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.

Southern Cameroonian fighters have fired at a Camairco plane in Bamenda, as the airliner was about to land at the Bamenda airport.

The airliner, which has been grounded in Bamenda, took some bullets and will not be flying for sometime.

The incident that occurred today December 1st 2109 is a clear indication that the Southern Cameroons crisis is far from over despite the optimism generated by the Major National Dialogue held in Yaounde in October 2019.

Camairco is now among other state corporations which have been affected by the crisis.

PAMOL, CDC, and SONARA have been hit hard by the crisis and this is a severe blow to the cash-strapped Yaounde government that is still hoping that time will help solve a problem that has become a millstone around its neck.

Since the commencement of the crisis, the government of Cameroon has lost more than USD 50 billion due to the war and the country’s economy is in a free fall.

Unemployment has reached unbearable levels and insecurity is heading for the sky, especially in Yaounde and Douala which are the country’s most economically active cities.

According to a source at the Unity Palace, government officials are really concerned by the declining economy and they fear that the country’s increasing isolation at the international level may make things worse.

The source, which elected anonymity, said that there was fear among government officials, especially those who still hold that the government should not negotiate with Southern Cameroonians because in their view, negotiating with people who have taken up weapons against their country will be like promoting terrorism.

As the economy continues its race to the bottom, many analysts hold that the government might finally come to its senses.

Many state corporations are already having huge liquidity issues, and a corporation like ENEO, the country’s inefficient power utility, has not paid its workers for more than three months.

SONARA is down and what is left of it is not really delivering the revenue the government needs to pay some of its bills.

This explains why a huge chunk of next year’s budget has been allocated to the repairs of the units of the national oil refinery that were heavily damaged in a fire whose origin remains a mystery.

Meanwhile, to cushion the impact of the economic crisis the country is dealing with, the government last week surreptitiously rushed a high-level delegation to Washington to negotiate with the Trump Administration on the country’s readmission into AGOA, an economic program that gives poor African countries like Cameroon access to the huge and lucrative American market.

After having made a lot of noise about the country’s sovereignty and insisting that Cameroon’s dismissal from AGOA will not hurt the country, the government had to eat its words.

America is Cameroon’s ally in the war against terrorism on the continent and American economic assistance to the Central African country has been helping it to stave off some of the social and economic pressure that could help bring down the corrupt and ineffective Yaounde government.

It was on this grounds that a high-level delegation headed to Washington to plead for clemency after having insulted Americans.

However, the mission to Washington has not gone very well as Washington is insisting that the Yaounde govern must stop conducting itself as a rogue regime.

The delegation met with U.S. under-secretary of State for African Affairs, Tibor Nagy, who advised the government delegation that there would be conditions to be met if the country would continue to enjoy free and unfettered access to the U.S. market.

Among the conditions are a release of all political prisoners in the country, a release of all Southern Cameroonians arrested due to the crisis, the holding of an inclusive dialogue as requested by the international community and the cessation of military operations in the two English-speaking regions of the country.

Yaounde is therefore looking at ways of complying with the conditions without losing face. Its politicians have already begun admitting that the government had made mistakes and that Southern Cameroonians should forgive and forget.

In this regard, there is a flurry of activities taking place in Yaounde to find lasting solutions to the crisis that has put the country in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.

With the arrival last week of the heads of the AU, Commonwealth and the Francophonie in Yaounde, it is clear that the noose around the government’s neck is getting tighter.

The pressure is mounting and the country’s low energy prime minister has been busy all weekend holding meetings on how to find sustainable solutions to the issues that triggered the Southern Cameroons crisis.

The weeks ahead will be producing some good news, but the news might be coming too late as Southern Cameroonians have been radicalized and many simply want a total disconnection from East Cameroon because of the long years of pain and suffering inflicted on them by the country’s military.

The world needs a solution from the Yaounde government and some of the government’s allies are already running out patience with a government that has been at best ineffective throughout this conflict.

If it needs to regain the confidence of its allies, it must swallow its pride and approve the Canadian-sponsored, American-supported Swiss initiative that has also been approved by the European Union.

Time is of the essence. The government has been cornered and it must act fast and effectively if genuine peace and confidence have to return to Cameroon.

By Kingsley Betek and Joyce Ekinde in Yaounde

Cameroon Intelligence Report has learnt that Moussa Faki Mahamat of the African Union, Patricia Scotland of the Commonwealth and Louise Mushikiwabo of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie  met President Paul Biya privately in Yaoundé and insisted that the French Cameroun dictator should give up power.

Our chief intelligence officer in Yaoundé said the meeting, which involved representatives of the US and French embassies in Yaoundé, was held at an undisclosed location. We understand that the diplomats from the US side delivered a clear and firm message that the only way to free La Republique du Cameroun from a civil war was for the 86 year old Biya to step down.

The secret meeting occurred after a televised one with Prime Minister Dion Ngute in which French Cameroun state media, CRTV reported that Biya was still in the good books of the West and his troops were winning the Ambazonia Restoration Forces for control of the oil rich Southern Cameroons.

The Southern Cameroons Interim Government announced last week the creation of the Bank of Ambazonia which was followed with the appointment of the governor of the bank by Vice President Dabney Yerima in what would be a major boost to the Southern Cameroons campaign for total and complete independence.

The French Cameroun Minister-Secretary General at the presidency of the Republic, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh was heard murmuring privately after the meeting that the Biya regime welcomed discussions but only without preconditions.

The French Cameroun military has changed tactics several times in the back-and-forth fighting in Southern Cameroons since the Ambazonia uprising began nearly four years ago.

State TV, in a bid to counter claims that the Biya regime was crumbling, has been showing images of ordinary life in Southern Cameroons with students reportedly back to school. Biya is refusing to step down despite pressure from the United States and the European Union.

We gathered that French Cameroun political elites are now calling their pro Yaoundé Southern Cameroons counterparts as traitors. Eneo, the sole electricity provider has not been able to pay salaries for the last three months.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai