Cameroon Concord News has learnt that the army has opened fired into a crowd of peaceful protesters in Kumbo, in Bui Division. The crowd refused to disperse after an anti-La Republique demonstration was held.

The demonstrators took to the streets in several important places including on college campuses across Kumbo condemning the killing of their son by troops loyal to the Yaounde regime in Bameda.

A huge crowd of protesters assembled downtown early this morning chanting pro secessionist slogans. Troops have blocked the entrances and exit from Kumbo. The protest has been mostly peaceful.

By Fru James in Kumbo

Teachers and Lawyers consortium have declared that the strike is no more a Lawyer or Teachers strike but one that should involve all the peoples of Southern Cameroons. Unconfirmed sources have hinted Cameroon Concord News that the consortium of teachers and lawyers are now calling on all Anglophones to join the strike action.

 A spokesman for the Anglophone lawyers and teachers consortium was quoted as saying that “the army of La Republique du Cameroun can kill us but they cannot kill our spirits.” Our reporters in Bamenda and Buea are yet to confirm the correctness of this latest development in the Anglophone uprising.

However, a very flippant but reliable source in Buea revealed at the time of writing this report that a return to the ghost town operation is likely possible as the lawyers and teachers have called on the transporters unions, taxis drivers, students and the business community  to stay at home beginning today Monday the 12 of December 2016.

Anglophones have been cautioned not to go against the decision by the consortium. In a statement made public recently in Bamenda and Buea, the teachers and the lawyers noted that anyone going against the ghost town directives will be tracked, declared an enemy of the struggle and severely dealt with.

By Sama Ernest

Zigoto Tchaya, a journalist with the Paris based international news network, France 24 has been arrested in Bamenda by plain cloth police officers. Cameroon Concord News gathered that Zigoto was picked up immediately after he conducted an interview with Barrister Bobga on the happenings in British Southern Cameroons.

France 24 is yet to confirm the arrest but what we do know from our sources in Bamenda is that the journalist was taken to the national gendermarie headquarters in Bamenda and was later on transferred to an unknown destination.

By Chi Prudence Asong

Cardinal Christian Tumi has reacted publicly to the crisis that is shaking the English-speaking regions of Cameroon. In an interview on Radio Balafon, a Douala-based radio station the prelate said that there is indeed an Anglophone problem in Cameroon. The former Archbishop of Garoua and Douala believes it is possible that those who govern us unconsciously may not know that there is an Anglophone problem. He recounted to illustrate his anecdote about the former French leader Charles de Gaulle who reportedly questioned his Cameroon interlocutor: “English for what?”

Christian Tumi argued that the fate of Anglophones in Cameroon has changed.  Said the prelate “Since then, we have tried to erase what is Anglo-Saxon unconsciously. I continue to say unconsciously.” The retired Cardinal added that Ni John Fru Ndi would have led Cameroon in 1992 if he was a francophone. “You know very well what happened in 1992. Many Cameroonians are now convinced that the winner of the elections in 1992 was an anglophone: Fru Ndi. And many are convinced that if Fru Ndi was francophone he would be President of Cameroon at least since 1992. True or false I do not know.

Returning to the crisis in recent weeks in the North-West and South-West, Christian Tumi noted that it is not well managed.  “The Archbishop of Bamenda told me that the Prime Minister had received them. And he told me that he thought they were willing to sacrifice all day to thoroughly discuss this problem. The Prime Minister received the leaders of the religious denominations for about thirty minutes. He told me that he said, “This is what we should not do, that’s what we have to do.” It is not dialogue. In dialogue one must assume that the other can have the truth that saves. We must listen to it and have what I would call intellectual honesty and accept the truth, whatever its origin. Whether it comes from the opposition or the people who are on strike, you have to be open. Not coming as an authority.”

The Cardinal criticized the fact that Philemon Yang received during his first mission to Bamenda the groups affected by the crisis on an individual basis. The Cardinal would have liked to see the Prime Minister received those who went on strike, talk to them, and listen to their grievances.

By Sama Ernest with files from CIN

The Francophone army has killed at least five Southern Cameroonians in Kumba, the chief city in Meme Division in the South West region. The Anglophone freedom fighters were killed today Friday during a protest. Government forces have sealed the city and are currently carrying out what eye witnesses have described as a massacre.

Several other people have been seriously injured in a shootout between the troops and civilians armed with catapults.  The Francophone elite forces involved in the operation are performing a precursor operation aimed at getting rid of all forms of Anglophone resistance in the South West region. Our reporter in Kumba has confirmed that two bodies have been identified at the Kumba General Hospital.

By Sonne Peter

A Southern Cameroon militant group in Mutengene in the South West region has reportedly given the Biya regime an ultimatum to withdraw all its troops from Bamenda or face severe consequences. Cameroon Concord News has been reliably informed that the group has vowed to blow up pipelines in SONARA.

A spokesperson for the group was quoted as saying that if the Biya administration fails to demilitarize the North West region, the group will begin vandalizing pipelines anytime soonest.  They claim that the Francophone government was exploiting and terrorizing Southern Cameroonians.

Troops from La Republique du Cameroun backed by helicopters killed dozens of Southern Cameroonians in Bamenda on Thursday the 8^th of December following violent protest that rocked the entire North West region.

By Rita Akana

Biya has made a mockery of his cabinet ministers who have been clamoring for a ban on social media. The Cameroonian leader and his wife during a reception on Thursday at the Etoudi Palace in honor of the indomitable Lionesses, finalists of the 10th edition of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations appeared in a different light alongside the indomitable Lionesses and went into selfie frenzy.

The 83 year old dictator took the selfie all smiles and full of energy and under the watchful eyes of ministers hostile to social networks. Alongside the female football players, Biya and his wife had many selfies that has reportedly aroused reactions of admiration even among the fiercest critics of the regime.  Questions are now being asked if it was a kind of political communication or a simple seduction operation.

By Kingsley Ebong in Yaounde

The Prime Minister and the Secretary General of the Central Committee of the ruling CPDM have cancelled a planned pro Biya Francophone CPDM rally that was to hold in Bamenda this week. The decision was made public by Jean Nkwete, the Secretary General of the ruling party as he was escorted out of Ayaba Hotel late last night by security agents. Cameroon Concord News understands the Prime Minister and Minister Atanga Nji are still hiding in one of the rooms in Ayaba.

Urban guerrilla scenes in Bamenda staged by young Southern Cameroonians who were opposed to the holding of the so-called “peace meeting” prompted the decision. The freedom fighters multiplied their acts of violence that eventually pushed Prime Minister Philemon Yang and his entourage into hiding. The Francophone defense and security forces that intervened found it hard to contain the protesters who break and burn.

Dozens of the freedom fighters were shot dead and many wounded. The official record of these bloody clashes has not yet been published by the authorities. Given this renewed violence, the CPDM party that has for 34 years marginalized the Anglophone communities decided to cancel the meeting, which caused the escalation of tension in the capital of the Northwest Region.

The meeting of the CPDM consortium of crime syndicates was coordinated by Philemon Yang, Prime Minister, Head of Government and Jean Nkuété, Secretary General of the Central Committee who wanted through this forum to inform international public opinion that Cameroon was one and indivisible.  Mood movements and strikes by Anglophone teachers and lawyers have paralyzed the activities in British Southern Cameroons for several weeks, despite the Francophone government’s proposals to end the crisis.

By Sonne Peter in Bamenda

Cameroon Concord News reporters in Bamenda have confirmed that gunshots came from an army vehicle firing at Anglophone protesters at Commercial Avenue some few hours ago. A huge crowd has gathered to stage an anti government demonstration in support of federalism or the creation of a Southern Cameroons state. The angry population is reportedly firing back with locally made firearms.