The crisis in Southern Cameroons is in the midst of some seriously dangerous path. Ever since the Yaoundé Military Tribunal sentenced the Ambazonia leaders to life in prison, more than 54 people have been killed in several rural localities according to concerned NGOs and things could get much, much worse in the days ahead.

Cameroon Concord News reporter in Bamenda noted that bodies are dumped on the streets in villages on an almost daily basis. Troops loyal to the Biya Francophone regime in Yaoundé recently invaded Nkambe sub constituency killing civilians in Bongom, Njab and Mbipyi villages.

The UN agency for the prevention of genocide has been maintaining a kind of deliberate silence since President Biya declared war on the people of Southern Cameroons. Political commentators following the conflict have pointed out that the Francophone dominated government’s rhetoric has been very similar to language used before and during the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda.

The risk of more violence is real as the Yaoundé government is struggling to get children back to school in the war torn territory. What’s happening right now in Southern Cameroons is deadly serious as cabinet ministers of Ambazonia extraction serving the Biya government are all financing militias.

Paris is supporting the Yaoundé government in its resolve to kill the people of Southern Cameroons while many EU countries are insisting on an inclusive dialogue that will help normalize things in Cameroon.

The 86 years old President Biya has been indifferent to those calls. Many EU countries have already allied with the United States and Canada on how the Southern Cameroons crisis could be addressed. America’s determination and its ability to mobilize other countries, including some of Cameroons neighbours like Equatorial Guinea has still not yielded the required result.

The last few days have witnessed massive killings in many villages in Southern Cameroons. In the Bui, Manyu and Meme County Cameroon government troops have slaughtered more than 45 innocent civilians in a situation many observers say is unnecessary. In Bali, Esu and Jakiri and Wum army soldiers reportedly beheaded unarmed civilians. The killings have intensified over the last couple of days as the regime suspects that international pressure may increase over the sentencing of the Ambazonia leaders.  Cameroon government army soldiers have also been burning homes, destroying food crops and stealing cattle.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai with files from Rita Akana and Sama Ernest

The Biya regime has evacuated a cream of jailed CPDM politicians including the former general manager of the Cameroon Airlines Yves Michele Fotso abroad for treatment reneging on a promise to end medical tourism Mr Biya made during the last presidential poll won by Prof Maurice Kamto.

The Yaounde regime is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on foreign medical trips to France, Switzerland, Morocco and the Republic of South Africa most of which are unnecessary. Highly placed government officials and army generals who travel abroad are mostly treated by Cameroonian doctors in France and in Switzerland.

Cameroon Intelligence Report gathered that President Biya has already made a decision for former Prime Minister Chief Inoni Ephraim to be ferried to Europe for treatment. It remains a national shame that Mr Biya has never consulted in a hospital in Cameroon.

President Biya has been leading the medical tourism industry in Cameroon by example wasting Cameroonian tax payer’s money in hospitals in Germany and in Switzerland and encouraging his acolytes, friends and family members to go abroad on frivolous medical trips.

There are a sea of Cameroonian doctors in Europe and the US and critics have accused the Yaounde crime syndicate of failing to address the brain drain by improving working conditions and health centres.

Mr Biya has always said his government’s hard-earned cash would not be spent on treating officials overseas but spends more than nine months in a year at the InterContinental Hotel in Geneva with his private medical staffs.

Cameroon has everything and is one of Africa’s oil producers but most of its citizens live in poverty. Mr Biya took office in November 1982 and promised to tackle corruption and waste. But what the leader claims to have achieved in his 37 years as head of state ranges from plain fiction to the most absurd.

By Chi Prudence Asong

Separatist factions demanding the release of their leaders have begun locking down the north-west and south-west regions and urging a boycott of a ‘back to school’ campaign supported by the Francophone-led state and civil society groups. 

Thousands of people have already fled their homes in cities like Bamenda, Buea and Kumba – at the epicenter of the conflict. Some have sought to hide out in the bush to escape the wrath of both the security forces and armed separatists. 

The military court ruling in the case of Julius Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, the president of the self-proclaimed Ambazonia and several, sparked renewed fears of an escalation in the violence.

As many as half a million people have fled their homes in the Anglophone regions since a crackdown on anti-government protests by English-speaking lawyers and teachers deteriorated into an armed separatist struggle in 2016.

Separatist lockdowns have occurred frequently and schooling has been disrupted in the three years since the crisis started. A Swiss effort to bring the Anglophone separatists and Francophone-led government together for peace talks is still in the early stages.

Solomon Amabo@solomon_amabo

Who is fooling who? Governor NW Region Cameroon says those fleeing violence with pots, mattresses, tables etc are students who are returning from vacation. The reality is the fear of a lockdown imposed by pro-independence fighters. How many lies will the rogue regime tell?

Lockdowns spark fear

Travel agencies in the cities of Bamenda and Buea have been crowded and chaotic as residents try to make arrangements to leave, mainly by road. Fares have doubled or even tripled in some instances.

Celine Tanui bought bus tickets for a trip to the city of Bafoussam in West Region, where she plans to enroll her three children in school. “The sentencing of Julius Sisiku Ayuk Tabe has worsened things here in Bamenda.”

Tanui said she was shocked by the court ruling and the separtists’ vow that schools will not resume until they are released.  “I have to carry my kids to the West so that they should go to school there,” she told DW.

The exiled chief of staff of the self-declared Ambazonian interim government, Elad Kizito told DW the lockdown was already in place in various villages. “The Republic of Cameroon is trying to use the school resumption to deceive the international community that everything is normal and that things have been normalized in the so-called Anglophone region.”

People who supported the Anglophone struggle are happy with the lockdown, while those who “live on the crumbs of the Republic of Cameroon” are disgruntled with it, Kizito said.

“Yes, it’s painful, it’s hard for the people. But we have made provision for those who are in dire need to be served in hospitals, childcare or emergencies.” Emergency services would be available in major centers such as Buea, Bamenda and Victoria,” he told DW. 

What about those fleeing? “Those are not people who are not happy with the lockdown, those are people who have experienced the brutal terrorist republic militia in their houses. They now don’t want it anymore and they are leaving.”

Three years of no school

Eighteen-year-old Quiniva and her younger brother were among hundreds of people waiting for transport out of the region at Bamenda Motor Park.

“I paid for a ticket. They gave us assurance that a car is coming. For several hours, we have been in the park – no trace of any car coming,” she said. The need to continue her education – three years of missing out on school prompted her to pack up.

DW asked the North West Region Governor Lele Lafrique Tchoffo Deben Adolphe about the boycott of the “back to school” campaign. “Showing them on Facebook, those devilish messages that people abroad who are not facing the realities – sending their children to school, enjoying life, celebrating marriages, going to the graduation of their children, showing on Facebook, asking our children here not to go to school.,” he said.

The fear of violence, said Quiniva, is constant.

“We need to go to Yaounde because we are scared of the military because the military doesn’t only attack you outside of the house. They even come and break into your home and attack you. So, nowhere is safe,” she told DW.

The separatists too are feared in the region by the people they represent.

“We are also afraid of the “Amba Boys.” We don’t feel secure because the “Amba” themselves also kidnap people, they kidnap students, they kidnap teachers – and even cut off fingers,” Quiniva said.

Separatist violence grips anglophone western Cameroon

‘Most neglected crisis’

A coalition of human rights groups on 26 August made a submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council, calling on it to urge Cameroon to end the violence in the regions, attend to the people in need of humanitarian assistance, and investigate human rights violations. 

The statement by Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada, the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa, and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights (RWCHR) comes ahead of the 42nd regular session of the Human Rights Council, which takes place from 9 to 27 September.

“The crisis in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon is the most neglected in the world and increasingly neglected from within as journalists fear for their lives,” Yonah Diamond, legal council to the RWCHR, is quoted as saying in the statement.

Atrocities linked to Cameroon’s security forces came into focus on 27 August, when seven soldiers were due to go on trial for killing two women and two children in the Far North. The  soldiers were identified in a video footage of the incident that went viral in mid-2018.  

Amnesty International has documented human rights violations in Cameroon’s Far North and Anglophone regions

Amnesty International has documented cases of human rights violations committed by security forces in Cameroon for years.  Such violations, according to the international human rights watchdog, are taking place in the Far North in particular and at a lower level in the Anglophone south-west and north-west regions. 

“Not all of the security forces are massively violating human rights. They are playing a very important role in protecting the population. But there are several cases of torture, of extra-judicial killings, of arbitrary arrests that we have regularly denounced,” Samira Daoud, Amnesty’s Deputy West  and Central Africa Deputy Regional Director, told DW.

“This trial of soldiers for the killing of women and children in the Far North, for us, is a very important step because it is an admission that these violations are indeed occurring.”

“Cameroonian authorities need to draw a line and show that no army personnel responsible for atrocities will now escape from prosecution.”

Source: Deutschwelle

Cameroon Intelligence Report has gotten evidence that the Biya regime is planning to eliminate the Ambazonia leader Sisiku President Ayuk Tabe and his top aides currently being held at the Kondengui High Security prison in Yaounde.  The French Cameroun regime noted for a widespread campaign of assassination plots across Africa and Europe reportedly recruited the services of some Francophone medical doctors assigned to Kondengui by the Ministry of Public Health to kill the Southern Cameroons leaders.

As part of the French Cameroun diabolic harsh ploy to stifle the Ambazonia revolution, our senior chief intelligence officer in Yaoundé also revealed for the first time that he believes Yaoundé has successfully silenced General Ivo Yenwo, General Elokobi Daniel Njock and General Ekongwesse who all hail from Southern Cameroons.

The Ambazonia leader “cheated” death when the late French Cameroun minister Martin Belinga Eboutou failed to handover the money paid by the Biya regime to the Nigerian Secret Service boss for the Abuja-Nera mission.

The late Minister Martin Belinga Eboutou and Minister Paul Motaze were allegedly responsible for masterminding two major operations that claimed the lives of Captain Guerandi in Burkina Faso and Bishop Balla of the Bafia Diocese.

The families of both men had long suspected that Biya was responsible for the murders. French Cameroun lately hired gangsters in the Kondengui prison to carry out the recent killing of Southern Cameroons detainees during the riots as a way of hiding the Cameroon government’s involvement in the crime.

Yaoundé has used its diplomatic missions and criminal networks to engage in terror and assassinations home and abroad so as to retain a degree of plausible deniability for its actions. Several Bassa military officials who were raised up in the Southern Zone of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia have been contracted to carry out the killings of Southern Cameroons leaders.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai with files from Sama Ernest

The truth could be interpreted as any of the following :-

1. That, God did not put all these resources under our feet, waters soil and in our forests ,waters in Ndian for us to be extremely poor, under developed and hapless in spite of her contributions of $618 billion NOT FCFA but USD dollars.
2. That, crude oil exploration started in 1972 in the Ekondo oil fields, when crude oil was selling at $21.6 per barrel, and it changed the political complexion of the Federal Republic of Cameroon as West Cameroon was effectively swallowed because of crude oil.
3. That, since 1972, Ndian has been producing an average of 58.000 barrels per day to 161,000 barrels per day, but Ndian still have the snapshot of 5th century Africa, with Mundemba it’s headquarters having all the trappings of a makeshift refuge camp with no basic modern public infrastructure in spite of her contributions of $613billion from crude oil sales since 1972 till date
4. That, Palm Oil plantations developed and transformed Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Brazil, Vietnam into emerging economies and economic tigers, but Palm plantations has made Ndian even poorest amongst the poorest. Pamol occupies a land mass bigger than Monaco, Onitsha and Bayelsa state, Nigeria and our coastlines.
5. That, cocoa developed Western Nigeria, Ghana.,Ivory Coast, Brazil, Switzerland , but cocoa has not made any improvements in our lives and communities. The tallest buildings in Ibadan, Nigeria and Accra Ghana respectively are named cocoa House.
6. That, Crude oil has developed and is developing USA, Nigeria, Angola EQ Guinea, Middle East, Benelux, Latin America, but has left Ndian poorest of the poor with Idabato, Isangele, Bamusso, Kombo Abedimo and Etindi still looking like a region and people with no government in spite of our contributions of $613
   Billion over the years.
7. The truth might also mean any of the following too:-
8. What the government does not want to hear. Or what you could be killed for saying in public. ( That, we are capable of managing our own affairs and our resources peacefully)
9. A guarded secret. ( About Ndian crude oil and her contribution of $613billion over the years.
10. A lie told repeatedly or a white lie ( that , there is any nation on earth that her unity or geo-political map cannot be negotiated, when “One” 1 itself and even fractions are divisible
11. What everybody knows but nobody want to say it. ( Ndian and the Oroko has everything but owns and control nothing) Until we are able to have firm political control over our factors of production, our land, our resources ,we shall continue to sit at the banks of Rivers Ndian, Mana ,Mundimba, Bulu gazing at the Rumpi singing songs of lamentations.

12 The truth might also mean telling your brother in the morning that, his mouth is smelling or your spouse that he is snoring.

1. That. Ndian seriously need to form a political party that, would defend and fight for their interests and resources.
   We need to have a “Rumpi Freedom Party,” “Ndongore Peoples Party”, Basusu Freedom Party, or Ingeke Freedom Party, that would win all elections in Ndian and represent the people and not foreign interests. Ndian has been over raped, ripped, cowed , abused and our people living in constant fear and in eternal bondage.
2. There is a saying in Ngolo that,
   Fear kills only the person who wears it. And that. “Any child afraid of witchcraft or scared of death can never inherit the throne of his parents .”
3. The Truth about Ndian Crude oil.
   Source: US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Summary and Breakdown of crude oil production from. 1972 -2018.

1. Years of Production :1972-1980
   ( 8 years)
   1.2. Average Annual Production per day=58,000barrels
   1.3. Average Annual Price in USD:$59/bbl
   1.4.Amount of Crude Oil Produced: 58,000 bbl X 365 days X 8 years=162,400.000 barrels in 8 years
   1.5. Amount from Crude Oil Sales =
   162,400,000barrels X $59/bbl= $9.581,600,000 (Nine billion, Five Hundred and Eighty One Million, Six Hundred thousand Dollars.)

2.Years of Production :1981-1990
( 10 years)
2.1. Total Production for 10 years:
5,595,450,000 barrels
2.3. Average Price in USD=$147.5/bbl
2.4.Amount from Sales of Crude =
5,595,450,000 barrels X $147.5/bbl=
$825.328,875,000.(Eight Hundred and twenty five billion, Three Hundred and Twenty Eight Million, Eight Hundred and Seventy five thousand dollars)

1. Years of Production :1991-2000
   ( 10 years)
   3.1. Total Production for 10years=
   4,292,400, 000 barrels
   3.2. Average Price in USD:$117.7/bbl
   3.4.Amount from Sales of Crude Oil =
   4,292,400, 000 barrels X $$117.7/bbl=
   $505,215,480,000(Five Hundred and Five Billion, Two Hundred and Fifteen Million, Four Hundred and Eighty Thousand Dollars).

4.Years of Production :2001-2010
( 10years)
4.1. Total Production=: 2,755,750.000 barrels
4.2. Average Price in USD=$75.4/bbl
4.3.Amount from Sales of Crude Oil =
2,755,750,000 barrels X $75.4/bbl=
$20,778,355.000 (Twenty Billion, Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight Million, There Hundred and Fifty Five thousand dollars)

1. Years of Production :2011-2018
   ( 8 years)
   5.1.Total Production=: 2,186,350,000 barrels
   5.2. Average Price in USD=$71.8/bbl
   5.3.Amount from Sales of Crude Oil =
   2,186,350,000 barrels X $71.8/bbl=
   $15,697,993.000(Fifteen Billion., Six Hundred and Ninety Seven Million, Nine Hundred and Ninety Three Thousand dollars). US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Atabong Albert Motale

The Cameroonian authorities must leave no stone unturned in their pursuit of justice for two women and two children who were brutally murdered by the military, Amnesty International said today. Seven soldiers allegedly caught on video carrying out the killings are set to go on trial tomorrow.

When the video went viral in early July 2018, Cameroonian authorities initially dismissed it as “fake news”. But Amnesty International revealed credible evidence that the Cameroon military was responsible, and the authorities later announced that the seven soldiers depicted in the video had been arrested and would be prosecuted. The seven are due to appear on 27 August before a military court in the capital Yaoundé on charges of joint participation in murder, breach of regulations and conspiracy.

“This horrifying video shone a spotlight on the way civilians in Cameroon’s Far North have been ensnared in atrocities amid the fight against Boko Haram. Security forces who are supposed to be protecting people have instead carried out arbitrary detentions and extrajudicial executions,” said Samira Daoud, Amnesty International’s West and Central Africa Deputy Regional Director.

“The Cameroonian authorities must draw a line and ensure no army personnel responsible for atrocities will escape from prosecutions. Tomorrow’s trial is a first step towards justice and reparations for victims and their loved ones. Authorities must also ensure that all those reasonably suspected of crimes against civilians are brought to justice in fair trials before civilian courts.”

Amnesty International experts analyzed the video of soldiers shooting dead two women and their two children as soon as it went viral in July 2018. Relying on multiple strands of evidence – including expert analysis of the uniforms and weapons used, and linguistic and other contextual clues in speech that gave away the identities and ranks of the soldiers – within days the organization was able to begin to build a case to counter the official narrative. The evidence strongly suggested that Cameroonian soldiers were the ones extrajudicially executing civilians in the video.

Subsequent research by Amnesty International bore this out, and a community of open source investigators collaborating on the case pin-pointed the exact location near the town of Zelevet, and narrowed down the date to late March or early April 2015. The case was immortalized by the September 2018 BBC Africa Eye documentary “Anatomy of a Killing”.

While playing an important role in defending people threatened by Boko Haram, the Cameroonian security forces’ response has too often been heavy-handed and rife with human rights violations. Amnesty International is calling on authorities to bring all those suspected of criminal responsibility to justice in fair trials, before ordinary civilian courts and without recourse to death penalty.

Source: Amnesty International

At least three people died after a ferry belonging to Cameroon’s shipping company Achouka sank off Cameroon’s Atlantic coast Sunday evening, according to local authorities.

About 200 passengers were on board the ferry, which left neighboring Nigeria and was heading to Tiko wharf in Cameroon’s Southwest region, a Cameroon navy official who preferred not to be named said.

More than 100 people were rescued from the ferry by the navy and about 90 others are still missing, according to officials. Search and rescue efforts continued late Sunday.

It is still unclear what caused the ferry to sink but preliminary investigations showed it encountered rough weather.

Source: Xinhuanet