A criminal gang having involvement in multiple formats of crime landed in the police dragnet in Kadapa on Saturday.

With a lodge in Kadapa city as its headquarters, the team of five, including two Cameroon nationals, allegedly committed online fraud by offering medicines at cheaper rate, printed fake currency with the face value of ₹2,000 and even traded in cannabis.

It all started with a complaint on WhatsApp by Abdul Karim of Kerala to the police, which was accepted as a petition under ‘Spandana’ and passed on to Chinna Chowk police for investigation.

Acting on a tip-off to Deputy Superintendent of Police U. Suryanarayana, a police team zeroed in on the private lodge and arrested Mbi Adolf Ashu (31), Akow Bronson Enow (30), both Cameroon nationals and now living in Bengaluru, Chimpiri Sai Krishna (24) of Kadapa, Pangi Dasu Babu (29) and Kurra Jagannath (26), hailing from Paderu and Araku taluks respectively of Visakhapatnam district.

“In the garb of selling wigs and medical products, the two Cameroon nationals allegedly lured online customers with low prices, but never sent the products after getting the money into their accounts,” Superintendent of Police K.K.N. Anburajan said.

The police seized a laptop computer, printer, counterfeit currency with a face value of ₹7.28 lakh and cannabis weighing 9 kg.

Source: The Hindu.com

A total of 252 Boko Haram fighters and armed separatists have laid down their weapons in Cameroon since the start of 2019, Biya regime’s so-called National Committee on Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (NCDDR) said on Thursday.

Fai Yengo Francis, national coordinator of the NCDDR who is wanted by the Special Criminal Court for corruption, said 130 of the fighters were separatists in the country’s troubled two English-speaking regions while 122 were of Boko Haram in the Far North region.

Yengo made the revelation during a briefing with Cameroon’s Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute.

He said the ex-fighters were at NCDDR centers to receive vocational training in agriculture, livestock, business and handicraft.

Cameroon is facing serious security challenges in the two Anglophone regions of Northwest and Southwest where separatists want to create an independent nation. Meanwhile in the Far North, the terror group Boko Haram is intensifying attacks on civilians and government forces.

The NCDDR was created by President Paul Biya last year “to avoid the use of extreme measures” and supervise and manage the disarmament and reintegration of ex-combatants of Boko Haram and armed separatists in the Anglophone regions.

Source: Xinhuanet with additional reporting from Camcordnews

When Gilbert Mvondo was hired to cut roads through pristine Cameroonian rainforest in 2015, he did so expecting to be paid.He had been recruited, along with a number of other residents of Meyomessala – birthplace of Cameroon’s President Paul Biya – to prepare the ground for representatives of the prime minister’s office and the Trade Park Corporation, a little-known but well-connected firm with a registered address in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai district.The Hong Kong company had promised to create jobs through the cultivation of cannabis and other crops for export, and was eyeing an area of land roughly the size of Kowloon for what its promotional materials said would be a “modern, technology-driven agriculture export free zone” called Meyo AgriPark.

But today, the rainforest has started to reclaim the roads that Mvondo and his countrymen helped dig, with neither the hemp plantation nor the promised jobs having materialised. Locals have returned to the farms they say they were told to vacate to make way for the project – and both Mvondo and his fellow road builders are still waiting to be paid.

A map showing the location of Meyomessala in CameroonAccording to interviews and internal documents seen as part of a joint investigation by the South China Morning Post , NBC News and the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, hundreds of thousands of US dollars appear to have been spent on Trade Park’s project in Meyomessala, yet questions remain about where the money actually went.

In an email to reporters, Meyomessala Mayor Christian Mebiame Mfou’ou said “unfortunately” his town had not received “anything” from the project – this despite an investor from Equatorial Guinea insisting that he had wired more than US$300,000 to the local official’s personal account.

Source: SCMP.com

Southern Cameroons Vice President, Dabney Yerima says the establishment of the Bank of Ambazonia and the Amba Bonds Project are necessary reforms carried out by the Interim Government to win the support of the diaspora and to equip the Restoration Forces.

Dabney Yerima made the comments during a telephone conversation with the Cameroon Concord News Group in which he also observed that fighting corruption in the Interim Government has made him a better leader and that financing the Restoration Forces is among the Ambazonia Interim Government’s top priorities.

The Ambazonia Second-in-Command revealed that he will be starting an international mobilization of Southern Cameroonians all over the globe beginning with the Republic of South Africa this December. Comrade Yerima added that the Interim Government’s priority has moved away from fighting corruption and misappropriation of funds to financing the creation of an Ambazonia Defense Force.

President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe replaced the disgraced former Acting President Samuel Sako Ikome under pressure from the Southern Cameroons Diaspora, who accused the gang of fake pastors of stifling the Southern Cameroons revolution and quest for an independent state.

Sako Ikome said at the time that he was the right man to take Southern Cameroonians back to their historic headquarters in Buea. But he reached a dead end in trying to resolve the financial scandal that rocked the Interim Government which has been further complicated by his refusal to obey the Ambazonian leader.

A source familiar with the exiled Southern Cameroons Interim Government cabinet said Sako Ikome and his acolyte, former Communications Secretary Chris Anu were both taking the last kicks of a dying horse.

Speaking at a news conference this week in Holland, Vice President Dabney Yerima indicated that progress had been made strategically in the formation of the Ambazonia Defense Force. He stated that the Interim Government was in agreement with the commanders in Ground Zero to appoint a trusted figure fully backed by all Restoration Forces and supported with a majority of competent, specialized people with military experience.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai in London

A French Cameroun government case against 37 innocent Southern Cameroons civilians abducted in Taraba State in Nigeria which raised fears of President Buhari’s interference in the Ambazonia crisis has been adjourned to the 2^nd of January 2020.

The 37 Southern Cameroons asylum seekers in the Federal Republic of Nigeria were abducted on the 31st of December 2017 and illegally deported to French Cameroun and are facing charges of terrorism acts of terrorism, secession, and lack of National Identification Cards.

Cameroon Concord News understands that they were illegally deported to French Cameroun on the 26th of January 2018 and spent a year incommunicado in the bunkers of the National Gendarmerie Headquarters (SED) in Yaoundé without access to sunlight, no medical attention and are undergoing torture.

The 37 were later transferred to the Kondengui Central Prison on the 04th January 2019 where they have spent another year marking two years of unlawful detention without trial. They were meant to appear before the Military Court in Yaoundé for the 3rd time today.

The European Union and the United States government have voiced concerns on the deteriorating human rights situation in French Cameroun vis a vis the Southern Cameroons crisis. The next hearing is due to take place on Jan. 2nd.

By Kingsley Betek

That’s the question every Southern Cameroonian seems to be asking, amid all kinds of speculation following Mola Litumbe’s uncharacteristic absence from the public eye. Mola Litumbe was last seen in Douala attending Dr Simon Munzu’s mother’s funeral activities.

The Ambazonia Interim Government has not made any statement on the influential veteran leader and staunch supporter of President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe for some time now. But there are indications from a Southern Cameroons front line leader in the USA that an Ambazonian icon may be smelling his last days on earth.  

In a recent posting on social media, Seseskou Christmas Ebini stated that “I have not spoken to Mola Njoh Litumbe for a while now. I have not been able to reach him on the phone to have the regular chats we use to have. The leaders in jail President Sisiku Julius Ayuk Tabe, Chairman Nfor Ngalla Nfor and all the other leaders ask me each time how Mola is doing and for me to transmit their warm regards and appreciation to him. I have called Mola’s number several times but it is not going through”.

Seseskou Ebini added that “I went asking people in Buea about Mola so I can get some information about him to our leaders in jail who hold him in very high regards. By the normal nature of things, it is just normal for Mola to be winding down and slowing down.”

Mola Njoh Litumbe is above 100 years, has had a very active and blessed long life and the Southern Cameroons revolution has been blessed with his presence. “We wish Mola to be with us long enough to see us in Buea, but that will be God’s will” Seseskou Ebini furthered.

The Ambazonia front liner pleaded to every Southern Cameroonian to offer a silent prayer of Thanksgiving and appreciation for Mola Njoh Litumbe.

By Asu Isong in London

Ambazonia Vice President Dabney Yerima says the Biya Francophone regime resorted to an unprecedented fracas including a senseless military action to bring the Federal Republic of Ambazonia down to its knees, but Southern Cameroonians successfully thwarted the plot through self defense actions. 

Comrade Dabney Yerima made the comments at a cabinet meeting that was summoned to examine the Monday ghost operations in Ground Zero. The Southern Cameroons Vice President slammed the continues French Cameroun military atrocities in Ambazonia and warned pro Yaoundé CPDM politicians in Southern Cameroons to be ready for a crushing response from Ambazonia Restoration Forces if they venture to stage any elections in the territory.

Dabney Yerima called on Southern Cameroonians to invest in the Amba Bonds Project in order for the Interim Government to be able to counter the French Cameroun criminal and terrorist military. “Our people in Ground Zero have successful thwarted all French Cameroun moves and conspiracies by putting up resistance” he added.

The Southern Cameroons exiled leader observed that despite numerous acts of provocation and sabotage by the French Cameroun government, the people of Ambazonia have preserved their dignity and are slowly but surely overcoming difficult situations and will eventually emerge victorious by exercising resistance and enduring hardships.

Vice President Dabney Yerima again made a mockery of the so-called Major National Dialogue and the Swiss initiative. He pointed out that the idea of dialogue only came because French Cameroun is now facing firm resistance.

“The drama being acted by  French Cameroun surrogates such as the Government Delegate to the Bamenda City Council and the much respected Chief George Tabetando in Mamfe are contrary to Biya’s rhetoric in public,” Dabney Yerima said, noting that even “the Commonwealth, the Francophonie and the African Union are aware of that.”

By Sama Ernest with files from Rita Akana

Southern Cameroons Vice President Dabney Yerima will visit the Republic of South Africa from the 10^th of December in an official outing to the Rainbow nation harboring thousands of Ambazonian citizens and home to the Southern Cameroons national television, the SCBC, according to the Foreign Affairs Department of the Ambazonia Interim Government.

Dabney Yerima will be attending a series of Ambazonia national events in the cities of Johannesburg, Pretoria, Rustenburg and Cape Town to market the Amba Bonds Project and also to honor the jailed Southern Cameroons leader President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and his top aides, a senior Ambazonia communication official told journalists on Monday.

According to the Southern Cameroons Interim Government, the purpose of the historic visit is to rally support for the newly created Bank of Ambazonia and to thank the Sisiku Ayuk Tabe majority following in the Republic of South Africa for their continues  solidarity and commitment with the people in Ground Zero including the thousands in French Cameroun detention centers.

Over the last three years, Southern Cameroonians in South Africa have been making significant contribution to the Ambazonia struggle and quest for an independent state.

Vice President Dabney Yerima is scheduled to arrive in Johannesburg on December 10. The Southern Cameroons exiled leader is scheduled to meet with the SCBC TV management team and will be making statements to the press alongside the Secretary of Communications, Milton Taka.

By Chi Prudence Asong

Ambazonia Vice President Dabney Yerima on Monday denied his restoration forces were behind the recent attack on Camairco passenger plane in Bamenda, saying the Francophone regime in Yaounde and the pro Yaounde armed militia groups needed to offer up evidence after blaming Southern Cameroons Restoration Forces.

Dabney Yerima observed in this week’s briefing that Southern Cameroons Resistance Forces have nothing to do with the attack on the plane and added that the international community should ask Yaoundé to provide any information that would justify the accusations leveled at the Interim Government.

The exiled Southern Cameroons leader pointed out that those who make such allegations must provide the needed proof to back it up.  Vice President Dabney Yerima noted that U.S. and European governments should take into account the complete absence of sophisticated military equipment in the hands of the Ambazonia Restoration Forces.

Hours after the incident, which caused minor damage on the passenger plane, the Biya Francophone regime pinned the blame on Southern Cameroons fighters.  The Ambazonia Interim Government say the sophistication and precision of the bullet on the plane all points to Yaoundé and its proxy elements in Southern Cameroons.

 Comrade Dabney Yerima added that the Federal Republic of Ambazonia will never ever forget and forgive the crimes being committed by French Cameroun government troops in Southern Cameroons.

Yerima repeated the Ambazonia Interim Government vow that Southern Cameroonians would not enter into talks with La Republique du Cameroun unless President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and all Southern Cameroons detainees are freed.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

The Humanitarian Coordinator in Cameroon, Ms. Allegra Baiocchi, strongly condemns the killing of an aid worker in north-west Cameroon. “I am deeply saddened by the news of the horrific execution of an aid worker last night. On behalf of the United Nations and the wider humanitarian community, our deepest condolences go to his family, friends and colleagues,” said Ms. Baiocchi.

On 30 November, Mr. Pascal Ngwayi, of COMINSUD, a local NGO and UN partner, was abducted and later killed by armed men in Donga Mantung Division of the North West Region. At the time of his abduction, Mr. Ngwayi was carrying out a humanitarian assessment to ensure people in need received timely and appropriate support. “Humanitarian workers risk everything to provide aid to people most in need. They must be respected and protected, not targeted. The continued attacks on aid workers only increase the suffering of civilians, as we are unable to safely carry out operations,” added Ms. Baiocchi.

The deliberate targeting of aid and aid workers constitutes a war crime. The United Nations renews the call for all armed actors to ensure the protection of aid workers, to fully uphold international human rights and humanitarian law and to respect the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, independence and impartiality.

In the North West and South West regions of Cameroon, the humanitarian community is working to bring lifesaving assistance to the most vulnerable people, in line with the 2019 Humanitarian Response Plan.