At least 73 people have been arrested in demonstrations in Cameroon as thousands of supporters of Maurice Kamto, the man who says he won the October 7 presidential election, have defied a heavy police presence and are staging protests in several towns of the central African state. They are seeking the immediate release of their party leader, among other things, and scores of his supporters have been jailed since January.

During a protest on Saturday in Yaounde, businessman Moustapha Ali, 27, said he will continue protesting until they find justice, which he said is being denied to them by Cameroon President Paul Biya, his government and the institutions he has created.

He said no one will stop them from pressing for freedom for Kamto and those supporters arrested at the beginning of the year. He said even though Kamto has not been inaugurated, he nonetheless is legitimately the president of Cameroon.

At least a dozen people, including Kamto’s first vice president, Mamadou Mota of the MRC party, have been arrested and detained in Yaounde and Douala.

The strong police presence and their anti-riot equipment did not deter demonstrators in several towns, including Douala, Banjoun, Bafoussam and Bouda. Cameroon had banned protests in most of its cities, saying it was a threat to peace.

Lejeune Mbella Mbella, Cameroon’s minister of External Relations, warned last week during a meeting with diplomats, United Nations staff and international NGO’s that the planned protests would not be tolerated.

Mbella Mbella said any political action or initiative that questions the legitimacy and legality of Paul Biya as president of Cameroon is tantamount to undermining Cameroon state sovereignty and is intended to disrupt public peace. He says the country’s constitutional council examined and threw out as baseless all petitions filed by those who contested the election and Cameroon’s institutions.

Fidel Djoumessi, an official of Kamto’s MRC party, said the protests will continue until Kamto and his supporters are freed, the government opens up dialogue to resolve the crisis that has claimed close to 2,000 lives, and investigations are opened into why the Confederation of African Football seized hosting rights of the 2019 Africa Football Cup of Nations from Cameroon.

He said it is a scandal the government of Cameroon would decide to prohibit peaceful protests, which are a constitutional right. He said he does not understand why simple demonstrations to ask for electoral reforms and talks to return to the restive English-speaking regions should be described by the government as a threat to national security.

Police arrested Kamto, nine of his party officials and close to 200 of their supporters last January after days of peaceful protests in cities, including the political capital Yaounde and the economic capital Douala.

Similar protests took place in various Cameroon embassies around the world, including Paris and Berlin, where the pictures of president Biya were shattered.

Kamto and his colleagues were accused of inciting the protesters and now are facing eight charges, including treason, inciting violence, and disruption of public peace.

Rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have been calling on Cameroon to release all peaceful protesters, including Kamto.

Source: VOA

Despite threats by the government, MRC supporters took to the streets on Saturday in major cities in Cameroon calling for the release of president-elect, Professor Maurice Kamto, who has been imprisoned by Mr. Biya who lost last year’s presidential election.

Mr. Biya has never won any election in Cameroon, but has always used the military to intimidate the population after every major election.

But the wall of fear is gradually coming down as Kamto’s supporters have made up their minds to call for his release and the departure of the ailing Biya who is already losing his mind.

The government, through its violent territorial administration minister, Paul Atanga Nji, an ex convict, has been threatening and arresting MRC supporters across the nation. But those threats are no longer deterring Cameroonians who hold that it is time to kiss goodbye to the Biya regime which is noted for its corruption and incompetence.

Since taking power in 1982, Mr. Biya has been reckless and irresponsible, steering the ship into stormy waters. The country has been facing major challenges, with growth stagnating and unemployment heading for the skies.

Poor policies, corruption and internal conflicts have taken a toll on the economy and the people.

The fighting in the two English-speaking regions of the country has brought the country’s economy to its knees with major state corporations shutting down due to disruptions by separatists.

Yesterday’s fire at the country’s lone oil refinery will surely deal a severe blow to the struggling economy that has been robbed of its energy by the corrupt and inefficient regime.

Things are really getting too complicated for the corrupt government. Boko Haram is still a major threat to the country and CAR rebels in the country’s eastern border have become a nightmare that will not go away anytime soon.

With the ineffective government using violence to address its issues, the international community is gradually abandoning its ally in the fight against terrorism.

Americans, Canadians and the EU have all walked away from Mr. Biya whose penchant for brutality has made him look like a monster in the international political arena.

Nearly half a million Southern Cameroonians have been displaced from their homes because of the war currently being waged by French Cameroun government forces in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia. Even the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees maintains that it has been hard to process numbers that have fled the conflict to many parts of Nigeria and into French Cameroun, and the many tragic stories behind them. But a video of a 4-months old Southern Cameroons baby killed by Francophone soldiers has now humanized the refugee crisis for many Ambazonians around the world.

After more than three years of the Southern Cameroons war, Ambazonians on Ground Zero face a plight that is far from over. Consequently, Vice President Dabney Yerima is appealing to many charitable Ambazonians to find the most effective ways to help Southern Cameroonians on Ground Zero.

Southern Cameroonians who want to help face tough questions brought about by the failed and corrupt leadership under Samuel Ikome Sako: How does one most effectively deploy limited sums of money to help Ground Zero? Where is the need most dire?

While many Southern Cameroons refugees are trying to migrate to neighboring Nigeria, French Cameroun regions particularly the Littoral and the West are under the greatest strain since they are hosting the largest numbers of Ambazonian refugees.

During a telephone conversation with the Cameroon Concord News Group recently, Vice President Dabney Yerima observed that “To help the greatest number of Ambazonia refugees, you need first to understand where those refugees are located, and second, to support the Interim Government’s Amba Massive Relief for the Ground Zero wounded and injured, detainees, IDPs and refugees.”

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Human rights groups are demanding investigations into the killing of hundreds of people during demands for independence by English-speaking Cameroonians. An estimated 650 civilians, 235 members of the security forces and nearly 1 000 alleged separatists have been killed as a result of the ongoing conflict northwest of the country.

More than 530 000 people have been displaced in the English-speaking regions. In the most recent violence, On May 15, soldiers from Cameroon’s Air Force and Rapid Intervention Battalion attacked the city of Bamenda, the capital of the Anglophone northwest region, reportedly burning down approximately 70 homes and shops as well as executing at least one person in the street.

Satellite imagery acquired by Human Rights Watch, as well as eyewitness reports and other evidence – appears to show dozens of burned buildings and extensive property damage in the Mankon area.

The attack was reportedly in reprisal for English-speaking separatists killing two Cameroonian soldiers earlier that day.

Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect expressed concern the United Nations (UN) had failed to address the armed conflict, despite it having already lasted more than 18 months.

However, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, warned that the conflict in Cameroon risked spiraling completely out of control if timely preventive action was not taken.

“There is a clear – if possibly short – window of opportunity to arrest the crisis,” she said.

Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect called on UN member states and regional organisations to suspend military aid to Cameroon until the country made progress towards ending the conflict in the Anglophone regions.

Source: CAJ News

Southern Cameroons President, Julius Tabe Ayuk, is calling on Southern Cameroonians to be vigilant as some shady government agents are working hard to derail their revolution.

Mr. Julius Tabe Ayuk made the call in a message to the Cameroon Concord News Group from his jail cell in Yaounde with the objective of fighting false allegations leveled against him by some mischievous and questionable characters whose intention is to derail the revolution and perpetuate the people’s suffering.

In a message sent to the Cameroon Concord News Group Chairman, Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai, the determined Southern Cameroons leader alleged that Elie Smith, the self-styled federalist and journalist, was behind the malicious and mendacious messages which have been going around and casting slurs on Mr. Julius Tabe Ayuk’s  reputation, alleging that the beloved Ambazonian leader had been compromised by the Yaounde government.

The message which was shared with the Cameroon Concord News Group Board Chairman, Dr. Joachim Arrey, also alleged that Elie Smith had promised, on several occasions, to visit Mr. Julius Tabe Ayuk in jail, but had not been seen in the four walls of the maximum security facility where Southern Cameroonian leaders are being illegally held by the dictatorial regime in Yaounde.

President Julius Tabe Ayuk said that he and his team had not gone that far only to be comprised by a regime whose ultimate goal is to destroy the culture and lifestyle of the indigenous people of Southern Cameroons.

Media reports have it that “Elie Smith is constantly in touch with Messrs. Chris Anu and  Kometa and his trips in and out of the country without challenges raise serious questions about his relationship with the ruling CPDM,”

From the message, Mr. Julius Tabe Ayuk alleged that Mr. Elie Smith was a barefaced liar whose love for the spotlight is transforming him into a helpless and desperate propagandist for the corrupt Yaounde government, adding that “he claims to have spoken to the CPDM Director of Cabinet and they confirm that they have paid money to me.”

“We know the game he is playing. If this confusion persists, the federalists will have an upper hand. The people of Ambazonia are watching him,” the message underscored.

It should be recalled that Mr. Julius Tabe Ayuk had a stellar career both at the national and international levels and his dedication to the Southern Cameroonian cause is unquestionable. He is a man with sterling qualities and his dogged determination and steadfast loyalty to the people of Southern Cameroons have endeared him to many minds.

Meanwhile, as the conflict in the two English-speaking regions rages on, the country’s economy is taking some deadly blows. Many state-owned corporations have gone under and thousands of people are out of work, as restoration and government forces engage in a bloody and brutal exchange of fire.

The conflict has also created thousands of internally displaced persons and refugees in Cameroon’s neighboring countries. Nigeria alone is hosting close to 100,000 refugees while Equatorial Guinea and Gabon have seen hordes of refugees flowing across their borders.

Recently, the government of Equatorial Guinea used the United Nations Security Council’s meeting on Cameroon to urge the corrupt Central African nation to call for an inclusive dialogue as the only means to resolve the conflict that has lasted for three years and is generating a lot of challenging problems in neighboring countries.

Despite appeals for the Yaounde government to address the root cause of the conflict, the country’s military has continued to kill ordinary soldiers in a bid to achieve a military success.

Last week, government forces killed an entire family in Bali, a small town some 30 miles from the city of Bamenda. In Muyuka in the Southwest region, an army soldier shot a four-month-old baby in a family home after adults fled for cover as soldiers marched into the compound to find separatist fighters.

Without any proper investigation, the government through its spokesperson, Rene Sadi, who doubles as the county’s communication minister, issued a press release indicating that separatist fighters killed the little girl because her father had quit the ranks.

This story was promptly debunked by the girl’s father who is today living in the bushes for fear of his life. Government troops have been looking for him with the objective of silencing him forever. Once more, the government’s credibility has been called to question and Americans and their allies are using all these inconsistencies on the government’s part to prove that it is incapable and unwilling to lay to rest the crisis that is very likely to split the country.

The Yaounde government which is under enormous international pressure has been issuing many press releases indicating that it is seeking a long-lasting solution to the problem, but its rhetoric is clearly at variance with the reality on the ground.

Yesterday, the country’s foreign affairs minister, Lejeune Mbella Mbella, rambled all day on national television in search of sympathy. He used the occasion to urge Cameroonians to support their ailing president who from every indication is no longer in control of things in the country.

He reminded the world that Cameroon was a sovereign nation and that issues facing the country could only be addressed internally. But from every indication, the government is at its wit’s end. It lacks the political will and honesty to address the issues that have made it a laughing stock across the globe.

The government simply wants to stick to power and it is out of options. It is a government that is not used to dialogue and the current conflict has clearly exposed it as an incompetent and ineffective government whose cardinal objective is to feed fat on the people’s resources.

The world has to continue to breathe down the government’s neck. For 37 years, it has not posted any impressive results. Its president is currently suffering from memory loss and his usual diseases – distended heart and prostate – are conniving with Alzheimer’s disease to mess up his life.

The government is under enormous pressure. There is total panic in Yaounde as Americans and their allies close in on a government that is at best inefficient and at worst useless. The pressure must continue. The recreation is over. The old system has failed the people of Cameroon and it is time to send it to the ash heap of history.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai at the Cameroon Concord News Group’s global headquarters in the United Kingdom.

The West African nation of Cameroon has once again celebrated its National Unity Day on 20 May 2019 amidst violence and bloodshed in some areas of the country. A conflict of language, culture, and resources, especially in the English speaking regions, is tearing the country apart.

The celebrations organized for the 47^th time in the country’s history took place without a hitch in the nation’s capital, Yaoundé, under the careful watch of the presidential couple, Paul and Chantal Biya. However, violence and bloodshed significantly marred the celebrations in other parts of the country.

The two frontline opposition parties, the Cameroon Renaissance Movement and the Social Democratic Front, boycotted the events in solidarity with the lives lost in the English speaking regions. These two parties argued that there cannot be any celebration of “unity” while the country is being torn apart, and the government is not showing sufficient good faith in pacifically managing the conflict.

In the two English-speaking regions of the country, the only towns that were able to stage a semblance of march pass, which was void of the usual fanfare and jubilation, were Bamenda, Buea, Kumba, and Limbe. This resulted from calls to boycott the event by Anglophone separatists under the banner of Ambazonia interim government. In most places in the Anglophone Northwest and South regions, march pass, which used to last for over three hours was reduced to less than 30 minutes mostly staged by the military.

In the Northwest chief town of Bamenda, the day started with gun battles between Ambazonia fighters and government soldiers resulting in casualties on both sides. In the locality of Muyuka, soldiers shot and killed a four-month-old baby after breaking into a house. Most areas of the two restive regions experienced a similar scenario. Meanwhile, 20 May celebrations were going on in the eight French speaking regions of the country.

Cameroon has been facing a separatist movement in its English-speaking regions since 2016. The English-speaking population occupies two regions out of 10, and accounts for about 20 percent of the total population. The movement, which was originally largely peaceful, turned violent after soldiers opened fire in September and October 2017 on peaceful protesters demanding more rights for the minority English-speaking population. Since 2017, civilians have taken up arms to confront regular government soldiers. These armed groups say they are fighting for the creation of a separate state comprising the two English speaking regions, under the banner of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.

So far, the international community has urged the Biya regime to open negotiations with the leaders of Ambazonia, most of whom have been jailed in Yaoundé, while others are in exile. However, the Biya regime seems to believe in the use of force, which at the moment is causing more harm than good. In its latest report, Human Rights Watch reported that more than 1850 persons have been killed, more than half a million internally displaced, and tens of thousands seeking refuge in neighbouring Nigeria.

It should be recalled that French and English Cameroon came together under a federal system in 1961 to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon. This system gave more autonomy to the regions. However, on May 20, 1972, the pro-French government under President Ahidjo decided to abolish the federal system in favour of a centralized unitary system, which meant that Anglophones lost their autonomy. Since then, Anglophones have been complaining of marginalization and second-class status from successive French governments.

Culled from Organisation For World Peace

Now in France there is a lawsuit against French conglomerate Bollore over violating supposed commitments it made to residents and workers at its palm oil plantation in Cameroon.  The suit accused Bollore of reneging on a 2013 settlement in which it promised to improve the working and living conditions of workers and residents around the plantation. “Our civil lawsuit aims to ask the French judge to force the Bollore group to comply with the commitments it made in 2013 to the local communities and plantation workers of Socapalm, a Cameroonian palm oil company directly linked to the group,” said the plaintiffs’ statement.  “We are now asking the French judge to order the forced execution of the action plan; it must be considered as a contract that has not yet been executed.” But if Paul Biya doesn’t live up to any promise, and Guterres roughs up and censors the Press, what will the courts do with Bollore?

In real destruction news, in the village of Ikata in SW Cameroon on April 26 Paul Biya’s soldiers shot unarmed civilians including a woman named as Glory, and burned houses down. While Guterres’ UN does nothing about the outrage of Nigeria sending back to military custody refugees and asylum seekers, Julius Ayuk Tabe and nine others are expected in court on Monday April 29 where their hearing continues but they have now released a statement through their defense team saying they will not be appearing.  Their lawyers say given the fact that they have taken the matter to Appeal court all proceedings at a lower jurisdiction (military tribunal) must be halted as per the law on criminal proceedings.  The lawyers have since appealed a decision by the Military tribunal to judge the detained leaders in Cameroon despite the fact that they are refugees and asylum seekers. One would have thought that former UNHCR chief Guterres would not collude in this, but that was before the golden statue and UN Budget Committee deals with Biya’s ambassador Tommo Monthe.

Guterres is killing what’s left of the UN’s credibility with his corruption and no due process censorship. Of course, Guterres and Dujarric won’t answer questions from Inner City Press not only about Cameroon but even about how 27 new Resident Coordinators are being recruited. Their UN is increasingly corrupt. Guterres’ envoy Mohammed Ibn Chambas is ghoulishly lavishing praise on Cameroon and Amina J. Mohammed’s Nigeria, which illegally refouled 47 to Cameroon.

Source: Inner City Press

People of Bali,

Fellow Ambazonians,

I come to you again following another dark day in the history of our nation. On Saturday, May 25th, 2019, at about midday Amba time, the people of Bali, were subjected to another drench of barbarism from the occupation forces of La République du Cameroun.

In an unprovoked-now-routine-attack, several of our fellow citizens were gunned down. Seven members of the Bali community going about their daily activities were executed in cold blood. Five members of the victims are of the Baya family. Soldiers shot Vincent Baya when they stormed the Sang neighbourhood, and when his grandmother, Na Sanyonga Feh Grace and three other relatives––Gabriel Baya, Peter Naya and Foncham––tried to rush him to the hospital on a ladder makeshift stretcher, all four were also shot dead by soldiers of the regime.

May their souls rest in peace. They will never be forgotten.

Unfortunately, these savage and unprovoked attacks led by the forces of BIR in collaboration with other extermination paramilitary wings put together and sent out by the Cameroun Army on our innocent and defenceless civilian population has become endemic. Two days prior to this recent attacks, specifically on Thursday, May 23rd, 2019, our communities in various neighbourhoods across Ambazonia were subjected to yet another unprovoked genocidal onslaughts as follows:

• Bakala, a popular bike rider in Kumba, was shot dead by Cameroon soldiers at Meboka junction. Eye witnesses say the murder was totally unprovoked.
• Nine of our fellow citizens were shot dead in Esu, Menchum. Amongst the victims was Kenah Francis, known in the community to be struggling with mental health issues.  Seemingly the killings were not enough, so as they vacated the area, the soldiers sprayed the Esu Health Center with bullets that were destructive to medical equipments.  They were determined to make sure that their attack impacted maximum damage on the health centre so as to handicap the entire community that depended solely on it.

-In Bamenda, soldiers attacked and killed another civilian whose name is still pending.  This took place at mile 90 in what is now known as a “celebratory ritual” in which they (regime soldiers) embark on spraying bullets randomly in civilian communities and public spaces as they invade our towns and villages or as they return from a successful killing spree of unarmed persons.

-Then there is the heart-wrenching targeted-close-range-shooting and killing of four-months-old baby, Neba Martha Mbuh as seen in a disturbing video that has now gone viral on social media. This most barbaric crime against humanity took place in Muyuka, as she lay peacefully asleep at home in her mother’s comfortable settee, relatable to many to be a safe place for a baby away from her mother’s loving arms.  We cannot forget the emotionally charged wailing of her mother, Agbor Emilia as she looked at the ravaged blood soaked lifeless body of her baby, haven transferred the mortal remains from the settee to her bed.

We have irrefutable evidence that these crimes against humanity are premeditated and directed by leaders of the regime in Yaoundé.  Make no mistakes, these are not random attacks, these are military operational war tactics, designed specifically to terrorise and traumatise the civilian population in order to deter prospective enlistment of self defence restoration forces and or evoke retaliation from existing fighters who have been forced by the brutality of regime soldiers to pick up weapons and defend their vulnerable communities from similar attacks.

As we have advised previously on SCBC, no matter how tempting and legitimate the call for revenge seems to be under such circumstances, our people must exercise restraint.  We cannot afford to fall into this provocative incentive designed to reduce our restoration struggle into inter-communal violence just as it happened in Ivory Coast masterminded by neocolonial France.  Such reactions pitch against the legitimacy of our struggle and we spot the dangers and stay focused.

Over the last two days, I have had several meetings with other colleagues in The Interim Government to discuss these latest atrocities. We strongly condemn these horrifyingly wicked genocidal crimes against unarmed civilians, against women, against boys, girls, old people, the disabled, against patients with various health problems and against humanity.

We shall be using all the resources at our disposal to ensure adequate global response to these genocidal crimes committed against our people. The perpetrators of these crimes must be held accountable and the point to note here is not if, it is when. We call on all Ambazonians to remain resolved and vigilant. We also urge those with verifiable evidence of these latest crimes and any other crime to discreetly forward the details to us via SCBC message platform on Facebook or through a trusted family member and or connected comrade of the revolution.  Say nothing whatsoever to people you don’t know and trust.

The Interim Government shares your pain during this very difficult and challenging time. We have established contact with our humanitarian team in the affected counties, and will be offering further support as we put all the logistical details together.

As we continue to pursue our struggle for justice and the restoration of our statehood, I’m asking you to remain hopeful amidst these acts of gross violations of humanity. Rest assured that we shall overcome. We are confident that truth and justice will prevail and we continue to call on those who remain an integral part of the peace process to emphasise on a Fact Finding Mission (FFM) to investigate and establish all calls of human rights violations in Ambazonia.  It is only through the findings of FFM that the road map to a peaceful resolution and justice would finally take off.

God Bless you,

Short Live the Struggle

Long Live the Federal Republic of Ambazonia

The parents of a baby allegedly murdered by Cameroonian soldiers last Monday have gone into hiding, afraid speaking out will make them a target for the authorities.

Pictures of the dead four-month-old Martha Neba were circulated online, along with a graphic video showing her body on a sofa with bullet casings nearby and her aunt crying as an unknown man filming the video accused Cameroon’s military of killing her.

“Let them come and kill me too,” screamed Martha’s aunt, Gladys Lum, in anguish.

It appeared to be the latest attack in a bloody conflict between government forces and separatist rebels from the central African country’s anglophone regions, one in which civilians have been repeatedly caught in the crossfire.

The conflict was ignited in 2016 with a peaceful demand by teachers and lawyers in the country’s anglophone regions to use English in courtrooms and schools, but degenerated into war after the authorities shot and killed protesters in October 2017. Anglophone rebels are now fighting for a separate state. Under the country’s octogenarian president, Paul Biya, in power since 1982, the numerous deaths and detentions have created an atmosphere of intense fear.

The family was visiting Muyuka in the South-West region so that four-month-old Martha could be presented to her grandfather. She was asleep on the sofa in his house, her mother was cooking behind it and her father relaxing out front when they heard gunshots.

“I quickly told my wife to run,” said Martha’s father, Funi Neba. “She went and hid around our neighbour’s house, I went right into the forest. On my way back I met a man who told me about the incident. I rushed home and saw my daughter on the chair. They damaged my daughter. I was seeing a bullet inside her head. You know how soft a baby’s head can be.”

According to a neighbour, the men were arguing as they left the house, with one asking another why he had shot such a young child.

When she saw her daughter, Martha’s mother, Emilia Agbor, collapsed. Martha was buried the next day, then the video of her appeared on social media. When soldiers came to the house asking for her parents, they went on the run, scared of reprisals for speaking out.

“The military shot my child,” Agbor said. “They are the ones who shot my child. Right now we are in the bush, we are running from government. I am afraid.”

The government denied what it said were false accusations, with René Sadi, the communications minister, giving his version of events in a statement. He said Neba was a former secessionist rebel, now rehabilitated, and that he and most of his family had fled when his ex-comrades, armed with knives and hunting guns, attacked his home. The baby had been killed with a knife, not a gun, he said, and the subsequent video had been staged in order to “demonise” the country’s armed forces.

He did not explain how he knew this, and did not announce an investigation into the baby’s death.

Neba, in hiding, said he was not a rebel but a banana plantation worker who had worked for months without pay.

“If the government can come out and say I am a separatist, I don’t have what to say to them, other than that God who created us all knows that I am innocent,” he said.

“My father stayed back, he said they should come and kill him since they have already done their worst. He questioned why they killed the innocent child, (when) they could have rather killed him.”

Amid killing, sexual violence, kidnapping, the burning of villages and hospital attacks, 530,000 people have fled their homes in the anglophone South-West and North-West regions. Many are living in extremely precarious situations, without sufficient food, clean water or medical care. Many are living in areas unreachable by humanitarian organisations. Suspected separatists are routinely tortured, according to human rights groups.

Cameroonian soldiers were accused of burning down 70 houses in an attack on Mankon, in the North-West region, on Wednesday 15 May, dragging a man from his house and killing him in the street, according to human rights organisations. The defence ministry announced an investigation.

Houses and villages are commonly burned down by the military: the locality of Kikaikelaki has suffered particularly in recent weeks, caught in the crossfire between the military and separatists, and reportedly being looted by the military. One resident who built water catchments that provided hundreds of people with clean water during the crisis had his house and possessions razed.

Source: The Guardian.Com

12 Southern Cameroonians were reportedly killed and several shops and business premises destroyed by troops loyal to the Biya Francophone regime in Esu-a locality in the Menchum County on Thursday May 23^rd 2019.

The Cameroon government army said its action targeted Ambazonian fighters operating in the area. However, a local trader who spoke to our undercover reporter hinted that the killings and destruction was part of a French Cameroun government policy to bring down Southern Cameroonians.

The 12 people were mostly civilians who had escaped the army onslaught in Wum and were hiding in Esu. The Francophone soldiers also fired shots at the Esu Health Centre shattering the building and health equipment.

Scores of people have fled the area into the bushes abandoning the old and the sick behind.

By Sama Ernest