A Southern Cameroons restoration group known as team Retinant of Alou in Lebialem Division in the South West region has displayed photos of a French made military vehicle the group destroyed from Cameroon government soldiers.

According to statements made by the group in some of the videos, the vehicle was destroyed by a bomb planted by the Ambazonia fighters in Alou. The group also claimed to have killed many soldiers.

In the past weeks, Cameroon government army soldiers have been targeted by the Amba fighters all over Ground Zero.

Hundreds of soldiers and officers have been reportedly killed ever since the crisis started six years ago.

Yaoundé has maintained a kind of silence of the lamb following the publication of the Alou video.

Cameroon Concord News gathered that the soldiers killed in Alou were on patrol to clear some Ambazonia elements in the area following credible intelligence when they were ambushed by the group on Tuesday, September 5, 2023.

By Rita Akana

Authorities in Yaoundé have transferred journalist Kingsley Fomunyuy Njoka to the ward housing dangerous criminals in the Kondengui Maximum Security Prison in Yaoundé, Cameroon Intelligence Report has learned.

The transfer took place recently after he was again questioned about his journalism covering the conflicts in Southern Cameroons.

Plainclothes security agents abducted journalist Kingsley Fomunyuy Njoka in May 2020. He is being held in pretrial detention in Kondengui.

Njoka formerly worked as a correspondent for “Tough Talk,” a current affairs show on local broadcaster Canal 2 English, at a Catholic biweekly magazine, L’Effort Camerounais, and the Catholic-owned printing house Macacos, according to his lawyer Amungwa Tanyi and Canal 2 English host Divine Nyaryike, both of whom spoke to CPJ via messaging app.

Njoka is also a member of the Cameroon Association of English-Speaking Journalists.

By Ewang Miriam Metchane

Two teachers were killed by a group of Ambazonia Restoration Forces in Boyo Division, Biya regime said Sunday. The victims were two male teachers in their 40s.

The Francophone dominated police have still not disclose how the head teachers were killed. A motive hasn’t been established.

But fingers are pointing to Southern Cameroons Self Defense Groups that are strongly against the reopening of schools.

“For now it is far too early to comment on that,” a police officer in Boyo contacted by Cameroon Concord News said.

Our correspondent in Bamenda, citing administrative sources, said the Amba fighters were heavily armed with AK 47s.

The two head teachers Eric Foinjang and Ndim John Boudji reportedly attended a back-to-school meeting on Saturday in Kom and were targeted by Ambazonia fighters operating in the Ijim Mountain.

By Fon Lawrence

The Senior Divisional Officer for Meme says a GHS Kake female student was killed today morning by Ambazonia Restoration Forces at the Kumba Mile 1 area.

The young girl identified as Hilda Ajeck got caught by a stray bullet during sporadic gun battle.

The Kumba Mile 1 fighting reportedly lasted for more than four hours.

Cameroon government troops came under fire as they patrolled the area and the Francophone army soldiers responded with heavy artillery fire.

Cameroon Concord News gathered that two soldiers were wounded in the fighting.

By Rita Akana

The Ministry of Defense said three soldiers were killed Friday in firing from Southern Cameroons restoration forces as tensions between Yaoundé and the Ambazonia Interim Government persist over reopening of schools.

Yaoundé initially reported four soldiers were killed and one wounded, but later said one of those believed to have died was resuscitated.

The ministry said government positions were hit in Kumbo the chief town in Bui Division.

While confrontations between the Francophone dominated Cameroon government military and Southern Cameroonian fighters are rare today, it cannot be said that the war, which has raged for more than six years is over.

The soldiers have been identified by Cameroon News Agency, a sister publication as Nupoh, Meka, and Njikam.

If the killings have reduced, it is more because government troops have been ordered not to kill like they used to kill in the past.

Their recklessness with their guns is to blame for the streams of blood which have flowed in the two English-speaking regions of the country.

Actions by Southern Cameroonian fighters are just acts of retaliation whenever the sex-starved, alcohol-inflamed and trigger-happy Francophone soldiers went on a killing spree.

The Southern Cameroons crisis which started as a protest by teachers and lawyers in 2016 has sent more than 7,000 Cameroonians to an early grave, with soldiers accounting for 40% of the deaths.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Yaoundé has deployed hundreds of armed soldiers in its 297 km border with Gabon.

Cameroon Intelligence Report sources hinted that President Biya directed the Minister Delegate at the presidency in charge of defense Beti Assoumou to order the deployment.

Our source added that there are fears in Yaoundé of a Russian-backed group plotting to oust the 90-year-old President Biya from power.

We gathered that the closure of the border precisely at Kye-Ossi town was to prevent weapons from entering Cameroon from Gabon.

Etoudi has revealed that it would confront the new Gabonese leadership on the security situation in the border towns and villages.

By Haggai Fung Achuo

As coups continue to spread on the African continent, some leaders are taking proactive steps by reshuffling defense portfolios.

On Wednesday, 90-year old President Paul Biya made major changes to the country’s ministry of defense.

Among the posts reshuffled were the delegation at the presidency in charge of defense, air force staff, navy, and the police. A captain and two army colonels were appointed to head operations in the presidential guard and report directly to the presidency.

The Biya decree also restructured the Secretariat for Defense (SED) and the National Gendarmerie.  Prominent among the new officers appointed by the 90-year-old are Colonel Chimala Jonas and Lieutenant –Colonel Boum Mbadi Louis Charles.

Biya came to power in 1982. His early years on the saddle were marred by reports of oppression and human rights violations.

Although he subsequently allowed multiparty elections in the country, the 90-year-old has remained president since he rode to power.

By Asu Isong with files from The Cable.Ng