Biya is ill and is being treated at his private presidential palace in Mvomeka’a, Cameroon Intelligence Report can authoritatively reveal.

The 87 year old French Cameroun monarchical president has a life threatening infection which has drastically reduced his outings in Yaoundé.

With age telling on him, Biya is avoiding senior members of his spy network and tribal governing council due to the Covid-19 pandemic and routinely complains of severe pains.

Mr. Biya had on two recent occasions cancelled trips to Yaoundé due to poor health and he is now represented at every event by his kinsman and Minister Secretary General at the Presidency of the Republic, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh.

Last week Ngoh Ngoh again received Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister who had reportedly booked a meeting long before his arrival in Cameroon with Biya.

Prime Minister Dion Ngute like his other Southern Cameroons predecessors is now a simple errand boy within the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo government.  

Multiple sources in the so-called Unity Palace told Cameroon Intelligence Report this week that the French Cameroun dictator already smells his last days on earth.

CIR sources also said apart from his family, no other high profile government officials are aware of Biya’s deteriorating health situation.

By Isong Asu with files from Rita Akana in Yaounde

Members of the pro Yaounde armed militia popularly known as the Atanga Nji Boys have kidnapped 90-year-old Cardinal Christian Tumi and Fon Sehm Mbinglo II, the Fon of Nso.

Our correspondent in the Bui County reported that the Atanga Nji Boys backed by members of the Rapid Intervention Battalion were ferried from Baba, Babessi subdivision in Ngoketunji County today Thursday, November 5, 2020 and ordered to stage the action against the two Southern Cameroons prominent figures in order to sabotage the Ambazonia struggle.

There has been conflicting reports from pro French Cameroun media houses on the incident with some claiming that the Cardinal and the Fon disappeared at Cane Chair, in Baba, on the Bamenda-Kumbo main road in the company of the Queen mother and some Nso notables.

The giant of the Roman Catholic Church Cardinal Tumi and Fon Sehm Mbinglo were en route to Nso two years after the Fon was airlifted from his palace for medical reasons.

Cardinal Tumi has for more than two decades been in the bad books of the regime in Yaoundé. A decision to name the Douala International airport in his honour that was reached in 1997 has till this day not been implemented.

French Cameroun media houses have openly accused an Ambazonian fighter known by the name ‘General’ Shao Mao of being behind the crime. However, Southern Cameroons Interim Government sources in Ground Zero are all pointing fingers at Minister Paul Atanga Nji and his criminal gang.

By Fon Lawrence

Cameroon’s Minister of Communication Rene Emmanuel Sadi says “separatist terrorists” attacked three schools on November 3 and 4 in Bamenda, Kumbo, and Limbe.

The Minister said four “separatist rebels” aboard motorcycles, armed with AK47 rifles, broke into Longla Comprehensive College, LCC, Mankon in Bamenda around 9:00 am on Tuesday, November 3.

“The outlaws opened fire at the school premises, before fleeing away from the scene after seeing a patrol team of the ‘Bamenda Clean’ Operation, which was alerted and promptly arrives at the scene,” Sadi said in a statement. “This resulted in a wave of panic among students and teachers, as well as parents living in the vicinity who came to the rescue of their children. Face with this situation, the intervention of the head of the said college and the reassuring presence of elements of the Defence and Security Forces made it possible for classes to resume.”

The Spokesman of Government said a few students and teachers got minor injuries as they rushed to safety in panic.

The same day, Sadi said, “Several hooded terrorists” broke into the Presbyterian Nursery and Primary School Complex (P.S.) Kumbo at about 9:00 a.m. abducting six teachers and ten pupils.

“Thanks to the timely intervention of Rev. Pastor Kwanyuy Venansius, the head of this school, a spontaneous mobilization of about fifty faithful and parents of students allowed them to storm the “Mbeluf” site, one of the strongholds of separatist rebels, located six kilometers away from the Kumbo downtown and to free the ten students that had been abducted,” Sadi wrote.

Sadi’s account of the Kumbo Schook Attack is at variance with the version of Rt. Rev. Fonki Samuel Forba, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon, PCC.

Rt. Rev. Fonki said the gunmen “carted a total of 11 teachers and dispersed the children to go home unhurt.”

The government says, “The six abducted teachers are still in the hands of the separatist rebels…the Defence and Security Forces, as working relentlessly in collaboration with the populations of Kumbo for their release.”

The Minister of Communication said a group of about ten “hooded individuals, armed with knives and charms broke into the premises of the ‘Kulu Memorial College’ at around 12:00 noon.”

After firmly ordering the students and teachers to strip naked, and having subjected them to physical abuse and other physical violence, the assailants ransacked the premises and set a large part of the establishment on fire.

“Apart from the consternation that was generated, no loss of human life or injury was recorded,” Sadi said.

The government condemned the attacks, describing them as “odious and cowardly” and aimed at dissuading parents from sending their children to school and creating psychosis within the educational community.

Sadi, however, failed to explain the absence of promised security in schools across the restive North West and South West Regions, especially following the October 24 bloody attack on Mother Francisca Memorial Academy Kumba.

Source: Cameroon Info.Net

Heavy fighting raged in the Eyumojock Local Government Area in Manyu County last Thursday 29 October 2020.Ambazonia restoration forces under the command of Manyu Liberation Ghost Warriors launched a counterattack that dealt a severe blow to French Cameroun forces. The Ambazonian forces ramped up the deadly raid with artillery fire and homemade explosives.

We gathered that the Manyu Liberation Ghost Warriors have recently been launching a series of dry-season operations heading towards Mamfe, the chief town of the county. Last Thursday’s attack left six French Cameroun soldiers dead and over a dozen injured. Cameroon Concord News Group learnt that one Amba fighter was killed during the anti French Cameroun operation.

Thursdays’ offensive by the Manyu Liberation Ghost Warriors against the French Cameroun occupying forces in Manyu County follows a series of French Cameroun military advances in recent weeks. The four years’ war of independence has been fierce and particularly bloody. The latest move by the restoration forces to launch coordinated attacks from all four corners of Manyu leading into Mamfe are bold but one that they are confident will yield considerable success.

Talking to Cameroon Concord News Group correspondent in Ekok, the commander of the operation said “it was a successful operation despite the loss of one of my brave warriors. Our goal is to win this war and make Ambazonia a free nation”. He went on “we are launching counter-attacks to take over Mamfe in a few months and are making strategic advances”.

He showed Cameroon Concord News Group videos of scores of weapons seized during the mission to Eyumojock and video clips that showed the fallen French Cameroun soldiers.

Some terrified and traumatized locals confirmed that self-defense fighters ambushed and exchanged fierce fire last Thursday night.

Rights groups and residents say the French Cameroun forces have attacked and killed over 700 civilians and burned over 45 villages and infrastructure in Manyu County over the last four years since the Southern Cameroons reaffirmed its independence from Cameroun Republic.

A resident said “they are burning everything and raping our daughters. They aim to stop all services because we seek freedom from the occupying forces of French Cameroun but attacks of this nature from our self-defense forces give us confidence that we shall succeed.”

Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes and villages, many of them seeking refuge in neighbouring Nigeria since the war started in 2016. The French Cameroun government has deployed its forces in the Southern Cameroons to kill anything that moves but they sadly underestimated the determination of the Ambazonia restoration forces.

Striking the local population with impunity has been a sad characteristic of the bloody four-year war of independence that it rarely even raises international outrage anymore.

The audacious claim by the Manyu Liberation Ghost Warriors to attack and take over Mamfe in a few months would certainly raise temperatures and blood pressures in Yaoundé. Guerrilla tactics of ambush like last Thursday’s attack are now frequent and are proving extremely successful for the self-defence forces but only time will tell if such tactics will be enough to take the city of Mamfe or eventually win the independence war.

By Kingsley Betek in Ekok

Armed men burst into a Presbyterian school in Kumbo in the Bui County on Tuesday, November 3, 2020.

Cameroon Concord News gathered that some students, teachers and administrative staff were taken at gunpoint to an unknown destination.

A source at the SDO’s office in Kumbo hinted Camcordnews that some of the students were later on released. However, eleven people including teachers and administrative staff are still being held by the gunmen.

Thus, for the umpteenth time, a school environment was targeted as the war of independence which has paralyzed life in Southern Cameroons for the past four years continues.

This kidnapping comes just nine days after the deadly attack on a school in Kumba in the Meme County.

By Fon Lawrence

Nine people were injured on Sunday in the blast of an artisanal bomb in a Yaoundé bar, the government announced on Monday.

It was the fourth in a series of attacks of this kind in less than five months in the Cameroonian capital.

No one claimed responsibility for the attack. In a press release published 24 hours after the explosion, the Communication ministry did not mention any potential suspect.

Cameroon has been the scene of a bloody conflict between security forces and separatist rebels in the country’s western English-speaking areas. In the north, many deadly attacks have been led by the jihadist group Boko Haram.

The “improvised explosive engine, hidden in a bag” was activated “remotely” with a homemade device “made with a motor battery, a memory card and electric wires”, the ministry added.

The attack happened on Sunday evening in a snack bar in the Nsam area, in central Yaoundé.

Nine clients of the bar were wounded, the ministry’s press release said, adding that none had life-threatening injuries. “Some of the injured left the hospital that same night”, a police officer told the AFP.

A hospital source told the AFP that two women were among the victims, one of which was released early, while the other is still resting at the hospital.

This is the fourth bomb placed in Yaoundé in just over five months. In July, four people were injured when a bomb went off and two other relatively minor attacks were reported in June.

The capital has so far been shielded from the two bloody conflicts affecting Cameroon.

In the North-west and the South-west, the clashes opposing separatists and the army, which has been ongoing for three years, has already caused 3,000 deaths and forced 700,000 people to flee their homes.

In the north, jihadist group Boko Haram terrorises locals. The group was founded in Nigeria and is now active in neighbouring countries Cameroon, Chad and Niger.

Source: Africa News

It is estimated that tens of thousands of minors are involved in prostitution in Cameroon today. The phenomenon is on the rise and is becoming commonplace.

According to the Francophone dominated police sources, some prostitutes are in the grip of well-organised pimping networks.  Many minors prostitute themselves for economic reasons.

“I’ve been working the streets for 4 years. It all started when my mother fell ill. She had breast cancer and it required a lot of money for her care and there was no one to help us. I’m the oldest in the family, I sacrificed myself for her,” explains Nadia Kamga, now 17 years old.

Another young lady who accepted to speak to the media revealed that she lost her job. Unemployed, she could no longer feed her family and the bills were piling up,

“In the beginning, when I was 13, I discreetly met a married man. He was a neighbour from a wealthy neighbourhood and older than my father who was unemployed, nobody around me knew, we went out for two years,” the young lady noted, who maintains that she went voluntarily.

A Yaoundé police source maintains that tens of thousands of underage girls are prostituting themselves in the nation’s capital city.

“We see hundreds of them during patrols at night,” says the police officer.

Explosion 

At Mini Ferme and in the Obili district not far from the university campus many underage prostitutes who are students from struggling including displaced Southern Cameroonians teenagers have joined the prostitution ranks in Yaoundé.

“The arrival of hundreds of Southern Cameroons girls has contributed to a drop in daily income. Before, I could easily earn 15,000 CFA francs a day but today I barely have 5,000 CFA francs,” says Fanta, a 17-year-old prostitute from the northern region.

Fanta has a young child that she has to feed. “This child was conceived after a rape,” she says.

Prostitution is illegal in Cameroon. But since there is no government in the two Cameroons, the girls do not hide to entice their clients in the bars of the Mini-Ferme and Obili districts.

Their clients have different profiles ranging from police officers, soldiers, judges, university lecturers, MPs and prominent politicians, eager for sweet 16, they say.

 “My biggest client, whom I like very much, is a Senator,” says Fanta.

A growing clientele

“At the beginning of the corona, people didn’t come here much anymore. But since it has calmed down, our customers are gradually coming back. They have understood that the coronavirus doesn’t prevent sex,” continues Nadia.

The bar and chicken parlour owners make good deals. Some girls rent rooms in Yaounde and pay for them over the year or several months in advance and some of the girls are now accepting electronic payments from Orange or MTN operators.

The prostitution of minors has gone digital. Indeed, on the web, one can see dozens of ads that suggestively highlight the attributes of underage prostitutes.

By Rita Akana with files from Koaci

There has been so much media speculation about the health of the Director of the Presidential Security, General Ivo Yenwo.  The military leader who hails from Southern Cameroons has not been seen in the public eye for more than a year now. Ivo Yenwo was even suspected to be dead last year. Now, a Cameroon Intelligence Report source in Yaoundé has reported that the army general is in a coma.

Our informant with strong ties to the General Ivo Yenwo family has assessed him to be in a very poor state, but his life has not ended.  This is coming after several previous speculations that the soldier who reportedly protected President Biya during the April 6 failed coup was already dead after failing to make public appearances for over a year.

Six months ago, he was expected to appear before the Special Criminal Court in Yaoundé over an issue linked to one of the bodyguards of National Assembly Speaker, Cavaye Djibril but this did not help with the rumors of his death. The general has not shown up for many important military occasions and events and this has become a very big deal.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai