Southern Cameroons liberation forces aka Manyu Ghost Warriors operating in the Manyu County are moving freely through ‘the majority’ of Tinta, Dadi, Kesham and Abonadu after a major assault against French Cameroun terrorists’ forces, Odeshi commanders have said. By late this evening, most of Akwaya, with the exception of the areas near Mamfe town will be in the hands of the Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia – although sporadic fighting is ongoing.

A leading figure serving the interest of the Interim Government in Akwaya told Cameroon Concord News that there was still some small pockets of resistance and that the French Cameroun army could well stage counter-attacks.

Officials of the Manyu Advisory Committee believe the operation is a great success and the Warriors feel they can finish off the job during this fast approaching rainy season. Two Manyu Ghost Warriors fighters died during the battle for Dadi, the Manyu Advisory Committee confirmed. Those wounded have not yet been named. A Biya regime source said the number of French Cameroun dead is probably running into the twenties.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai with files from Kingsley Beteck

Some of the bodies of French Cameroun troops killed in the Manyu County were unceremoniously dumped into the Manyu River by their colleagues deployed to Southern Cameroons. This has prompted outrage from some Christian communities in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.  New recruits sent to Manyu by the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo regime to ferry back the remains of fallen soldiers hinted Cameroon Intelligence Report that the dumping sites were at Agborkem German and some 100 kilometers from the Satom Bridge in Mamfe.  Villagers residing along the banks of the Manyu River have found human bodies in military attire floating all the way to Nigeria.

A pro Yaoundé political elite contacted by our correspondent in Mamfe to comment on the issue observed that the nasty and sad situation raise new questions and a feeling of great indignation. An estimated 240 French Cameroun soldiers have died in battles in Mamfe Central, Akwaya and Eyumojock. Approximately 75 of the Francophone troops lost their lives when their military boats came under attack.

Meanwhile, family members in far away French Cameroun are becoming impatient with the lack of information about their loved ones deployed to Manyu and Lebialem.  A very reliable but flippant source in Yaoundé revealed that families were currently questioning the hierarchy of the Francophone dominated army.  A senior official in the military was heard murmuring privately that Yaoundé has not officially tasked any legion with protecting the remains of soldiers killed in the Ambazonia war.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai with files from Judith Fon in Mamfe

Nigeria, Cameroon and other states have renewed their support for the International Criminal Court (ICC) following the March election of Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji as president.

In a letter of congratulations to the Nigerian judge, the Nigerian government pledged its “continued backing and unflinching support,” according to a press release from the ICC.

Similar expressions of support have come in from countries worldwide and from the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

Mr Eboe-Osuji presided over the trial of Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto, although the case was eventually dropped.

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The Cameroon government has finally broken its silence on the state of separatists deported from Nigeria in early January 2018.

In an interview with the RFI English service, Information Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary, said all the detainees were in good health and being treated in accordance with the law.

He said three months on, investigations were ongoing to ascertain which charges were going to be leveled against them. He also stressed that they were enjoying all constitutional rights and would most likely be tried in a military tribunal.

They’re engineering, they’re masterminding all what is taking place in the country – assassinations, burning public institutions – you cannot imagine the kind of ordeal our population are submitted to in the northwest and southwest, and they are at the helm.

“All of them are doing very well, all of them are in very good health, all of them are enjoying whatever is enshrined in our constitution, the law of the republic.

“Which means that in case any need be, as far as the health is concerned, they receive all doctors or anyone who is capable of addressing the problem that they are confronted with.

“But I would like to emphasize the fact that whatever is taking place right now is being done in accordance with our law and penal court procedure,” the Minister said.

Supporters of the detained separatists hold that their lawyers have not been given access to their clients, the Minister addresses that point by saying that whatever processes are ongoing are within the laws of the country.

He accused the detainees of being the brain behind all the chaos that has rocked the Anglophone regions of the country. “They’re engineering, they’re masterminding all what is taking place in the country – assassinations, burning public institutions – you cannot imagine the kind of ordeal our population are submitted to in the northwest and southwest, and they are at the helm,” said Bakary.

“The likelihood that they will be court marshaled is obvious, because as I told you many people have been killed are being killed. Many people have already been slaughtered … the judiciary system will charge,” he added.

The group of over 40 detainees include the known leader of the so called interim government of Ambazonia, Sissuku Ayuk Tabe. Their extradition was criticised by the United Nation who called out Nigeria for breaching international law.

The secessionists declared an independent state called Ambazonia Republic on Oct. 1, 2017. Since then, violent scenes that have resulted in loss of lives for both the secessionists and government forces have played out in the Northwest and Southwest regions.

At the end of World War One, Germany’s colony of Kamerun was carved up between allied French and British victors, laying down the basis for a language split that still persists.

English speakers make up less than a fifth of the population of Cameroon, concentrated in former British territory near the Nigerian border that was joined to the French-speaking Republic of Cameroon the year after its independence in 1960. French speakers have dominated the country’s politics since.

The crisis which has attracted considerable international attention has become the gravest challenge yet to President Paul Biya, who is set to seek a renewal of his 35-years in power in an election slated for later this year.

Culled from Africa News