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Ghanaian Minister for National Security Delivers Sealed Envelope To BIYA

26, July 2019

Ghanaian Minister for National Security Delivers Sealed Envelope To BIYA 0

President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana has sent a letter to the French Cameroun dictator Paul BIYA.

A sealed envelope containing a special message from Accra was presented to the 86 year old on 14 June 2019 by Ghana’s Minister for National Security, Albert Kan-Dapaah.

Yaounde revealed that both men discussed on a number of issues beyond the message conveyed on behalf of President Akufo-Addo.

 Minister Albert Kan-Dapaah was quoted as saying “I have benefitted greatly from his wide experience and knowledge in the political affairs of the continent and also in the sub-region”.

Minister Albert Kan-Dapaah concluded with a comprehensive remark on the recent decision by Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire to halt the sale of cocoa beans.

Reported by PRC with additional editing from Camcordnews

16 US Marines arrested for involvement in ‘illegal activities’

26, July 2019

16 US Marines arrested for involvement in ‘illegal activities’ 0

Sixteen US Marines were arrested on Thursday for their alleged involvement in illegal activities including human smuggling and drug-related offenses, the US military said.

In a press release, the Marine Corps said that the Marines were arrested at Camp Pendleton in California based on information gained from a previous human smuggling investigation.

The statement added that in addition to the Marines arrested, eight others were questioned for unrelated alleged drug offenses.

The Marine Corps said none of those arrested or detained were serving in support of the military’s mission along the border with Mexico.

The arrest comes a day after the military said a Navy SEAL team was sent back from Iraq because of discipline issues. An official said it was because, in part, they had been drinking alcohol, something that is prohibited.

(Source: Reuters)

Southern Cameroons houses razed by Francophone soldiers meant to stifle the Amba Resistance

25, July 2019

Southern Cameroons houses razed by Francophone soldiers meant to stifle the Amba Resistance 0

The Vice President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, Comrade Dabney Yerima has said that the continues  burning of Southern Cameroons homes by French Cameroun troops is a Biya regime’s policy to stifle the Southern Cameroons resistance and quest for independence.

The Ambazonia VP in a telephone conversation with our senior international correspondent, Chi Prudence Asong added that, “There are some Southern Cameroonians who are helping the French Cameroun regime to create problems deep inside Southern Cameroons to distract Ambazonians from the greatest danger posed by the occupying forces.”

Comrade Dabney Yerima assured Southern Cameroonians in Ground Zero that the international community has not turned a blind eye to their sufferings. The VP who is expected to decree a lockdown in support of Southern Cameroons detainees this weekend, further observed that the destruction of Southern Cameroons towns and villages by French Cameroun army soldiers is a policy that undermines the prospect for a just and lasting resolution of the three year-long conflict between British Southern Cameroons and La Republique du Cameroun.

The Ambazonia Communications Secretary, Hon. Milton Taka recently condemned the killings of innocent Southern Cameroons civilians in the Akwaya sub constituency in the Manyu County and French Cameroun military atrocities in Menchum and called on the international community to push the International Criminal Court (ICC) into opening an immediate investigation into the French Cameroun army actions in Southern Cameroons.

The US administration and the Swiss government have not only failed to stop the genocidal campaign going on in Southern Cameroons that have forced thousands to flee, but also failed to hold the Biya regime accountable for its crimes.

Vice President Dabney Yerima’s remarks came after he received images of the charred ruins of some 70 homes dot the streets of Alatchu village in Cameroon. The houses were razed by French Cameroun government troops after violent clashes with Ambazonia Restoration Forces.

By Asu Isong in London

UN nuclear agency appoints Romanian diplomat Feruta as interim chief

25, July 2019

UN nuclear agency appoints Romanian diplomat Feruta as interim chief 0

Romanian diplomat Cornel Feruta will head the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) until member states agree on who will permanently succeed deceased Director General Yukiya Amano.

The IAEA announced on Monday that chief Yukiya Amano had died, leaving the agency with a leadership vacuum at a time of tensions between Iran and the West following Washington’s decision last year to quit a 2015 international deal that curbed Tehran’s nuclear program in return for an easing of economic sanctions.

“The Board of Governors has decided to designate Mr. Cornel Feruta as acting Director General, until a Director General assumes office,” the United Nations nuclear agency said on Thursday.

Last week, the agency said that Amano’s health problems had forced him to plan an early end to his term, which was originally set to expire in December 2021.

PressTV-UN nuclear agency chief Yukiya Amano passes away

The Japanese diplomat held the position of IAEA director general since 2009 when he took over from Mohamed ElBaradei and began steering the international body through a period of intense diplomacy over Iran’s nuclear program.

Amano, on several occasions, reaffirmed Iran’s compliance with its nuclear-related commitments under the 2015 deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). US President Donald Trump, however, pulled his country out of the JCPOA in May 2018 and re-imposed harsh sanctions against the Islamic Republic in defiance of global criticisms.

Sources: (news agencies)

Tunisia’s president Beji Caid Essebsi dies aged 92

25, July 2019

Tunisia’s president Beji Caid Essebsi dies aged 92 0

Tunisia’s 92-year-old president, Beji Caid Essebsi, who helped guide the North African country’s transition to democracy after a 2011 revolution, has died.

A leading figure in the country’s fortunes since 2011, Essebsi was hospitalized late last month and spent a week in hospital after suffering what authorities described as a severe health crisis.

“On Thursday morning, the President of the Republic died at the military hospital in Tunis … The burial ceremony will be announced later,” the presidency said in a statement.

According to the constitution, the speaker of parliament will temporarily serve as president.

Essebsi has been a prominent politician in Tunisia since the overthrow of former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011, which was followed by uprisings against Arab monarchies across the Middle East, including in nearby Libya and Egypt.

Drafted in as prime minister in 2011 after Ben Ali was toppled, Essebsi was elected president three years later, becoming the country’s first directly elected head of state after its uprising.

Parliamentary elections are expected to be held on October 6 with a presidential vote following on November 17. They will be the third set of polls in which Tunisians have been able to vote freely following the 2011 revolution.

The presidency further called on Tunisians to unite and safeguard their country’s present and future.

“After the revolution, the president led the people to avoid confrontation and led the democratic transition and was keen to build and complete the constitutional institutions,” said the presidency.

The North African country has been hailed for its relatively smooth democratic transition with a new constitution, free elections and a coalition government, but it is still experiencing economic and political turbulence.

Source: (Reuters)

Ambazonia: “Sako Ikome and Chris Anu were corrupt and negligent”

25, July 2019

Ambazonia: “Sako Ikome and Chris Anu were corrupt and negligent” 0

A senior adviser in the Ambazonia Interim Government has expressed anger at the state of negligence and corruption that the Southern Cameroons revolution suffered under disgraced former Acting President Sako Ikome and Chris Anu accusing both men of living in luxury abroad instead of helping Ambazonia Restoration Forces in Ground Zero.

James Ndikum Tanifor said that 18 months after Dr Sako and Chris Anu took over the day-to-day running of the Southern Cameroons Interim Government; Ambazonians found themselves facing dictatorship, corruption and a policy of disregard for Ambazonians in Ground Zero.

Comrade Ndikum who hails from the Menchum County accused Sako and his gang of ceasing to follow the Interim Government’s system and tradition, citing as an example the violation committed against the Restoration Council and the humiliating way in which appointments were made in defiance to all Southern Cameroons democratic standards and laws, rules and regulations.

He observed that Dr Ikome Sako and Chris Anu spent the entire period they had in the Interim Government plotting against the Ambazonia leader, President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe.

“It is about time that we rise up together so that the Southern Cameroons state will become a reality and the Interim Government’s institutions will be established, a permanent constitution will be drafted and a Southern Cameroons parliament will be elected to represent Ambazonia people everywhere” he said.

He called on Vice President Dabney Yerima to establish a clear and comprehensive political platform and an international partnership that does not exclude or marginalize any Southern Cameroons faction on political or personal-interests grounds.

Ndikum appealed for funding of Ground Zero fighters “before it is too late”.

By Sama Ernest in Wum

Biya regime blames opposition, Ambazonians for live-streamed prison riot

25, July 2019

Biya regime blames opposition, Ambazonians for live-streamed prison riot 0

The Cameroon government officially responded to the “digital” riot that rocked the main prison facility in the capital Yaounde on July 22. The protests also led to a fire incident in the Kondengui Maximum Security Prisons.

A Ministry of Communication release dated July 23, 2019, said a group of detainees of the Anglophone crisis were at the heart of the chaos which was live-streamed on Facebook.

According to the release the detainees were authorised to organise a meeting to discuss the prevailing situation in the restive North West and South West Regions, “but the move later became violent.”

The release signed by Minister Rene Emmanuel Sadi, said no life was lost, that injuries were reported and no live bullets were used. Reports by rights groups however said there were injuries arising from heavy shooting at a point.

The government also confirmed a mass transfer of 77 inmates of the Kondengui Maximum prison to police and gendarmerie units in Yaounde for questioning.

Meanwhile the BBC Africa LIVE page is reporting that another government official who visited the facility was laying the blame at the doorstep of the main opposition leader, Maurice Kamto, who remains in jail over a treason charge.

Jean Claude Tilla, claimed supporters of Kamto’s party, Cameroon Renaissance Movement, CRM, were the key architects of the violence.

“We know that they are hiding behind the Anglophone problem to foment such trouble,” he told journalists.

Hundreds of pro-Kamto supporters are being held in the aftermath of disputed elections which incumbent Paul Biya won to secure a seventh term in office.

Kamto, a former Biya appointee, came a distant second in the vote but rejected the outcome, his poll petition was also thrown out by the Constitutional Court.

The Anglophone crisis in western Cameroon has snowballed into a call for independence by the English-speaking part of the country.

A government crackdown on protests against marginalization birthed a so-called independent Ambazonia republic, whose fighters continue to engage with state actors in the two regions.

Source: Africa News

CRTV confirms death of retired Anglophone army general

25, July 2019

CRTV confirms death of retired Anglophone army general 0

State media confirms death of retired army general.

General James Tataw died on July 24, 2019 in France, following a protracted illness.

“He died after a medical evacuation on instructions from the Head of State,” a tweet announcing his death said.

He died at the age of 86.

Nigeria anti-graft body seizes properties of ex-governor, family, cronies

25, July 2019

Nigeria anti-graft body seizes properties of ex-governor, family, cronies 0

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, announced on Wednesday that it had began probing a two-time governor of the southern Imo State.

Rochas Okorocha, a member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, is currently serving as a Senator. The EFCC said its operatives had so far marked properties in his name as well as that of family members and cronies.

“It was the outcome of painstaking investigation, and as a result of the failure of those to whom they were traced to, to honour the EFCC’s invitation for interrogation. Operatives neither “raided” nor “harassed” anyone in the course of the action.

“They include: Dews of Hope Hospital traced to Dr. Paschal Obi, ex-Principal Secretary to Okorocha; Market Square Supermarket; All in One Shop, and premises belonging to Imo State Broadcasting Corporation now hosting Rochas Foundation College owned by Senator Okorocha,” an EFCC statement read.

“Others include: East High Academy and East High College, owned by Okorocha’s daughter, Uloma Okorocha-Nwosu; Royal Spring Palm Hotel and Apartment, a 16 block cum 96 flats and eight bungalow multi-million Naira estate traced to Okorocha’s wife,” it added.

State governors are powerful political voices across Nigeria, most of them have serially been accused of high-level corruption but they are shielded by immunity whiles in office.

A former governor of Ekiti Stae, Peter Ayodele Fayose, is currently being probed by the EFCC. In the north central Kano State, the incumbent governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, is the subject of a dollar bribe saga.

The ex-governor during his tenure which ended in March 2019 is no stranger to controversy. He justified and built a number of statues with over $1m of tax payers money.

He constructed Imo’s infamous statue avenue which has honoured among others, Liberia’s Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and South Africa’s Jacob Zuma. President Buhari also has one of the larger-than-life statues in Imo State.

In 2017, then governor Okorocha appointed a Commissioner for Happiness and Couples’ Fulfillment. He handed the portfolio to his sister Ogechi Ololo.

She had previously held the position of Deputy Chief of Staff and special adviser on domestic matters. The decision received flak on social media with many Twitter users asking whether there is really the need for the post.

Source: Africa News

Trump Administration has decided to overthrow President Biya

24, July 2019

Trump Administration has decided to overthrow President Biya 0

US President Donald Trump after very intensive and productive discussions with officials at the US State Department has decided to oust President Paul Biya from power, Cameroon Intelligence Report has learned.  Our contacts deep within the African Desk at the US State Department revealed that the White House will be ordering the CIA, the Pentagon and other agencies to devise a combination of economic, diplomatic and covert steps to achieve that goal.

We understand the Trump administration is not planning any military strike, but top officials at the US State Department have told President Trump that the 86 year old Cameroonian dictator is now a threat to the security of the Gulf of Guinea and must be removed, even if France refuses to consent to the mission.

A US military official serving with the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) was heard murmuring privately that it is no longer an argument about whether to get rid of Biya. That discussion is over. The White House decision is expected to launch the Trump Campaign on a course that will help secure the African America votes in the 2020 presidential elections.

People in the know have opined that any US led campaign against the Biya regime would be very swift and virtually free of casualties. Nevertheless, experts in the CEMAC region who are monitoring the deteriorating situation in Cameroon have all expressed the feeling that by jolting its military cooperation with Yaoundé and pushing the Germans to do same, a decision has already been made to force Biya out of office and what is remaining now is the how and when.

President Trump reportedly has not been too enthusiastic as he is now focused on former U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller who is testifying to Congress today Wednesday at a pair of televised hearings that carry high stakes for President Donald Trump and Democrats who are split between impeaching him or concentrating on the 2020 election.

Mueller, whose inquiry detailed extensive contacts between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia at a time when Moscow was interfering in the 2016 election with hacking and propaganda, is set to appear beginning at 8:30 a.m. (1230 GMT) in separate hearings before the House of Representatives Judiciary and Intelligence committees.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai in Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany

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