14, June 2018
President Sako Decision on My Trip To Buea Coming Soon 0
The Acting President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, His Excellency Dr. Samuel Ikome Sako has called on all Southern Cameroons liberation groups to overcome their differences and take a unified front in supporting the Ambazonia Self-Defense Council Restoration Forces.
President Sako through Ambazonia’s Communications Secretary Chris Anu warned on Tuesday against any Southern Cameroons organization pursuing a unilateral resistance policy regarding French Cameroun military illegal activities inside Ambazonia territory. Dr. Sako observed that his decision on My Trip to Buea will be made earlier than expected and added that Southern Cameroonians needed a unified approach that addressed the interests of all Ambazonians and the international community.
Delivering the message from President Dr. Ikome Sako to the people of Southern Cameroons, Hon. Chris Anu further stated that the Interim Government (IG) will not act unilaterally, but that everything under the direct supervision of President Sako will be with agreements with other leaders on Ground Zero, so that Southern Cameroonians will always have a unified Ambazonia approach.
The Acting President also opined that Southern Cameroonians in Europe, South Africa, Canada and the USA should and must stick together and continue to donate generously to My Trip to Buea. Over the past two years ever since President Biya of Cameroon declared war against the people of Southern Cameroons, more than 40, 000 Ambazonians have fled the conflict into neighboring Nigeria. The United Nations reported recently that there were 160,000 internally displaced Southern Cameroonians in need of food, shelter and medicinE.
Chris Anu in his audio message acknowledged that the IG was lacking far behind the two million dollar target for My Trip to Buea.
By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai
15, June 2018
France’s Sophie Pétronin shown in Mali hostage video 0
An agency that monitors jihadist websites says al Qaeda’s Mali branch has released a video of two hostages, including French aid worker Sophie Pétronin, who was abducted in late 2016.
SITE Intelligence Group said the video released Wednesday on Telegram by the Mali-based Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen shows Pétronin and Colombian nun Gloria Cecilia Narvaez.
Pétronin, 75, was abducted in late 2016 by armed men in the northern Malian town of Gao, where she ran an organisation for malnourished children. Narvaez was seized near Mali’s border with Burkina Faso in February 2017. The footage shows the two women together, with Narvaez providing care to Pétronin.
SITE says Pétronin addresses her son and expresses a wish to reunite with her family. She then addresses French President Emmanuel Macron, stating that the footage was recorded on June 7.
Narvaez addresses Pope Francis, asking him to intervene on behalf of the sick Pétronin. In January, the insurgents released a video of Narvaez, with an extremist narrating an appeal for the payment of her release. Pétronin appeared in videos released in March of this year and in July 2017.
In 2012, Mali’s north fell under the control of jihadist groups linked to al Qaeda who exploited an ethnic Tuareg-led rebel uprising, though the Islamists were largely ousted by a French-led military operation in January 2013.
Since then, jihadists have continued to mount numerous attacks on civilians and the army, as well as on French and UN forces stationed there.
(FRANCE 24 with AP)