Molyko in the Buea County of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia is a street of contrasts, with hotels, cafes and an old Art Decor University of Buea campus intermingled with hoops of razor wire that cordon off private buildings. The first anti French Cameroun government action resulting from the Southern Cameroons revolution took place here about a year ago.  Anglophone citizens from all walks of life—young and old, men and women, secularists, teachers and lawyers, members of trade unions and employers unions—all united to denounce successive Francophone regimes that have not met the needs of Southern Cameroonians for over 56 years.

The people of Southern Cameroons have drafted a new constitution, meant to be a new social contract for its society. The process is still going on and has not been smooth. The Governing Council that has legitimate authority in Southern Cameroons has renamed the territory as the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.  Negotiations between the interim government and other Southern Cameroons groups stopped when few of the opposing sides could not reach agreement. But after the new nation was shaken by a series of French Cameroun killings, massive arrests and detentions, the President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and a cream of other Southern Cameroons leaders observed the chaos currently going on in La Republique du Cameroun and decided that, despite their differences, they shared a common need to forge ahead with the struggle for an independent Southern Cameroons.

The 4^th Conclave that produced the draft constitution, grappled with three contentious questions: the role of political parties in the Southern Cameroons society, gender equality, and limits on executive power. Professor Carlson Anyangwe and the legal think tank purposely used precise language in the constitution to set forth principles for the Federal Republic of Ambazonia. To be sure, the 4^th Conclave was a potent reminder of the United States’ constitutional process in 1789, when setting down words defined values for a nation.

Seeing the violence against our people and the sufferings of thousands that have escaped to neighboring Nigeria should bring everyone together with a renewed understanding of the urgency to come to agreement. We of this publication believe and fervently too that you are either with the interim government or with the Biya Francophone regime.

The interim government pointed in the draft constitution that the Federal Republic of Ambazonia is a civil state that is based on citizenship, the will of the people, and the supremacy of law.  The draft constitution declared that women and men have equal rights and duties and we understand this will reflect in the upcoming cabinet.

The greatest challenge was how to prevent a return to dictatorship. The Federal Republic of Ambazonia’s draft constitution places limits on executive power, protects civil liberties and freedom of the press, and guards due process. It is the only constitution in West and Central Africa to grant “freedom of conscience.” The draft constitution included provisions for presidential term limits, elections, a constitutional court with power to impeach, an independent judiciary, and independent constitutional bodies with responsibility for issues such as combating corruption and human rights.

Based on this draft constitution, Southern Cameroonians should all rally behind the interim government and participate in the political process including the struggle for complete and total independence. Governance will not been smooth. But we as a people will get to Buea.  Bloody attacks by French Cameroun forces have undermined the tourist industry, the bedrock of the Ambazonia economy. Consequently, shifting alliances among leading Southern Cameroons figures in the US and Europe is making political initiatives inconsistent.

Thanks to the interim government, Southern Cameroons has maintained its peaceful revolution. Nigeria is helping with support to our refugees in the Cross River State and several other measures.  Ambazonia is slowly but surely becoming a priority for the UN, the EU and the African Union. Keep the faith in the interim government.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Cameroon Concord News Group

The announcement on French Cameroun media that troops loyal to the Biya Francophone regime have confiscated weapons imported by Southern Cameroons militants from Nigeria is raising a lot of dust and for the wrong reasons. Coming at a time tension was already mounting following the killings of Francophone gendarmes and renewed activities of the pro Ambazonia agitators and the massive deployment of soldiers to Southern Cameroons, various interpretations were already being given to the latest move by the French Cameroun Gendarmerie.

From the images aired by the Cameroon Radio and Television, we of this publication think the seizure in Muyenge in the Buea Province of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia is part of the alleged intimidation of the people of Southern Cameroons following the demand for an independent state. We fervently believe also that it is in line with the policy of the ruling CPDM crime syndicate to continue to keep Southern Cameroonians on edge.

As a prelude to the commencement of the Muyenge operation, the Francophone South West governor had already started positioning men and equipment at strategic locations in some of the counties in the zone. The presence of such equipment and soldiers was said to be the cause of the Muyenge clash between soldiers and Southern Cameroons youth, which some people were killed and many others sustained injuries.

Though the French Cameroun gendarmerie announced that the mission to Muyenge and Mutengene were aimed at fighting crime, it is evidently clear that the South West governor and his gang of French Cameroun surrogates wanted to score some political points. The French Cameroun military raided the Muyenge locality, carried out search, erected check points and road blocks in a general show of force.

But the fact that the Yaoundé regime could only show rudimentary weapons used by the farming and hunting communities in Muyenge as prove of equipment imported from the Federal Republic of Nigeria indicates that the Biya regime is indeed taking the last kicks of a dying horse. “It was a plot to kill members of a vibrant Muyenge Youth Association who had declared their unflinching support for the Southern Cameroons Governing Council,” noted our chief correspondent in Fako.

We of the Cameroon Concord News Group think that this act of primitive criminal intimidation and provocation must not go unchallenged by men of good conscience in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia. This latest attempt to use the French Cameroun army and gendarmerie in a show of force in Southern Cameroons to deal with legitimate peaceful agitation for self determination is shameful.

If their slogan “Cameroon is one and indivisible” is anything to go by, where on earth is it heard that combat ready troops are deployed within the borders of a country to deal with a non-violent civil matter? Such a thing can only happen in French Cameroun. Biya and his French Cameroun political elites such as Laurent Esso, Amadou Ali, Fame Ndongo have made a mockery of the role of the military and nonsense of the constitution that soldiers can be ordered by one governor, without the permission of the Commander-in-Chief, to kill civilian populations in an area devoid of any conflict.

The interim head of state of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, Sisiku Ayuk Tabe has made it abundantly clear to the regime in Yaoundé and to the international community that Southern Cameroonians are agitating for self determination in a peaceful manner. They have no arms and will never resort to bearing arms. Biya and his ruling CPDM crime syndicate should rather focus their attention on the Boko Haram-ravaged areas of Maroua, Kolofata, and Mora. Boko Haram is a well armed terrorist organization and it is the one Biya should be facing and not farmers and hunters including market women in Mamfe, Jakiri, Bamenda, Mundemba, Ndop and traders at Ekok and Muyenge. We are a peaceful people by nature, but will not tolerate any molestation or intimidation on our soil.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai with files from Rita Akana and Sama Ernest

SDF Members of Parliament have boycotted the opening session of the national assembly in Yaounde.  The predominantly Southern Cameroons bloc of elected representatives all gathered at the regional headquarters of the party in Olezoa district in Yaounde during the rituals at Ngoa Ekele.

Cameroon Concord News learned that the decision to boycott the opening ceremony of the 3rd parliamentary session, is the first action of a series whose goal is “to force the Biya Francophone government to find a lasting solution” to the crisis that has rocked Southern Cameroons for more than a year now.

An SDF statement  said “We believe it is now time for parliamentarians in accordance with Article 4 of the constitution to take their responsibilities. It is a question of how far we can, in our own way, expose to the public, to the national and international public, the serious situation that prevails in our country.”

SDF Secretary General, Jean Tsomelou, was quoted as saying that the opening ceremony of the Senate at the Palais des Congres in Yaounde will also be boycotted. The opening session witnessed the participation of Martin Belinga Eboutou Director of the Civil Cabinet of the Presidency, members of the French Cameroun Government and the President of the Senate

By Sama Ernest, CCN

A well-placed source deep within the Ambazonia Governing Council has hinted Cameroon Concord News that SDF MP for the Jakari constituency in Southern Cameroons is now practically under house arrest. Our source further pointed out that Hon. Joseph Wirba is currently being interrogated by elements of the French Cameroun Secret Service over statements he made during a BBC interview some days ago.

We understand that trucks loaded with French Cameroun troops were sent to the Anglophone MP’s home in Jakiri yesterday. The Francophone soldiers have taken complete control of the building.

This item is still developing

By Eyong Johnson

President Biya has signed a decree today, Tuesday the 7^th of November 2017, appointing new officials in almost all embassies of La Republique du Cameroun.  New ambassadors and high commissioners have been appointed to Cameroon’s diplomatic missions in Belgium, Russia, Nigeria, the United States, Canada, Germany and many other countries, as well as on the African continent.

In the Biya decree, we also note the arrival of new Consulate Generals in Paris and Marseille. In the same  text, the 84 year old dictator retired several diplomats. In a typical CPDM pattern, Biya appointed the wife of Prof. Maurice Kamto, the leader of the MRC opposition party as Inspector General in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

It should be noted that this Tuesday’s decree came in a context in which Canada and Great Britain had called for Cameroonian diplomats to be recalled to Yaounde. Cameroon diplomats were accused either of sedentarisation or of activities contrary to their status. In Britain, the authorities openly accused Cameroonian diplomats in London of drug trafficking and feeding a network of illegal immigration.

By Eyong Johnson, CCN

It has been reported that members of Government have lost sleep, since the return of President Biya from Geneva. The cause of their insomnia is the imminence of a cabinet reshuffle which some sources say Mr. Paul Biya would have carefully studied during his recent stay abroad.

The much anticipated shakeup was expected some few days after the presidential couple arrived Yaoundé.  But more than a week after his return to the headquarters of institutions, doubt is already crystallizing in people’s minds. The wait has been prolonged with a trip to Chad amid rising adrenaline.

Biya continues to be the only master of time and there are under-the-table talks that his 31^st government since he came to power in 1982 will surely take into account the current socio-political context in Southern Cameroons.

A well-placed source hinted that it will not be surprising to see adjustments made to meet some of the demands of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium.  Many within the power circles believe that it is likely Philemon Yang will be removed as the Prime Minister.

By Sonne Peter, CCN

FELLOW AMBAZONIANS,

Let me recommend something for the upcoming Conclave: it is a difference between how our leadership has to look in the eyes of the international political world & media and what this leadership is doing inside with homeland defense & relief finances. To the outside world we have to look like peaceful, modern, educated, Christian people, who offer nothing but solutions for whole Cameroon and to the inside we have to be hammer hard against all enemies, collaborateurs and media lies. This war of survival against extinction and against Françafrique’s exploitation mafia which rules not only Cameroon, is both a propaganda war and a real self-defense war on the ground, and the latter needs a cover, a shill of international legitimacy.

And the crucial point to hit on is to name France directly as the big foul player in Africa and Syria and in the UN. Take the bull by its horns! You must not be afraid before France. Go to all media channels in the world and tell this: “France is responsible for a present Holocaust in Africa and it is France which corrupts the UN, the IMF and the Head Central Bank of all Central Banks in Switzerland. It is France foreign policy which produces millions of fugitives into Europe and creates African diaspora all over the world. It is an absolute shame that the UN, the IMF and European banks and corporations do still recognize illegitimate puppet dictators of France in Africa like Paul Biya as a president of a country.

It is a disgrace that France allows Biya and Cameroon to occupy, exploit and genocide one of the most peaceful, intelligent and Christian people in the world: the Ambazonian’s. Never heard of them, although they are millions? Because it is French foreign Intelligence which blocks all news from former (but actually still monetarily) French colonies to the non-French news media. To cover their many crimes.

It is time to clean up countries like France and Cameroon, Gabon, Kongo, CAR, Niger, Mali, … big time and to stop French speaking Europe to secretly sponsor Islamic terrorist groups which put half of Africa in misery just to “legitimize” France’s military presence in Africa! The outdated Françafrique has to be replaced by the compromise between the European MARSHALL PLAN WITH AFRICA and the African MARSHALL PLAN WITH EUROPE, which is proposed by many modern, progressive, democratic, educated African peoples like the wonderful Ambazonians. They want nothing else than living peacefully in their homeland and have normal economic and political and cultural relationship with all other peoples in the world, based on mutual respect and fair business contracts. And we all want to see the UN being decorrupted from French bribery.

The UN and the world media, together with governments in the world have to stop throwing victims and perpetrators in Africa into one and the same pot! Are the Stalins, Hitlers, Maos really the same ones as the victims in their gulags??? We all, 7 billion people in the world have to develop not only wind but a hurricane of pressure on all foul players in world politics who want to go into an era of colonization 2:0 in Africa, which will only bounce back horrifically into all of us. Let’s help the Ambazonians for example and many other suppressed and slaughtered people in Africa to be able to self-govern without the French octopus.”

So it is highly necessary that the Ambazonian leadership after conclave 4 is speaking with one tongue when it is about presenting a SOLUTION for whole Cameroon not only Ambazonia, which is that not only Ambazonia shall get a new modern, democratic constitution and government, but also French Cameroun will get that: a total clean-up of its system. We have to end this tricky French media narrative of “Anglophone probleme”! No, we are not a problem, we are the solution! And of course, all non-French powers have to help Ambazonia in reaching self-governance, especially Germany, where I do trigger the awareness- and action-campaign together with others against all neo-colonialists.

By Christoph Messner

The controversial French Cameroun politician and former minister of public service, Garga Haman Adji revealed to Canal 2 International on Tuesday, October 24, 2017 details of the exchanges he had with President Biya on Friday, January 6, 2017, during a ceremony at the Unity Palace on the Southern Cameroons crisis.

“The president came to me, held my hands. He is used to calling me “Mr. Minister” or “Mr. Garga”. But that day, he said to me, “Garga, you are following what’s going on, you have to do something. Garga bring me Bamenda! “. And it was really pathetic “says the president of the Alliance for Democracy and Development (ADD), an opposition political party.

Garga claimed that he embarked on a tour of Southern Cameroons, on Monday following his tête-à-tête with the Head of State. At the end of this tour during which he said he met all the key players, Garga Haman Adji noted that he submitted a report to the President of the Republic in which he stated the measures to be taken for a peaceful end to the crisis.

“He did not send me to extinguish the fire. He knows I do not know how to be a firefighter. But, he told me to study the root of the evil,” hinted Garga who resigned from the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo regime in 1992.

By Rita Akana with files from Cameroon Info.Net

The president of the so-called National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism has issued a political statement after he led a delegation of CPDM elites to the Buea Province in Southern Cameroons. Mafany Musonge said the people of Southern Cameroons are in favour of decentralization not secession.

Former Prime Minister Peter Mafany Musonge made the revelation after he reportedly met some, political intellectuals, traditional leaders, businessmen and leaders of civil society associations.

At the end of the consultations, Musonge and his gang pointed out there “there are localities where access  by roads is a huge problems.”  The CPDM Senator who as Prime Minister Minister did not carry an iota of development to West Cameroon observed that there are the problems of education, infrastructures which can be resolve through the effective implementation of decentralization.

Musonge summarized his findings in four main points: effective implementation of decentralization, construction of basic infrastructure, respect for the regional balance and representation of girls and sons of the two Anglophone regions in decision-making positions in the public administration as well as in the government.

A spokesperson for the Southern Cameroons Ambazonia Governing Council has dismissed the Musonge declarations as “mere political rhetoric”. The Governing Council indicated recently that it has been 23 years ever since Mr Paul Biya spoke of decentralization and nothing has been implemented.

By Rita Akana, CCN