There is more bad news in the offing in Southern Cameroons for Yaounde government officials. Since Senator Mundi was picked up in the Northwest region by Southern Cameroonian security forces for high treason, many CPDM loyalists have been ill at ease, praying that what has happened to the senator should not happen to them.

Many government officials operating in the two English-speaking regions have been losing sleep following the Senator’s arrest for acts of treason which have taken her the ‘green jails’ of Southern Cameroons.

They fear that they may be the next, is keeping government officials awake and most of them are already losing weight, especially those in the Northwest region where violent gunfire exchanges have been taking place between the Yaounde government military and armed Ambazonian fighters.

Videos of Senator Mundi delivering a speech in which she underscored that she was Ambazonian by birth but due to greed, she had been working with the enemy to kill Ambazonian citizens, have struck fear in many minds in Yaoundé.

The penalty for such a treasonable felony committed by Senator Mundi is usually death, but Ambazonian security forces in the Northwest region have opted for alternative forms of punishment.

They are calling for an exchange of prisoners with the Yaounde government which is pretending that the capture of Senator Mundi was nothing important but behind the scenes, it is dispatching the military to locate the 80-year-old senator who is suffering from a slew of diseases, including diabetes and high blood pressure.

Ambazonian security forces have called for the release of more 75 Ambazonian citizens who have been in the dungeons of the Yaoundé government for years, including Nfor Ngala and Julius Ayuk Tabe, who is the poster boy of the rebellion which has shaken the government to its core.

The arrest and detention of Senator Mundi is not going to be the last. She is the most senior government official who is being detained in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.

Since Senator Mundi was picked up, there has been a huge movement of many Yaounde government sympathizers to areas they hold are safe from the the chaos playing out in Southern Cameroons.

Many chiefs, fons, CPDM government delegates and mayors are packing and leaving Southern Cameroons as they suspect that the long arm of the Southern Cameroons Justice system may take them to the “green jails” of Southern Cameroons.

Even some chiefs who have been hiding in Buea are contemplating leaving the region, especially as the security situation is fast deteriorating.

Prof. Peter Agborbechem may soon be out of Buea, as Ambazonian security forces have identified him as a student abuser and they are prepared to make him pay for his crimes in the University of Buea.

Agborbechem, who is a chief of a small village in Manyu Division, was, last year, dismissed from his administrative position in the University of Buea for his sexual “vagrancy” and exploitation of females in the university.

For some time now, Agborbechem has been lying low like an inactive volcano, but reports by Cameroon Concord News Group correspondents in Buea indicate that Agborbechem who is a CPDM criminal is still dangerous to young women, stressing that leaving him in the university is the worst mistake any administrative officials can make.

Since the government he supports does not want to take appropriate measures that can stop him from abusing women, Ambazonian security forces have said they will put him out of business like many other irresponsible chiefs and fons in Ambazonia who are violating the laws of the newly-minted republic.

Meanwhile, there is a huge divide between northwesterners and southwesterners over those arrested by Ambazonian security forces.

Fighters in the southwest region are accusing their counterparts in the northwest  region of discriminatory behavior in the treatment of those they consider as blacklegs.

According to a fighter in Ekondo-titi who elected anonymity, North westerners are sparing the lives of blacklegs who are of Northwest extraction, adding that many Southwestern blacklegs picked up in Ekondo-Titi and other parts of the Southwest region have been killed according to Ambazonian law.

In a voice message wherein the fighter made the accusation, the fighter pointed to the killing of the Ekondo-Titi mayor and those who were part of his convoy when they were heading to Ekondo-titi to lay the groundwork for Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute’s visit which was promptly aborted after the killing of the mayor.

He also cited the killing of six Southwest government officials who were in Indian Division on mission a year ago, but were kidnapped and killed, with some of their bodies still not yet accounted for.

Ambazonian fighters of Southwest extraction hold that keeping Senator Mundi alive up till now is a clear demonstration that fighters of Northwest extraction are not playing by a script that was jointly agreed to.

They argue that by now, Senator Mundi’s head should have been severed from her body and sent to Yaoundé for the Yaoundé government to understand that it must take the Southern Cameroons issue seriously.

According to the fighter, the issue of discrimination might split the fighters if appropriate measures are not taken.

He advised the Cameroon Concord News Group that more actions are being planned, adding that Ambazonian security forces will be casting their net far and wide in order to create a huge impact.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai with reports by Stephen Mokake in Buea

The Ambazonia Interim Government has hit out at the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo regime in Yaoundé for its continued military deployments to Southern Cameroons.

“The continued deployment of troops loyal to the French Cameroun regime to Southern Cameroons invading Ambazonian towns and villages proves La Republique’s blatant defiance and lack of seriousness about peace,” Vice President Dabnney Yerima said on Wednesday.

Dabney Yerima expressed deep regret to Doctors Without Borders for not being allowed to operate in Southern Cameroons in order to help Southern Cameroonians in need of medical care.

The Francophone dominated Cameroon government army offensive that has been seeking to restore state authority in Anglophone Cameroon has killed thousands of English speaking Cameroonians and turned the entire Southern Cameroons region into the scene of Africa’s worst humanitarian crisis.

By Isong Asu

Amid continued French Cameroun military operations against Southern Cameroonians, members of the Ambazonia Interim Government have held a forum called “Ground Zero – the new route to Buea” in the German city of Dusseldorf.

Senior officials of the Ambazonia Interim Government including Vice President Dabney Yerima participated in the one day event to express their support for the Southern Cameroonians defending the Ambazonian homeland.

Cameroon Concord News understands the strategic meeting is a preparation for a complete change of strategy in the resistance and also an intensive evaluation of the Big Rubbergun Project.

During the forum, Vice President Dabney Yerima called for forming official and popular funds through the Bank of Ambazonia to support Amba fighters and Southern Cameroons refugees in Nigeria.

Yerima also opined that there was an urgent need for prominent Southern Cameroons elite in Europe and the US to push for an international political discourse of the crisis in Southern Cameroons.

The Southern Cameroons exiled leader also said that it is time for the Southern Cameroons diaspora to prove their support for Ground Zero against ongoing French Cameroun crimes.

By Chi Prudence Asong

Journalists in Cameroon are marking World Press Freedom Day (May 3) with calls for government troops and rebels to stop abusing reporters covering the separatist conflict. Cameroonian media groups say at least 80 journalists have fled from the country’s troubled western regions because of threats to their safety.

Lambert Kehven, 36, is a baker in Cameroon’s capital, Yaoundé.

But two years ago, he was a reporter in Cameroon’s Northwest region for Canal 2 International, one of the country’s top TV stations, reporting on the separatist conflict.

Kehven says he decided to leave the area and his career after covering an attack on a village that left scores of people dead, and homes burned.

But it wasn’t reporting on the brutality or violence that pushed him to flee.

Kehven says he was ordered by both the anglophone rebels and government troops to report lies.

“After intimidation at gunpoint, the fighters instructed me to report that the houses were burnt by the military,” he said. “When I finally got to the site where the houses were burnt, the military equally ordered me, they ordered me to report that the houses were torched by the separatists.”

Kehven says both the separatists and government troops demanded to read his reports before publication and threatened to kill him if he said anything negative about them.

Both Cameroon’s military and rebel fighters deny threatening or abusing journalists.

But Cameroon’s Union of Journalists says since the conflict began in 2017, separatists have abducted 16 journalists and four of them died in their custody.

Cameroon authorities blame separatists for attacks on 12 community radio stations in the western regions and forcing eight newspapers to close.

Meanwhile, the Cameroon Association of English-Speaking Journalists (CAMASEJ) says government troops are holding nine journalists that were reporting in the regions.

CAMASEJ says at least 80 journalists have fled the western regions, most to the cities of Douala, Yaoundé, and Bafoussam.

Ngah Christian Mbipgo is publisher of Cameroon’s lone English daily newspaper The Guardian Post and president of the Cameroon Association of English Language Publishers.

He says his association assists journalists who flee threats from troops and the rebels, also known as Ambazonian or Amba fighters.

“The first thing you have to do is to talk to them, build them up psychologically, make them see the importance of regaining self-confidence and healing their minds,” he said. “Sometimes we have gone to the extent of giving health assistance for those of them who may have suffered one or two attacks by either the military or Amba fighters. We offered some of them office space at the Guardian Post. They have access to the internet.”

The Committee to Protect Journalists in February joined 26 groups in calling on Cameroon’s President Paul Biya to release all people detained for free expression, including four journalists.

Thomas Awah Junior, Mancho Bibixy, Tsi Conrad, and Kingsley Fomunyuy Njoka were arrested between 2016 and 2020 and are being held at Yaounde’s Kondengui Central Prison.

The four journalists were charged with terrorism and collaborating with separatists, charges they deny.

Despite the arrests, communication minister Rene Emmanuel Sadi claims the media is free in Cameroon but warns journalists against what he calls attempts to destroy the country’s image.

“Media men and women in Cameroon carry out their daily work in total freedom and independence. However, incitement to violence and hostility against the homeland is not tolerable in the rule of law and in a society of freedom and responsibility,” he said.

The Cameroon Association of English-Speaking Journalists on World Press Freedom Day called on both rebel fighters and government forces to stop attacking journalists.

The separatists have been fighting since 2017 to carve out an independent English-speaking state in Cameroon’s Northwest and Southwest regions.

Cameroon’s English speakers complain of second-class treatment by the country’s French-speaking majority.

Source: VOA