Elizabeth Etimu, 62, is inconsolable. Her son, Eric Etimu, a 27-year-old police officer, was killed Monday by separatist fighters in the English-speaking southwestern town of Mamfe.

Dozens of family members and well-wishers have been visiting their Emumbo, Yaounde, residence to console the widow. Eric’s uncle, 50-year-old military man Bruno Azegue, acts as spokesperson for the family. Just returned from Mamfe, says God saved him from the devastating war that killed four of the nine troops with whom he fought against the separatists for three months.

He says his wish and prayer is for the government to immediately negotiate an end to the war so that their disgruntled English-speaking brothers, who have taken arms and are not ready to lay them down until their grievances are attended to, return home and stop the loss of too many lives. He says the war has affected so many French-speaking Cameroonians either by killing, wounding and incapacitating their loved ones or ruining their economies.

Wounded French-speaking troops and their family members are asking the government of Cameroon to negotiate a peaceful end to the separatist war in its English-speaking regions. The soldiers, who have been flown to hospitals in Yaounde and Douala, say within the past two months, many of their peers are dying because the fighters have acquired modern weapons of war and have a mastery of the environment.

Currently at the Yaounde military and police hospitals, there are 32 wounded soldiers brought in within one month. The military says there are 14 in Douala.

Martial Monthe, 34, was part of the forces fighting separatists in the English speaking south west region is a survivor. He says for the first time since the war started, he saw separatists fighters using modern war weapons when they were attacked at Eyumojock.

He says one of their vehicles was pulled down by a bomb planted by the separatists. He says as they struggled to evacuate him and his wounded colleagues to the nearest hospital, they detected many other land mines and could not continue, and some of his already exhausted and wounded colleagues died from excessive bleeding as they were not able to treck to the nearest hospital that was 10 kilometers away.

Monthe said although he is a soldier ready to defend Cameroon all the times, he thinks a negotiated deal could spare the lives of many, especially now that the fighters seem to be importing more war weapons.

Cameroon’s police head, Martin Mbarga Nguele, visited the wounded policemen and the families of those who died in battle. He says all survivors and victims will be taken care of and Cameroonians should be proud of people who die defending them.

He says although the agony has been almost unbearable, Cameroonians should be proud they have heroes who agree to serve their beloved country by defending it and its people from every aggression even if it means paying the ultimate price. He says Cameroon will always remember them as people who died defending its territorial integrity and will also support their families.

Mbarga Nguele said the government will supply what it takes for the forces to crush the fighters.

Security analyst Christian Ndongo, consultant with the peace commission of the six member state Central Africa Economic and Monetary Commission says the fact that wars have persisted in central African countries for the past 12 years is an indication there is illegal trade and proliferation of arms that supply armed groups.

He says Cameroon and its neighbors, especially Nigeria, Chad and the Central African Republic, need to put in place permanent structures to examine and control the proliferation of weapons in their countries. He says the Boko Haram crisis, and the carnage in CAR are indications there are massive illegal movements of weapons across porous borders. He says the separatists in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon may be getting supplies from existing illegal suppliers.

The crisis in the northwest and southwest regions of Cameroon — now three years old — escalated on October 1, 2017, when militant secessionist groups symbolically proclaimed independence of an English-speaking state called Ambazonia.

The United Nations estimates at least 1,800 people have been killed and more than 530,000 displaced since fighting broke out. It says about 1.3 million people are in need of assistance.

Source: VOA

A woman and a 16-year-old boy in the mainly Christian village of Grossi in northern Cameroon have been murdered by raiding Boko Haram militants, according to a Barnabas contact.

The mainly Christian village of Grossi in northern Cameroon has become a regular target for raiding Boko Haram terrorists, who kill people, and loot and burn food stores and homes

The mainly Christian village of Grossi in northern Cameroon has become a regular target for raiding Boko Haram terrorists, who kill people, and loot and burn food stores and homes

The boy was kidnapped and later killed. The woman was murdered in the bush as she collected grass for her sheep.

The murders took place in or near Grossi village, which is often targeted by Boko Haram. About eight homes were also set on fire by the Islamists during the raid, said our contact.

“We need your prayer because it is not easy,” he said.

At least two previous attacks have been carried out on the village this year. On 11 May, Boko Haram militants ransacked the village with two church buildings burnt out, 67 houses and two shops damaged, livestock butchered, motorbikes stolen and grain stores damaged. In an earlier Boko Haram attack on Grossi on 25 January, 190 houses were razed when the attackers overwhelmed local security forces.

Christian villages in the far north of Cameroon are subject to attacks by Boko Haram militias attempting to establish an Islamic caliphate from north-eastern Nigeria all the way to northern Cameroon, which is predominantly Christian. The UN estimates that more than 170,000 Cameroonians, mainly Christians, have been forced to flee their homes by Boko Haram.

Source: Barnabas Fund

At least five people died Monday night in Cameroon’s economic capital, Douala, after the brake of a speedy truck failed, police said Tuesday.

“The truck lost control and drove over a distance of more than one kilometer right at the heart of Douala. It was running over motorcycles and vehicles.” Johnson Nfor who witnessed the accident said.

Two motorcyclists died on the spot and three others died in the hospital, while several others were injured during the accident.

Police said the driver of the truck who survived the accident has been put in custody.

Deadly road accidents in Cameroon are usually caused by reckless driving, bad road conditions and overloading, according to the Ministry of Transport.

Source: Xinhuanet

President Paul Biya has declared June 21 a national day of mourning to honor the 17 Cameroonian soldiers killed by terror group Boko Haram earlier in June in Far North region of the country.

“Flags will be flown at half-mast throughout the country, as well as at Cameroonian embassies and consular offices abroad,” Biya said in a statement released Monday evening.

The soldiers were killed on the night of June 9 to 10 after a protracted battle with fighters of the terror in Darak, a locality in Cameroon’s Far North region.

According to Cameroon’s Ministry of Defense, 64 Boko Haram militants were killed in the battle.

Source: Xinhuanet

 Fellow Ambazonians,

As we continue to negotiate the treacherous rivers of this struggle, we must constantly remind ourselves of the price- Freedom. We must also jog our memories that the pivotal points of this struggle are our leadership in the Yaoundé Principal Prison, our brothers and sisters locked up in the various prisons around Colonial French Cameroun, people in Ground Zero and Ground One. They are our pathway to the world stage. The criminal regime in Yaoundé believed that abducting our leaders was the end of our revolution. They were wrong. Our resolve over the last eighteen months gives me the confidence that we are on the right path. Step by step and with courage and determination, our Promise Land- Buea- will be a reality.

 Let me make the following pronouncement;

 • Since March of 2019, the former cabinet of the IG led by Dr Sako Ikome, had stopped paying for the legal fees of our Nera10 leadership in Kondengui.

 • Their plan was to allow the leadership to be condemned in the enemy’s dungeon so they can keep milking Ambazonians of their hard-earned money.

 • As part of that plan to allow the leaders to be condemned in jail, Barrister John Fru Nsoh colluded with Dr Sako and team to allege that Sisiku was COMPROMISED. This was clearly a coy plan to make fertile the grounds for their irrelevant impeachment.

 • Chris Anu, has now controversially put out an audio calling for a lockdown on Wednesday, the 19th of June, in solidarity with our leaders. This level of hypocrisy is on a magnitude never experienced on planet earth. Ambazonians have always held a massive lockdown each time The NERA10 are due in court. The IG therefore stands with our Restoration Forces in instructing the national lockdown. 

 • I am therefore calling on Chris Anu to desist from discussing or talking about the Nera10 leadership which they not only abandoned to be devoured by the enemy, but also decided to foolishly IMPEACH.

 • All Ambazonians should ignore the call by Chris Anu and any future communications issued by him purporting to sympathise with the leadership in jail.

The IG cabinet under Comrade Dabney Yerima, mindful of the abandonment and treasonous actions against our political prisoners who have been without legal representation since March 2018 and the Nera10 since March 2019, decided to perform their revolutionary duties by launching an emergency fund drive. The target was to raise the sum of $7000. Patriotic Ambazonians who believe in the vision and leadership of Sisiku and his cabinet rose up to the occasion and within four days, showed their commitment and support to their Constitutional

The Federal Republic of Ambazonia leader and his team. I’m pleased to announce that through the generosity of their hearts and pockets this sum of $7000 has been raised and dispatched as planned. 

To all our brave self-defence forces, our fathers and mothers, our brothers and sisters in G0, IDPs, refugees, we applaud your courage and fortitude. Sometimes, it must appear to you as if this shall never pass but rest assured that this too shall come to pass. Our nights are dark, our bodies are weak, our resolve is been tested but we shall overcome. Remain hopeful and prayerful and we shall get to Buea.

 God Bless Ambazonia

 Milton Taka Under-Secretary DCIT

Cameroon’s government said on Sunday that separatists in its restive English-speaking region had detonated an improvised explosive device that killed four police and wounded six.

“The government condemns in the strongest terms this criminal act, perpetrated by armed bandits and terrorists with no faith or law,” the statement said. It also said the attack occurred along a road near the district of Eyumojock in the south west of the country late on Saturday.

There was no immediate reaction or claim of responsibility from any separatist group.

What began as peaceful protests in Cameroon’s southwestern Anglophone region in 2017 have degenerated into near daily violence between the forces of Cameroon’s mostly French-speaking government and several separatist groups.

The English-speaking Northwest and Southwest of the country complain of being marginalized by the French speaking majority.

Since 2017, about 1,800 people have been killed and more than 530,000 displaced with 1.3 million in need in the region

It is rare but not unheard of for the separatists to use bomb technology, but this would mark their first deadly strike using a bomb.

The attack came after both sides claimed to be open to dialog, which rights groups doubt will happen under current conditions. Prime Minister Joseph Ngute has said the government would be willing to talk to the rebels, but would not consider their demand for secession.

Eleven movements representing Anglophone Cameroon, including the main armed factions, last month said they were willing to enter mediated discussions with the state.

The United Nations estimates that, since 2017, about 1,800 people have been killed and more than 530,000 displaced with 1.3 million in need in the region.

Cameroon’s linguistic divide has existed since the end of World War One, when the League of Nations divided the former German colony of Kamerun, in central Africa, between allied victors, leaving most of Cameroon French-administered but a small part run by Britain.

Source: National Post