At least five people died Monday night in Cameroon’s economic capital, Douala, after the brake of a speedy truck failed, police said Tuesday.

“The truck lost control and drove over a distance of more than one kilometer right at the heart of Douala. It was running over motorcycles and vehicles.” Johnson Nfor who witnessed the accident said.

Two motorcyclists died on the spot and three others died in the hospital, while several others were injured during the accident.

Police said the driver of the truck who survived the accident has been put in custody.

Deadly road accidents in Cameroon are usually caused by reckless driving, bad road conditions and overloading, according to the Ministry of Transport.

Source: Xinhuanet

President Paul Biya has declared June 21 a national day of mourning to honor the 17 Cameroonian soldiers killed by terror group Boko Haram earlier in June in Far North region of the country.

“Flags will be flown at half-mast throughout the country, as well as at Cameroonian embassies and consular offices abroad,” Biya said in a statement released Monday evening.

The soldiers were killed on the night of June 9 to 10 after a protracted battle with fighters of the terror in Darak, a locality in Cameroon’s Far North region.

According to Cameroon’s Ministry of Defense, 64 Boko Haram militants were killed in the battle.

Source: Xinhuanet

 Fellow Ambazonians,

As we continue to negotiate the treacherous rivers of this struggle, we must constantly remind ourselves of the price- Freedom. We must also jog our memories that the pivotal points of this struggle are our leadership in the Yaoundé Principal Prison, our brothers and sisters locked up in the various prisons around Colonial French Cameroun, people in Ground Zero and Ground One. They are our pathway to the world stage. The criminal regime in Yaoundé believed that abducting our leaders was the end of our revolution. They were wrong. Our resolve over the last eighteen months gives me the confidence that we are on the right path. Step by step and with courage and determination, our Promise Land- Buea- will be a reality.

 Let me make the following pronouncement;

 • Since March of 2019, the former cabinet of the IG led by Dr Sako Ikome, had stopped paying for the legal fees of our Nera10 leadership in Kondengui.

 • Their plan was to allow the leadership to be condemned in the enemy’s dungeon so they can keep milking Ambazonians of their hard-earned money.

 • As part of that plan to allow the leaders to be condemned in jail, Barrister John Fru Nsoh colluded with Dr Sako and team to allege that Sisiku was COMPROMISED. This was clearly a coy plan to make fertile the grounds for their irrelevant impeachment.

 • Chris Anu, has now controversially put out an audio calling for a lockdown on Wednesday, the 19th of June, in solidarity with our leaders. This level of hypocrisy is on a magnitude never experienced on planet earth. Ambazonians have always held a massive lockdown each time The NERA10 are due in court. The IG therefore stands with our Restoration Forces in instructing the national lockdown. 

 • I am therefore calling on Chris Anu to desist from discussing or talking about the Nera10 leadership which they not only abandoned to be devoured by the enemy, but also decided to foolishly IMPEACH.

 • All Ambazonians should ignore the call by Chris Anu and any future communications issued by him purporting to sympathise with the leadership in jail.

The IG cabinet under Comrade Dabney Yerima, mindful of the abandonment and treasonous actions against our political prisoners who have been without legal representation since March 2018 and the Nera10 since March 2019, decided to perform their revolutionary duties by launching an emergency fund drive. The target was to raise the sum of $7000. Patriotic Ambazonians who believe in the vision and leadership of Sisiku and his cabinet rose up to the occasion and within four days, showed their commitment and support to their Constitutional

The Federal Republic of Ambazonia leader and his team. I’m pleased to announce that through the generosity of their hearts and pockets this sum of $7000 has been raised and dispatched as planned. 

To all our brave self-defence forces, our fathers and mothers, our brothers and sisters in G0, IDPs, refugees, we applaud your courage and fortitude. Sometimes, it must appear to you as if this shall never pass but rest assured that this too shall come to pass. Our nights are dark, our bodies are weak, our resolve is been tested but we shall overcome. Remain hopeful and prayerful and we shall get to Buea.

 God Bless Ambazonia

 Milton Taka Under-Secretary DCIT

Cameroon’s government said on Sunday that separatists in its restive English-speaking region had detonated an improvised explosive device that killed four police and wounded six.

“The government condemns in the strongest terms this criminal act, perpetrated by armed bandits and terrorists with no faith or law,” the statement said. It also said the attack occurred along a road near the district of Eyumojock in the south west of the country late on Saturday.

There was no immediate reaction or claim of responsibility from any separatist group.

What began as peaceful protests in Cameroon’s southwestern Anglophone region in 2017 have degenerated into near daily violence between the forces of Cameroon’s mostly French-speaking government and several separatist groups.

The English-speaking Northwest and Southwest of the country complain of being marginalized by the French speaking majority.

Since 2017, about 1,800 people have been killed and more than 530,000 displaced with 1.3 million in need in the region

It is rare but not unheard of for the separatists to use bomb technology, but this would mark their first deadly strike using a bomb.

The attack came after both sides claimed to be open to dialog, which rights groups doubt will happen under current conditions. Prime Minister Joseph Ngute has said the government would be willing to talk to the rebels, but would not consider their demand for secession.

Eleven movements representing Anglophone Cameroon, including the main armed factions, last month said they were willing to enter mediated discussions with the state.

The United Nations estimates that, since 2017, about 1,800 people have been killed and more than 530,000 displaced with 1.3 million in need in the region.

Cameroon’s linguistic divide has existed since the end of World War One, when the League of Nations divided the former German colony of Kamerun, in central Africa, between allied victors, leaving most of Cameroon French-administered but a small part run by Britain.

Source: National Post