Fourteen civilians have been reportedly martyred and several others arrested as a result of the latest round of Cameroon government army atrocities targeting Amba fighters in Batibo and Guzang, says the Ambazonia Interim Government.

According to a statement by the Interim Government (IG) published by the Department for Homeland Security on Monday, 14 civilians, including 7 children and 2 women were killed in Batibo and Guzang and several others arrested during a Cameroon government army operation.

The Francophone army soldiers also destroyed four houses, the IG said in the statement, adding that many civilians escaped into the bushes.

Yaoundé through its new military commander recently launched a devastating offensive against Ambazonia Restoration Forces in the Northern Zone.

By Fon Lawrence in Bamenda

The exiled leader of the Ambazonia Interim Government Dabney Yerima says Biya and his French Cameroun political elites only understand the language of force.

Yerima said the continued deployment of Francophone soldiers to Southern Cameroons who are carrying out blind attacks against women and children in order to cover up the multi-layered crises in La Republique du Cameroun will fail and herald the collapse of the Biya regime.

Vice President Dabney Yerima made the remarks early on Monday after holding separate phone calls with two top Ground Zero commanders to discuss self defense operations.

The Southern Cameroons front line leader said the Ambazonia Interim Government (IG) condemns the French Cameroun crimes and reiterated IG support for an active resistance that will eventually stop the malice of the French Cameroun occupiers.

Yerima reiterated the IG’s call for holding a referendum involving all the people of Southern Cameroons.

Yaoundé has been trying to change the balance of power in Southern Cameroons by using brutal force.

By Chi Prudence Asong

The Vice President of the Ambazonia Interim Government Dabney Yerima has sent an indirect message to French Cameroun authorities, calling on them to free the leader of the Ambazonian nation President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and his top aides known as the NERA 10.

In a phone conversation with an opposition MP from the Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters party in South Africa on Friday morning, Comrade Dabney Yerima followed up on the fate of all Southern Cameroons detainees in French Cameroun including the Ambazonian leader asking the South African opposition MP to help to convey the Ambazonia Interim Government’s call for the release of all Southern Cameroons citizens in French Cameroun jails.

The Francophone dominated army and the National Gendarmerie have arrested hundreds of Southern Cameroonians since 2016 on lame and ridiculous charges such as taking part in anti government protest or having images of the Southern Cameroons war in mobile phones.

During the Friday phone conversation, Vice President Dabney Yerima also thanked the MP for the support Southern Cameroonians were getting in South Africa.

This comes as the Ambazonia Interim Government continues to build solid relations with political parties in the Southern Africa region.

Elsewhere in the conversation, the Ambazonian leader pointed to the deliberate silence being maintained by the African Union on the deteriorating situation in Southern Cameroons.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

The Ambazonia Interim Government has strongly condemned the brutal attack of the Biya Francophone regime on Batibo in the North West and the killing of innocent Southern Cameroons civilians including women and children, saying the people of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and Southern Cameroons Self Defense groups have the right to respond to any French Cameroun terrorist moves.

“It is the right of all Southern Cameroons resistance groups to act and defend the homeland in the face of the aggression and terrorist moves of the Biya French Cameroun regime,” Vice President Dabney Yerima said on Thursday.

The Southern Cameroons exiled leader added that the French Cameroun regime’s new wave of military operations across the Southern Cameroons remains a criminal, adventurous and provocative move.

Vice President Dabney Yerima emphasized that the Biya and his Beti Ewondo criminal gang in Yaounde will sooner or later shoulder full responsibility for the crime and the consequences of its aggression on the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.

Dabney Yerima urged the UN, the European Union and international organizations such as the Commonwealth to fulfill their legal, moral and human responsibility to defend the oppressed Ambazonian people and condemn the French Cameroun regime’s terrorist moves.

Yerima furthered that the international community should also take measures to stop the continuation of such crimes by the Yaoundé regime, which is the main factor behind instability and insecurity in the two Cameroons.

By Isong Asu with files from Chi Prudence Asong

Cameroon’s Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute said Thursday that peace and stability are gradually returning to the country’s Anglophone regions of Northwest and Southwest that have been ravaged by over five years of armed separatist conflict.

“Schools in most of our towns and main suburbs have gone operational. We have also observed so many cultural jamborees. Fresh vegetables, fresh groundnuts and other food products from the Northwest which had completely disappeared from the market have returned. This clearly shows that many of the farmers in those regions are beginning to feel more comfortable, more confident in going to their farms,” Ngute said in the capital Yaoundé during a meeting to evaluate strides made since a national dialogue was held in 2019 to find solutions to the conflict.

He said economic activities have resumed, many of the major roads were now passable and separatist fighters were dropping their arms to join disarmament and reintegration centers in the regions.

“This shows that life is steadily returning to normalcy and we must together work to consolidate this,” Ngute added.

Separatist fighters have been clashing with government forces since 2017 in a bid to create an independent nation in the two English-speaking regions.

Source: Xinhuanet

A homemade bomb was detonated in the Central Market area of Douala Aug. 4. There have been reports of injuries, but authorities have not yet confirmed the exact number. The blast comes two days after security officials issued warnings of a possible attack. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

Heightened security is likely around the site of the blast over the coming hours. Authorities may seek to close roads as they continue their investigation, resulting in localized transport and business disruptions.

Source: Crisis24