On Wednesday the 17th of January 2018, Ambazonians woke up much to their amazement to find internet access restored in their country. After more than four months of complete internet shutdown, our people are ‘temporarily’ enjoying a fundamental freedom thanks to the ‘goodwill’ of someone in Yaoundé.

There have been several conferences, initiatives and lectures around the world over the last few years on the role of governments on internet freedom and human rights. The role of the internet can’t be overemphasized in the twenty-first century and the United Nations has stated unequivocally that it’s a fundamental human right along with freedom of Opinion and Expression.

Mindful of the presence of a CAF delegation in the country to scrutinize infrastructures to assess La Republique’s readiness to host next year’s AFCON, CPDM has shamelessly re-instated internet access in our country. The evidence is overwhelming that even the darkest minds in La Republique understand the ignominy of cutting off internet access. The simple truth is that Yaoundé has no respect for the human rights of Ambazonians. This flagrant abuse of a fundamental human right is intolerable. Whilst the excitement amongst the population is understandable, the unlawful activity of restricting internet access is one of the most shameful in a long list of unpardonable law-breaking actions from Biya and his mob.

Small and medium size businesses are struggling in Ambaland. Many small businesses have ceased trading which has resulted to higher unemployment in a country where joblessness is unacceptably high. Do the authorities in Yaoundé care about the loss of business and subsequent suffering in Ambaland? The answer is simply NO.

With high unemployment and dreadful misemployment, the youths of Ambaland are getting more and more frustrated. The cumulative effect of this gloomy scenario is the growth and continuous growth of a disenchanted populace. These people have a sense of worthlessness, and are left with no option but to vent their anger in guerrilla style attacks on the forces of La Republique. These attacks are becoming more and more frequent in Ambaland with devastating consequences.

The striking intellectual inanimation from the so-called leaders in Yaoundé is profusely ostensible. Until they realize that actions like cutting off the internet are counterproductive, the road to peaceful coexistence is rough and unexciting. The casualties their military is currently suffering stand to escalate.

Calling Ambazonians dogs, terrorists, banning the Consortium, firing at peaceful protesters and cutting off the internet etc haven’t yielded any positive result for Yaoundé. The results of these poorly advised and unlawful actions are violence and more violence.

Sessekou Asu Isong in London

Zimbabwe will hold elections in four to five months, a newspaper on Thursday quoted President Emmerson Mnangagwa as saying, the first time since independence the southern African state will conduct a vote that does not involve Robert Mugabe.

The vote, a litmus test of Mnangagwa’s democratic credentials, will be crucial to unlocking badly needed financial assistance and repairing relations with Western powers and international financial institutions.

Mnangagwa, a protege of Mugabe, came to power in November after a de-facto military coup when the 93-year-old was forced to resign after the military confined him to his Harare mansion.

It was the culmination of a power struggle between Mnangagwa and former first lady Grace Mugabe, who was being groomed by her husband as his potential successor.

Now Mnangagwa, 75, is under pressure himself to deliver on the economy and show that he is breaking with the policies of Mugabe, whose 37-year rule since independence in 1980 turned a promising country into a basket case and international pariah.

He promised the elections for the presidency, parliament and local government would be peaceful and told business leaders their investments would be secure and their profits safe.

“Zimbabwe is going for elections in four to five months’ time and we have to preach peace, peace and peace because we know it is good for us and we have no doubt that we will have peaceful elections,” Mnangagwa was quoted as saying by the official Herald newspaper during an official trip to Mozambique.

“We will ensure that Zimbabwe delivers free, credible, fair and indisputable elections to ensure Zimbabwe engages the world as a qualified democratic state.”

Under the constitution, Zimbabwe should hold elections between July 22 and Aug. 22, but parliament can choose to dissolve itself, triggering an earlier vote. The ruling ZANU-PF holds a two-thirds majority in parliament.

Since 2000, which coincided with Mugabe’s often violent seizure of land from white farmers, elections in Zimbabwe have been marred by political violence and disputes.

But the 2018 vote could catch the opposition flat-footed.

Mnangagwa’s main rival Morgan Tsvangirai is suffering from cancer, which has helped expose divisions in his Movement for Democratic Change party as officials scramble to take over leadership of the party.

The economy is suffering acute shortages of cash dollars, increases in prices of basic goods, high unemployment and low levels of foreign investment, making it the biggest challenge for Mnangagwa.

At a function ahead of next week’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Mnangagwa said the extent of economic problems required Zimbabweans to work together as he promised to safeguard all investments in the country.

“All investments will be safe and secure in Zimbabwe. Foreign investors will be able to repatriate profits,” he told a gathering of government officials and business leaders.

To reinforce that Mnangagwa plans to govern differently to Mugabe, the government said in a document published on Thursday that it was considering setting up a special tribunal to determine compensation for former white commercial farmers.

In the past 18 years, there has been little investment in agriculture, the backbone of the economy, due to disputes over compensation between former white farmers and the government.

Analysts say resolving the emotive land issue could unlock foreign investment in agriculture and help mend ties between Harare and the West, which imposed sanctions over the seizures and alleged vote rigging by Mugabe.

Mnangagwa said he was going to the Davos meetings, the first such trip by any Zimbabwean leader, to “dispel the perception” that Zimbabwe is “an isolated island”.

Source: Reuters

The House of Representatives on Tuesday at plenary rejected a motion urging the Federal Government to grant full protection to Cameroonian refugees and asylum seekers crossing into Nigeria. The motion by Hon. Sani Zorro also urged states and federal authorities to allow for the construction of refugee camps.

Zorro noted that there had been an influx of tens of thousands of asylum seekers and refugees fleeing Cameroon into Nigeria since the last quarter of 2017. He said that the refugees had continued to cross the Nigerian borders through Rivers, Benue and Taraba states, due to the crisis in Cameroon.

He urged the Federal Government and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees to extend full protection and assistance to the asylum seekers and refugees through timely provision of shelter, food and non-food items as well as security in their various camps.

The lawmaker further called for the prevention of alleged cross-border raids by the Cameroonian armed forces, which, he said, was inconsistent with humanitarian principles and best practices. He said in line with Section 33 of the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Refugees, security personnel should not arrest and deport the refugees and asylum seekers.

Contributing to the motion, Hon. Nnenna Ukeje urged the house to take a critical look at the implications of granting full protection to the asylum seekers, considering relations between both countries.

She noted that Nigeria already had several security challenges and had entered into treaties with neighbouring countries to address insecurity in the country. Ukeje said that if caution was not taken in granting full protection to the fleeing secessionist Cameroonians, Nigeria could be seen to be supporting the division of Cameroon.

According to the lawmaker, Cameroon could pull out of the fight against Boko Haram in the region, adding that any action in favour of the secessionists, could sour the long standing relations between both countries.

In his remarks, Speaker Yakubu Dogara said that the security agencies, in line with the Geneva Convention, would profile the asylum seekers for proper identification. However, the legislators in the lower chamber unanimously voted against the motion when the speaker put it to a voice vote.

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Tens of thousands of Ambazonians throughout Western Europe, South Africa, Canada and the USA have planned to march and attend rallies to show their support for the Interim President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, His Excellency Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and his top aides arrested in Abuja, Nigeria last week.  The leaders of the newly created republic grouping Southern Cameroonians have been placed in solitary confinement in the Nigerian capital city.

Ambazonians will be demanding the release of their leaders by the Buhari administrations and an end to detention without trial and of solitary confinement. In French Cameroun, the Biya Francophone regime has announced through state sponsored media organizations that Nigeria handed the Ambazonian leaders to Yaoundé since Friday last week.

Pro Yaoundé political commentators have also opined that President Biya teleguided the commando operation from Etoudi without the knowledge of the Nigerian Head of State, Retired General Buhari. We of Cameroon Intelligence Report can now reveal that President Ayuk Tabe and his senior advisers including top aides are still in the Nigerian capital Abuja.

We want Ambazonians to understand that Nigeria even under the late General Sanni Abacha had better human rights record than La Republique du Cameroun. Lawyers representing the Ambazonian leadership have completed the necessary procedures and the legal battle is expected to begin tomorrow or latest Monday.

Information circulating in Francophone Cameroun that the DSS carried out the operation without the knowledge of President Buhari is simply not true. Unlike Biya who sleeps for Martin Belinga and Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh to run the country for him, President Buhari is a former army general and a micro manager.

For those who do not know, when President Buhari took office, his top priority was to get his own man as head of the State Security Services (SSS) known today as the Department of State Services (DSS).  Consequently, President Buhari made a recall appointment to active service involving Lawal Musa Daura his kinsman from the same village who had long retired to replace Ita Ekpenyong Ekong from Cross River State. It is evidently clear that President Buhari is by extrapolation the Head of the DSS.

Cameroon Concord News Group is keeping a watchful eye on the developments in Abuja and we will keep our readers posted as soon as we get any latest development.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Ambazonia, which in the beginning had avoided being sucked into the civil war that is slowly but surely developing in Cameroon, has now become the site of the biggest humanitarian disaster in the over one year crisis.

The Manyu County – home to about 2 million residents – has been subjected to a near ceaseless military campaign in recent weeks by Cameroon armed forces.  Cameroon Concord News London bureau chief, Asu Isong traveled home in December to observe the determination of Ambazonians in building Africa’s newest democracy.

The people of the Ossing Kingdom knighted him as a Sessekou in a historic ceremony.  Sessekou Ashu Isong covered the onslaught in Egbekaw village and the attacks on a Gendarmerie Post in Mamfe.

He says Cameroon government forces have killed hundreds of Ambazonian civilians in the last three weeks alone. As more talks for dialogue get underway in Abuja-Nigeria where the leadership of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia is being held and Southern Cameroons teeters on the brink of being totally annihilated, we take a look at what’s on Sesseku Asu Isong’s dairy.

In December 2017, I made a three weeks trip to Ambaland for family and municipal purposes. If ever my commitment to help liberate and build The Federal Republic of Ambazonia was in doubt, this trip quenched that indecision. As I arrived at the ugly obscenity which is flippantly called Douala International Airport, my repulsion at the place turned to resentment. The structure is anything but an international airport.

In the twenty-first century, it is acceptable that there is no bureau de change, only men whistling at you and gesturing that they have local and foreign currency to peddle and purchase. The shops are prehistoric and half empty with vendors wearing facial expressions of people who have never been trained in dealing with the public and don’t really want to be there.

As we waited for our luggage to arrive, I dashed down to the little boy’s room and was in for the mother of all shocks. I went in and visited all the cubicles much to my bewilderment, there weren’t any toilet papers. As I left the indignity to take the long drive to Buea in pain, I noticed a young lady outside the door rationing the little toilet rolls the Biya regime could offer. It was shameful and disgusting and I said to myself never say you have seen it all.

The thought matured that the place wasn’t fit for purpose. Whilst waiting for my luggage, it dawned on me that many of the so-called leaders in La Republique du Cameroun where I had landed had studied and lived in the developed world. Many of them frequently visit other countries that have invested in people and infrastructure to enjoy good facilities. But with all the material wealth that the country possesses, only destitution and insufficiency are engraved on the faces of the people and their surroundings.

As we collected our bags and headed to Buea, I asked myself how we, as a people from Ambazonia, have accepted for fifty-seven years this marriage of inconvenience. I asked myself how and why people in this country under this insanity called a government have come to accept the intolerable. During that long drive, I kept pondering and deliberating with myself how a country so rich with natural resources and intellectuals can be so underdeveloped and unacceptably backward.

As I went to bed that night, I came to the decision that these people have been sold falsehoods for too long that they couldn’t do anything about their situation. They have been lied to for too long that things just have to be a certain way. The mindset of the people has been programmed to accept inaccuracies about their destinies.

As I crisscrossed Ambaland during my stay and saw the misery that has been perpetrated on my people by our political partners in French Cameroun, I agreed with many that the time for change has come.

Above all, what pleased me was the fact that the MINDSET of the people in Ambaland has changed. Our people back home now believe that if it’s to be, it’s up to them and that bequeathed me an enchanted satisfaction that no matter the obstacles we are going to face over the coming years, we will prevail, and our dream will one day be a reality in Buea.

Sessekou Asu Isong

Next on the Sessekou’s dairy is his encounter with two Gendarme officers in the Manyu County who instead of controlling his car documents at a checkpoint, begged for money to buy food.

Five Sahel countries that have pledged to pool military efforts to fight terrorism have set up a fiduciary fund to oversee donations for their campaign.

The decision was made by the defense and foreign ministers of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, Malian Foreign Minister Tieman Hubert Coulibaly said late Monday.

Their countries form the so-called G5 Sahel, a French-supported group that last year launched a joint military force to combat extremism plaguing the region.

Pledges last month brought total funding over the 250 million euros ($298 million) needed to get the force up and running following a maiden mission in the volatile border zone between Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger in November.

A summit of donor nations is scheduled to take place in Brussels on February 23 to top up funds.

Coulibaly said the fund would include an oversight committee to ensure “good management of the funds earmarked by partners.”

Management of the fund would be “transparent… a guarantee of the success of the mission to fight insecurity in the Sahel,” Coulibaly said after the meeting in Bamako, the Malian capital.

Major contributions so far have come from Saudi Arabia (100 million euros / $119 million); the European Union (50 million euros); the G5 members (50 million euros, consisting of 10 million euros apiece); United States ($60 million) and the United Arab Emirates (30 million euros).

(Source: AFP)

Truth is indeed a crime in an empire of liars. It is quite clear that the Biya regime is founded on lies and has been trading on that path ever since the April 6^th 1984 coup. As renowned Southern Cameroon journalists and media outlets are well known today with their excellence in investigative journalism and true reportage of news, in La Republique du Cameroun today, the case is different as almost all Anglophone media outlets are constantly being paid by the CPDM crime syndicate and given directions on what to broadcast and publish in their newsstands regarding the Southern Cameroons crisis. What a shame and disgrace to modern journalism.

Cameroon Intelligence Report gathered that lately, Ashu Nyenty and a group of Anglophone media gurus have yet again, taken to the CPDM path of blackmail, propaganda and lies against Sisiku Ayuk Tabe-the man heading the most peaceful and most behaved large number of agitators in the Sub Saharan African region in order to drag their prestige into the mud.

We of the Cameroon Concord News Group have received intelligence that the presidency of the republic has made available 275 million FCFA to a group of Anglophone journalists calling itself Cameroon Journalists Coalition for Peace Caravan. We were also informed that the two installment payments were made via Minister Mengot. Our chief intelligence officer in Yaoundé is yet to confirm the correctness of this information. But what we do know is that the Biya regime is sending the Anglophone media men and women on a journey of many dangers to Nigeria to persuade Cameroonian refugees to return home.

We understand that the Anglophone media gang has also been given directives to publicly seek for funding on lame and ridiculous reasons that they intend to take along some food and medical supplies to Ambazonians currently suffering in Nigeria.

Ever since President Biya ordered the murderous Francophone dominated armed forces to shoot and kill innocent Anglophone civilians, these Anglophone media men and women have reported such news using the word ‘CLASH’. However, in the words of Bishop Andrew Nkea of the Mamfe Diocese, “Kembong people are not running away from attackers, but from the military which is supposed to be protecting them,”

It is quite laughable that handlers of the Cameroon news agencies have over the last few days been struggling to indict Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and 9 other members of the Interim Government abducted in Abuja as criminals with his kinsmen Samuel-Martin Enoh Besong and Abraham Johnson Batey Batey calling for the Sisiku to be executed. Wonders shall never cease so long as Cameroon, a theater of absurdities, is concerned.

The Indigenous People of Southern Cameroons will not sit and watch the Francophone dominated army and their brown envelope news agencies drag its hard-earned reputation to the mud. Ambazonians will fight Yaoundé headlong with the only weapon we have which is ‘truth’ and we are publishing the Ashu Nyenty-Biya regime scheme for the world to know those who have been misleading the public with various degrees of lies  so as to hold them responsible for the ongoing genocide in Southern Cameroons taking place as a result of their constant lies to the entire public. Mr Ashu Nyenty posted this message on a forum grouping Southern Cameroons media gurus:

Ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues

Pursuant to the announcement of the beginning of the initiative called: Cameroon Journalists Coalition for Peace Caravan intended to go to Nigeria and persuade Cameroonian refugees to return home and also to take along some food and medical supplies to them, contributions have opened for all Cameroonian journalists and other well wishers who support this initiative.

In this regard, an MTN mobile money account has been created with the number: 654336313. Since mobile money does not take note of sender, for purposes of accountability and transparency any contributor should immediately call the same number. A young lady will take the call and note the identity of the donor. Every day from this Tuesday the daily list of donors will be published on all journalists’ platforms. This exercise is scheduled to end on the 26 of January, 2018 and our trip to Nigeria should take place within one week from then. Thanks for your generosity and cooperation.

ASHU NYENTY- CRTV( Spokesperson for the initiative)

From the evidence handed to our London desk, we understand that the money paid to Mr Ashu Nyenty is to fund a fake campaign to lure Ambazonians to return home and be arrested and killed and above all, to keep making a mockery of Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, the Interim Head of State of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.

“On earlier occasions they had made futile attempts to get Jesus into their hands;c and they were naturally dubious as to the outcome of their later machinations. At this juncture they were encouraged and gladdened in their wicked plots by the appearance of an unexpected ally. Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, sought an audience with these rulers of the Jews, and infamously offered to betray his Lord into their hands.d Under the impulse of diabolic avarice, which, however, was probably but a secondary element in the real cause of his perfidious treachery, he bargained to sell his Master for money, and chaffered with the priestly purchasers over the price of the Savior’s blood. “What will ye give me?” he asked; “and they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.”e”

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

It is hard to tell which Ambazonian insiders gave the Nigerian secret police the tip to capture the IG. What is vital now is whether this abduction and interrogation will develop into an advantage for the IG or if the IG will succeed to convince Nigerian factions that a support of Ambazonian self-defense would be favorable for Nigeria in the longer run.

There are many parties, interests and stakeholders involved and we can only pray that the thing will turn out well for Ambazonia. But whatever the outcome may be, we can draw the following conclusion already:

1. a) The guerilla in SCYL and AGC and DoD and unknown independent must be supported and listened to and should stay compartmentalized, so that if one part of the IG or guerilla is defeated by the enemy the others are still able to operate and fill the gap
2. b) Federalists inside the IG or power mongers who do still collaborate with LRC or hostile Nigerians must be detected and removed from Ambazonian leadership
3. c) All Ambazonians must rise up against all who do foul compromise with LRC or unsupportive part of Nigeria
4. d) All former Scacuf groups should come together with IG and work out a better common strategy

By Christoph Hans Messner

Zimbabwe’s former commander of the army, General Constantino Chiwenga, has been chosen as a vice president of the country.

Chiwenga, 61, played a pivotal role in recent developments that ended President Robert Mugabe’s longtime rule.

His appointment is seen as a reward for the army’s instrumental role in ending Mugabe’s rule.

General Chiwenga took the oath of office in Harare on Thursday, pledging to be “faithful” to Zimbabwe, and to “obey, uphold and defend the constitution”.

At the event held on the lawns of the president’s official residence, Chiwenga, who is now one of the two country’s vice presidents, vowed to “work as a team”, and “deliver” whatever task given to him.

Chiwenga retired from the military last week, slightly over a month after the army temporarily took control of the country on November 15, culminating in Mugabe’s resignation six days later and a takeover by his deputy.

The new president Emmerson Mnangagwa, dozens of government officials, military and police chiefs as well as traditional leaders, attended the event.

Chiwenga’s rise to the country’s second most powerful job has further consolidated the military’s power in the politics of the southern African country.

Other top military officials were awarded ministerial posts earlier this month include ex-air force chief Marshal Perrance Shiri, who became the new agriculture minister, and a spokesman for the military, General Sibusiso Moyo, who was appointed as the new foreign minister.

Source: Presstv

Scuffles erupted in Uganda’s parliament on Tuesday over the presence of unidentified soldiers in the building as lawmakers debate a bill that could extend the president’s time in office.

Amid the chaos, the speaker adjourned proceedings to investigate the alleged presence of soldiers in prayer sanctuaries inside the building.

The bill under debate seeks to remove a constitutional clause that prevents anyone over the age of 75 from being president.

Critics say the bill would allow President Yoweri Museveni, who is 73 and ineligible to run again, to extend his rule, possibly for life.

Museveni has ruled since 1986.

A vote is expected this week.

A number of opposition lawmakers were forcibly removed from parliament in September, allegedly by soldiers with the presidential guard, while discussing the bill.

(Source: AP)