The much-sung Biya’s return to Cameroon today July 25, 2021, has been postponed indefinitely and no explanation was provided by the country’s authorities.

Mr. Biya was expected to return today after a so-called private visit abroad which many skeptics say is more of a medical visit than a private visit.

A source close to the Cameroonian dictator who has ruled the country for almost 40 years has disclosed that the ailing Biya cannot sit for seven hours on the airplane after a major brain surgery.

The source added that Mr. Biya was slowly coming out of his deep coma, but he was too weak to do anything on his own.

The Cameroon Concord News Group’s Paris Correspondent who is currently in Geneva has reported that there is panic within the ailing president’s entourage, something which underscores that there are dark clouds gathering over the country.

He added that though most of them were tight-lipped, it could be deciphered from their silence that there was something ominous in the offing.

A hospital source in Geneva also told our correspondent that given his age, the chances of Mr. Biya recovering were as slim as the chances of a real national dialogue taking place in Cameroon.

The source, which spoke on condition of anonymity, insisted that at his age and given the number of illnesses he was harboring, it would be a miracle for him to live for a long time.

He stressed that within government circles, the issue they were facing was how to get Mr. Biya back home safely to demonstrate that he could still run the show.

Now that he cannot conveniently sit on an airplane, his next option will be to get him on a train to the nearest port city for him to get a cruise ship back home, but that will take a few days and the news about his failing health will be spreading like wildfire.

Supporters of the corrupt leader are hugely disappointed. They had donned their party uniforms today to welcome him, but to their greatest dismay, they were advised to head home with no clear and convincing news about their corrupt hero.

A source in Yaoundé has informed the Cameroon Concord News Group that many people will lose sleep today. The indefinite postponement of the dictator’s return has left many wondering and dejected.

“We are finally accepting that there is something brewing in Geneva. This is the first time Mr. Biya’s return to his native land has been postponed,” the source said.

“I have tonnes of butterflies in my stomach and many of our party members are really worried. We have been told in strict confidence that the president might not be in good shape to undertake such a long journey. How is he therefore going to return?” the stressed out CPDM stalwart quipped.

“I pray he does not return in a coffin. He has been sick lately and many of us have been scared. I know many of my party members are sincerely sympathizing with our national president, but the crooks among us are simply thinking of their fate if things go the wrong way,” he said.

“Some of these fellows have robbed the nation blind and they know that if things go the wrong way, they will either be fleeing the country or heading to jail. This is not a good situation,” he added.

Cameroon is heading in the wrong direction. Mr. Biya’s demise will surely trigger an orgy of killing as all the other ethnic groups are clearly pitted against the Betis who have run the country’s economy aground.

Another source close to the French embassy advised the Cameroon Concord News Group that applications for French visas have gone up ever since news of Mr. Biya’s failing health made the headlines.

According to the source, government officials are asking for visas to prepare themselves just in case the architect of the massive corruption in Cameroon exits unceremoniously.

Under Mr. Biya, Cameroon has earned the unpopular tag as one of the most corrupt countries on the face of the earth and the country has once earned the humiliating distinction as the most corrupt country in the world for two years in a row.

Mr. Biya’s declining health is a real torture to many who have willingly participated in the corruption that has become the country’s hallmark.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai with files from Geneva and Yaounde

Nearly everything about the funeral was not familiar with the Cameroonian community in the UK. It was not about first Holy Communion or christenings or a wedding. It was a funeral. But this time around for a Manyu Princess-Mama Bessem Tataw!

During Saturday’s funeral service for Mama Mercy Bessem Tataw, her daughter Vivian Mambo remained steadfast as ever supported by her husband Charles Mambo both of whom were socially distanced from the sparse Cameroonian congregation.

Until Saturday 24 July 2021, Cameroonian funerals in the UK were simply to move around with a begging bowl. Correspondingly, the long months of the Covid-19 crisis have made virtual send-offs horribly commonplace. Funerals were all moved to Zoom and Facebook. But this was not the case of Saturday’s event attended by a sell-out crowd including ex-students of Saker Baptist College.

Watching the progress of Mama Mercy Tataw’s coffin, the fact is that there was everything: consolations of hugs and belted-out hymns, a scrum of shoulders to weep on and old faces to recognize.

As it happened: Mama Mercy Bessem Tataw laid to rest in Hendon Cemetery

The United Kingdom Sakerrettes alumni group acting as ambassadors and trusted advocates for Saker Baptist College receiving the horse-drawn hearse that grazed the streets of Mill Hill, London befitting of Royalty. And inside the white casket drawn by white horses to the land of Manyu ancestors laid a Queen-Mama Mercy Bessem Tataw

Mrs. Vivian Mambo and Charles Mambo led the Cameroonian community in one minute of silence in memory of late Mama Mercy Bessem Tataw before her funeral and burial at Hendon Cemetery.

Members of the Cameroonian community in the UK pay tribute to the late Mama Bessem Tataw

Seven Cameroon government soldiers have been killed in a suspected Boko Haram attack in the Far North region.

It has been more than a week since there were clashes with the Nigerian Islamic sect who have regained ground for several months.

Our correspondent in Maroua who confirmed today’s early morning attack said Boko Haram fighters raided the Mechanized Infantry Division at Bim in Sagmé, Fotokol district at around 4:00 a.m. local time (5:00 a.m. GMT).

Cameroon Concord News gathered that the assailants came in large numbers with vehicles and motorcycles.

This deadly attack comes after a week of calm. On July 15, Boko Haram elements attacked a school and an army outpost in Talla-Katchi.

Between July 19 and 20, approximately 50 Boko Haram members laid down their arms and surrendered in two waves to the Kolofata vigilance committee in the Mayo-Sava department, of which Mora is the main town.

By Rita Akana with files

There is total demoralization and confusion among soldiers and politicians in Yaoundé as Amba fighters continue to chop down Cameroon’s defense forces.

Over the last month, the Ambazonian Defense Forces have proven that they can strike the country’s soldiers wherever and whenever they want.

Thousands of soldiers have been killed by Ambazonian Defense Forces who are fighting for the total liberation of their homeland.

The fighters have even started going beyond their territory to attack army soldiers in East Cameroon.

The fighters have grown in both confidence and experience and many of them now hold that Cameroon’s army soldiers are as good as boy’s scouts.

Given the brazen attacks  and the killing of many soldiers, the Ministry of Defense has decided to organize a one-week defense seminar in Dschang, chaired by the minister of Defense, Joseph Beti Assomo, who smuggled himself into Dschang for fear of being attacked by Ambazonian Defense Forces.

The meeting, which is also attended by senior military officials, will enable participants to take a long and hard look at the military’s strategy which has not delivered any meaningful results.

By Rita Akana

The Southern Cameroons Secretary of the Economy Hon. Tabenyang Brado has said that all Francophone civil administrators and Francophone army soldiers are considered by Ambazonia Restoration Forces as occupiers and therefore must leave the Ambazonian homeland.  Tabenyang Brado stressed that the French Cameroun regime in Yaoundé should pull out all its military and civil administrators from Southern Cameroons except Roman Catholic clerics.

Comrade Tabenyang Brado made the remarks in an interview with Cameroon Concord News on Tuesday, alleging that soon and very soon Vice President Dabney Yerima and French Cameroun’s Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh will agreed on the matter.

“Yaoundé will accept very soon that all its army soldiers and administrators except Roman Catholic clerics will have to leave Southern Cameroons and this issue has long been stated by President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe” Tabenyang furthered.

For over four years now, Cameroon government troops, its police force and its gendarmerie have been incapable of providing Southern Cameroons with security.

“Had the so-called armee du Cameroun and BIR been capable of securing Ambaland, they would have done so over their 59-year-long occupation of the country” Tabenyang Brado said.

By Chi Prudence Asong

The news from Switzerland is not good for Cameroon in general and the ruling crime syndicate in particular. Cameroon’s president, Paul Biya, is currently fighting for his life in a Swiss clinic where he had a delicate surgery to remove blood clots in his brain.

According to a source in Geneva, though the surgery went smoothly, the president and his medical team say the surgeons are worried, as the 88-year-old is still trapped in a long unsettling coma days after the operation was conducted.

The president’s entourage has been warned not to deliver any information on the president’s health and these instructions are seemingly being followed to the letter. However, keeping a secret is the most challenging thing and some members of the president’s encourage are already singing like magpies.

They are already briefing members of their political group to whom they owe allegiances. To get more information on the drama unfolding in Geneva, the Cameroon Concord News Group has moved its Paris correspondent to Geneva to work some of the Group’s sources.

It should be recalled that Mr. Biya has been home to multiple debilitating illnesses and at his age anything can happen. Biya has been playing host to diabetes, hypertension and a heart problem that have been huge concerns to his family and the ruling party.

While Swiss medical experts are worried about the dictator’s health, in Yaoundé the concerns are different.

The officials of the ruling party, the CPDM, are more concerned than Mr. Biya’s family. Many of them have been involved in many political and financial crimes and if the worst were to happen, they might not have the same protection that the Biya regime is affording them.

Various political groups have been meeting in Yaoundé to discuss in private about the president’s deteriorating health and the potential of chaos playing out in Cameroon if Mr. Biya were to kick the bucket.

Constitutionally, it is the Senate president, Marcel Niat Njifenji, who is supposed to take over in the event of a vacancy, but he himself is in worse shape than Biya,  as his own multiple illnesses are already agreeing on when to put him out of his misery.

The Speaker of the National Assembly, Cavaye Yegue Djibril, is therefore likely to take over in case Niat exits unceremoniously, although he too is suffering from a serious respiratory track problem and a heart problem due to decades of smoking and alcoholism.

The fear in Yaoundé is that Mr. Cavaye is from the north and the Betis who have run the economy and country aground are all trembling, fearing that if power goes back to the north, a lot of things will go awry for them.

Northerners have yet to forget about the genocide that visited them in 1984 after the April 6 coup and the northerners are really serious about having their pound of flesh.

A source at the Presidency of the Republic has said that there is panic all over the place. Even the Secretary General, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh is not given a minute-by-minute update on the president’s health and this is concerning to those loyal to the Secretary General whom they think should take the reins once things swing in the wrong direction for Mr. Biya.

The battle lines are becoming very visible. Ngoh Ngoh is leading a group of people who clearly want the constitution to be circumvented, while Mr. Niat, though a dying man, is carefully playing his cards.

He does not want those close to Biya to see him as being very ambitious, but he really wants to lay his hands on power. Many say he has a few bones to pick with some Betis who have challenged his authority and do not really consider him as the constitutional heir.

Meanwhile, another group is pushing Frank Biya to the fore to ensure that he takes power once he father dies. But this is not going down well with Chantal Biya, the country’s first lady, who has no regard for Frank.

Even the Secretary General at the Presidency of the Republic is against Frank Biya but he is holding his cards so close to his chest. He knows politics is a dangerous game and tides could turn at anytime.

Ngoh Ngoh is Chantal Biya’s favorite but she is hamstrung by the constitution and the political awareness of the people of Cameroon. She understands that even France might not help to impose a president on Cameroonians as that might trigger massive political chaos in the country.

Cameroon’s future is as bleak as Mr. Biya’s chances of staging a spectacular recovery. The world is just watching and many observers fear that Cameroon might implode if Mr. Biya dies.

The clouds gathering over Cameroon are really dark. The Anglophone crisis has left the country on the brink of an implosion. Corruption and tribalism have pitted many tribes against the Betis who have dominated other tribes for 40 years and ruined the country’s once buoyant economy.

The days ahead could bring bad news to the country’s shores if Mr. Biya does not beat the odds. He must return to Yaoundé sooner rather than later if his Beti clan must continue to enjoy the protection he has offered them for the massive corruption they have orchestrated over the last four decades.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai