Nodem, who’s from Cameroon, is the Presbyterian Hunger Program’s Associate for International Hunger Concerns. Serving in Lima, Peru, Koball is a mission co-worker serving with the Peru Joining Hands Network.

Nodem spoke about colonization and globalization. He said that although Cameroon gained its independence from Great Britain and France 60 years ago, it’s as if colonizers are still present. In part that’s because Cameroon’s natural resources — including oil, timber and coffee — are exported. Value is added in other countries, and the money made by selling those products remains outside Cameroon’s coffers.

He identified three drivers of colonization in Cameroon: gold, God and glory. The first two are fairly well-known: colonizers had a financial interest in extracting natural resources and were also interested in converting people to Christianity. The “glory” part “was about showing your influence,” Nodem said. “What resources did you find there? It was about showing power.”

As a result of the 19th century “Scramble of Africa,” countries were sliced up arbitrarily, he said. “They weren’t thinking about the consequences” of the warfare those practices would help bring about.

“Colonization makes people feel powerless in their own country,” he said. “The system is still strongly governed by foreign powers who robbed countries of a lot of resources. It’s ripped up regions that used to live in peace.”

As a college student in Cameroon, Nodem “was always going to pretty much any demonstration,” he said. “My parents were always upset. They said, ‘Stay out of trouble and don’t do anything.’” Later they told him it’s because they feared for his life.

Source: Presbyterianmission

Southern Cameroons pro independence groups have unanimously dismissed a French Cameroun school resumption and regional election politics deal as the Biya Francophone regime sought to present a scheme against the Ambazonia Interim Government.

DAC, CONSORTIUM, SCAWOL, SKEW, APOC, AIPC, Southern Cameroons Community in South Africa, Southern Cameroons Community in Germany, Southern Cameroons Community France, Southern Cameroons Community in Italy have all opined that  Ambazonians cannot accept any pro Yaoundé political elite speaking in their name.

“Ambazonians allowed it for more than three decades but they will never again allow it,” Vice President Dabney Yerima said at a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland held to commemorate the independence day of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.

Vice President Dabney Yerima added, “Our position on school resumption has not changed. As a government, we value the rights to life and we have publicly observed that only parents can determine if the conditions are conducive for Southern Cameroons children to return to school. The Southern Cameroons Interim Government wants children to study in a calm and peaceful environment. Correspondingly, where it is unsafe to resume, we advise parents to let their children to stay at home. We will continue to support community schools in areas where there is peace.”

Comrade Dabney Yerima further noted that “the Ambazonia Interim Government (IG) will remain the sole and legitimate representative of the Southern Cameroons people,” and that Southern Cameroons groups must all join the Ambazonia Interim Government in order to protect and strengthen its status as an umbrella organization for all Southern Cameroons compatriots and the diaspora.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai in Geneva

Cameroon Intelligence Report chief correspondent in Manyu on Wednesday confirmed the alleged rape of several girls at the Saint Therese of the Child Jesus Parish in Bachuo Akagbe by soldiers of the Mamfe and Besongabang Artillery Brigade of the Cameroon Army in Manyu Division.

The Cameroon government army soldiers were said to have raped the girls recently after they were deployed to the village some 12 kilometers from Mamfe to counter armed Ambazonia militia fighting against the resumption of schools in Southern Cameroons.

We gathered that many of the girls have reportedly narrated their ordeal to the Bishop’s House in Mamfe via Revered Father Chamberline Arinze, the Parish Priest in Bachuo Akagbe.

A spokesperson for the Bachou Akagbe traditional council confirmed that the ruler Chief John Etchu who is presently out of the country for medical reasons was aware of the incident, and had ordered investigation into it.

Our Manyu reporter who visited Bachou Akagbe village on Monday said the girls are willing to identify the soldiers and revealed that they were raped serially by the French speaking servicemen.

By Kingsley Betek in Mamfe

Two language teachers, from Philippines and Cameroon, have been arrested in Thailand for alleged involvement in a face mask fraud that cost investors about 27 million baht, the Bangkok Post reports.

Pol Maj Gen Jirapop Puridet, commander of the Crime Suppression Division, said last week, Filipino Tanko Romo Jr, 27, was arrested in Kantharawichai district of Maha Sarakham, and Cameroonian Asaka Mbah, 38, in Nong Nakham district of Khon Kaen, both on Tuesday.

The two suspects are allegedly part of a gang that claimed in March to be a large manufacturer of surgical masks.

The fraudsters created a fake website with a company name and logo and false procurement and transport documents. They offered surgical masks for sale in large amounts. They attracted purchases worth 27 million baht, which buyers transferred to the gang’s bank accounts.

During the investigation, detectives managed to warn off one victim who was just about to make payment for an order, Pol Maj Gen Jirapop said.

The two suspects were working as language teachers. Police targetted them after the earlier arrest of a Thai woman who was also part of the fraud, he said.

Source: The Standard.com.hk

Bloodshed has continued to rock Southern Cameroons as Vice President Dabney Yerima traveled to Switzerland for a protest march with Ambazonians to commemorate October 1.

Yerima and his entourage attended a pictorial ceremony in Geneva for President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, before moving on to the venue for the Independence Day celebration.

A Dabney Yerima spokesman was quoted as saying that the exiled leader offered his gratitude to Southern Cameroonians residing in Switzerland for their support to the Southern Cameroons war of independence.

“Several fund raising events are planned for the struggle in Swiss immediately Covid-19 rules are relaxed” the Yerima aide told Cameroon Concord News on Monday.

No peace in sight

Fighting has continued unabated in Southern Cameroons, an indication that the crisis is badly in need of a UN Security Council Resolution. The UN reported an additional 1,000 deaths in recent times indicating how tense the crisis is.

The U.N. also revealed that the Southern Cameroons war has forced more than 500,000 people to flee their homes since the conflict erupted in late 2017. Ongoing armed clashes, civilian casualties and the burning of houses, hospitals and other infrastructure are causing further displacement.

Michael Bibi, auxiliary administrator of the Southern Cameroons Catholic Diocese of Buea, who took part at the so-called National Dialogue, says the regime in Yaoundé should negotiate a cease-fire for peace to return.

By Chi Prudence Asong

Southern Cameroons Secretary for the Economy, Hon. Brado Tabenyang has reiterated the Ambazonian Interim Government’s unswerving support for the people of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia in Ground Zero and in Ground 1 in their struggle for the liberation of their homeland occupied by the French Cameroun regime in Yaounde.

During a televised conversation on the Southern Cameroons Broadcasting Cooperation with a cream of Cameroon Concord News Group editors on October 1, Secretary Brado Tabenyang said Vice President Dabney Yerima would continue to follow in the footsteps of the detained leader President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and will soon start offering solid support to the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and its people on Ground Zero, Ground 1 and in Benin and Ghana.

Tabenyang Brado and other senior officials from the Southern Cameroons Interim Government including Prof Carlson Anyangwe participated in the SCBC program that offered indebt analysis on Vice President Yerima’s Independence Day speech.

Speaking during the conversation on October 1, Secretary Tabenyang stressed that the Ambazonia Interim Government will not alter its policies towards the suffering Southern Cameroons masses in Ground Zero and in neighbouring countries and will remain committed to the Ambazonian cause.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai in Dusseldorf

October 4 marks a year since Cameroon held its Major National Dialogue to solve the Anglophone separatist crisis that has killed at least 3,000 people in four years. Cameroonians and some participants at the dialogue say that fighting has continued unabated and that most parts of the English-speaking regions are ungovernable, an indication the event was a failure, but the government maintains it was successful.

Eric Tataw, a U.S.-based Anglophone activist says the National Dialogue organized by Cameroon president Paul Biya a year ago to solve the separatist crisis has failed woefully. Tataw says for peace to return to the restive English-speaking regions the international community should force Cameroon to organize what he calls true dialogue in another country.

“The Grand National Dialogue was a publicity theater by the Cameroonian authorities to please the international community. Any such discussion will be done on an international scene with Cameroon and Ambazonia as equal parties, where we will decide peacefully on the separation of these two countries,” he said.

Ambazonia is the English-speaking state that rebels want to form. Tataw said when the dialogue was held from September 30 to October 4, 2019, the U.N. was reporting 2,000 deaths in the then two-year conflict. Now, in the year since the dialogue ended, the U.N. is reporting an additional 1,000 deaths, indicating how tense the crisis is.

Former Cameroonian Prime Minister Philemon Yang says the fighting has been reduced but he says barbarism has continued because an insignificant minority of English speakers are using violence to try to split Cameroon. Yang says the government is determined to solve the crisis but will never allow Cameroon to be divided.

“On the part of the government the negotiations were very frank. The only thing which was raised which had nothing to do with the demands of the teachers and the lawyers is what has come to be called secession. I do not like that word, and most Cameroonians did not even want to hear that word. People love this country and at that dialogue we discovered that this country has more friends than enemies,” said Yang.

Yang said among the achievements of the dialogue was the liberation of prisoners in October 2019, the creation of assemblies of chiefs, regional assemblies and regional councils for the English-speaking North-West and South-West regions with each of the two regions having elected presidents, vice presidents, secretaries and public affairs management controllers. Yang said powers were also given to the National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism to give the same status to the English and French languages to reduce domination by the French-speaking majority. 

The government also created demobilization centers where ex-fighters who surrender their guns are pardoned. A $163 million special fund for the reconstruction of the English-speaking North-West and South-West regions was launched by the government, as agreed to at the dialogue.

Paul Tasong, coordinator of special fund says fighting and limited resources have slowed the first phase of the reconstruction exercise.

“As of now we have close to 10% of the close to 90 billion CFA Francs [$163 million] which is expected to be spent on this first phase of the plan, which is a recovery phase,” he said. “We are looking forward to embarking on missions to our friendly countries to make sure that some of the promises that have been made are brought to maturity.”

The U.N. reports that the separatist war has forced more than 500,000 people to flee their homes since the conflict erupted in late 2017. Ongoing armed clashes, civilian casualties and the burning of houses, hospitals and other infrastructure are causing further displacement.

Michael Bibi, auxiliary administrator of the Catholic Diocese of the English-speaking southwestern town of Buea, who also took part at the dialogue, says Cameroon should negotiate a cease-fire for peace to return.

“If we have this fighting every day, it will be very difficult for us to do lots of things that can be done. That is our prayer and our wish that if there is a cease-fire and all the gunshots and all the fighting were to stop, it is going to be very helpful in order for peace to return in both [English speaking] regions,” he said.

 Violence erupted in 2017 in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions when teachers and lawyers protested alleged discrimination at the hands of the French-speaking majority. The military reacted with a crackdown and separatist groups took up weapons, claiming that they were protecting civilians.

Source: VOA

Southern Cameroons Vice President Dabney Yerima has ordered Ambazonia Restoration Forces and fighters in Ground Zero to properly protect civilians, local population including the clergy while fighting the French Cameroun terrorist soldiers.

Comrade Dabney Yerima made the order public on Sunday evening, after his office was briefed on an incident involving a priest serving with the Mamfe Diocese. Unidentified gunmen reportedly attacked Revered Father Ndu Kennedy at Ashum village in the Manyu County.

Yerima told the Southern Cameroons exiled cabinet that all Ambazonian fighters must observe religious commitments and adequately protect Southern Cameroons civilian lives during their anti French Cameroun terror operations in the homeland.

“If our Restoration Forces come across a Man of God or a civilian during battles, they have to protect them. We are fighting a well organized army. Therefore, killing, harming, beating or injuring women, children and the clergy are religiously forbidden” Dabney Yerima observed.

By Isong Asu in London

Brenda Biya is the daughter of the president of Cameroon, Paul Biya. Brenda Biya’s mother is Chantal Biya, the third First Lady Of Cameroon. Brenda Biya was born in 1998 at Etoudi Palace. She envisions a music career and has also launched a song. In 2020, she was under medication for her eyesight. And recently she was trolled in the social media for her eyes. Why was she trolled and what was her reply? Here we have updates about the early life, career and the latest updates about Brenda Biya.

 Early life of Brenda Biya

Brenda Biya attended her schooling at the Les Coccineller Complex. She studied in a special school made for the presidency of Cameroon. And joined a private school for the children of the presidents. In some of her videos, she shared that she is in a relationship. In 2019, she updated in her Instagram story that she suffers from Graves disease and thyroid disorders.

Career of Brenda Biya

Brenda Biya is interested in music. And she also very active at social media. Brenda likes many African artists like Locko. In April 2020, she launched an online store for the sale of hairpieces named Bree Culture Inc Shopping.

Brenda Biya’s reactions to the trolls

In 2020, there were updates that Brenda Biya is at the risk of losing her eye. Brenda was suffering from a disorder due to which her thyroid hormones are expressly produced. Due to which her she has swelling eyes. Eye swelling is one of the symptoms for her medical issues. Is also causes changes in vision and eye irritation.

Brenda Biya is now under the medication to reduce the counts of her thyroid hormones as there is no cure for this disease. And in recent times, she was trolled for her big eyes. And Brenda replied to the troller’s stating that ” I don’t want the disease graves disease to a person. But I think sometimes, I would like you to understand. You make fun of someone who has a defect to a disease! It shows the blackness of your souls and your jealousy”. She updated this in her Instagram story. After this update, the trolls were reduced for Brenda Biya. And recently, Brenda updated about her online shop named Bree Culture Inc Shopping that’s sales wigs and craft works.

Source: Theecake