2, May 2022
Battle for Ambazonia: Yerima says Biya cannot put a fake name on Southern Cameroons 0
The Vice President of the Ambazonia Interim Government Dabney Yerima has said that nobody in Yaoundé, not even the French Cameroun dictator Paul Biya can put a fake name on the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.
Speaking exclusively to Cameroon Concord News Group, Dabney Yerima said French Cameroun under Biya has been fighting for five years now to conquer our people but we remain the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and nobody in Yaoundé including Biya can put a fake name on our homeland.
“Southern Cameroons has been independent for ages and today on our East side we have La Republique du Cameroun” Yerima said.
The exiled Southern Cameroons leader stated that the continued presence of French Cameroun troops in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia signals the need for the diaspora to increase support for the resistance. “The onus is upon our Ambazonia fighters to duly defend and protect this valuable homeland left to us by our founding fathers that must be transferred on to future generations.”
Yerima insisted that Amba fighters can maintain security throughout Southern Cameroons with support from the diaspora, and that there is no need for the presence of French Cameroun gendarmes and corrupt police officers.
Dabney Yerima furthered that Southern Cameroons CPDM elites have no place in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, warning that any CPDM government minister attempting to target Ambazonia interests in the homeland will face dire consequences.
By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai
3, May 2022
Cho Ayaba Criminal Gang: Pro Yaoundé senator kidnapped in Bamenda 0
A senator from President Paul Biya’s ruling party has been kidnapped along with her driver in Cameroon’s troubled anglophone northwest, military and administrative sources said Monday.
“Elizabeth Regina Mundi was kidnapped late Saturday morning by terrorists in Bamenda,” capital of the northwest, a senior official with the region’s governor told AFP.
He said two wings of the separatist Ambazonian Defence Forces (ADF) had claimed responsibility for the abduction. Ambazonia is the republic the rebels would like to proclaim after independence.
One called for the release of some of its detainees, the other sought a ransom, he added, asking to remain anonymous.
“The senator was going from Bamenda to her village for a funeral, the separatists kidnapped her and her driver on the road” said a regional army official, confirming both demands.
A video on social media, dated Saturday and verified by the senior regional official, shows Regina Mundi clearly forced to read a statement in English calling for the independence of the Ambazonia republic.
She is from the northwest and is a member of the politburo of Biya’s Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (RDPC).
The “Ambazonians” carry out frequent kidnappings, usually of civil servants, and some are killed. Church leaders and politicians have also been adducted, but mostly later freed.
In January, the bullet-riddled body of opposition senator and lawyer Henry Kemende was found in Bamenda.
The authorities accused the separatists of his murder but no one claimed responsibility.
Cameroon’s northwest and southwest are populated mainly by the anglophone minority in the predominantly French-speaking country.
The country has been ruled with an iron fist for nearly 40 years by 89-year-old Biya, who has cracked down on the rebellion.
In the past five years, after the repression of peaceful demonstrations accusing Yaounde of ostracising English speakers, armed separatists and the military have clashed repeatedly.
Civilians have suffered abuses committed by both sides, according to international NGOs and the UN.
The conflict has killed more than 6,000 people and displaced around a million, according to the International Crisis Group (ICG) think-tank.
Source: AFP