homeland to find peace and safety in Ghana, Nigeria and elsewhere. It reminds us of their painful journey to safety. It reminds us that many who embarked on such a journey didn’t make it.

You fled because of Paul Biya’s genocide war on the people of Southern Cameroon. His war has resulted in the rape of our women, the killing of our children, parents and grandparents. His war has led to the destruction of your livelihood. His war has resulted to the complete burning down of over 400 of our villages. All of you fled to seek safety and security.

You might have lost businesses, homes, property and everything that gives meaning to your existence but I want to assure you, it’s not all over. I want to assure you today that the Interim Government of Ambazonia under Sisiku Ayuk Tabe stands with you. We will stand by you until justice, freedom and independence is served in Ambazonia.

Many of the great leaders and most successful people in history were refugees. We have heard stories of many who left refugee camps and became doctors, lawyers, engineers, entrepreneurs. So, your present status doesn’t make you a lesser human being. It gives you another opportunity to make the best of you through reflection.

Consider your current suffering as a challenge to contribute in making our world a better place. That should be your goal as we seek peace, justice and equality for all. In order to make our world a better place, let’s seek to be agents of change and build societies that will judge humans by the contents of their character. As you celebrate this day, remember that Ambazonia stands with you. Be of good character everywhere you are and make good use of the opportunities you have.

Our collective Vision, Dream and Goal are Buea and we will get there.

God bless you. God bless the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.

Thank You

Dabney Yerima

Vice President

Federal Republic of Ambazonia

Ambazonia: 3 Restoration Forces killed in Muyuka

20, June 2020

Ambazonia: 3 Restoration Forces killed in Muyuka 0

The Francophone regime in Yaoundé says at least three armed Southern Cameroons fighters were killed and two others arrested Monday morning during a military operation in Muyuka in the Southern zone of West Cameroon.

A spokesperson for the Cameroon government army stated that the Amba Boys were obstructing public transport when government forces on patrol opened fire, killing three on the spot.

“The two others surrendered after they were overcome by security forces. They will be handed over to the judiciary authorities to face justice for their crimes,” the officer said.

Fighting is reportedly intensifying in the rural areas of Southern Cameroons despite calls for a ceasefire amid COVID-19 pandemic by the UN.

On Sunday night, Ambazonia Restoration Forces launched coordinated attacks on Bamenda, the chief city in the Northern Zone interrupting electricity supply.

By Fon Lawrence

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