18, August 2019
One Ukrainian on vessel captured by pirates in Cameroon 0
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine confirms the capture of one Ukrainian sailor man by piracy near African coast. Spokesperson of MFA consular service department Vasyliy Kyrylych reported that, as Interfax-Ukraine News Agency reports.
“The consular service in cooperation with the stakeholders assumes measures related to the release of the Ukrainian sailor seized by pirates,” Kyrylych said.
As we reported earlier, the vessel was captured near the Republic of Cameroon by piracy. According to the source, there are probably Nigerian pirates in the navy. The Security Forces of Cameroon has started tracing.
We recall that the Nigerian pirates attacked a ship with Ukrainians on board and took them prisoners on March 30, as Sea informational centre reported.
“On March 30, a group of armed Nigerian pirates has landed on board of the container ship Contship Oak, which was at anchor in Douala (Gulf of Guinea), took away all valuable stuff, captured the crew and took them in an unknown direction,” the message says.
Source: AFP
18, August 2019
Ambazonia: Vice President Dabney Yerima warns French Cameroun after Kumba Military deployment 0
Southern Cameroons Vice President Dabney Yerima has issued a stern warning to the French Cameroun regime following its recent military deployments in Kumba in the Meme County and the Cameroon government army onslaughts in Menchum and Manyu counties.
Last week, the French Cameroun head of state president Paul Biya ordered the Cameroon military to set up a mechanized division in Kumba in the Meme County. Ambazonian Restoration Forces fire injured 7 Cameroon government army soldiers immediately the troops got to Kumba. Cameroon Concord News correspondent in Fiango, Kumba said several Southern Cameroons civilians suffered critical injuries in the attack.
Vice President Dabney Yerima reacted on Saturday in Berlin, saying the atrocities being committed by Francophone soldiers in Ambazonia is threatening to push the Southern Cameroons war into a more intractable situation.
The French Cameroun army has carried out several attacks on Southern Cameroons towns and villages ever since President Biya declared war on the people of Ambazonia. Vice President Dabney Yerima also said that the Southern Cameroons resistance can only be stopped if Yaoundé withdraws all its troops from the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and end its atrocities and acts of terrorism and genocide.
The Southern Cameroons Vice President praised the international community for breaking their silence and inaction over the crisis in Southern Cameroons. Dabney Yerima thanked the European Union and the United States of America for the pressure they are mounting on the French Cameroun regime in Yaounde.
By Asu Isong in Berlin