The propagation of fake news and hate speech on Cameroonian media remains a big challenge that needs to be checked, Cameroonian Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute said on Tuesday.

Speaking during a ceremony in the capital Yaounde to officially install newly appointed members of the country’s media watchdog, National Communication Council, Ngute said proliferation of fake news and hate speech in the Central African nation was “disturbing.”

He urged news media in the country to be constructive and responsible.

“We inform, educate, and entertain but we have to do that with the social responsibility,” Joe Chebonkeng Kalabubse, new president of the National Communication Council told reporters after the installation.

Source: Xinhuanet

Professor Carlson Anyangwe has called on all Ambazonian Restoration Groups to throw their weight behind the resistance to restore Southern Cameroons’s sovereignty.

The prominent Southern Cameroons academic and front line leader issued the call on Monday; one week after 300 Cameroon government army soldiers were deployed to Bui by the French Cameroun regime in Yaoundé.

The so-called Operation Bui Clean has seen intense fighting between Cameroon government troops and Ambazonia Restoration Forces with some residents accused of conspiring with Ambazonia fighters. According to Cameroon government army’s claims, residents, elites, traditional rulers, and church leaders have embraced the independence ideology in all areas, making it difficult for the military to fight the Ambazonia Restoration Forces.

Professor Carlson Anyangwe invited all the Self Defense Groups to support the resistance in restoring Southern Cameroons sovereignty and territorial integrity, and he promised the evil French Cameroun occupiers that armed resistance would have the final say on the battlefield and make Southern Cameroon-Ambazonia proud.

“Until the complete liberation of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia from your evil (presence), Southern Cameroonians will not retreat, Southern Cameroonians will not give up and Ambazonia Restoration Forces will respond twofold to any attack,” Professor Anyangwe warned the Biya French Cameroun regime.

He also criticized the Atanga Nji Boys who slander about pro-resistance individuals and institutions, saying, “Their prosecution will be near and heavy, and sooner or later they will be tried for their great crimes and treachery in Amba courts.”

By Isong Asu

The Vice President of the Southern Cameroons Interim Government, Dabney Yerima says the United Nations should include La Republique du Cameroun in its blacklist of parties violating minors’ rights during conflicts.

In a press briefing late on Monday, the exiled Southern Cameroons leader pointed out that there was an urgent need for the international community to start naming and shaming the Biya child-killer regime in Yaoundé.

Vice President Dabney Yerima was reacting to a recent report made public by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. The report covers countries and organizations under the UN’s Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism, which are listed as grave violators in the report’s annexes.

Dabney Yerima noted that all ingredients that could trigger inclusion in the annex and demand a UN Security Council sanction are evident in the war in Southern Cameroons. “Recruitment of child soldiers, attacks on schools and hospitals, killing and maiming, sexual assault and abduction of children are all in the Biya French Cameroun regime’s DNA” Yerima added.

For over four years into the conflict in Southern Cameroons, the occupying regime in Yaoundé has never been listed and has never been named and shamed for killing and injuring thousands of Southern Cameroons women and children.

French government support for the Biya Francophone regime in Yaoundé deep within UN structures is making the mechanism to list parties violating the rights of children in armed conflicts ineffective and discriminatory. “It is a source of grave concern that Cameroon government forces have never been blacklisted as violators of children’s rights in relevant reports of the secretary-general” Yerima furthered.

In its annual Children and Armed Conflict report, the UN said at least 19,379 children affected by war in 2020 were victims of grave violations, but it failed to take notice of La Republique du Cameroun crimes in Southern Cameroons.

The War in Southern Cameroons has already claimed at least 40 000 lives, almost all of them civilian children, men and women, murdered by Cameroon government army soldiers in a series of targeted killings, organized massacres, and killings by fire in over 400 villages burnt down to ashes across Southern Cameroons-Ambazonia.

Over half a million people have been forcibly displaced as refugees living in various countries and especially in refugee camps in Nigeria. Another half a million people have become IDPs hiding in forests, caves and hills due to forced displacement. Additionally, over 1.5 million people are facing a humanitarian disaster.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

The Southern Cameroons Interim Government (IG) says it has been astonishingly shocked with EU and UN inaction toward the French Cameroun genocidal campaign going on in Southern Cameroons-Ambazonia which has already claimed at least 40 000 lives, almost all of them civilian children, men and women, murdered by Cameroun troops in a series of targeted killings, organized massacres, and killings by fire in over 400 villages burnt down to ashes across Ambazonia.

Military leaders loyal to the Biya Francophone regime in Yaoundé have been deploying soldiers to all Southern Cameroons towns and villages and currently, several hundred Southern Cameroonians have again escaped to the forest and some from the Manyu, Ndian and Bui constituencies are heading to Nigeria.

Cameroon government army attacks in recent months have resulted in numerous human rights violations.

The Biya Francophone regime also plans to open military bases in several villages in Bui, Ndian and Kupe Muanenguba divisions.

The mass killing of Southern Cameroons civilians for over four years now is emblematic of French Cameroun’s colonial regime under which, the crimes similar to apartheid and persecutions are committed.

With unflinching support from the French government of Emmanuel Macron, French Cameroun’s impunity and criminality are now untenable, Vice President Dabney Yerima said in a statement on Monday.

By Isong Asu

Police in Cameroon fired tear gas on Saturday morning as they clashed with residents fighting eviction from a neighbourhood adjacent to Newton Airport in the country’s economic capital Douala.

An official said inhabitants of the informal settlement, known locally as Fret Aeroport, were illegally occupying government land and that they would not be compensated.

Some residents, many of whom have lived next to the airport for decades despite repeated attempts by the authorities to move them, said they were given less than two days to move out.

“This is airport land, the airport has its land title here, and these populations have settled anarchically,” said Hector Eto Fame, a local government representative.

“People who illegally occupy the private domain of the state do not deserve, according to the law, compensation.”

Riot police fought pitched battles with people throwing stones as they went from house to house, creeping through streets choked with furniture, mattresses and tear gas. A barricade of burning tables was seen blocking one road.

Elsewhere, women and children cried as they watched a large excavator tear down buildings amid a wasteland of concrete and crumpled metal roofing.

It’s the second time people have been evicted from the neighbourhood this year. In January almost 200 families were forced out of their homes, according to local rights groups.

The government has said previously more than 100,000 people were living within the airport perimeter, and it was necessary to move them to prevent people crossing the runway and to protect aircraft.

“We were given the formal notice less than a day before the destruction. I’m overwhelmed,” said Daïkolé Mama, a resident.

“We were not told anything about the motivation for the destruction. I have been living in this neighbourhood for 30 years.”

Source: wsau.com

At least 10 soldiers were killed and a police station was raided yesterday in different locations in southwest Cameroon, this comes at a time when the Cameroonian army has just completed the operation called ‘Bui Clean’.

The mission which begun on May 15, aimed at neutralizing the operations of separatists in the area.

The operation was led by the 5th Joint Military Region, consisting nearly 300 soldiers.

“I told them that the mission must continue with discipline, with respect for the principles of commitment and conduct, and with respect for human rights, because the population remains and will remain our center of gravity.” said Gen Nka Valère, 5th Military Region Commander.

Some residents are also accused of conspiring with the rebels. According to the army’s claims, residents, elites, chiefs, and church leaders have embraced the separatist ideology in all areas, making it difficult for them to fight.

However, there are different views on the conduct of these military operations among the people, who believe that the approach of the military has its limits and should be the last option. The military raids have forced the inhabitants to flee to the mountains to find refuge.

“Military operations in our towns and villages will not bring peace in my opinion, because the people are suffering now. And most of the time when people see the military, they think that their son is dead, their father is dead, their daughter is dead because of the military, and they are very afraid. So I don’t think the military option is the best one.” said a resident of Bamenda.

According to the inhabitants, there is a need for another means of resolution other than the use of weapons. In the large cities of the northwest, for example, kidnappings, abuses, extortion and assassinations are the norm. According to analysts, these are the consequences of military raids.

The operation, which is the third of its kind, lasted a whole month. Four soldiers were killed and several injured.

Source: Africa News