Southern Cameroonians living in the United States have organized demonstrations in the American capital to draw the world’s attention to the carnage and destruction the Biya regime is wreaking on the civilian population in the country’s two English-speaking regions.

The demonstrations are being held on the sidelines of the US-African Leaders Summit convened by the Biden Administration, a summit being attended by Mr. Biya and his entourage who are the architects of the misery spreading in the two regions.

The Southern Cameroonians, who came from all the nooks and crannies of the United States, sang peacefully across the streets of Washington in the hope that they would draw attention to the crisis playing out in the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon.

For more than six years, Cameroon has been battling a deadly insurgency which has left more than ten thousand people dead, including some four thousand soldiers.

The government has refused to negotiate a peaceful resolution and calls by the International community for a genuine dialogue have fallen on deaf government ears.

The fighting in the country’s two English-speaking regions has brought untold hardship onto the civilian population as the economies of the two regions have collapsed and millions have been displaced due to the bloody fighting.

The displaced have either headed to neighboring Nigeria or to French-speaking Cameroon where they are living rough due to the lack of proper housing, water and sanitation.

By Chi Prudence Asong in Washington

Security forces in Cameroon’s Far North Region have arrested over 50 traffickers of timber, the region’s governor Midjiyawa Bakari has said.

The traffickers were notorious for felling trees in Waza National Park, a national park located in the region, Bakari said on Monday.

“These are people who make a living out of felling trees and producing charcoal; foreigners are involved. They cut the trees, produce charcoal and sell in Cameroon and abroad, and this activity has negatively impacted the park,” Bakari told Xinhua by phone.

The traffickers were arrested thanks to the collaboration of armed local vigilante groups, officials said while presenting them to the press. It is unclear how much amount of wood was seized during the operation that lasted for a week.

Authorities banned charcoal-making activities in the ecologically fragile region in 2001, authorizing only the cutting of dead wood.

Source: Xinhaunet

More than 10,000 Southern Cameroons teenagers have been killed ever since the Paul Biya-led aggression against the people of British Southern Cameroons began in 2016, according to Vice President Dabney Yerima of the Ambazonia Interim Government.

Thousands of innocent children have lost their lives while hundreds living in the rural areas of Southern Cameroons remain at risk of death from preventable disease, the exiled Ambazonian leader said on Monday.

Speaking exclusively to Cameroon Intelligence Report Vice President Dabney Yerima added that the “true teenager toll” of the conflict in Southern Cameroons-Ambazonia is likely to be far higher.

More than eighty five thousand Southern Cameroons refugees in neighboring Nigeria are acutely malnourished, one quarter of them aged fewer than five.

At least 11 Southern Cameroons children have been killed or wounded in Bui Division since the 89-year old tyrant arrived Washington DC for the US-Africa Summit, said Dabney Yerima.

In an interview with a French Cameroun newspaper Le Jour, the jailed Ambazonia leader President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe said that peace in Southern Cameroons is not possible unless the invading French Cameroun military and Francophone leaders in Yaoundé abandon their arrogant mentality.

The ailing President Biya launched the devastating war on the English speaking minority communities in 2016 with political support, arms and logistics from Paris.

The objective was to stifle the Southern Cameroons protest and quest for an independent state and crush the popular Ambazonia Interim Government, which has been running Southern Cameroons affairs in the absence of a functional government in English speaking Cameroon.

By Chi Prudence Asong with files from Isong Asu and Rita Akana

Cameroon’s self-serving and sit-tight president, Paul Biya has been received in Washington DC by a crowd of desperate sycophants who are still hoping that they could one day be appointed if they continue to sing the Yaoundé strong man’s praises in a ceremony bereft of fanfare.

The crowd, which was carefully selected and vetted by Cameroon embassy officials, was on hand to receive the tired and disorientated leader who was visibly suffering from fatigue after the 8-hour long flight from Geneva.

According to a source close to Mr. Biya’s entourage, this year’s celebration for the Yaoundé strong man’s visit in the American capital will be low-key because it is being reported that a massive demonstration is being prepared by Southern Cameroonians in Washington to prove that the ineffective and senile Biya is an iron fist in a velvet glove.

The Yaoundé tyrant is expected to meet with officials of the US administration and businesspeople but many in Washington DC hold that Cameroon is a black hole which holds no good news for American investors.

Mr. Biya has promised, on many occasions, to make the country’s business environment conducive for foreign investors but has never kept his promise. The legal framework also leaves much to be desired and the reform of such a framework will make it hard for Mr. Biya to manipulate the system.

This has caused many American business owners and investors to view him as the “wizard of lies” to whom principle and discipline are foreign concepts.

Meanwhile, many American lawmakers are urging the Biden Administration to avoid Mr. Biya and the crowd of kleptocrats he has brought to Washington DC.

Many question his human rights credentials and they are displaying videos of soldiers killing women and children in Southern Cameroons at the behest of the Yaoundé kleptocratic and gerontocratic regime.

The US lawmakers are also pointing to reports by human rights organizations like the International Crisis Group and Amnesty International which have clearly indicted Mr. Biya and his brutal assassination of protesters in the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon.

Mr. Biya, who had an intense steroid consumption session in Geneva, is in the American capital to attend the US-African Leaders Summit where he is expected to lobby the Biden Administration for support to its efforts to crush a tough insurgency in Southern Cameroons which has sent over four thousand poorly trained Cameroonian soldiers to an early and lonely grave.

Sources close to the US State Department have told the Cameroon Concord News Group correspondent in North America that Mr. Biya’s plea will fall on deaf ears as the Yaoundé regime has refused to listen to calls for a peaceful resolution.

Mr. Biya will be requesting for some Southern Cameroonians suspected of financing the insurgency in the country’s English-speaking regions to be repatriated, but his request will be a dead letter as most Southern Cameroonian in America are bearers of American passports.

“The US never sends its citizens for them to be tried on mere suspicion in a country wherein the rule of law does not exist. The Biya regime has a tough job on its hands. It must show convincing evidence demonstrating that those it suspects actually engage in acts which are against the US law, and even if it comes with such evidence, American citizens in the US will only be tried by US laws,” the source which sought anonymity said.

“The FBI might have arrested and indicted three American citizens in relation to the war in Cameroon, but they are still not yet guilty. The FBI indictment and evidence might not stand the test in American courts as celebrity lawyers are opting to take up the case,” the source added, stressing that “Cameroon lacks what it takes to mount pressure on the US.”

The six-year-old insurgency which has resulted in the deaths of some ten thousand Cameroonians has put the fragile and collapsing Cameroon regime under volcanic pressure which has already ruined the health of the  ministers of defense and territorial administration.

The fighting has delivered some deadly punches to the country’s economy and the government has ended up with a bloodshot eye. It has been humiliated in the jungles of Southern Cameroons and it is now seeking American help on how to put an end to the insurgency.

More will be yours as our North American correspondent makes it available.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

After being held at the Unity Palace for years because of the Southern Cameroons crisis and the global pandemic (Covid-19), Cameroon’s ailing president, Paul Biya, left Yaoundé today for Washington D.C. to attend the US-African Leaders Summit scheduled to take place from 13-15 December 2022.

As usual, Mr. Biya will be stopping over in Geneva, Switzerland, not to condole with Switzerland following the country’s trouncing in the World Cup, but to undergo a special steroid session which will enable him to operate in the highly demanding conference in the American capital. 

Over the last decade, Mr. Biya has been surviving on steroids given his poor health. He is currently a colony of diseases which require huge consumption of steroids.  According to a source close to the Unity Palace, Mr. has been psychologically depressed in recent times and the trip to the American capital is an opportunity for him to step out of his palace and demonstrate to the world that he is still in charge in Yaoundé.

Before boarding the airplane for Geneva, the Cameroonian dictator made sure that his collaborators had to bow to him like angels do to God. The country’s Prime Minister, Joseph Dion Ngute, who is out of favour with the ruling cabal almost prostrated in front Mr. Biya to demonstrate that he was still very loyal to the man who has been anything but effective when it comes to running the country. 

While in Washington, the senile Biya who is suffering from amnesia will meet with the American President in private to seek the North American country’s help in the insurgency which has been playing out in Cameroon’s two English-speaking regions for more than six years.

According to some unknown Cameroonian diplomatic enthusiasts like Billy Eko, whose father was arrested with drugs on an airplane more than 35 years ago, Mr. Biya’s ineffective diplomacy seems to be delivering some good results. He based his logic on the indictment of three Southern Cameroonians in the United States on grounds of exporting terror to another country. 

The indictment was deposited by the FBI, but in the United States, an indictment is nothing. The three co-accused are not guilty until proven guilty by a legally constituted court of law in the United States. The US is not a country where the president can just order people to be locked up. The law works in the United States, and it is incumbent upon the FBI to prove its case in court.

Currently, the suspects have already lawyered up and there are more celebrity lawyers lining up to join the team of lawyers who want to prove that the problem in Cameroon is not the suspects but a man whose rank incompetence and corruption have left a once prosperous nation in the depth of abject poverty, creating massive pockets of opposition in the country.

There is also a fundraising campaign in the United States for the three Southern Cameroonians to enable them to hire the best international lawyers who can easily prove that the Yaounde regime clearly belongs to the past and if a regime change is not engineered, more people will be sent to an early grave.

Lawyers in the United States have already gathered lots of video and cable communications evidence between Cameroon’s military officials who intentionally planned a massive genocide in the two English-speaking regions of the country. The lawyers have enough evidence. Videos of Ngarbuh, Kwakwa, and Muyenge as well as multiple reports by the International Crisis Group have been shared with American Senators who are urging Joe Biden not to receive Mr. Biya who is now seen as Cameroon’s “merchant of death”.  

The Senators hold that if the US identifies with a man who has mowed down his own people, it will be calling into question its claim that it is a beacon of hope and democracy. Biya is no democrat! He is an iron fist in a velvet glove. It is hard to weave his name and democracy in the same sentence, an American human rights activist said. 

Currently, there is a massive demonstration being organized to receive the dictator in Washington. Southern Cameroonians want to prove to the Biden Administration that it is having political intercourse with a murderer, a man who has killed many women and children in Southern Cameroons, and still has thousands of Southern Cameroonians in East Cameroonian jails.

Mr. Biya is also being blamed by his fellow compatriots for corruption, financial impropriety, and incompetence. Since coming to power in 1982, Mr. Biya has transformed the country into a one-man show, where his word is the law.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai