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World’s coronavirus infections pass 660,000

29, March 2020

World’s coronavirus infections pass 660,000 0

Cases of coronavirus infection in the world have surpassed 660,000, while the epidemic has yet to reach its peak in the worst-hit countries of Europe and has just begun in the world’s poorest continent, Africa.

Data compiled by the Johns Hopkins University also showed that the number of people who have died of the disease caused by the coronavirus had reached 30,883 as of Sunday — two-thirds of them having been reported in Europe.

The following is the latest on how the pandemic has been affecting the world in the past 24 hours:

New Zealand registers 1st death

New Zealand confirmed its first death from the virus on Saturday, according to Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield, who said the victim had been a woman in her 70s.

The number of infected people in New Zealand also rose by 63 to a total of 514, Bloomfield said.

Over 2,600 confirmed infected in Africa

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday that the COVID-19 disease had now spread to dozens of countries in Africa.

The number of confirmed cases has reached 2,650, along with 49 deaths in the region, according to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

He said that the WHO stood ready to support all countries in the combat against the pandemic.

Ghebreyesus said nations with weaker health systems had to act aggressively to contain the outbreak and prevent community transmissions.

Africa has become a main concern for the organization since the virus began to spread across the world due to the continent’s strained medical systems and lack of necessary infrastructure.

China reports 5 deaths

China, which was the first country to report the disease in December last year and the first epicenter of the virus, has now reported only five new deaths and 45 new confirmed infections in the 24 hours through midnight Saturday.

All the deaths were in Hubei Province, where the virus first emerged, according to the National Health Commission.

All but one of the new cases were people who were infected abroad, it added.

China has so far reported a total of 81,439 cases of COVID-19 along with 3,300 deaths.

The commission said some 477 people had been discharged from hospitals on Saturday. A total number of 75,448 people have recovered from the disease in China.

South Korea reports 105 more cases

South Korea reported another 105 cases, bringing the country’s total so far to 9,583, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

It also confirmed eight more deaths, bringing the total fatalities to 152.

Japan in ‘critical stage,’ Abe vows ‘powerful’ aid package

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe promised an unprecedented aid package on Saturday as cases of COVID-19 in the country climbed to more than 1,500, with 52 deaths, according to the public broadcaster NHK.

The figure excludes those from a cruise ship quarantined in the country since last month.

“We are in a critical stage,” said the prime minister of the world’s third-biggest economy. “We need to be ready for a long-term battle.”

“The pandemic is inflicting extremely big damage to Japan’s economy,” Abe said. “We’ll deploy a huge, powerful package that will include a full range of fiscal, monetary, and tax measures.”

Though the details of the package have not been finalized, Abe said it “will exceed that [package] compiled in response to the global financial crisis of 2008, which was worth a total 528 billion dollars.”

He made the announcement as health officials confirmed a further 60 cases in the capital, Tokyo, on Saturday. They also announced 57 new cases at a center for the disabled in Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, according to the NHK.

Canada enforces new travel restrictions

On the other side of the world, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced new restrictions on Saturday.

He said that people who were showing symptoms of the disease would be blocked from domestic flights or inter-city passenger trains.

Trudeau said his government was giving new tools to airlines and railways to enforce the restrictions from Monday.

Trudeau’s wife has herself been infected and is receiving treatment.

The latest travel restrictions in Canada were announced as the country’s confirmed cases reached 5,153, and the deaths 55.

Italy’s death toll passes 10,000, peak approaching

Italy, the world’s worst-hit nation, is now reporting an overall death toll of over 10,000.

Officials announced on Saturday that 889 more people had died of COVID-19 in the previous 24 hours.

The figure was the second highest daily tally since the epidemic emerged in Italy five weeks ago.

Italy’s total fatalities now stand at 10,023.

The number of people diagnosed with the new viral illness also rose by about 6,000 to 92,472, officials said Saturday.

Italy has imposed severe restrictions on movement, including a national lockdown.

“Without these measures, we would be seeing far worse numbers and our health service would be in a far more dramatic state,” said Angelo Borelli, the head of Italy’s Civil Protection Agency. “We would have been in an unsustainable situation.”

According to the Higher Health Institute (ISS), the peak of the epidemic in Italy is approaching.

“We have seen an apparent reduction in the infection curve since March 20 but we are not yet in a downward phase,” ISS President Silvio Brusaferro told the Italian press agency ANSA.

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has approved a new package of 4.7 billion euros (5.24 billion dollars) to help those worst hit sections of the population.

He has also urged the European Union (EU) to launch a “recovery bond” to help fund the member states’ response to the outbreak, saying a failure to tackle the emergency would be a “tragic mistake” for the union.

Spain toughens lockdown

Spain, the second worst-hit nation in Europe, announced stricter lockdown measures on Saturday that will force all non-essential workers to stay at home for the next two weeks.

Health officials said Saturday that 832 people had died of the disease in the last 24 hours.

The new fatalities brought the overall number of the deaths in Spain to 5,982.

The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 also reached 73,235, officials said.

Health emergency chief Fernando Simon said the nation was short of intensive care unit beds as the epidemic appeared to be reaching its peak in some areas.

“We continue to have a major problem with ICU saturation,” said Simon.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that the new restrictions would allow the country “to reduce the number of infected people to a much greater extent.”

Workers would receive their usual salaries but would have to make up lost hours at a later date, he added.

Sanchez also urged Brussels to act and called for a “united economic and social strategy.”

He said the EU should “issue reconstruction bonds to deal with coronavirus.”

“We do not understand why the eurozone, which shares a currency, does not share fiscal policy,” Sanchez said.

Germany’s cases pass 52,500

Germany’s confirmed cases of COVID-19 have risen to 52,547, and 389 people have died of the disease as of Sunday, statistics from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed Sunday.

The number of infections rose by 3,965, while the death toll climbed by 64.

The institute said that the data did not represent the complete picture as it had not received any readings from the regional states of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Hesse, and Saarland.

Greece reports over 1,000 cases

Greek health authorities confirmed 95 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday.

Greece’s updated total is now 1,061.

Thirty two people have so far died of the disease in Greece, according to Health Ministry official Sotiris Tsiodras.

Greece has imposed a curfew until early April and has closed its borders to non-EU nationals, as well as to people from Italy and Spain.

Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis said earlier on Saturday that the restrictions would be extended beyond April 6, without providing further details.

Source: Presstv

Understanding why the Presbyterian Church is now a part of the CPDM crime syndicate

3, July 2019

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Two documents are in circulation calling for Action: one by the Rev Nganji Christian, addressed to the BOT and the other by our brother Victor Epie’Ngome and co. addressing the Pew. All these are part of a common effort to restore sanity to a Church’s governing system that has been gangrened and hijacked by a clique to serve their quest for money and power!

The present calamity was predictable from the moment we committed the fatal error of electing the two top officers of the Synod Office, both coming from the fringe, with neither of them grounded in the workings of the institutions and processes that governed the church they took over to lead.Unfortunately, those of us who saw this coming and warned that it did not bode well for the PCC were booed and treated as enemies of ‘progress’ – whatever progress meant.

Had they heeded the warning and sought wisdom from former officers like the Moderators and Synod Clerks emeriti, the present insanity would have been averted! Rather, the Moderator has arrogated sweeping powers to himself, reducing the Synod Clerk and the rest of Synod Committee Executive to rubber-stamp entities. He listens to no one except his “chief high priest” who claims to have a controlling power over the Buea Administration!

Attempts to draw attention to these insane happenings appear to be falling on deaf ears. His cohorts and sycophants have resorted to brushing aside any issues raised, and raining insults on any individual who raises a dissenting voice. Their purpose is to move the focus away from the inhuman acts and social injustices perpetrated by the “Emperor Moderator”! But facts are stubborn.

  1. How can anyone justify the buying of treasury bonds in a foreign country (Gabon) with Church’s money in private names (Fonki & Ndive)?
  2. How can the Moderator stoop so low by syphoning close to a hundred million CFA from the Church’s account to sponsor “the only child”?
  3. Whence comes this crazy idea of the Church venturing into secular business without any expertise? Was it not a ploy to turn the PCC into a family business? Otherwise how do we explain the Moderator’s wife becoming the main contractor to supply machines, computers/ accessories, and sink boreholes all over PCC?
  4. What has the buying of a 70-seater bus got to do with the buying of TELCO’s machines by the  Moderator? Or is it in line with the fact that the PCC moderator adopted buying and selling of cars as his private venture, over and against the sacredness of the office?
  5. Who can explain the Moderator’s involvement in a private school venture in Douala bearing the name “Presbyterian”, yet not controlled by PEA?
  6. Why is it that only the Moderator and the Financial Secretary know about the so-called Pres Insurance? 7. Whenever has the PCC become so desperate, as a Faith-Based Organizations (FBO), that it must source funding for its projects from the State’s budgets? Why do the Moderator and Financial Secretary receive over 600.000 million from the Ministry of finance under the pretext of conducting PCC elections for 2019? If my predictions are right, is it meant to be shared between the tribes and ethnic groups that have been gearing up with meetings here and there campaigning for Fonki? Since when did the state start sponsoring elections in Churches, and what is the Church supposed to give back in return for that strange favour? Lord Save Your Beloved Church – Uber PCC!

Way forward:

  1. Moderator Fonki Samuel Forba be impeached as moderator and all the allegations on him be investigated by a committee to be set up.
  2. An extraordinary Synod Committee meeting be called up wherein some key persons are co-opted to resolve this ongoing insanity.

Here two things are paramount:

• An apology from the three synod officers for misdirection and • the withdrawal of the 2014 draft constitution in order to guarantee an inclusive synod election –

Pr. Dorothy Njeuma to chair such a committee, with V.Rev. Nyansako ni Nku and retired  Rev Dr J N Dah as co-chairs 3.

If the above two options find no support then this option remains the only way out: the moderator and synod clerk be disqualified from running for this election, together with all others who are members of the current PCC Exco!

Humbly Submitted,

Anye-Mo-Anye Mandzong

The Village Pastor

Souza Parish

Biya regime closes borders ahead of presidential polls

7, October 2018

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Cameroon national borders will be closed ahead of the presidential polling day on Sunday, the country’s minister of territorial administration Paul Atanga Nji said on Friday.

“National borders shall be closed 48 hours to polling day. They will be reopened the following day after voting.” Nji told a press conference in the capital Yaounde.

The authorities announced the measure as the election is taking place in a context of growing tension in the Anglophone regions where separatists are fighting to create a new nation called “Ambazonia”.

Armed separatist forces have vowed they will disrupt voting in the regions.

Nji also said that the circulation of goods and persons within the territory by road, railway, and airlines is banned as from 6 pm October 6 to 6 pm October 7, adding that assembly of persons in front of polling centers are also banned.

Over 6,500,000 registered voters are expected to vote during Sunday’s presidential race, according to the Cameroonian electoral body, Elections Cameroon.

The outgoing president Paul Biya, leader of the ruling Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement, is seeking to extend his 36 years in office by winning a new seven-year mandate.

Source: Xinhuanet

 



Lagos: Oluwaseyi Elizabeth fled with her children but her sexuality still makes her a target

2, December 2017

Lagos: Oluwaseyi Elizabeth fled with her children but her sexuality still makes her a target 0

Oluwaseyi Elizabeth Bamigbola is one of the many Nigerians suffering for being a Lesbian.

Her dad asked her to explain her connection to a woman who visited her regularly at their residence. She told our correspondent in Lagos that Nigeria security agents made her unlock her phone and they went through her messages, before she was told that it is completely unacceptable to be a Lesbian in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Cameroon Concord News understands that in some parts of Nigeria, if they find out you are a lesbian, they stone you to death.

Oluwaseyi Elizabeth Bamigbola’s life took a dramatic u-turn when her dad caught her red-handed with her girlfriend, and her life changed forever. Her dad called her the ‘devil’ and blamed her for all that had gone wrong in the family.

Just like in the Republic of Cameroon, they don’t allow homosexuality in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Oluwaseyi is so scared because of her two kids and plans to leave.

A spokesperson for the Lagos Police Commissioner was quoted as saying that the Lagos State Government had made the decision to take away Oluwaseyi’s two boys from her because they said she would teach them how to be gays.

Prominent religious figures in the Federal Republic of Nigeria have reportedly advised gays and Lesbians to go as far away as possible. Oluwaseyi has been beaten many times and her two boys can’t go to school in Nigeria because they suffer abuse.

In her Lagos neighborhood, Oluwaseyi and her two kids are being single out, attacked continuously and regularly beaten.

Oluwaseyi and her two boys are discriminated against at hospitals, at water points and in the market.

By Ray James Okpu in Lagos

The pathetic situation facing 130 Southern Cameroons pregnant refugees in Obanliku Local Government Area

16, November 2017

The pathetic situation facing 130 Southern Cameroons pregnant refugees in Obanliku Local Government Area 0

Hundreds of Southern Cameroonians who fled violence are facing serious health challenges as they seek refuge in Nigeria.


Pregnant Women at Obudu Ranch Health Center, RHC

A visit to the different camps for almost a week revealed that some are pregnant women who need adequate medical attention. Others are still battling with wounds and other infections. The case of pregnant women seems to be a cause for concern. In one of the camps in Obudu Ranch, on the Obudu mountain in Obanliku LGA, some 51 pregnant women are still wondering what the future holds for them barely months to delivery. Beyond the accommodation challenges, many complained that they have not bought a single item as part of preparation to welcome their new born.


Partial View of Pregnant Women at RHC

Majority of these women we learnt, have never visited the clinic. ” Many of them came from Akwaya without cloths. Using the same loin for two or three days affects mostly the pregnant women. When we did some tests their MP was positive, ” a community volunteer nurse at the Ranch Community Health Center, Virginia Echile explained on November 11 2017.


CDC Donating Blanckets to Pregnant Women

“The predominant illnesses from patients that we receive include malaria, typhoid and general body pains. When they were trekking from Akwaya to Kigol – one of the nearest Nigerian village through forest and rivers – they developed lower abdominal pains since they are pregnant,” she said.

The medics also complained that they were running out of drugs. “Everything is almost finished. We need anti-biotics and anti-malaria drugs. We need HIV tests tools to be running their tests, pain killers and other drugs,” she explained.

“Of the 51 pregnant women, six are due for delivery this November 2017 and 8 for December. We are in serious need of delivery kits to help us manage delivery. We have run out of hand gloves, Amoxilyn, paracetamol and other pain killers. We also need more blankets so that the nursing mothers and babies do not catch cold,” added the Chief Community Health Extension Worker of the Ranch Health Center, RHC, Madame Anna Amele. The case of the 51 registered pregnant women in Obudu Ranch Camp constitutes a minute fraction of many others scattered all over the Cross River State and other areas in Nigeria.

At the Sankwala General Hospital in the Obanliku LGA, 25 year old Oneh Janet was as still struggling to sit comfortably on the bed when we arrived there. She is a sick nursing mother to two weeks old Eric. Medical officials explained that she was brought there from another hospital after her situation was witnessing little improvement. “She was fast recovering,” they said. In the nearby maternity ward, 17 old pregnant, Ayawa Valentine was just recovering from weeks of fatigue. She was brought to Samkwala with a six month pregnancy from the Ranch Community Health Center.

Janet and Her Son in Sankwala Hosp

“The way she looks they might do cesarean. She sustained serious abdominal pains as she had to trek over a long distance. When she was brought here she was not talking, nor walking. She is better now. She eats how,” Ugbe Monica, the nurse in charge explained.

Down town in the Ikom Local Government Area, Mary Chufua who said she fled from violence in Buea with a 3 month pregnancy following a manhunt for her husband was eating a cocoa pod when she complained.

“I don’t have any money to go to hospital. I have not started my prenatal consultations, ” she said. It was the same message from Ngwa Mado who is six months pregnant. A smile was on their faces after officials of the Southern Cameroons Civil Defense Cabinet, SC – CDC gave them 10,000 naira each to begin with consultation. They expressed gratitude to Southern Cameroonian Association, SCAC,Canada, that came to their aid.

Late October, it emerged from Rhema Care, one of the Humanitarian Organisations on the ground that there were two deliveries in the Obalinku area every week, while some three cases were due for operation. “In the Obanliku Local Government Area made up of Amana, Obudu Ranch, Utanga and Sankwala communities, we have close to 130 registered pregnant women. Four of them have been operated while we have six others on the cue. It has not been an easy task especially with the numerous patients who are to be operated. We are struggling to do our best with the means available, ” explained Pastor Eric Suh, the CEO of Rhema Care, November 15, 2017.

Medics at the Sankwala General Hospital raised concerns should bleeding patients be brought in.
“Their feeding and water also remain a challenge. Otherwise the other parts are strictly medical. For the medical part of the management we now have a scan machine that would help us especially in the diagnoses. Otherwise we are doing our best to ensure every other thing is normal. We discussed that together with Doctors Without Borders.

Agbokim Waterfall SC Resident
I told them that we are not prepared for surgical emergencies for people that may be brought here bleeding. If they are in numbers we would have difficulties managing surgical emergencies. But for medical emergencies. We have no problem about that. We have enough bed space, ” the Director of the Hospital , Dr Besong Ferdinand said.

Beyond the trouble affecting pregnant women, other ladies also raised complains about their other sick children, some facing serious challenges to feed them. All these complains were recorded at the Agbokim Waterfall Camp.

During a visit to the Ajassor camp in the Etung LGA, mostly made of youths, it was also revealed that there were some who were battling with wounds they sustained in violence in the Southern Cameroons. Some sustained injuries on September 22 and October 1, while others are suffering with muscular pains as a result of walking for several hours, from Mamfe to Nigeria.


Besong, Geeting Treated

“I am grateful to our brothers in Canada who are thinking about us. We are now sure that those of us who have escaped cannot be forgotten, ” said Besong Ayamba. The CDC response team rushed him to County Specialist Hospital in Ikom where the wound he sustained on his left shin as he escaped to safety was treated. They wound was fast decomposing.
There were other Southern Cameroonians who had developed skin infections and others with fractures. “We slept at the Maromba forest for almost a month under rain and sunshine. When I arrived Nigeria, I only discovered that I had developed fungi infections which is like ring warm on my legs and hands. No way to go to hospital because I don’t have any money. And the fungi itches me every day very badly, “complained Lawson Nganga who left from Kumba. Similar complains of skin infections were presented by a lady from Akwaya in Amana camp apparently resulting from poor accommodation and sleeping conditions.

Living With a fractured thigh Challenge of Paying Hospital Bills

It emerged from the different areas visited that though hospitals were doing their best they were facing difficulties with increasing bills. We gathered from medics at the Sankwala General Hospital for instance that, the bills there stood at close to 500 000 naira with more than 13 operations already carried out.

Officials of the Ranch Health Center in Obudu said part of the medical bills there were paid by the UN HCR while more than half has not been cleared. “I can assure you to continue treatment of all Southern Cameroonians. Do not stop the treatment. We are mobilizing ourselves and our people all over the world and we would eventually foot the bills, ”

the SC Executive President Sir Ekili Clarence reassured the nurses, when he was informed on November 11, that some more than 200 naira was owed the health facility by Southern Cameroonians. The CDC was up the Obudu Ranch health Center to provide warm clothing, blankets and other non-food items to pregnant women as a result of the cold weather on the mountain.

Open Defecation Needs Attention

 Open defecation was an issue raised by the local community volunteers amid fears of outbreak of diseases like diarrhea, typhoid and dysentery, if measures are not urgently taken to provide the local community with toilets and proper care to the water sources.
“There is need for the implementation of Water Hygiene and Sanitation programs because open defecation is an environmental and public health challenge, ” said Pastor Eric Suh.

By Solomon Amabo, Cross River State, Nigeria



Why La Republique du Cameroun lost a war of choice it should never have declared

8, October 2017

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The struggle for freedom and independence of the Southern Cameroons is in the soul of every Southern Cameroonian born and unborn.  It is a struggle which has been going on for the last fifty-six years.  The genocide of armless Southern Cameroonians from all hooks and corners of the Southern Cameroons on October 1, 2017 has eternalized this spirit of freedom which has been elusive for these fifty-six years.  The flame of freedom and independence which was lit by the blood of Southern Cameroons martyrs shall never ever be extinguished.  Those who believe that this flame of freedom will be drown by the genocide and senseless bloodletting of innocent Southern Cameroonians may very well dream on. 
The ferocity and intensity with which La Republique du Cameroun is executing its preplanned genocide against armless Southern Cameroonians has shocked the conscience of humanity with Catholic Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Bamenda pointedly calling it a genocide. The world must promptly take strong measures to halt this genocide before the pledge the civilized world made in the aftermath of the holocaust in 1945 is once more turned into an empty slogan in the African continent.

The deployment of the military equipped with international support to fight the Boko Haram terrorists to prosecute a genocidal campaign in the Southern Cameroons characterizing its citizens as terrorists calls for a strong international response.  The deployment of helicopter gunboats and other weapons of mass destruction to kill and maim armless civilians cannot be justified under all circumstances.  Also, the criminal characterization of armless Southern Cameroonians civilians as terrorists and waging a military campaign to exterminate them in whole or in part based on their cultural identity must invite a strong international response. Extending the definition of the enemy during an ongoing military campaign in North Cameroon sponsored by the international community and supported by the United States of America to include civilians far from the defined war front exercising their right to external self-determination grounded in international law, is a violation of international law requiring an international investigation and prosecution. 
Despite the ongoing bloodletting, and its heavy toll, the valiant and freedom seeking people of the Southern Cameroons have scored a stunning victory over its blood sucking aggressor.  Millions of Southern Cameroonians at home and abroad by words, actions and the ultimate supreme sacrifice of its martyrs sent an undiluted message to La Republique du Cameroun and the international community. The reassertion of the independence it obtained from the United Nations on October 1, 1961 on October 2017, carries significant symbolic weight. 
The cowardly undeclared war of unprovoked aggression against armless civilians with profound regret, claimed precious lives but it did not deter the revolutionary soul of freedom and independence must was hence eternalized.   Through this cowardly campaign, La Republique du Cameroun legitimized the methods deployed by Boko Haram which similarly targets armless civilians for mass killing, abductions, torture, mass destruction of property, looting and torching of civilian settlements.
The decapitated corpses and mass graves littering most of Southern Cameroons settlements in the Northern and Southern Zones of the territory could readily be mistaken for any territory that was a victim of Boko Haram attack.  It can therefore be rightly said that a supposed partner in the war against Boko Haram is poking the nose of the international community by deploying Boko Haram tactics in the prosecution of a genocide against armless civilians in the Southern Cameroons. This is unacceptable and nothing short of an energetic response from the international community will stop the dangerous transformation of the army of a supposed state party to the war against Boko Haram into a prototype of Boko Haram in all but name.
The genocidal campaign in the Southern Cameroons must indeed have had Boko Haram smiling and feeling justified in its terrorist targeting of civilians to attain its terrorist religious/ideological objectives. In this situation, in respect of the military campaign of La Republique du Cameroun in the Southern Cameroons, does it have any legal or moral authority to remain a partner of civilized countries in the war against Boko Haram?  The answer is clearly in the negative.
The international community must no longer address an ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in diplomatic terms. The perpetrators of the crimes are well known. Apart from Paul Biya who bears ultimate responsibility, the entire criminal architecture of the preplanned genocide is visible even to the jaundiced eye.  They have proved themselves and even boast about it.  When the military expedition was ongoing, Cavaye Djibril, Nyat Njipendji, Laurent Esso the Minister of Justice and Fame Ndongo minister of higher education mobilized militants of the CPDM and party militias in the major cities of Yaounde, Douala, Ebolowa and Bafoussam to celebrate the genocidal expedition.   The mere presence in the hateful celebration of the genocidal campaign in Yaounde of some Southern Cameroonians genocide apologists like Tabetando, Nfon Mukete, Achidi Achu and others exposed to the public glare their role in encouraging and facilitating the genocide of their own people.
Cameroon Tribune, CRTV and supposed independent television networks and Newspapers belonging to the CPDM tribal or power cabal, characterized Southern Cameroonians as terrorists who must be exterminated. One Owona Nguini and one Obama of Television 4, among many excelled in the forceful propagation of this campaign of genocide. Issa Tchiroma the Minister of Communication and Government Spokesman consistently incited and encouraged the massacre of Southern Cameroonians and justified all criminal acts committed against them on the discriminatory and distinguishing characteristics of Southern Cameroons identity.
Apart from the Governors of the North West and the South West and all the Divisional Officers within the occupied territory, the Minister of Defense, the Secretary of State for the National Gendarmerie, the Delegate General for National Security, the High Command of the Cameroon Army and the close circuit of influential mystical fraternity surrounding the Head of State are culpable of these crimes. They are known for perpetrating many unimagined systemic and widespread crimes of an international nature within their own territory against its captive citizens.  Therefore, an urgent need to dislodge this cabal of high profile criminals from governance before it sets the entire sub region of the Gulf of Guinea and the Central Africa sub region on an inextinguishable conflagration.
Cameroon Concord News calls on the United Nations, the Security Council, to invoke its Responsibility to Protect Mandate under Chapter VII of the UN Charter to intervene and abate the ongoing genocide of Southern Cameroonians.  The Southern Cameroons by not taking up arms in self-defense so far has demonstrated its preference for the respect of the peaceful resolution of disputes advocated by the international community. By failing to intervene and abate the genocide against its people, the international community is in a way informing the Southern Cameroons and the world at large that the Southern Cameroons is on its own and must find ways to protect and defend its territory and its people.
 
The Southern Cameroonians have assessed the capacity of La Republique du Cameroon to fight and win a war in its territory to be paltry. Indeed, the next expedition if it occurs may well make the territory of the Southern Cameroons a graveyard for the genocidal forces of La Republique du Cameroun.  Lest La Republique forgets the lessons of history.  Kuva Likenye of Buea, the historic battle of Nsanakang in Manyu, the Fontem nine-year campaign against the Germans, the heroic warriors of Nso and many historic wars portraying the military prowess of our  Southern Cameroons ancestors  is evidence that we will never ever be intimidated by the abusive deployment of cowardly soldiers who humiliated by Boko Haram are redeployed and empowered to sneak into the homes of armless civilians to rape  girls, women, assassinate grandmothers, shoot at babies, abduct and kidnap the youth, the elderly and the vulnerable, loot, steal, extort and torch civilian property and settlements .
In recent times, over these fifty-six years, Babatoura Ahidjo, Jean Forchive and La Republique’s repressive machinery tried these same tactics but that did not stop October 1, 2017 from occurring. The clear message is that no weapon used by the oppressor and cowardly murderers of grandmothers, children, women and young men at the heart of night in their sleep will deter the train of freedom from moving on.  The blood of our martyrs will water the tree of freedom and we shall be free at last and forever.  That blood and the wounds of the maimed are the staying power of this Southern Cameroons revolution. Let La Republique forget. You have deployed your tools and exposed those driving your genocide agenda, the capability of the Southern Cameroons to defend its sovereign will to be live as a people in a free and civilized world is still a mystery to you? Reason why you must be very worried and rethink your option of war of choice as a means of imposing a union which you irredeemably destroyed through the ongoing genocide.
By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai
Editor-in-Chief
Cameroon Concord News Group



French Cameroun soldier kills colleague

5, October 2017

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A second grade soldier killed his superior on Wednesday night in Mora in the Mayo-Sava Division, Far North region.

The incident took place at the Mora Gendarmerie Brigade, which is home to the Joint  Multinational Force. Captain Ayissi was coldly shot by the second grade soldier after a lively exchange.

The executioner immediately killed himself. The motives of the drama are still unknown.

This new shooting between French Cameroonian soldiers takes place a little over three months, after that of Kousseri  in the Logone-et-Chari where a gendarme killed his comrades.

By Chi Prudence Asong, CCN



US deeply concerned about violence and the loss of human life in Southern Cameroons

5, October 2017

US deeply concerned about violence and the loss of human life in Southern Cameroons 0

Violence in Cameroon

Press Statement

Heather Nauert

Department Spokesperson

Washington, DC

October 4, 2017

The United States is deeply concerned about violence and the loss of human life in protests that have taken place in the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon since October 1. The Cameroonian government’s use of force to restrict free expression and peaceful assembly, and violence by protestors, are unacceptable. We urge the Government of Cameroon to respect human rights and freedom of expression, including access to the internet. We call on all sides to exercise restraint from further violence, and engage in dialogue for a peaceful, durable resolution.



Southern Cameroons Crisis: “President Biya may have escaped arrest”

29, September 2017

Southern Cameroons Crisis: “President Biya may have escaped arrest” 0

The former head of the ruling CPDM parliamentary group, Hon. Albert Dzongang, who has been a very close collaborator to President Paul Biya and to whom he remains attached has said that he does not understand why Biya is still abroad at the moment when the Southern Cameroons crisis is aggravating.

“How can you be away when your country is in danger? I believe that the head of state is feeling the danger and has fled! CPDM militants must make public motions to support Biya so that he returns.”

Albert Dzongang opined that he is vehemently opposed to the French Cameroun idea of subduing Southern Cameroonians. “Have you ever heard that arms have won any conflict? In that case, America would have dominated the world. America has not won in Iraq, Libya or Afghanistan even with sophisticated weapons! CPDM will not win in Anglophone Cameroon using the army.”

The CPDM defector enumerated the advantages of a federal system. “Federalism is the art of living together differently. No federalism is dangerous. Cameroon was federal. Those who are in Yaoundé are power drunk. They do not want to give up. By regionalizing, the budget will be divided by 10. What will remain in central administration will not allow them in their greed to steal billions and billions. That’s why they prefer to see Cameroon burn, rot.”

By Eyong Johnson, CCN


“For Barrister Agbor Balla to be relevant, he has to acknowledge the brutality of the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo regime”

26, September 2017

“For Barrister Agbor Balla to be relevant, he has to acknowledge the brutality of the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo regime” 0

The Editor-in-Chief of the Cameroon Concord News Group has reacted to recent pronouncements made by the Chairman of the outlawed Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium. In this conversation with CCN’s Chi Prudence Asong, Soter Agbaw-Ebai says Balla has still not understood the significance of his abduction, his eight months detention as well as that of hundreds of Southern Cameroonians and the annexation of the Southern Cameroons territory

Cameroon Concord News: Mr. Chairman, you have been an ardent supporter of Barrister Agbor Balla. You know him very well even before the struggle. What is your take on his recent outing in which he appeared to have read from the “One and Indivisible Cameroon” script?

Soter Agbaw-Ebai: The appeal made by my Southern Cameroons brother and great friend, Barrister Agbor Felix Nkongho could have been relevant at the beginning of the lawyer-teachers strike.   He is still in his pre detention mind set. Eight months have passed and within these eight months, the character of the conflict shifted, Dr Agbor Balla needs time to understand that it has moved from lawyers and teachers strike to a popular revolt. He is addressing the wrong audience.

Cameroon Concord News: As a key player in the struggle, Barrister Agbor Balla simply advocated for dialogue which we of this publication supported from the very beginning.

Soter Agbaw-Ebai: By arresting Barrister Agbor Balla in the course of dialogue, President Biya criminalized dialogue.  Balla was charged for terrorism for advocating dialogue.  This speech means that Balla has still not understood the significance of his abduction, his eight months detention as well as that of hundreds of Southern Cameroonians, the annexation of the Southern Cameroons territory and the resolve of the people of Southern Cameroons to defend themselves. To be sure, he has made a mockery of Mark Bara and Tapang Ivo.

Cameroon Concord News: You seem to be ignoring the fact that he started this whole struggle

Soter Agbaw-Ebai: For Barrister Agbor Balla to be relevant even to his two beautiful daughters and to his late father, he has to acknowledge the brutality of the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo regime which has led to lose of lives and on-going abduction and militarization of the Southern Cameroons territory. Biya has truly opted for war against Southern Cameroonians and as a victim; Barrister Agbor Balla ought to have acknowledged the suffering of Southern Cameroonians arising from 56 years of brutality, annexation and colonial rule.

Cameroon Concord News: Mr Editor-in-Chief, what is your take on the Barrister Agbor Balla message?

Soter Agbaw-Ebai: Prudence! My name is Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai not Mr. Editor-in-Chief. The late Peter Agbor Tabi kept me in Kondengui!! So, I know what it means to be in Kondengui. Unfortunately, Felix Agbor Nkongho was preaching his message to the wrong audience.  The only message Southern Cameroonians want to hear now is the message of liberation.  If Balla and his gang do not want to join the liberation train, they should stay aside. We are grateful to him for having contributed so much to the struggle but from his speech it would appear that the eight months of detention have somehow blinded him from the realities on the ground. Reasons why the ongoing popular revolt should serve as notice for him and others that the dialogue at gun point which he (Balla) want the people to submit to have been rejected. There is only one message now either he or the likeminded people join the liberation train or sit quiet.



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