Cameroon government army soldiers disguised as Ambazonia fighters have reportedly killed at least 20 Southern Cameroonians in a community in Boki Local Government Area of Rivers State.

Cameroon Intelligence Report correspondent in Akwaya revealed that the Francophone soldiers crossed from Tinta on Sunday and raided the locality deep inside Nigerian territory in search of separatist’s fighters.

Nigerian authorities have openly blamed the attack on Southern Cameroons Restoration Forces saying the Ambazonian fighters crossed the Nigerian border Sunday morning to attack their compatriots who fled into Nigeria and refused to join their forces to fight in Cameroon.

Southern Cameroonians who speak Bokye language have now flooded the Bashu community area, not far from Danare, where Nigerian troops have a small camp.

Cameroon government troops passing for Ambazonian fighters regularly saunter into Nigerian territory, where there are many Southern Cameroonians to wreak havoc.

By Kingsley Betek in Mamfe

Troops loyal to the Biya Francophone regime said on Sunday that they have killed three Ambazonian fighters including a prominent commander in Manyu Division in the South West.

The Francophone soldiers reportedly launched an offensive on Saturday in Afab village in Eyumojock Sub Division habouring a Southern Cameroons Self Defense camp and killed a senior Ambazonian commander.

Cameroon Concord News gathered from reliable sources in Ekok town that two other fighters were also killed during the clashes while four government troops were seriously injured.

Last week, Southern Cameroons Self Defense Units in Eyumojock imposed a lockdown in the area, blocking the only trunk B road that links Cameroon to neighboring Nigeria.

Clashes between the Francophone dominated Cameroon government army and Ambazonia Restoration Forces began in 2017 after President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe declared the independence of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

By Enowtaku Ebanghatabi Christelle with files from Kingsley Betek

Frederick Takang, a correspondent of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was early Thursday, May 26,  abducted by an unidentified armed gang in Bamenda, chief town of the restive Anglophone Northwest province of Cameroon.

The kidnappers, who took the journalist to an unknown destination, have not yet indicated the reasons for the abduction nor have they given any specific conditions for his release.

Bamenda is the epicentre of the security crises in the two English-speaking regions of Northwest and Southwest where separatists have been clashing with security forces for the past five years.

The separatists, who say they are fighting for the creation of an independent state of Ambazonia, have of recent reduced their fight to mostly kidnappings for ransom and targeting soft civilian targets.

On Saturday, April 30, 2022, the separatists abducted Senator Regina Mundi, a ruling party, Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement (CPDM) upper house member.

The Senator was travelling from Yaounde to Bamenda to attend a wedding when she was abducted.

The separatists demanded for the release of their colleagues held in various prisons in the country in exchange for her release and promised to kill her before the national day celebration on May 20, 2022 if their demands are not met.

May 20 has come and gone and nothing yet has been heard from the separatists nor from the abducted senator.

Source: Humanglemedia

The Vice President of the Ambazonia Interim Government says the 20^th May 2022 French Cameroun celebration in the Ambazonia homeland was a battle against the Interim Government (IG), and the IG achieved great victory in the boycott.

In his remarks in Cambodia recently, Comrade Dabney Yerima said the massive boycott conveyed a message of Southern Cameroons adherence and commitment to the struggle.

Yerima stated that the huge support for President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and the Ambazonia Interim Government as indicated by the boycott showed Ground Zero’s commitment to the path of resistance.

Vice President Dabney Yerima opined that after five years of aggressive military and media campaign targeting the people of Southern Cameroons and their Interim Government, spearheaded by the 90-year-old Biya and his French Cameroun political elites, support for the Ambazonia Interim Government and its jailed leaders has increased.

Yerima said there is a big advantage in having all restoration groups looking at the same direction.  He further said the nature of the Southern Cameroons liberation war  does not allow one single Ambazonia county or group to solve the crisis single-handedly  even if they have the majority following within their respective county, which calls for cooperation between all different groups.

Dabney Yerima also debunked lies promoted by some pro Yaoundé CPDM Southern Cameroonians that the Ambazonian resistance bloc is divided.

By Enowtaku Ebanghatabi Christelle in the USA

Renowned Southern Cameroons academic Professor Carlson Anyangwe says the deliberate silence on the part of the international community on the war in British Southern Cameroons is to blame for widespread humanitarian crisis.

Carlson Anyangwe told a group of Southern Cameroonians during a recent stop at the Heathrow International airport that all efforts by the Ambazonia Interim Government geared towards establishing security and stability in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia is hindered by the illegal French Cameroun military occupation.

Anyangwe slammed inhumane living conditions and havoc in areas such as Akwaya in Manyu, Weh in Menchum, Tatum in Bui and much of Ndian County under effective Biya French Cameroun control, where Francophone authorities plundered natural resources including timber.

The much respected Southern Cameroons front line leader said the Vice President of the Ambazonia Interim Government Dabney Yerima has made great diplomatic victories against La Republique du Cameroun in recent months, but disunity and lack of support from the Southern Cameroons diaspora is delaying the liberation process.

Biya and his French Cameroun political elites backed by France invaded Southern Cameroons in 2017 under the pretext of fighting terrorists and separatists. However, numerous independent reports have indicated that the war is mainly for the control of Southern Cameroons wealth and the oil and gas in the Bakassi Peninsular.

Under former president Ahmadou Ahidjo, French Cameroun began exploiting oil and gas from Southern Cameroons territory.

By Isong Asu

A boat carrying migrants from Cameroon and some other countries from Libya to Europe has capsized off Tunisia’s coast.

This prompted an ongoing rescue operation Wednesday after one body was recovered and dozens of people were reported missing.

The International Organization for Migration said that 75 people were unaccounted for and 30 others were rescued after the boat sank off Sfax in southern Tunisia.

Mourad Turki, a Sfax courts spokesman, told The Associated Press that those who were rescued were between 18 and 40 years old and of various nationalities, including people from Bangladesh, Egypt, Morocco and Cameroon. Turki added that the initial numbers of those missing were provisional and could increase.

Esma Rihane, a spokesperson for the IOM, said that the Tunisian navy was continuing to comb the area and search for the missing.

The boat reportedly departed from Zuwara in north Libya on Sunday night.

According to the Sfax National Guard, the boat ran aground 10 kilometers (six miles) from the island of Kerkennah, off Tunisia’s coast.

Zuwara serves as a departure point for migrants from Libya attempting to reach the Italian coast by sea.

Last July, a boat carrying 127 migrants from Zuwara sank off Zarzis, a port in southern Tunisia, leaving 43 people missing.

The central Mediterranean, which connects Libya and the Maghreb countries to Italy or Malta, is the most dangerous migration route in the world, according to the IOM.

The U.N. agency estimates that more than 1,500 people died or went missing in the area in 2021 and more than 500 so far in 2022.

Source: pmnews Nigeria

Reports by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) indicate that over 500 Cameroonian women, men, and children have arrived in Nigeria as 0f April 2022.

The report revealed the refugees entered through Nigeria’s borders in Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Benue, Enugu, Cross River, and Taraba states.

Those in Taraba State, Northeast Nigeria, are mainly in Sardauna Local Government Area (LGA).

The UN Refugee Agency said nearly 80 per cent of the refugees are women and children, adding that the new addition brings the total number of Cameroonian refugees in Nigeria to 77,000 as of April 2022, compared to 76,577 refugees registered in March 2022.

According to the agency, the refugees are those who fled their villages due to the ongoing conflict between armed groups and security forces in the English-speaking part of the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon.

Since 2017, conflict in Cameroon has been rooted in the colonisation of Cameroon by both the French and British governments and the two languages that came with it – French and English language.

Since then, the Anglophone Cameroonians have long complained about the almost total domination of public life by the francophone Cameroonians.

This historical marginalisation led to calls for a separatist movement. Currently, the conflict has also led to the death of 4,000 civilians and more than 712,000 internally displaced.

UNHCR steps in 

According to the agency, about 19,000 refugees received cash to purchase food of their choice in Nigeria’s Benue and Cross River states.

The agency added that Cameroonian refugees had been moved to new settlements, where they receive food as well as essential items, and also, women and girls are also being provided with sanitary kits, including other items like buckets, soap, and towels.

Humanitarian  concerns

According to UNHCR, refugees have reported arbitrary arrests and restrictions of movement by security officials due to expired ID cards.

“The ID card renewal is linked to their temporary protection status (TPS), and UNHCR continues to explore ways to reduce arbitrary arrests through sensitisation and training of security officials,” UNHCR said.

In Akwa Ibom, Benue, Cross River, and Taraba state, UNHCR and a collision of humanitarian actors undertook over 25 visits on advocacy, border, and detention monitoring to the immigration posts, National Drug Law Development Agency, Federal Road Safety Corps, Security and Civil Defence Corps, correctional centres, and the police stations, to promote refugee’s access to justice, freedom of movement, and advocate against the arbitrary arrest and detention of refugees.

Source: Humanglemedia

The Vice President of the Ambazonia Interim Government says the people of Southern Cameroons will not tie the progress of the liberation struggle to unity talks advocated by some frontline leaders for political reasons.

Speaking to Cameroon Concord News after a short stay in Cambodia in Asia, Dabney Yerima said the blood of all Southern Cameroonians that have been killed ever since Biya and his Francophone political elites declared war against Ambazonia carries the message of resistance against the enemy, protecting Anglo-Saxon values, building the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, resolving problems confronting Amba restoration groups, forging unity, Amba cohesion, and adhering to the guidelines set by President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe the leader of the Ambazonian nation.

Yerima further said that killing or humiliating our senior citizens such as Mama Regina Mundi is simply pushing the international community away from our struggle.

Vice President Dabney Yaerima concluded that French Cameroun strategy is to dishearten the Southern Cameroons population while President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe is to hearten the people.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

A Southern Cameroons academic Dr Patrick Ayuk says the oppressed people of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia both at home and abroad must fight till the last man standing to overturn the existing French backed French Cameroun system which is rooted in marginalization and exploitation of Southern Cameroons.

Dr Patrick Ayuk who also moonlights as a senior adviser to Vice President Dabney Yerima made the remark during a phone conversation with Cameroon Concord News on Monday while commenting on the successful boycott of May 20^th in the entire Southern Cameroons.

“What we are seeing today in Yaoundé are concerted efforts to continue making the oppressed people of Southern Cameroons slaves of the Francophone system. The so-called Anglophone members of government in Yaoundé deserved condemnation for their continued support of the exploitative and discriminatory political culture which remains pervasive in La Republique du Cameroun,” Dr Patrick Ayuk said.

Dr Patrick Ayuk furthered that “The only solution to this quagmire is for the Ambazonia Interim Government in alliance with other Southern Cameroons restoration groups to overturn the existing system which is rooted in marginalization and exploitation. The Ambazonia resistance will eventually give birth to a new nation and designed a system that will eliminate marginalization, national oppression and economic exploitation forever.”

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

At least four armed separatists were killed in Cameroon’s war-torn region of Southwest on Sunday when government troops fought off a rebel ambush, the army said.

Several separatist gunmen were also injured when government troops repelled the ambush targeting a military convoy in Otou, a locality near the border with Nigeria, the army said.

Two soldiers were wounded in the fighting, it said.

Last week, armed separatists announced on social media that they had decided to block the main road that links Nigeria and Cameroon in the region and threatened to attack soldiers and civilians that try to get through.

Since 2017, government forces have been fighting armed separatists in Cameroon’s two Anglophone regions of Northwest and Southwest.

Source: Xinhuanet