A top security adviser to President Biya (names withheld) has revealed that the Southern Cameroons Self-Defense Groups are far stronger than the Cameroon government army. Speaking to our undercover reporter in Yaoundé on Monday, the Biya acolyte said “Two years have passed since President Biya declared the war and the conflict in Southern Cameroons is showing no signs of ending.”

“We wrongfully thought we had the strongest army in the CEMAC region. The Ambazonian Restoration Force with little or no training is even stronger than the Cameroon army,” the French Cameroun Security boss lamented. “The Southern Cameroons young fighters are totally confident in their faith today and are ready to sacrifice a lot more than the Cameroon army. My fear now is that we may end up losing Anglophone Cameroon,” he continued.

Our source also addressed the economic aspects of the military campaign in Southern Cameroons in which the Francophone dominated army has been bogged down participating in the fighting on behalf of the 85 year old dictator President Paul Biya. “In a few more months Cameroon will be importing foodstuffs from Gabon and Central African Republic!! Disaster is near,” he declared.

The senior Cameroon military officer also told our reporter that pride and naked arrogance was responsible for the Southern Cameroons war and that many senior French Cameroun army officers were exploiting its continuation for financial gains.  “I sometimes get the feeling that the war is being waged against our Anglophone brothers and sisters with the aim of strengthening Francophone political elites loyal to President Biya. Everything is done for Biya and serves Biya,” he claimed.

Elsewhere, the Ambazonian Acting President Dr Samuel Ikome Sako has continued his tirade against the French Cameroun government in Yaounde observing that they were doomed to lose in the war. Reacting to threats made by President Biya against Ambazonian Restoration Forces, Dr Sako noted that “No one scares Southern Cameroonians away from wars. Anyone who wants war: They’re welcome in Southern Cameroons.”

The Federal Republic of Ambazonia has not surrendered despite the ineffectiveness of the African Union and the United Nations. Southern Cameroons-Ambazonia is now detached from the world, subjected to a French Cameroun siege, and the Biya Francophone regime is still limited in how it can deal with it. As the Southern Cameroons war runs into its third year, Cameroon Intelligence Report understands the Ambazonian Interim Government is slowly but surely forcing on French Cameroun an equation whereby a bombing will be met with a bombing.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Cameroon says it is mobilizing troops along the country’s northern border with Nigeria and in the western English-speaking regions, following renewed attacks by Boko Haram in the north and separatists in the west.

Cameroon’s military calls for troops to assemble at its headquarters in Yaounde ahead of major deployments.

Defense Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Rene Claude Meka said 2019 will see Cameroon fight for national unity and territorial integrity.

He said they have re-mobilized the military to all trouble spots. Boko Haram, the Nigeria-based Islamist terrorist group, is again recruiting fighters in Cameroon and attacking our northern border, said Meka. Meanwhile, separatists fighting to create an English-speaking state have recruited mercenaries from neighboring countries to destabilize Cameroon, he said.

Cameroon’s military says there is a Boko Haram resurgence on its northern border with Nigeria. It reports five attacks across the border and in the Lake Chad basin this month.

Last week three people were reported killed in the border town of Fotokol as troops repelled a Boko Haram attack.

Separatist fighting also intensified in Cameroon’s two English-speaking regions in the northwest and southwest. The military said at least 45 rebels have been killed in the first three weeks of the year. Separatists say they are the ones killing the soldiers.

Although the numbers cannot be independently verified, villagers have confirmed fighting has recently increased.

Twenty-seven-year-old Elengu Noella said two of her three children were killed in heavy fighting around the southwestern town of Buea and she has not been able to find her husband.

She said a Catholic Church Hospital ambulance helped her and four other women escape as a battle raged between Cameroon’s military and separatists.

Separatists seeking an independent English-speaking state are accused of abducting and killing opponents and trying to make their regions ungovernable.

Defense Minister Joseph Beti Assomo said President Paul Biya also ordered troops to Cameroon’s eastern border. He said spill-over from fighting in the Central African Republic has increased criminal activities.

“2019 will not be a bed of roses. We shall continue with various operations in the far north, northwest and southwest regions, reactivation of special operations in the Adamawa region where criminal groups specialized in kidnapping are wreaking havoc and requesting for ransom,” he said.

Isaac Sama is a political analyst at Cameroon’s Center for Peace and Development. He said while troop deployments to fight foreign invaders is justified, the government should attempt to negotiate with the separatists.

Sama said more and more civilians are displaced by the fighting each time the military attacks the rebels.

“We have practical situations of people who actually died and then those who are in the bushes, they are also in bad conditions. They have no access to anything.”

Cameroon says since fighting broke out with separatists in 2016, more than 1,200 people have been killed and nearly a quarter million displaced.

VOA

Operation commanders loyal to the Ambazonian Interim Government in both the Southern and Northern Zones have advised the Biya Francophone regime in Yaoundé against playing with fire after it was revealed Prime Minister Dion Ngute may stage a home coming visit to Southern Cameroons anytime soon.

Cameroon Intelligence Report gathered from sources deep within the Southern Cameroons Interim Government that Ambazonian Restoration forces were ready to deliver a strong response to any French Cameroun military convoy transporting Mr. Dion Ngute to the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.

We understand the 85 year old President Biya recently dispatched his Secretary of State in the Ministry of Defense in Charge of the National Gendarmerie, Yves Galax Landry Etoga to the Southern Zone to get a real assessment of the situation.

Yves Galax arrived the Southern Cameroons capital, Buea on January 14, 2019 and reportedly had secret security briefings from the leadership of the Gendarmerie Legion in the South West, Squadron No 80 and the Gendarmerie Post in Bonjongo. The Biya emissary was also at the Military Hospital in Buea were he got intelligence of the number of soldiers killed and injured in the Southern Zone.

A Special Representative of the Ambazonian Homeland Security Chief in Buea observed that the appointment of Mr. Dion Ngute was a move by the French Cameroun regime to test the Ambazonian Interim Government’s reaction. “Nonetheless, any act of provocation against Southern Cameroonians by the so-called Prime Minister Dion Ngute could backfire on French Cameroun as hundreds of Ambazonia fighters in the Fako County are ready  to strike targets at Bongo Square”, he warned.

The IG’s Special Representative made it clear that Ambazonia Restoration Forces were the official self-defense organization funded by the Southern Cameroons Interim Government and therefore has the right to defend the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.

By Chi Prudence Asong with contributions from Sama Ernest in Buea

Dr Martin Belinga Eboutou was a senior government official in the Biya regime. But the theft of part of the money intended to corrupt the President Buhari ethnic political cartel for the arrest and extradition of Ambazonian leaders from Nigeria, constrained Paul Biya to remove and conceal in his immediate proximity his longtime mystical devil worshipping soul mate Martin Belinga Eboutou for misappropriating a sizeable part of the booty putting Biya in conflict with Buhari.

Today, our senior intelligence officer in Yaoundé has confirmed that Dr Martin Belinga Eboutou and his family have fled La Republique du Cameroun and have reportedly taken up permanent residence in Canada. With age and poor health telling on him, the crime syndicate that was bankrolled by Martin Belinga Eboutou has awoken to the reality that at long last, its many criminal tentacles notwithstanding, its days of accountability for the impunity and international criminality are near.

A medical doctor who doubled as Martin Belinga’s chief strategist, in a phone call in Yaoundé confirmed he was out of the country and that even his wife has abandoned her duty post at the University of Yaoundé and joined him in Canada.

Martin Belinga Eboutou singlehandedly created the French Cameroun Special Operation Unit that has been consistently used to eliminate real and perceived enemies or former allies to protect the devilish world of the crime syndicate in power in Yaoundé. This is the unit that was deployed to abduct and assassinate the Bishop of Bafia in French Cameroun.

Sources said the Belinga Eboutou family had fled together with some other former powerful stakeholders of the CPDM regime. Belinga’s departure followed the deaths of Foumane Akame, a long time acolyte to President Biya and General Asso Beniot of the Cameroon army.

It was unclear just when the Belingas left for Canada.  French Cameroun newspapers reported recently that Biya persuaded Belinga Eboutou to travel to France for a medical mission before firing him. There was no official word from Yaoundé on the whereabouts of this once powerful political man at the time of writing this report. “A prominent man, his wife and kids are certainly no longer in Cameroon. We believe they have fled because of the chaotic developments in the ruling Essingan clan,” a source said.

Our sources said some of the soldiers, who worked as agents of the French Cameroun Special Unit have also fled, while President Biya was said to have arrested several former senior officials from the Far North region after the failed political rally in Maroua.

Dr Martin Belinga Eboutou was the backbone of Biya’s continued stay in power but relations between Biya and his kinsman have since soured, in part over his portfolio in the cabinet and over accusations of money for government appointments.

Cameroon Intelligence Report gathered that Belinga Eboutou complaint bitterly before his last trip to France that first lady Chantal Biya had surrounded the head of state with relatives.

By Pierre Onana in Yaounde

Thirty-six passengers have been released one day after they were abducted by gunmen on Tuesday along the Buea-Kumba highway in Cameroon’s southwest, one of the two war-torn English-speaking regions, according to local authorities.

“They (kidnappers) took us somewhere and collected money, phones and other belongings from us and released us after. They asked us to trek to our various destinations.” said Divine Asong, one of the kidnapped passengers. “We trekked for a long distance. It was a sad experience,” he added.

After the release, locals held an emergency meeting with senior government officials in Kumba, one of the commercial towns in Cameroon Anglophone, to discuss ways of curbing the rampant kidnappings in the troubled region.

“We asked that government should put in place urgent measures to restore peace in the area. Among other things, we asked that detained separatist leaders should be released and the region demilitarize to appease the people,” a local who attended the meeting told Xinhua.

The abduction came about two months after a group of 79 school children were kidnapped in Bamenda, the most populous city of Cameroon’s Northwest, another English-speaking region. The local government has blamed armed separatists for the abductions, yet the separatists claimed that the government staged the kidnappings to tarnish their image internationally.

Source: Xinhua

The Secretary of State in the Ministry of Defense In Charge of the National Gendarmerie, Yves Galax Landry Etoga rounded off a one day inspection visit on January 14, 2019 in Buea headquarter of the South West Region. His visit took him to the Gendarmerie Legion South West Region, Squadron No 80, Gendarmerie Post in Bonjongo, Brigade Buea and Motorised Brigade Buea. In these places, he went office by office inspecting equipment and working conditions.

At the Military Hospital Buea and the Buea General Hospital, he visited some injured military personnel and wished them a quick recovery. Following the Head of State’s end of year speech on December 31, 2018, President Paul Biya reiterated to warmongers in the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon to drop their arms. The Gendarmerie boss was therefore in the South West Region to see how effective warmongers have laid down their arms. It was also a moment for him to get first hand information on the security situation on the region.

He held in-camera meetings with administrative and military personnel certainly on how to strategies in continuing to protect civilians and their property in the face of ceaseless attacks from unknown gun men. South West Legion Commander, Colonel Tchinda Mbouzikeu Henri said that the visit of the Secre tary of State was meant to inspect their working conditions. He said it boasted the morale of South West Gendarmerie personnel. He indicated that directives were handed down to them on what hierarchy expects.

Colonel Tchinda saluted the determination of the Gendarmerie in protecting civilian and their property. The Secretary of State, Landry Etoga was accompanied to the South West Region by General Sali Mohamadou, Commander of the Second Combined Military Region and General Toungue Elias, Commander of the Second Gendarmerie Legion.

At hand to receive them in the South West Region were the Secretary General at the South West Governor Office, Dr. Mohamadou and the South West Regional Coordinator for the National Disarmament Demobilisation and Reintergration Committee, Fonju Njukang Bernard.

Source: Cameroon Tribune

Cameroon government security officials have confirmed the deaths of two of its servicemen reportedly tortured and killed by unknown Ambazonian militants.  In a recent video circulated by some Southern Cameroons activists on social networks, armed separatists tortured and beheaded two Cameroon government army soldiers.

We gathered that one of the soldiers killed was serving with the firefighter’s brigade in Bamenda in the Northern Zone of Southern Cameroons-Ambazonia.

Security sources confirmed that “One of the young soldiers was kidnapped Monday, then tortured, before being executed,” a security source at the Ministry of Defense who requested anonymity hinted Cameroon Concord News. Yesterday, 36 people were briefly kidnapped before being released.

By Sama Ernest in Yaounde

At least 30 people have been abducted by suspected criminals operating under the direct supervision of the ADF headed by one Cho Ayaba, local sources said on Wednesday. “More than 30 people were kidnapped yesterday on the road between Buea and Kumba” in the Southern Zone of Southern Cameroons-Ambazonia, a French Cameroun source close to the Francophone authorities there said, confirming an account by a local NGO.

Since October 2017, Southern Cameroons have been in the grip of an armed revolt by Ambazonians demanding independence from the majority French-speaking country. The people were kidnapped after the gang attacked buses plying the highway, one of the most dangerous roads in the country, one of the sources said.

Ransom kidnappings and extortion have proliferated in the territory, along with attacks on troops and police, plus arson assaults on public buildings and schools. The government has responded with a crackdown, deploying thousands of soldiers.

More than 800 members of the security forces and at least 4000 civilians have been killed since, according to the Ambazonian Interim Government. According to UN estimates, more than 437,000 people have fled their homes. The territory known as Southern Cameroons was previously ruled by Britain firstly as an integral part of the Eastern Region of Nigeria and later as an independent state.

They became incorporated into French Cameroun in October 1961, 22 months after France granted the country independence. Over the years, Southern Cameroonians have chafed at perceived discrimination at the hands of the francophone majority, especially in law, education and economic opportunities.

Demands for greater autonomy or a return to Cameroon’s federal structure were rejected by the President Francophone central government in Yaounde. Hardliners became ascendant in the Anglophone movement, leading to the declaration of the self-described Republic of Ambazonia on October 1, 2017, which is yet to be recognised internationally.

Reported by AFP and CIR