Cameroon government soldiers are shooting and killing scores of young Southern Cameroonian boys residing in the rural areas and in the outskirts of the major towns and cities in the territory now known as the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.

Dozens of Ambazonian youth reported to be in their early 20s were shot in both the Southern and Northern Zones of Southern Cameroons recently by troops deployed to protect candidates for next month municipal and parliamentary polls.

Eyewitness reports say every Southern Cameroons young man living in Ambaland is now a potential target for arrest or execution.

In Babessi, a locality in the Ngoketunjia County in the Northern Zone, a group of young men waving at the Francophone soldiers seemingly to indicate that they meant no harm were all gunned down in front of journalists from the state owned radio and television who were there to cover the counterfeit election campaign.

The Ambazonia Vice President Dabney Yerima in a press briefing late yesterday observed that hundreds of Southern Cameroons youth killed by the Francophone army did not pose a threat to the French Cameroun military establishment illegally operating in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.

It was clear, however, that at the time the Babessi youth were killed following news of the abduction of the mayor of the municipality, they were not participating in any violent activity.

By Kingsley Betek in Bamenda with additional reporting from Oke Akombi Ayukepi Akap

The municipal administrator of Babessi, a locality in the Ngoketunjia County in Southern Cameroons, Issa Chou and four of his councilors have been arrested by the Southern Cameroons Restoration Forces, Cameroon Concord News has learnt from reliable sources.

An audio confirming the arrest of Mayor Issa Chou aired by a spokesperson for the Ambazonia Restoration Forces on Monday January 5, 2020 added that the action was ordered by the commander of the Babessi Restoration Forces known as General Man pass Man.

The Francophone civil administrator in the area declined to comment on the matter when contacted by our correspondent in Bamenda. The arrest is in line with the Ambazonia Interim Government’s decision banning French Cameroun elections in Ambazonia scheduled for February 9, 2020.

Ambazonia Communications Secretary, Comrade Milton Taka who made the Interim Government decision public via an audio in Pidgin English has also not commented on this developing story. What we do know is that the Biya regime has militarized Southern Cameroons amid reported clashes with Ambazonia fighters who have set ablaze a number of pro French Cameroun establishments centers-homes of some candidates to the twin polls and ELECAM monitor offices.

It should be recalled that during his end of year empty speech, President Paul Biya announced that security measures would be reinforced especially in Southern Cameroons to ensure the elections are held in all safety.

By Oke Akombi Ayukepi Akap in the UK with files from Bamenda

A gendarmerie unit in the Noun Division, East Cameroon, reportedly came under attack.

Heavily armed men suspected of being Ambazonia Restoration fighters from Southern Cameroons stormed the area as drunk East Cameroonian gendarm officers slept on duty.

A source says the attackers were nine in number and some even spoke French which has led many to think that they could just be some East Cameroonian robbers seeking better weapons.

The attackers made away with sophisticated weapons which will surely be used in the days ahead to commit some violent crimes.

A source close to Nkongho Success in Yaounde has contacted the Cameroon Concord News Group to denounce what he claims is Mr. Nkongho Success’ betrayal of the Southern Cameroons president, Julius Ayuk Tabe in particular and the revolution in general.

The source, who has elected anonymity and has also infiltrated the Cameroon anti-terrorism squad, says Success Nkongho is a demon whose greed is destroying a revolution whose success would have benefitted all Southern Cameroonians.

While in Nigeria, Success befriended Sisiku Julius Ayuk Tabe and earned his confidence, making it hard for Mr. Ayuk Tabe to ever think he could betray him.

Success worked with the anti-terrorism squad to bring down Julius Ayuk Tabe and his team since he understood Mr. Ayuk Tabe’s schedule and was considered by Mr. Ayuk Tabe as his right hand man and junior brother since both of them are from Manyu Division.

After Julius was roped in, he was charged by the Yaounde government to help break the revolution’s neck and he has been on the payroll of the Yaounde government for a long time.

Mr. Success Nkongho who claims he holds a PhD entered into a special deal with the government aimed at totally destroying the revolution and the return of the 87 refugees is part of the strategy to hoodwink the international community into believing that Southern Cameroonians living in Nigeria are ready and willing to return home.

While working with the government, he laid out all his conditions and the government accepted everything he asked for.

The deal almost fell through when Mr. Success Nkongho insisted that if he had to return to Cameroon, he must come with a bunch of refugees, a group he now claims voluntarily opted to return home.

Currently, Mr. Success Nkongho is talking with Field Marshal and the government is looking forward to field marshal downing his weapons.

The talks are ongoing, but Field Marshal has some conditions which are very challenging to the government, including the pardoning of all his fighters.

Mr. Success, who has never really succeeded at anything, is currently being protected by the Yaounde government where he has been offered decent accommodation and financial assistance to enable him live a decent life that might convince other core Southern Cameroonians.

His entire family had been moved to Yaounde by the Yaounde government before he landed at the Nsimalen International Airport on December 31, 2019, as part of the deal he signed with the government, including his brother Besong Roland who was a motorcycle rider in Mamfe town.

Another brother of his Tanyi Emmanuel is also living in Yaounde and all of them are having state protection due to Mr. Success’ betrayal of the cause.

It should be pointed out that the son of Mr. Besong Roland, Success Nkongho’s brother, is still within the ranks of Amba fighters in Manyu Division and there are fears that he could be a decoy working for his uncle.

A native of Etemetek, a small village some 7 km from Mamfe town, Mr. Success Nkongho grew up in New Layout, Mamfe town, where he is notorious for his dishonesty and lies.

His mother, who was also dishonest, married twice and this caused great confusion in the family.

Indeed, the man who was supposed to marry Mr. Success Nkongho’s mother was from Equatorial Guinea.

He came to Mamfe and did all the traditional rituals. He paid the bride price and went back to Equatorial Guinea where he was working as a hunter.

While he was back in Equatorial Guinea, another man, Mr. Nkongho’s father, came and performed the same rituals and got married to his mother.

When she was pregnant with Success, certain things went wrong. She was pregnant with Success for 12 months and this was attributed to her dishonesty.

It was assumed that the Equatorial Guinean had done some mysterious things to her and the long pregnancy was a punishment for her dishonesty.

The Cameroon Concord News Group is on this story and will be publishing more as its undercover agent obtains more details.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai in the United Kingdom

Pressure is mounting on the killers of the Ossing regent chief who was killed last month, as genuine Southern Cameroons restoration forces have jumped into the fray to track down the criminals who are taking advantage of the chaos reigning in the two English-speaking regions of the country. Restoration forces have vowed to root out these rogue elements who have given them a bad name and who have nothing to do with the fighting on the ground.

Citizens of Ossing had identified the killers whose motives are still unclear. However, a video produced and released by the rogues has confirmed that they were indeed from Kembong, a town some 4 km from Ossing. The video is also helping government law enforcement agencies who have vowed to bring the killers to book in their investigations.

The misguided and rogue elements accuse the regent chief of collaborating with the Yaounde government in its fight against secessionists, but this version has been discounted by people who were close to the regent chief. As a chief or his representative, the regent was automatically supposed to be answerable to the senior divisional officer and he had the responsibility of answering any questions on the city of Ossing and its residents. Basing their faulty and unreasonable logic on that, the rogues killed a man who had nothing to do with the rebellion that is still playing out in the two English-speaking regions of the country.

According to experts who have analyzed the video released by the killers, the plan was not to kill the regent chief, but after having driven some bullets into his leg which led to heavy bleeding, the defenseless regent chief was left to die in his own pool of blood.  The video, which has gone viral, underscores the need to root out those violent elements that are gradually killing the rebellion with their atrocities which are making the Yaoundé government look like a saint.

For some time now, rogue elements taking advantage of the ugly situation in the two English-speaking regions have been milking the population, sometimes asking villagers to contribute to the war efforts with money they do not have. This is something genuine restoration forces never do. These rogue elements have been kidnapping innocent citizens and they have been asking for ransom and the amounts are indeed mind-blowing.

According to restoration forces who have contacted the Cameroon Concord News Group, the Ossing massacre is one situation that is hurting their credibility and they are determined to demonstrate that they do not have anything to do with this heinous crime. They have also indicated that penalties for such crimes will be stiff and anybody who is directly or indirectly involved will have to face the wrath of the law.

Investigations are currently underway and both the country’s law enforcement agents and restoration forces are on the trail of the fake fighters who committed the abominable and irreversible act. As both groups turn the heat on the killers, more stories are gradually emerging and it is becoming obvious that the trail might have started in Kembong, but it will end in Ossing as it is suspected that the masterminds are those who disagreed with the regent chief.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai in the United Kingdom

The death toll from the Fotokol El Beid Bridge suicide attack on Monday evening has been painted as dire by the Biya Francophone regime. There were a dozen dead and twenty injured. French Cameroun administrative authorities say it is one of the deadliest suicide attacks seen since 2018.

The attack was reportedly staged on Monday, January 6, 2020 at the El-Beid Bridge between Fotokol (Cameroon) and Gambaru (Nigeria), shortly after 4 p.m. local time (15 GMT) in the main market. Cameroon Concord News gathered from security sources that the victims were mainly traders, children and women.

The first provisional assessment reported that 12 people were killed and 26 wounded. Community sources are trying to establish that it was an explosion of a grenade handled by two kids.

According to a more informed security source, “the bomb carrier refused to submit to a body search.”

This is not the first time that the border town of Fotokol has been the target of attacks. In July 2015, a double suicide bombing killed at least 12 people near the market in Fotokol and in 2017 five children were killed in another attack in Fotokol.

Fotokol is one of the localities in the Far North of Cameroon most exposed to incursions and atrocities of all kinds attributed to Boko Haram.

By Kingsley Betek

Thousands of Ambazonians are increasingly suspicious of Cameroon’s refugee return operation that has resulted in the return of some 87 refugees from Nigeria. On Tuesday, December 31, 2019, 87 refugees and former Ambazonian combatants living in Nigeria returned to Yaoundé on a special flight chartered by the Yaoundé government. Among the returning refugees were Success Nkongho and a self-styled General Namberee who has been talking like a parrot ever since he landed in Yaoundé. 

On hand to welcome the seemingly desperate returnees and their children were several personalities of the ruling CPDM crime syndicate led by Paul Atanga Nji, the country’s territorial administration minister.

Speaking to the press upon arrival in Yaounde, Success Nkongho, the so-called spokesperson of the Southern Cameroons returning refugees said that “we are very proud to be here in Yaoundé. We are moved by the warm welcome. We did not expect it.”

Success Nkongho, a con-man who also doubles as an unsuccessful pastor, is known to have been working for the Yaoundé government in Nigeria, with several sources reporting that he had betrayed Southern Cameroons leaders who were kidnapped in Abuja, Nigeria, and returned to Yaounde in 2018.

He added that “I love Cameroon and I decided to commit myself to peace,” but many observers and close associates of Mr. Nkongho clearly indicate that he wants to use the peace process to whitewash his black image. He has been involved in many shady deals in the past and has robbed many people of their money through visa schemes that have left many poor and heart-broken.

It should be recalled that Mr. Success Nkongho has been seeking to have a foreign passport to protect himself ever since the Southern Cameroons crisis hit the international stage. He was in Abidjan, Cote d”Ivoire, in 2019 to see if he could obtain an Ivorian passport, but his efforts did not yield any results as the Ivorian system is computerized and Ivorian security systems have been refined over the years.

He has also contacted many people in the USA and Europe to see if he could have a way of leaving the African continent, but it seemed nature is not smiling at him. With many children and a wife, Mr. Nkongho could not have the possibility to take everybody abroad due to financial constraints. The peace process is therefore a possibility for him to walk away from the stress he has been experiencing in Nigeria.

The Yaoundé drama also witnessed a popular Ambazonian ex-combatant, General Nambere, expressing his gratitude to the 86-year-old dictator, Paul Biya, who has been in power for 37 years and has nothing to show for such a long stay in power. Namberee, a cash-strapped, desperate and ambitious illiterate also pledged to “work for a return to peace in the country.” Many analysts doubt his sincerity and have been asking if he has the means and possibility of achieving such a lofty goal.

It should be recalled that other Ambazonian fighters who laid down their arms were presented to the general public during the Major National Dialogue. They were on media shows in East Cameroon and some were even presented as national heroes on the state-owned Cameroon Radio and Television (CRTV). Yaoundé has revealed that the total number of Ambazonian combatants who have laid down their arms stands between 2,000 and 3,000.

The official Yaoundé government position is that many of the Southern Cameroonian fighters who surrendered did so to save the peace, but the reality is a far cry from what the Yaounde government is presenting. Many of the so-called former fighters have received large sums of money from the Yaounde government and others had been paid to stage the comedy that has not convinced the international community.

Some of those fake former fighters have been killed and the government has left many to their own devices, making them vulnerable and even more desperate.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Separatist leaders said on Friday they will be imposing a 6-day lockdown in Cameroon’s two troubled English-speaking regions in February to disrupt the general elections.

The lockdown will run from Feb. 7 to 12, according to a statement by the leaders.

“On these days, anyone seen anywhere outside in our villages and towns will be considered an enemy and treated as such,” the statement said.

The move was taken to disrupt parliamentary and municipal elections scheduled for Feb. 9 in Cameroon. “Anyone suspected to be involved in those outlawed elections in any form or shape shall be dealt with,” the statement added.

On Tuesday, Cameroonian President Paul Biya said in the new year address to the nation, security forces will continue the fight against armed separatists if they don’t drop their weapons, and that security measures have been taken to ensure that all citizens countrywide exercise their voting rights.

Fighting between government forces and armed separatist groups has been going on since November 2017 after the separatists declared the independence of a nation called “Ambazonia” in the two English-speaking regions of Northwest and Southwest.

According to the United Nations, more than 700,000 Cameroonians have been displaced internally as well as fled to neighbouring Nigeria by the conflict.

Source: Xinhuanet

Dozens of weapons of separatist fighters have been seized by angry population of Balikumbat, a locality in restive Cameroon’s Anglophone region of Northwest, local officials said on Saturday.

Quetong Anderson Kongueh, Prefect of Ngoketunja Division where the incident happened said, the population revolted against the fighters after they seized items from them “unjustly”.

“They marched to the camps (of the separatists) and seized all their weapons and arrested some of the fighters,” Konguh told reporters.

“This population has been suffering for a long time, and they think the time has come for them to put an end to this. They suffered from kidnappings, killings and forceful financial contribution and so on. These guys (separatists) blocked the main entrance to Balikumbat and were controlling who and what goes in and out,” he added.

Separatists are yet to react to the allegations.

In December, two separatists were killed by the population in a locality in the Northwest after villagers accused them of killing an innocent man.

Fighting between government forces and armed separatist groups has been going on since November 2017 after the separatists declared the independence of a nation called “Ambazonia” in the two English-speaking regions of Northwest and Southwest.

According to the United Nations, more than 700,000 Cameroonians have been displaced internally as well as fled to neighbouring Nigeria by the conflict.

Source: Xinhuanet

Yaoundé has reportedly brought in a new column of military forces including troops from neighboring Equatorial Guinea to be deployed in Southern Cameroons, only days after President Biya announced in a New Year speech his intention to crush the Ambazonia Restoration Forces.

Our chief correspondent in the Douala metropolis reported that the Francophone soldiers entered the Northern Zone through Mbouda and in the Southern Zone via Dschang, and consisted of military vehicles as well as trucks carrying logistics.

On Tuesday the 31^st of December, Biya said Cameroon government army soldiers were ready to wipe out the Southern Cameroons Self Defense Forces.

The Biya Francophone regime is taking advantage of the noise, toxicity, scamming, blackmail, hate and smears that are all making room for many weak minded Southern Cameroonians to be victims to French Cameroun temptations as they see hopelessness and uncertainty in and within the revolution.

Three weeks ago, Cameroon Intelligence Report, citing local sources, reported that a French Cameroun military convoy had entered the Lebialem County.

By Sama Ernest