A top Ground Zero commander in the Manyu County says only the people of Southern Cameroons are entitled to make a decision about their new country and determine the fate of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.

Speaking after the recent attack on the Mamfe Gendarmerie post located at Egbekaw towards the Satom Bridge, the commander added that statements made by the French Cameroun head of state in Paris would play a vital role in the struggle in the weeks ahead.

He emphasized that the Ambazonia diaspora in charge of supplying Southern Cameroons Self Defense Forces with modern warfare equipment should also focus its work on uniting with other restoration groups under the guidance of the Ambazonia Interim Government.

The commander of the Manyu Ghost Warriors noted that things are slowly but surely returning to normal life in Southern Cameroons due to neglect and failure on the part of the Southern Cameroons diaspora.

Cameroon government forces loyal to the regime in Yaoundé withdrew from their isolated positions at the banks of the Manyu River exposed to Ambazonia Restoration Forces attacks. The troops including elements of the French Cameroun gendarmerie have now regroup in stronger places in Mamfe town after the very deadly attack from the Manyu Ghost Warriors.

By Rita Akana

The Ambazonia Interim Government has warned about the significant deterioration of human rights in Southern Cameroons, stating that the absent of international pressure on the Biya Francophone administration has emboldened the French Cameroun ruling CPDM crime syndicate not to shy away from its heavy-handed genocidal campaign and crackdown on Southern Cameroonians.

Vice President Dabney Yerima who is expected to begin a world tour aimed at mobilizing Southern Cameroonians from all the nooks and crannies of the planet said yesterday that the Federal Republic of Ambazonia is now clearly sliding in a new and very dangerous direction.

Comrade Dabney Yerima observed during this week’s briefing on the state of the Southern Cameroons revolution that the French Cameroun military was demonstrating a fairly weak level of restraint with the sole intention of deceiving the international community.

The Ambazonia second-in-command appealed to the United States and Britain to wield their influence on the French government of Emmanuel Macron and stop the killing of hundreds of Southern Cameroons civilians.

Pro Yaoundé human rights groups have also acknowledged that the situation in Southern Cameroons has deteriorated and there are renewed reports of torture in detention and military courts in Douala and Yaounde are now trying Southern Cameroons civilians.

Dabney Yerima also said that the Ambazonia Interim Government was seriously worried about the health of Southern Cameroons imprisoned leaders. Recently, alarming signals have multiplied regarding calls for unity within the Southern Cameroons diaspora.

By Asu Isong in London

The death of the notorious former Buea City Council Mayor, Patrick Ekema, has thrown his entire family into utter confusion.

The late mayor, who was viewed by his political peers of the ruling crime syndicate as a bull in a china shop, has left a pretty mess behind following his sudden death due to a massive heart attack that occurred in his girlfriend’s home in the Cameroon port city of Douala.

While trying to escape to the United States, Mayor Ekema had produced a fake divorce certificate that proved that he had divorced his wife, Katherine Ekema, who is currently living in Minnesota, U.S., with their five children.

In the same vein, he had also manufactured a brand new marriage certificate indicating he had officially gotten married to his girlfriend in Douala.

This complicated situation has generated a brand new conflict in the family as the girlfriend is also laying claim to the late mayor’s property.

While many members of the Ekema family who did not really love the late mayor are rooting for Katherine, a small group that had an axe to grind with Katherine is surreptitiously engineering a strategy that will give Ekema’s girlfriend a portion of his ill-gotten wealth, a family source in Buea which opted for anonymity said during a WhatsApp call with the Cameroon Concord News Group Chairman, Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai today.

The source said that though Ekema was rough on the edges, he was loved by some of his family members who were benefitted from his largesse. He added that Ekema was indeed a lightning rod for controversy within the family and his brash approach to life was responsible for many conflicts within the family.

The Buea-based source also added that Katherine had been talking to many people back home, especially to members of the ruling CPDM who, she holds, might help her to solve her thorny traveling issues.

The source also posited that some CPDM members who saw Patrick Ekema as a potential rival are celebrating his demise, adding that many of them did not really see Mr. Ekema as a true and refined politician.

He stressed that his political enemy saw him as a fish out of water and most of they held that he lacked the political finesse to address even the smallest political issues.

Meanwhile, in Minnesota, the financial noose around Katherine’s neck is tightening. Patrick Ekema’s death simply implies that Katherine’s ATM is completely out of service.

The children, especially those in the community college, have to pay next semester’s fees and the financial taps in Cameroon have been turned off following the death of the former mayor.

A Cameroon Concord News Group’s source in Minnesota has indicated that the tension is mounting and that there is evidence that Katherine is in a pretty financial mess.

“The money is not flowing as before and the children have to go to school. Katherine did not have a source of income prior to her husband’s death and his demise had thrown her financial plan into a tailspin,” the source said.

“It is obvious that she will not be traveling back home and the news that there is a divorce certificate has left her brokenhearted and distraught,” our source added.

“With no papers, she is grounded and might be in this state for a long time. Someone close to her has been insinuating that she has not completed her lawyer’s fees and her lawyer had asked for some money before her husband passed away,” the source said.

With the wind of poverty and hard times blowing in Katherine’s direction, it is obvious she will soon be looking for a job.

Our source in Minnesota has also said that Ekema’s children are completely at a loss. They cannot believe that the man who provided for them has gone for good and, above all, with their ATM.

The days ahead are not promising for the Ekema family and as the days go by, the apprehension and confusion which are constant visitors at the Ekema apartment in Minnesota will take up residence in that  little apartment.

American welfare is designed for citizens and not for people claiming to be running away from persecution, the source said.

Our source in Minnesota has also insinuated that the Ekema family is mulling the possibility of moving to Canada where they believe the asylum situation is easier and social welfare  is available to all, including people seeking asylum.

As this story develops, Cameroon Concord News Group will be updating its readers.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai in the United Kingdom

A woman wanted to import kilograms of rotten cow-skin meat into Germany, but was stopped by customs officers. It was a delicacy from Cameroon, she said according to a press release. The customs officials noticed the smell already from a distance. At the Düsseldorf airport, customs officers caught the woman with a rotten cowhide, a smoked cow-skin meat and the Cameroonian traveler spoke of a “delicacy”.

Even from a distance the officers at Düsseldorf airport had noticed an unpleasant smell. The woman had arrived from Cameroon via England. While checking her luggage the customs officers came across two plastic bags containing seven kilos of cowhide, a smoked cow-skin meat. The meat had stunk and was covered with maggots.

The woman had stated that her family wanted to eat the meat, which was “beautifully soft”. This was not the case, it was rather a violation of veterinary law and the city of Düsseldorf would therefore destroy the meat, according to the main customs office. The woman had to bear the costs.

Source: Modern Ghana

The Ambazonia Vice President Dabney Yerima has condemned the burial of innocent Southern Cameroonian civilians killed by the French Cameroun military without family consent as “completely unacceptable.”

Southern Cameroonian families have incessantly been flashing out signals to the Biya regime to return the bodies of Ambazonia activists killed in detention centers in Douala and Yaoundé, but the Francophone authorities buried them without any permission.

Comrade Dabney Yerima said in a statement on Tuesday that the Ambazonia Interim Government (IG) had received several calls from Southern Cameroons families in Ground Zero asking the IG to raise the issue with the European Union.

The exiled Ambazonia leader pointed out that those depriving Southern Cameroons families the possibility of burying their sons in accordance with their wish will face justice at the International Criminal Court.

Some few months ago, French Cameroun government forces raided the Bafut Fon’s palace in the Northern zone city of Bamenda, which has been under a military siege for almost three years.

The French Cameroun army killed at least five palace guards, wounded dozens and arrested scores of people during the crackdown.

By Chi Prudence Asong

Prime Minister Dion Ngute and French Cameroon cabinet ministers have reportedly confirmed Cameroon Concord News Group’s prediction on the death of President Paul Biya in 2020.

The low-energy prime minister and head of government who is still having challenges to stamp his authority on his own government, travelled to the country’s West region accompanied by his entire cabinet for a state-sponsored funeral ceremony that was held in honour of the victims of the recent Baffoussam landslide.

Cameroon Concord News Group had announced last month that the 86-year-old head of state, who conducts himself as a monarch, would check out in 2020. This was confirmed during the Baffoussam event. Prime Minister Dion Ngute and his cabinet seemed to be relaying the Cameroon Concord News Group’s message when they displayed Biya’s portrait on a coffin bearing the Cameroon flag; something that is usually done when senior officials of the corrupt government pass away.

President Biya usually mocks frequent rumours of his death, saying those who wish his death must wait for 20 more years. But with age taking its toll, he has been maintaining a kind of deliberate and radio silence over the latest predictions about his demise and this is no good news to his collaborators who are using him to enrich themselves.

The eminence of his death has been put on display at the Paris Peace Forum where the Yaounde strong man has been making a mockery of himself. While being received at the Elysee Palace by French President, Emmanuel Macron, Mr. Biya demonstrated that the spring in his step were completely worn out.

While Macron was making giant strides to meet Mr. Biya, the Yaounde dictator could only shuffle along. Age and alcohol have taken their toll. The once vibrant and flamboyant dictator is clearly on the wrong side of age. The signs of senile decade are obvious and many including his family are concerned, especially as he has been a colony of diseases for many years.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai at the Cameroon Concord News Group’s Global Headquarters in the UK

The French Cameroun regime in Yaoundé has arrested dozens of Southern Cameroons activists in Mezam, Fako, Ndian, Manyu, Kupe Muanenguba and Bui counties some few months after sentencing the Ambazonia leader President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and his top aides to life in prison. 

Many of the Southern Cameroons citizens arrested have been moved to detention facilities in French Cameroun local Ambazonia media reported.

A French Cameroun state counsel who issued the recent arrest orders on Saturday was quoted as saying that the Southern Cameroonians were aiding separatists’ fighters.

Last week, 13 Southern Cameroonians civilians including a prominent Pentecostal pastor were again arrested in the Akwaya sub constituency in Manyu after a Francophone military commander ordered the magistrate to overturn a previous acquittal.

In a situation described by the International Crisis Group as a travesty of justice, the Biya regime has secretly barred members of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium from running in parliamentary and municipal elections coming up early next year.

The ruling CPDM crime syndicate has maintained a heavy-handed crackdown on Southern Cameroons protests since the so-called one and indivisible Cameroon was hit by an anti-French Cameroun uprising in 2017.

France and the President Buhari administration in the Federal Republic of Nigeria have been helping Yaoundé in the crackdown. So far more than 20,000 Southern Cameroonians have been killed and thousands of others are in jails.

By Rita Akana and Kingsley Betek

Four Southern Cameroons Self Defense Forces suspected of murdering a French Cameroun officer were reportedly captured on Monday in Muyuka in the Fako County, according to a source deep within the French Cameroun colonial administration in Southern Cameroons.

Local media reported that the Ambazonia Restoration Forces were ambushed and arrested in their camp by the French Cameroun military that also seized their weapons. Yaoundé observed that the operation was successful thanks to the collaboration of the Southern Cameroons public.

The French Cameroun serviceman Jean Noel Ndongo was arrested by the Ambazonia Restoration Forces and some reports suggested that he was then buried alive in Muyuka last week.

The murder of the French Cameroun soldier was widely condemned East of the Moungo River after the Restoration Forces filmed the gruesome act and posted the video online.

More than 300 government security force members have been killed since an armed conflict started in Southern Cameroons in 2017, according to the French Cameroun army.

By Rita Akana with files from Xinhuanet