Manyu Diaspora Advisory Committee

Urgent Press release

#0010of 07thMay2018

Subject: GET READY TO BOYCOTT BLOODY 20THMAY

To: All Parents, sons, and daughters of Manyu:

The Manyu Diaspora Advisory Committee will like to draw your attention to this fake Celebration that the secret cult government of Paul Biya has continued to use to manipulate our minds, distort our history, reinforce our status of second class citizens/slaves, and uplift themselves as the masters over our territory.

Why celebrate 20hMay when thousands of our own youths have been forced into exile in Nigeria, and thousands of others are killed or imprisoned in concentration camps across La Republic du Cameroun territory, and our villages and towns burnt to the ground by the Terrorist regime of Yaoundé?

What are you going to be celebrating when our towns, villages, and streets are undergoing full scale terrorism by the illiterate soldiers of Paul Biya, who rape, kill, and steal from our farms and houses?

Why would you want Biya’s propaganda CRTV to broadcast images of your marching children to the world, portraying them as “happy kids”, when in fact these children are living in hell and have no future at all in Biya’s Cameroun, where his thugs continue to intensify their acts of aggression upon our people?

We know the shameless CPDM shall send its corrupt slaves like the ostracized Tabetando, Mengot,Mrs. Okpu, Senator Anja and Hon. Egeli Elias to come and convince parents to send their children go out and march on the 20th of May.

You love your children, no doubt. But we are afraid these greedy Manyu CPDM slaves love just one thing-Power and Money. They will sell all of us to Paul Biya so long as money gets into their accounts. These outlawed traitors already know about Biya’s secret plot to send out his military disguised as “secessionists” between now and the20thMay to kill your children aged 13 and above on that day, blame it on “Ambazonian Restoration Forces” and then arrest your surviving children.

Have you not already seen them burn your schools, markets, homes, entire villages, then turn around and blame you for their cowardly acts of cruelty? Do not give them another chance to kill your children. You can rebuild your houses, but you can never bring your dead children back to life.

Great People of Manyu, Keep your children far away from 20thMay Celebrations. Boycott it. Keep your children safe at home. There shall be time for us to name our own holidays and proudly celebrate together.

Sincerely thankful,

The Manyu Diaspora Advisory Committee

Security in Buea has been raised from severe to critical following threats of an imminent Amba attack announced late today Sunday the 6^th of May 2018. Many people were injured. None of the injured are thought to be in a serious or life-threatening condition as residents of the historic capital of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia rushed back home for safety after church services.

Our chief intelligence officer in Buea reported that elements of the 21st MIB,GMI,Gendarmerie have mounted Barricades on the streets leading to various military and police camps in preparation for the attack. The Francophone governor of the Southern Zone, Okalia Bilai was quoted recently as saying that the Amba fighters were gaining grounds and inflicting heavy damage on government troops.

Last week Thursday the corpses of more than 30 soldiers killed in Muyenge were brought to Buea under very shameful circumstances covered in banana leafs and palms.  Cameroon Intelligence Report gathered from a senior army officer that the military staged an accident with one of its old trucks and then declared that the Muyenge soldiers died as they were returning from the battle front.

Elsewhere, the remains of the six soldiers killed during the attack on the governor’s convoy in Lebialem have also been ferried to Buea.

By Sama Ernest in Buea

The campaign which gained public notice since Saturday, April 28, and remains on course triggered the settlers to escape into the farms for fear of the unknown. Such massive escape comes as the military has since been engaged in cross fire with gunmen suspected to be fighters of the illusionary State of Ambazonia.

At dawn, the villages were empty with human activity nonexistent. Every family had taken cover in the forest. On Sunday April 29, a military contingent which visited the Munyenge zone is said to have returned towards the Muyuka direction. News of these developments caused hundreds of people to start returning home. Life was fast returning to normal in the evening hours of Sunday.

A victim whose identity we are withholding for professional reasons told The Post that, as they crossed to find out the whereabouts a of a neighbour, news came that, another cross fire between the separatists and the military was forthcoming. Fear ripped through the villages and the few families which had returned home escaped back into the forest.

Ambazonia Self-Defence Council’s Restoration Forces (ASC/RF)in Muyengue rescued a nine-month pregnant mother, Mrs. Belinda Njang, from being either roasted alive to ashes or shot dead at close range in her home by La Republique du Cameroun’s (LRC) regular army. Belinda is the wife of Mr. Mathias Njang, a family member of General Elokobi. Mathias and Belinda are parents three kids. They live in their home in Muyengue and they are expecting their fourth baby this week, according to Belinda’s clinical consultation reports.

At about 6.00 AM Ambazonia time on Monday, troops of LRC invaded lower Muyengue village and started their usual cowardly activities – kill, maim, arson, arrest, loot property, and extort money. As evidenced across the territory of Ambazonia, these actions by LRC regular army cause residents to flee their communities to unknown
destinations for safety. Today in upper Muyengue, everyone fled the community as LRC soldiers raided the locality. Unfortunately, Belinda Njang remained trapped in her home due to her 9-month pregnancy and fear she may lose her baby in the escape process on foot. She was left alone in the deserted community where only the regular
army of LRC including its elite Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR) were conducting atrocities.

At about 2 PM Ambazonia time, Ambazonia Self-Defence Council’s Restoration Forces became aware of Belinda’s situation, her position, and risk of being killed if met by LRC soldiers. A small team of Ambazonia forces conducted a swift rescue operation and carefully recovered Belinda Njang from her home to a safe location where is now reunited with her husband and their three children. Belinda’s rescue operation by Ambazonia forces lasted about an hour and was concluded successfully just before the regular army of LRC arrived the upper Muyengue and burned homes.

Belinda is still gripped with fear that she would have been raped or killed by LRC soldiers if the Ambazonia Restoration Forces did not rescue. She said: “I knew I will be burnt alive at home or shot dead by LRC regular army if they found me at home because that is what they are trained, specialized, and ordered to do.” Belinda recounts her fears as she thinks of the recent burial of her sister in-law who was killed recently by LRC soldiers.

In late April, Mathias Njang’s younger sister Martina Njang, also family member to General Elokobi, was killed in Kombone by LRC regular army. LRC regular army raided the community, shot dozens on their legs, arrested scores, and burnt homes. LRC soldiers break into the home of Martina, shot and shattered her right leg, and she later bled to dead in hospital. She was buried last week, and the family is yet to come to terms with the memories of her gruesome dead.

ASC Restoration Forces successful rescue mission of our Ambazonia mother Belinda Njang in Muyengue Monday is testimony to the coordination and professionalism of our forces and their mission to protect Ambazonians and their property against a common enemy LRC.

The ASC calls on all Ambazonians, residents, businesses and institutions across the
territory of Ambazonia to cooperate fully with the policies of the Interim Government
and to fully support the actions of the ASC/RF to defend all Ambazonians and
residents, protect their property, and guard Ambazonia homeland.

Mr. Nkem O. Foncha
official.asc@africamail.com
April 30, 2018

A teacher was gunned down after armed assailants attacked a school in a strife-hit English speaking region of southwest Cameroon, national radio reported Saturday.

Sophie Mandengue Maloba, a 42-year-old mother of three, died in the town of Muyuka when three armed men riding motorcycles fired gunshots as they sped through the town, the radio said.

“She died in hospital where she was taken after the attack,” a journalist at the station told AFP.

The violence came three days after another teacher was killed in similar circumstances in nearly Kumba, some 350km west of the capital.

President Paul Biya rejected their demands, prompting radicals to make a full-blown declaration of independence last October.

Source: AFP

Two Cameroonian gendarmes – paramilitary officials – were killed by suspected separatists in the North West region. Local media reported that some gendarmes had been abducted by unknown gunmen early on Saturday.

Reports emerged later in the day that the lifeless bodies had been found in the Bali Nyonga area of the restive region riled by pro-secessionist elements pushing for independence from French majority Cameroon.

The incident according to a local journalist covering the Anglophone crisis, Mimi Mefo of Equinoxe TV, had led to heavy deployment of soldiers as at Saturday evening.

On the same day, police in the capital Yaounde violently disrupted a religious peace march. They are said to have used live bullets to disperse the marchers. It is not immediately known why the police dispersed the group. A journalist with Equinoxe TV, however, said the march ended in a ‘bloody’ way.

Police had in March 2018 disrupted a similar protest. Over twenty broom wielding women were arrested for protesting but were later released.

The Anglophone region (Northwest and southwest) has been the epicentre of separatist agitation which started as a protest against marginalization of the regions by French-majority Cameroon.

Security forces numbering over thirty have so far been killed in guerrilla-style attacks claimed by separatists. The government has since ramped up the military option to deal with the crisis.

People in the regions continue to flee into nearby forests and into Nigeria. Talk of mediation has often come up but there is yet to be any concrete action in that regard.

Source: Africa News

Armed men believed to be separatists forced Cameroonian security forces to retreat when the two engaged in exchange of fire on Wednesday in the restive northwest region.

According to the BBC Africa Live page, the military was forced to withdraw from the town of Belo located in northwestern Cameroon following heated exchanges.

The army have for months now been engaged in exchanges with separatist elements under the banner of the so-called Ambazonia republic.

Local media portals have reported of raids by the army in many parts of the Anglophone regions – northwest and southwest. Reports say the army have often burnt down and shot people in their raids when they suspected that people were habouring separatists.

Hundreds of people are said to have fled into nearby bushes for fear of being caught in the cross fire. The United Nations has also reported that over 20,000 Cameroonians have fled into Nigeria fleeing the violence back home.

What started as a push for rights by teachers and lawyers in the Anglophone regions, have since October last year escalated into an armed confrontation between Yaounde and different separatist groups.

The main group, Ambazonia Defense Force (ADF) have claimed responsibility for some of the guerilla-style attacks that have killed over 20 members of the security forces – soldiers, police and gendarmes.

Recently, governor of the Southwest region was attacked whiles on his way for an official assignment. The armed convoy of Governor Bernard Okalia Bilai came under fire from suspected separatists on his way to and from the town of Labialem.

Culled from Africa News

Mancho Bibixy has averred that the courts were complicit in the raging political and security crisis facing the Central African nation.

Mancho and six others were earlier this week convicted of terrorism and other charges including secession and hostility against the state. Their trial, which lasted months, was held by a military court in the capital Yaounde. Sentencing is reserved till May 8th, 2018.

Cameroon media said he was acquitted of some other charges as rebellion, civil war, destruction of property, killing and non-possession of an ID. Another accused was however acquitted and discharged. Even though his lawyers have said they will appeal the ruling, the outspoken Mancho delivered a message to the trial judge during his last appearance stressing that the court had taken the line of fuelling the Anglophone crisis.

“You have an opportunity to begin solving the Anglophone crisis or add more fuel to the fire. History will be the final judge,” he is quoted to have said. The terrorism charge largely stems from their actions supposedly “threatening Cameroon’s sovereignty.”

He first appeared in a coffin at a protest in Bamenda (capital of the Northwest region) in November 2016. His action it is said was to convey the message that minority English-speaking Cameroonians “seemed to have died before their real death” and therefore they had nothing to fear but to speak against the injustices.

The other accused persons include: Tsi Conrad, The Emile Agwe, Tangwa Maloin Tangwa, Azelecha Martin, Guingah Valentine, Junior Awahro Thomas. They were all ordered to pay 579m CFA francs ($1m; £770,000) in damages.

Local media reports that he and his co-accused are currently being held at Yaoundé‘s Kondengui Central Prison awaiting sentencing.

Source: Africa News

Cameroon is not an ideal place for journalists to thrive in the line of duty due to laws that constantly threaten their freedom and independence, a recent report by a media rights group has said.

The 2018 Press Freedom Index released by Reporters Without Borders said Cameroonian authorities have imposed a climate of fear and self-censorship on media practitioners.

The index showed that the central African country had made a slight progress from 2017 moving from 130th spot to 129th this year. That notwithstanding, journalists face huge hurdles some of which led to exorbitant fines and in some cases jail terms.

What RSF said about Cameroon: Constant threat to media outlets

The communication minister said in September 2017 that press freedom was guaranteed in Cameroon “as long as it is consonant with the defense of institutions.” The authorities have imposed a climate of fear and self-censorship.

At the same time, the government has withheld final legal certification from many radio stations in order to keep them under permanent threat of closure.

Another commonly implemented practice is bringing defamation prosecutions against journalists without notifying them. This often leads to exorbitant fines or lengthy prison terms without the ability defend oneself in court.

The 2014 terrorism law that provides for trial by military court has been used to keep a Radio France Internationale correspondent in detention for nearly two and a half years.

Other journalists were arrested during the crackdown on protests in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions, where the Internet was disconnected for several months from January 2017 onwards.

African outlook for 2018 RSF Index

Africa failed to make the top twenty of the annual ranking with the continent’s freest nation being Ghana at 23rd spot of the 180 country ranking. The country beat Namibia who until now were the best.

Namibia came in 26th, South Africa came in 28th followed in 29th spot by Cape Verde. Burkina Faso completed the top 5 spot for Africa at 43rd spot.

Unfortunately, the continent also made a strong showing at the tail of the list. Eritrea had the worst media freedom placing 179th only behind North Korea. Africa had three other countries in the last 10. Equatorial Guinea at 171st.

Djibouti and Sudan at the 173rd and 174th spots respectively. Other worst performing African nations included Burundi, Egypt, Libya and Somalia at the 159th, 161st, 162nd and 168th slots respectively.

Culled from Africa News

The Commanding Officer

Manyu Ghost Warriors Battalion

Subject: The Eyumojock 18/04/2018 Attack

Category: Unclassified

Following the publishing of a gruesome video on social media in which the thugs of LRC paraded the corpses of 3 young men they claimed were part of the MG Restoration forces, we launched a thorough investigation and want to officially inform the public of the following findings:

➢ There was no MG Battalion mission planned for Eyumojock on the 14th April 2018

➢ The Eyumojock attack was a brazen act of robbery carried out by unidentified elements against a popular beer parlor owned by a certain Mr. Ojang Stephen.

➢ These bandits held the Sales girl and other customers captive at gun point and stole an unknown amount of money

➢ They then moved to other localities towards the Eyumojock Gendarmerie post with the intent of carrying out further acts of vandalism and banditry.

➢ These thieves were ambushed and killed by the Gendarmes

➢ Their bodies were then displayed in Public and labelled as Restoration forces

We want the public to know that while we regret the waste of human lives put on display like some trophy to boost the ego of the LRC thugs, we equally take this opportunity to assure you that the gory video you watched was pure propaganda by the LRC thugs. The intention was to shock public opinion into losing faith in the capability of the Manyu Ghost Warriors to protect its people.

We want to assure the public that this piece of cheap LRC designed propaganda video had nothing to do with the brave and well trained Manyu Ghost Warriors who operate under the very strict supervision of professional Commanders.

Finally, we want to assure the public that we have performed a head count of all the boys in our MG battalions and none of them is missing.

As Commander of the 2nd Brigade of ASC, I am sending this as the official report received so far from one of the defense units partially operating in that brigade. I am still waiting for reports from other defense units.

Brigade Commander

Ekri Kak