The so-called fifth personality of the state, Ayang Luc wants to increase his fleet of cars by purchasing a 120 million FCFA limo for his ceremonial outings.

To satisfy this need, described by many political commentators in the nation’s capital as”folie des grandeurs“, the Minister of State, Secretary General at the Presidency of the Republic, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, requested the Minister of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development, Alamine Ousmane Mey, to finance the acquisition of the limo.

Cameroon Intelligence Report gathered that the all-powerful Ousmane Mey blatantly refused to comply and in a correspondence on June 20, 2023 told Minister Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh to seek the approval of President Paul Biya.

The Ousmane Mey letter has further fuelled the debate on who actually has legitimate authority deep within the ruling CPDM crime syndicate.

Just last month, the 76-year-old President of the Economic and Social Council, Ayang Luc signed an agreement with a Yaoundé-based company for the construction of a new residence for him and his family at a projected cost of two billion FCFA.

By Rita Akana in Yaoundé

The Vice President of the Ambazonia Interim Government has warned that all French Cameroun agents and Anglophone traitors will never feel safe anywhere in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia because restoration forces will not tolerate any schemes to undermine the independence of British Southern Cameroons.

Vice President Dabney Yerima made the remarks in a town hall meeting in Belfast city on Tuesday as he addressed Southern Cameroonians as well as a number of Anglophone Cameroon elites in the UK.

“Even after Biya, the Federal Republic of Ambazonia will not allow La Republique agents and Anglophone traitors to conspire against the independence struggle of the Ambazonian nation. Our fighters in Ground Zero will make sure that there will be no safe place for anyone pursuing anti-Ambazonia plots,” Yerima told the sell-out crowd in Belfast.

The exiled Ambazonia leader highlighted that pro Yaoundé Anglophone leaders like John Fru Ndi waged several conspiracies and seditious plots against the people of Southern Cameroons using his so-called SDF party but quitted the political stage in French Cameroun with very negative ratings due to his incestuous relationship with the ruling CPDM party.

“Yaoundé wants poverty and the collapse of everything in Southern Cameroons. This is the sinister scheme that men like Atanga Nji, Victor Mengot, Paul Tasong, Philemon Yang, Peter Musonge have been chasing in Ambazonia, and they will fail” Yerima observed.

Dabney Yerima also pointed to Yaounde’s anger at the unity which now reigns among Southern Cameroons restoration groups, saying Biya regime has been employing all their political and strategic means as well as divisive and destabilizing mechanisms in order to keep Southern Cameroonians divided and underdeveloped.

By Isong Asu, London Bureau Chief Camcordnews

Women in the Belo subdivision of the northwestern part of Cameroon say they have been burying young boys executed by military officials between June 10 – 19. The latest batch of burials was of five bodies picked up from the bushes. They had been allegedly suspected of aiding separatists.

Cameroon military forces are fighting Separatist fighters who want to build the country of Ambazonia from the two English-speaking regions of the country. Many extrajudicial killings have been recorded in this process.

Rose, whose brother Terence was killed during the latest operation, said her brother had merely visited the village to see his sick father.

“They passed a military checkpoint and soldiers didn’t stop them. It was on his way back that they shot him,” she said.

With over six years of armed conflict in the English-speaking part of Cameroon, there have been reports of people being arrested and killed by armed forces without passing through regular court trials. 

More cases

A joint military front raided Big Babanki on June 16, killing at least six persons. Locals say both separatist fighters and civilians were targeted. Some of them were arrested, interrogated, and later killed. The military operation came a few weeks after separatist terrorists abducted and released some 50 women. These women were kidnapped for staging a protest against them. In response, the military went on a “cleansing” mission.

In most cases where the military seized separatist fighters in the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon, few were sent to prison. Many were instantly killed while others were kept for days in the cell and later executed.

Human  Rights Watch in its 2023 report revealed that soldiers from the 53rd Motorized Infantry Battalion killed nine people, including four women and an 18-month-old girl, in Missong village in the northwestern region, in an operation against a community suspected of harbouring separatist fighters.

Reprisal operations last week in Bamenda have seen the killing of over 10 persons. Like in all other past military raids, those arrested sometimes plead for mercy and are transferred to prisons in Yaoundé and Douala. However, only a few get pardoned or taken to jail.

When Tiffang Eric, a business operator, was arrested two years ago while playing Chess with his three friends, he was interrogated and instantly executed.

An eyewitness said military officials saw a big scar on his leg and considered him a separatist fighter who got shot during a previous exchange with them.

“He pleaded and even cried but one of the officers kept calling him Ambazonian,” said an eyewitness.

Eric was shot and his corpse abandoned in a bush. The others were allowed to go after they convinced the soldiers they had family in the military. To date, his friends are yet to recover from the shocking scene.

Accountability

The killings of two women and three children by the military were captured on a video circulated in 2018. Four soldiers were sentenced to 10 years for their roles in the shooting. This is one of few cases where erring soldiers are held accountable for their crimes.

Two years later in Feb. 2020, three Cameroonian soldiers were charged with murder after killing three women and 10 children during a raid in Ngarbuh, Northwest Cameroon. The case is getting cold, however, and the victims are yet to get justice.

The government has maintained silence in most military raids and reprisals in the conflict-hit regions. Human rights activist and Archbishop Andrew Nkea said in April Cameroon has reached an alarming level in extrajudicial killings.

Source: Human angle media

Paul Biya is in the French capital, Paris this Thursday 22 June 2023 to attend the opening ceremony of the summit for new global financial pact at the Palais Brongniart in Paris. The 90-year-old Cameroonian dictator was received at the summit venue by Madam Catherine Colonna, the French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed all participants and praised their determination to fight against poverty and to safe planet earth. Macron highlighted the efforts of youths and civil society organisations in the preparation and orientation of the summit.

For his part, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, said the global financial architecture is outdated, dysfunctional and unjust. He urged participants at the summit for a new global financial pact to take action to meet the urgent needs of developing countries.

Work at the summit is divided into six workshops such as rethinking the multilateral banking model to meet new challenges, adopting a new method/partnerships for green growth or showing solidarity to break free from the debt trap, etc. The conclusions will be presented at the closing session of the summit tomorrow.

Mr. BIYA and his wife Chantal will later this evening attend a working dinner offered by French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace.

Culled from the PRC

The World Bank approved financing of $330 million (CFA198.2 billion) for the rehabilitation of the Maroua-Kousseri road in Cameroon’s Far North region. “More than 920,000 people, including refugees and internally displaced persons, will benefit from the restoration of the Mora-Kousseri section (205 kilometers) on national road 1 (RN1), which will improve access to schools, health facilities, and markets,” said the Bretton Woods institution in an official statement.

The financing includes a credit of $280 million (CFA168.2 billion) from the International Development Association (IDA), World Bank’s concessional window, and a grant of $50 million (CFA30 billion) from the IDA window for host communities and refugees (WHR).

This is the second time the World Bank is funding the road’s rehabilitation. The first time, the works were hindered by structural delays and Boko Haram’s incursions in the Far North.

Military Engineering

Shortly after launching, the first attempt to repair the road was halted on May 16, 2014, after the Nigerian group of terrorists attacked the base life of Sinohydro, the then-contractor of the project. At the time, 10 of the Chinese firm’s staff members were kidnapped. Yaoundé, however, was able to have them released after tough negotiations.

Subsequently, Sinohydro promised on multiple occasions to return to the project but gave up. The government then trusted the project to the army, with the World Bank’s approval. Resumed in March 2018, the project was scheduled to be completed within 24 months but was delayed until early 2020. To speed up things, the Military Engineering team hired three subcontractors who especially worked on the 175 km long Mora-Dabanga-Kousseri section of the road.

Still, the project was not completed on the due date set by the World Bank–June 30, 2020. It was the date by which the Bank had set to close the line of credit it opened for the previous decade.

Source: Business in Cameroon

The exiled leader of the Ambazonia Interim Government has praised the sacrifices made by Southern Cameroons detainees in the Kondengui Maximum Security Prison in Yaoundé, saying French Cameroun detention centers is one area where La Republique du Cameroun will be brought to its knees.

Dabney Yerima made the remarks in a meeting with the Southern Cameroons war cabinet late last night in Holland. Yerima told Southern Cameroons leaders that the Ambazonia revolt took place deep within the Kondengui Central Prison and that the leader of the Ambazonian people, President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe was safe and sound at KPPY.

Vice President Dabney Yerima commended the strong sense of solidarity among all Southern Cameroons detainees and prisoners of conscience for their individual and collective struggle against French Cameroun occupation.

He emphasized that French Cameroun political and military institutions are crumbling at catastrophic rapidity and a new era including a bright future with complete victory is near.

Dabney Yerima also pointed to the noticeable changes in Ground Zero over the past couple of months, particularly increased in attacks against French Cameroun army soldiers and gendarmerie posts.

Vice President Dabney Yerima highlighted the importance of enhanced unity and coordination among all Southern Cameroons resistance groups and called on the Southern Cameroons diaspora to concentrate more on the issue of unity and coordination and tread this right path with strength.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

At least ten Southern Cameroonians were killed in an offensive by the Francophone dominated Cameroon government military in Big Babanki in the North West region.

The attack on Big Babanki was carried out late on Friday night to the early hours of Saturday.

Yaoundé said those killed were armed separatists who abducted, tortured and later released dozens of women in the locality last month.

A source with strong ties to the Ambazonia Interim Government contacted by Cameroon Concord News denied the allegations and revealed that the deceased were all civilians.

Hundreds of people in Big Babanki fled to the bush as the offensive unfolded.

Southern Cameroons Self Defense Forces, who have been in conflict with the Yaoundé government since 2017, hope to establish an independent nation in the two English-speaking regions known as the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.

By Fon Lawrence in  Bamenda

According to reports on social media in the nation’s capital Yaoundé, Simon Ngonja, a senior aide to Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute lost his life days after been attacked by his pet dog.

The Prime Minister’s Office has maintained a kind of deliberate silence ever since the incident was made public.

Cameroonians are being fed stories that Simon Ngonja was attacked by his German shepherd dog when he returned from a trip on Sunday, June 11, 2023.

Pro Biya regime social media outlets revealed that Simon Ngonga’s dog had pounced forcefully on him after he opened the gate of his house with some suggesting that he fought fiercely with the dog for his life but couldn’t save himself as the dog kept attacking him over and over again.

However, Cameroon Intelligence Report Yaoundé City Correspondent has hinted that Simon Ngonga’s killer was inside his residence moments before the so-called pet dog operation and that Ngonga himself knew something was up in the Star Building.

Mr Simon Ngonga, who is thought to have been on the phone to his brother when he approached his house, had reportedly told some colleagues that he was very worried about his time at the prime minister’s office.

This item is still developing in Yaoundé!

By Rita Akana with Intel files

A senior adviser to the Vice President of the Ambazonia Interim Government has lauded recent target killings against Cameroon government military personnel deployed to Southern Cameroons, saying the growing power of the hit-and-run tactics now being applied by restoration groups in Ground Zero is the key to bringing the occupying French Cameroun regime in Yaoundé to its knees.

Dr Patrick Ayuk made the remarks in a meeting with the leaders of the Manyu County Security Council in London on Tuesday.

The Biya Francophone regime launched a deadly military campaign on Southern Cameroons in 2016, sparking the creation of a multiple of Southern Cameroons Self Defense Groups and the subsequent killing of more than 4000 Cameroon government army soldiers.

The two sides are yet to agree to a ceasefire.

Cameroon government troops have reportedly killed thousands of Southern Cameroonians in the North West and South West regions. Several Southern Cameroons leaders have also been victims of the more than six year old conflict.

Dr Patrick Ayuk congratulated all Southern Cameroons Self Defense Forces and stressed that even CPDM Anglophones are now being respected in La Republique du Cameroun because of the sacrifices made by Amba fighters.

“Today, there is fear everywhere in Ground Zero deep within French Cameroun administrative and security circles and this situation shows that the hit-and run policy was correctly identified by the fighters and they are following it,” Dr Patrick Ayuk said.

Dr Patrick Ayuk furthered that achieving great goals in this fight for independence requires taking great risks.  

The Vice President Dabney Yerima aide appreciated all Southern Cameroons combatant groups in Ground Zero for their unity in the battlefield, describing it as very important to the liberation of the Ambazonia homeland.

By Isong Asu

Cameroon Concord News London Bureau Chief

The Vice President of the exiled Ambazonia Interim Government has insisted that the people of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia will not back down from ensuring that English speaking Cameroonians gain their independence despite the brutal French Cameroun military operations in the Southern Cameroons homeland.

In a telephone conversation with Cameroon Concord News London Bureau Chief, Isong Asu on Tuesday, Vice President Dabney Yerima stated that the people of Southern Cameroons do not view surrender and retreat as the way to deal with the French Cameroun enemies.

Yerima pointed out that Southern Cameroonians can overcome the challenges posed by the Francophone dominated French Cameroun army only by means of becoming strong and building a strong restoration coalition with all genuine Ambazonia groups.

He noted that some Southern Cameroons so-called front line leaders have been involved in Yaoundé teleguided actions geared towards undermining the Ambazonia resistance and quest for an independent state.

Yerima further pointed out that the enemies in French Cameroon are slowly but surely losing their pro Yaoundé Southern Cameroons acolytes and have now resorted to spreading fear and targeting innocent civilians in the rural areas.

“Despite all the difficulties, we of the Ambazonia Interim Government are trying to stabilize the restoration ship. With trust in God as well as Ambazonia diaspora support we will definitely succeed in this path,” Dabney Yerima added.

By Chi Prudence Asong with files from Isong Asu