Cameroon National Gendarmerie said Friday its forces have arrested a group of 30 individuals in the capital, Yaoundé for allegedly trafficking illicit drugs.

The suspects were arrested during two raids carried out on July 30 in the Ntaba and Manguiers neighborhoods of the city, according to a statement released Friday afternoon by the gendarmerie.

“(During the raids) 800 grams of cocaine, 2 kg of cannabis, mobile phones and bladed weapons were seized,” the statement said, adding that a notorious 45-year-old drug dealer was also arrested during the operation.

Officials said they will intensify the operation “to cleanse” the capital city of criminals as the country is preparing to host the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), a continental football competition involving 24 African nations, early next year.

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Cameroonian army said Thursday that it firmly opposed what it called “outrageous and provocative” report by the U.S.-based organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) on atrocities committed by its troops in its English-speaking region of Northwest.

The report published on Monday accused government forces of destruction of property, rape, murder and execution of civilians and looting in the region.

“Everything seems to clearly indicate that the multiple positions taken by HRW are intended only to discredit the defence and security forces,” army spokesman Cyrille Serge Atonfack Guemo said in a statement Thursday evening while stressing that the accusations were “unfounded.”

“This umpteenth trick by Human Rights Watch does not in any way weaken the morale of the defence and security forces,” he added.

Armed separatists fighting for the “independence” of the two English-speaking regions of Northwest and Southwest of the Central African nation have been clashing with government forces since 2017.

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President Paul Biya was recently spotted in a secured park in Geneva with what appeared to be a bandage on the back of his head.

The bandage appeared toward the left side of the 88-year-old dictator’s head during a walk in the Geneva Park, Cameroon Intelligence Report correspondent on special assignment to Geneva covering the secretive corrupt leader reported.

Biya has frequently faced speculation that he is in ill health. Our sources in Geneva say he was spotted limping in the park and appeared to be breathless.

An official at the Cameroon embassy in Switzerland contacted by CIR said getting an insight into Biya’s health would be the toughest because of Biya’s entourage robust counterintelligence practices.

Cameroon Intelligence Report understands President Biya is in very grave danger after surgery in a private clinic in Geneva.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai with files

The remains of 5 Cameroon government police officers killed in the Southern Cameroons war returned home to Yaoundé and have been handed over to their families.

A Cameroon government military ambulance carrying the caskets arrived in the Yaoundé military mortuary today and a handover ceremony was staged by the police force.

The five police officers from the Beti-Ewondo extraction fought on the Cameroon government’s side against Southern Cameroons Restoration Forces in Bali and were killed by Amba fighters on July 18, 2021.

Ever since the war started, the remains of Francophone service men and women have been buried on several quiet hillsides and forest in both South West and North West.

The Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo regime has never given a precise number for its Southern Cameroons war dead, but estimates run as high as 3000.

By Rita Akana

Renowned Southern Cameroons political elite, Prof Carlson Anyangwe has strongly dismissed accusations against Ambazonia Restoration Forces on the recent attempt to kidnap workers at Ndu Tea plantation, stating that such claims are politically-motivated by agents of the French Cameroun regime in Yaoundé and meant to tarnish the image of the Ambazonia Restoration Forces.

“Any clowns appointed DO or SDO by the regime in French Cameroun rushes to hold the Ambazonia Restoration Forces responsible for whatever goes wrong in Southern Cameroons. The Southern Cameroons Interim Government is simply asking for an international fact finding mission to establish the reality in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia” Prof Anyangwe noted.

He continued, “French Cameroun is still inventing and playing new blame games: Who declared war against the people of British Southern Cameroons? You well know who did it. Who had a well equipped military before the war started? You know much better than anyone else. These French Cameroun clowns in Yaoundé must be aware of the facts and present them. By not stating the facts, they are taking advantage of any possible opportunity to hold Ambazonia Restoration Forces responsible. They will clearly fail to tie Amba fighters to the Ndu Tea Plantation kidnap affair. Such accusations are politically-motivated from Yaoundé.”

By Isong Asu

The Vice President of the Southern Cameroons Interim Government Dabney Yerima says the current health situation of the French Cameroun dictator in Geneva has pushed Ambazonia Restoration Forces to move to high alert and significantly increased its combat readiness preparing for an imminent chaotic situation in La Republique du Cameroun.

Vice President Dabney Yerima made the comment on Tuesday and said Amba fighters were on the highest alert level ever since the Southern Cameroons war started four years ago.

The Francophone dominated military recently rejected the idea of deploying its air force in Manyu Division in what the French Cameroun military officials claimed will not change the situation in Ground Zero.  The army leaders added that there was an urgent need for a political solution to the crisis in Southern Cameroons.

Dabney Yerima announced that Amba fighters would be on alert and warned the Beti Ewondo youthful and inexperience leaders deputizing for the 88-year-old Biya against a continuation of the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo folly against the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.

Yerima stressed in a conversation with Cameroon Concord News London Bureau Chief Isong Asu on Tuesday that all Ambazonia Restoration forces would take unseen defensive measures and monitor the French Cameroun occupying forces maneuvers.

By Chi Prudence Asong