The much respected SDF Southern Cameroons Member of Parliament Hon. Joseph Wirba on Saturday January 12 published a book in the United Kingdom on the crisis in Southern Cameroons.

The book titled “Wirbaforce” is a frank and thoughtful key to understanding the MP’s trials and tribulations ever since the inception of the crisis in late 2016. The book launch was reportedly attended by a cross section of the Ambazonian Diaspora in the United Kingdom and beyond.

Addressing the sell-out crowd, Joseph Wirba paid tribute to the more than 4000 Southern Cameroonians killed in the on-going war.  The outspoken Southern Cameroons politician also observed that his book remains a candid narrative of the truth about the genocidal campaign currently going on in Southern Cameroons.

Local media houses in Cameroon had reported that the Social Democratic Front MP had taken up resident in the United Kingdom late last year after running away from Cameroon.

Hon Joseph Wirba was the first MP to have addressed the Anglophone problem and later fled the country to neighbouring Nigeria in 2017. He returned to Yaounde the same year and resurfaced in the National Assembly building from where he reechoed his stance on the marginalization of English speaking Cameroonians.

Three soldiers were wounded Thursday as gunmen attacked a school in Kumba, a locality in Cameroon’s Southwest, one of the country’s two strife-torn English-speaking regions, Cameroon army said. The army immediately blamed armed separatists for the attack.

“A group of armed secessionists were breaking the Multimedia Center of Bilingual High School Kumba District 2, a joint intervention team of Police and Gendarmerie came down on the site. As a result of the exchange of gunfire three gendarmes were wounded and transported to the district hospital of Kumba. On the enemy side, several were neutralized and wounded,” a statement from the army said.

The Cameroonian security forces regularly use the word “neutralize” to refer to “kill.” Locals reported hearing “deafening sound” of gunshots in the localities of Kumba, Muyuka and Muea of the Southwest region as government forces clashed with armed separatists.

“Shooting started by midday and continued this evening. The streets are deserted. Everybody is indoors,” a resident of Kumba who preferred not to be named told Xinhua.

In his New Year message, Cameroon’s President Paul Biya warned that the armed separatists will be “neutralized” if they do not drop their weapons and “follow the right track.” On Wednesday, members of the diplomatic corps in Cameroon urged Biya to settle the conflict through “inclusive dialogue.”

Government forces and armed separatists have been clashing since November 2017 after separatists declared “independence” of the two Anglophone regions of Northwest and Southwest in the largely French-speaking African country.

Source: Xinhuanet

The Biya Francophone regime in Yaoundé has been trying to create chaos deep within the Ambazonia liberation struggle in order to keep its occupying forces in the territory and destroy the Southern Cameroons Interim Government.

An Ambazonian commander in the Lebialem County said on Thursday that the time to take the battle to the enemy territory has arrived.  He also hinted that news of unnecessary confusion, conflict, distrust, animosity and discouragement within the resistance was troubling Interim President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and his aides.

In a message addressed to the people of Southern Cameroons late last year, the wives of the detained Ambazonian leaders revealed the enemy’s determination to decapitate the leadership of the revolution by inserting their agents within the revolution with the purpose of implementing counter revolutionary measures and to destabilise the revolution and sow seeds of discord amongst Southern Cameroonians.

Cameroon Concord News understands the general opinion on Ground Zero is that if the Interim Government falls, chaos, repression and resentment will follow.  The French Cameroun army has been waging war against Southern Cameroons civilians and businesses in a bid to bring about chaos and hardship and weaken the resistance.

We gathered from a senior security official in Buea that the appointment of Chief Dion Ngute as Prime Minister has instead angered Ambazonians from the Southern Zone. “Appointing Dion Ngute is a continuation of the French Cameroun policy of implementing  their divide and rule strategy on Southern Cameroonians so that Biya and his gang will be able to maintain French Cameroun occupying forces and have a reason that it uses to legitimate this occupation” our source noted.

By Rita Akana and Sama Ernest

Jails in French Cameroun have become incubators of extremist and radical behaviour in Southern Cameroons, Cameroon Concord News Group has learnt. The Biya Francophone regime has repeatedly ignored calls for inclusive dialogue and has continued with its policy of arbitrary arrest of Southern Cameroonians in a bid to stifle the Ambazonia revolution.

We can now reveal that hundreds of innocent Southern Cameroonian civilians arrested ever since the inception of the crisis in Anglophone Cameroon and convicted for terrorism-related activities were detained in overcrowded and squalid prison facilities in French Cameroun where thousands of anti President Biya inmates are held.

A Francophone baron of the ruling CPDM party noted that the politics behind the crisis in Southern Cameroons is playing into the hands of corrupt military leaders deep within the Biya Beti Ewondo regime.

He added that many Southern Cameroonians detained in Douala and Yaoundé become extremists because they mostly end up in circles of anti Biya regime officials in New Bell Prison and in the Kondengui High Security prison in Yaoundé.

Meanwhile the joint trial of 10 Ambazonian leaders continues today in Yaoundé. The Interim President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and his senior aides have been charged with secession and terror-related crimes. They made their first appearance before the military court on December 6, but the trial was adjourned until today because the state submitted their witness list unduly late.

Cameroon Concord News Group understands that President Ayuk Julius Tabe appeared today in the Yaoundé Military Tribunal dressed in the official Ambazonia regalia- the grassland identity which has become a trademark in the international stage depicting the people of Southern Cameroons.

At the time of fling this report, information filtered that the Biya regime has ordered a change in the trial judges of the court after Cameroon Concord News Group denounced the tribunal as a Beti Bulu traditional council. We gathered that Colonel Mem Michel has now been appointed to replace Col. Abega Eko Eko for the Ambazonia affair to resume.

By Chi Prudence Asong

Members of the diplomatic corps in Cameroon on Wednesday urged President Paul Biya to settle the ongoing conflict in the two English-speaking regions of Northwest and Southwest of the country through “inclusive dialogue.”

“The diplomatic corps counts on your wisdom to offer a peaceful and lasting solution to the current crisis in the Northwest and Southwest regions of the country,” Paul Patrick Biffot, Gabonese ambassador to Cameroon and head of the diplomatic corps in Cameroon said.

Biffot made the remarks when talking with Biya during a traditional ceremony at the presidency to wish the president happy new year.

“Open and inclusive dialogue and dedicated role of the civil society and the implementation of the recommendations of the National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multi-culturalism will be in our view an important element of such a process.” Biffot added.

He praised the president for liberating some 289 Anglophone detainees and expressing willingness to accelerate the decentralization process but insisted that “more needs to be done”.

“We take this opportunity to plead for the improved access of humanitarian actors to Northwest and Southwest regions. We stand ready to accompany your country to achieve lasting stability and peace and to support the reforms you may wish to implement,” Biffot said.

During his end-of-year speech to the nation, President Biya said he was ready to continue dialogue with “people of goodwill” in the troubled regions but warned that armed separatists unwilling to drop their arms will be “neutralized.”

Anglophone armed separatists fighting to secede from Francophone-majority Cameroon and create a new nation called “Ambazonia” have been clashing with government forces since November 2017.

Source: Xinhuanet