13, November 2018

Stop Munzu, Agbor Balla and Cardinal Tumi!! Stop AAC3 ⁰

The Ambazonia Self-Defense Council (ASC) calls on the people of Buea specifically to join all other Ambazonians on ground zero and the world over to stand up and do what they need to do to prevent the capture and derailing of the process of the liberation of our Motherland. To this end we note that from the 19th to the 23th of November 2018, there shall be a complete lock down of Buea specifically and the whole of Ambazonia to prevent the holding of the purported AAC3 Conference.

We want to remind the great people of Ambazonia that the resolution of this conference had been prepared and we had circulated copies – even before the setting of the date of the conference. The essence of the come together is to rubber stamp a document concocted by individuals who do not have the interest of our people at heart.

Therefore we call on you all to ensure that there will be no AAC3 conference, no movement of people and vehicles. Our protest shall include the closure all businesses and markets as the soldiers of LRC have been tasked to brutalize and kill innocent civilians if they come out to protest. However, this is a battle that we absolutely must win if we intend to tell the world that we are united in our opposition to the rule of the dictator in Etoudi.

No constructive discussion can take place in Ambazonia with the likes of Dr. Munzu, Christian Cardinal Tumi, Peter Mafany Musonge or Barrister Agbor Balla. The Interim Government was very clear when they announced the conditions for the holding of an inclusive conference. These included the following:

The release of all our leaders and compatriots arrested and locked in all prisons as a result of this conflict
The holding of the conference in a neutral ground that is devoid of all intimidation and fear mongering.
The invitation and participation of neutral global powers like the US, the UK, the UN and the AU.
The use of a mediator that is agreeable to both parties in the conflict

We therefore alert the entire peoples of Southern Cameroons that anyone who chooses to take part in this meeting shall be treated as an enemy to the revolution and shall only have themselves to blame for whatever shall befall them as a consequence of their betrayal.

We strongly urge all Ambazonians to caution family members and friends about the dangers of going against this advice.

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12, November 2018

Hundreds flee after Boko Haram raid in Nigeria ⁰

Hundreds of villagers fled their homes in Nigeria’s northeast late on Saturday after an attack by militants from the Boko Haram group, militia officials and witnesses said.

No casualties were reported but the raid highlighted fragile security in Nigeria’s northeast, where the army is still battling to end a conflict that erupted in 2009.

Militants arrived in trucks in Jimmi, 5 km (3 miles) from Maiduguri city, and opened fire, setting homes ablaze and also attacking an informal refugee camp.

“Boko Haram terrorists this evening attacked Jimmi village,” militia leader in Maiduguri Musa Ari said. “They burnt homes in Jimmi and tents in the camp.”

Military authorities scrambled reinforcements and fighter jets to repel the attack, said militia leader Ibrahim Liman.

Panicked villagers from the area fled to nearby Maiduguri, capital of Borno state which along with neighboring Yobe state has been at the center of the militant insurgency.

“We left our village to escape Boko Haram who attacked our neighbors in Jimmi,” said Bale-Shuwa village resident Suleiman Balarabe.

Children try to salvage valuables from a burnt house following multiple attacks by Boko Haram Takfiri terrorists at Dalori and other neighboring villages outside the Borno state capital of Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria, November 1, 2018. (Photo by AFP)

He said villagers saw military jets flying overhead towards Jimmi.

“The sounds of guns coming from Jimmi terrified us and made us leave our homes because we were afraid they were going to attack our neighborhood,” said Sanda Gini, a resident of Jiddari-Polo area on the outskirts of Maiduguri.

In April, scores of Boko Haram fighters launched a gun attack on Jiddari-Polo when they advanced on Giwa barracks where hundreds of their militant comrades are being detained.

Insurgents fired automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades at troops before they were repelled with aerial support.

Despite government insistence Boko Haram militants are near defeat, in recent months the militant group has carried out major attacks on military targets, killing dozens.

Boko Haram’s nine-year conflict has killed an estimated 27,000 people and displaced two million, creating a humanitarian crisis and spilling into Nigeria’s northern neighbors.

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12, November 2018

“UN, UK, France not taking bold steps toward peace in Southern Cameroons” ⁰

The United Nations including Britain and France have not taken any bold steps to stop the genocide currently unfolding in Southern Cameroons and to put an end to the Biya Francophone military aggression against innocent Ambazonian civilians, says a traditional ruler who hails from the Akwaya Sub Constituency in the Manyu County, adding that as long as the Yaounde regime enjoys the full support of the UN, the AU and France it will continue its war on the impoverished people of Southern Cameroons.

Speaking to our London Bureau Chief, Chi Prudence Asong, the Akwaya Royal whose identity we are withholding for security reasons observed that “The President Trump administration and some British MPs in the House of Commons have started talking about the killings of our people but what we Southern Cameroonians need now is a referendum to determine our future.”

The chartered member of the so-called Manyu Chiefs Conference further stated that “I don’t think the Cameroun government military campaign in Southern Cameroons will stop or even reduce with President Biya still in power. The abrupt end of the Mimi Mefo case in Douala is an indication that Yaounde is sick and tired of given itself a bad name.”

The Biya regime launched a devastating military campaign against the English speaking people in Southern Cameroons with the aim of crushing the Ambazonian revolution. The Biya war has claimed the lives of around 4000 Ambazonians and some 1500 Cameroon government troops.

Many governments have called on the CPDM regime to hold an inclusive dialogue with the leadership of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia but the 85 year old dictator has refused to comply.

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12, November 2018

Buhari names fifth commander in under 2 years to lead fight against Boko Haram ⁰

Nigeria has named its fifth commander in less than 2 years to lead the fight against the Boko Haram insurgency, the army said on Saturday, a move military sources say was related to continued attacks by Islamists.

The attacks could hurt President Muhammadu Buhari’s chances of re-election in Feb. 2019. He campaigned in 2015 vowing to end the insurgency but the conflict is entering its 10th year with attacks by Boko Haram and a group that splintered from it, the Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA).

Major General Abba Dikko, who in July took over command of Operation Lafiya Dole, has been replaced as the head of that operation by Major General Benson Akinroluyo, the army said in an emailed statement that outlined dozens of redeployments.

Dikko has been moved to the Department of Civil Military Affairs to fill the position of chief of civil military affairs.

“The Nigerian Army has redeployed some of its officers from Operation Lafiya Dole, Operation Delta Safe, as well as over stayed officers from the theatre as part of routine posting,” the army said in the statement.

Two military officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said he was redeployed because of attacks by Islamists since he took over.

Since July, when Dikko was appointed, dozens of Nigerian troops have been killed in battles with militants and ISWA killed two abducted aid workers.

Soldiers also staged a protest at an airport in September.

An army spokesman did not immediately respond to text messages and phone calls seeking further details on the decision to replace Dikko as the head of the fight against Islamists just months after he took the role.

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12, November 2018

S.Cameroons Crisis: US tells Biya to enter reconciliatory dialogue without preconditions ⁰

The United States condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the November 5 kidnapping of students and staff from the Presbyterian Secondary School of Nkwen near Bamenda, Cameroon. We call for the immediate and safe return of these students and staff to their families.

The United States expresses grave concern over the burgeoning Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon’s Northwest and Southwest regions. We urge an immediate halt to the indiscriminate targeting of civilians and burning of houses by Cameroonian government forces and to attacks perpetrated by both Anglophone separatists against security forces and civilians.

The systematic intimidation based on ethnic and religious affiliation, including in Yaoundé and Douala, must stop. In memory of American missionary Charles Wesco and all others who have lost their lives in the Anglophone Crisis, we urge all sides to end the violence and enter into broad-based reconciliatory dialogue without preconditions.

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12, November 2018

African Union: Fresh push for peace in Southern Cameroons ⁰

The head of the African Union Commission has called for a renewed effort to try to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Cameroon.

Moussa Faki Mahamat’s call for an inclusive dialogue comes after dozens of school children were reunited with their parents after being kidnapped.

They were reportedly held by Anglophone separatists. The principal and one of her teachers are still in captivity. Mr Mahamat called on the perpetrators to be identified and brought to justice.

A peace conference, organised by religious leaders, is due to take place later this month however it is not clear whether the Cameroonian government or the separatist rebels will attend. Activists claim the country’s French-speaking majority is marginalising the English-speaking minority.

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11, November 2018

The rise and rise of Mimi Mefo, the killing of Charles Wesco and the Tchiroma disgrace ⁰

The Cameroon government defended the arrest of a journalist who accused military forces of responsibility for the recent killing of American missionary Charles Wesco last month, reasserting that it was separatist ammunition found in his head and body.

Cameroon Minister of Communications Issa Tchiroma Bakary issued a lengthy statement Thursday, providing more details about the death late last month of the Indiana Baptist missionary, who the United States government believes was caught in “crossfire” in ongoing conflict between the Cameroon army and English-speaking separatist forces in the northwest Anglophone region.

The statement was issued in response to international advocates who have criticized the government for arresting journalist Mimi Mefo Takombo, the English desk editor and journalist for Equinoxe Television, this week for reporting that the Cameroon army killed Wesco.

The journalist is being held at New-Bell Central Prison in Douala and has been charged with “dissemination of fake news,” and “news lies likely to harm public authorities or national cohesion” — crimes punishable under Cameroon criminal code section 113 that bars the “propagation of false information.”

She was also charged with “incitement to revolt against the Government and Institutions of the Republic.” Bakary repeated the government’s previous claims that “terrorists” were on the move to attack a university in Bamenda and a military brigade at around 10 a.m. on Oct. 30 when Wesco, a fellow missionary, his wife and child were driving to go shopping in a rural area just outside of Bamenda.

Previous reports had indicated that bullets struck the car and killed Wesco, while others in the vehicle survived. According to Bakary’s statement, Wesco “received a 12-gauge oblique bird-shot fired by a sneaky terrorist.”

“Several pellets reached the victim at the parietal level of his skull, one below the lower right jaw and the last one at the level of his shoulder,” the statement explains. “He eventually succumbed to his wounds.”

The government said that Wesco’s body was subject to investigation by police forces and his remains were then transferred to a hospital, where an autopsy was performed in the presence of Cameroonian and American forensic doctors, a U.S. Embassy representative and the commissioner to the Yaoundé Military Court.

“During the autopsy, the pellets extracted from the remains confirmed that the shots that killed Reverend Charles Truman Wesco did indeed come from a 12-gauge weapon which is, as we know, used by the secessionist terrorists operating in the North-West and South-West regions,” Bakary asserted. “The impacts left by the shots were effectively located in the right parietal part of the skull, the right face and the right shoulder of the victim; all things that confirm the position of the shooter stationed on the right side of the vehicle, a position occupied by the terrorists at the time of the incident.”

Bakary accused the journalist of “altering the reality of the facts” and “spreading manifest untruths.” Bakary said Takombo’s claims were “highly detrimental to the morale of the troops” in their “loyal and legal fight against criminal hordes with a secessionist agenda.”

Takombo’s arrest has drawn the ire of international advocates, such as the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. “Cameroon cannot be allowed to suppress coverage of unrest in its western, Anglophone regions by detaining journalists like Mimi Mefo. She must be released immediately,” CPJ Deputy Executive Director Robert Mahoney said in a statement. “The charge of publishing information that infringes on territorial integrity is a laughable smokescreen for censorship, plain and simple.”

Libom Li Likeng, Cameroon’s telecommunications minister, told Voice of America that propagation of false information on social media is punishable by six months to two years in prison and a fine that could range from $8,000 to $16,000.

Takombo’s arrest comes as other journalists have been detained for several weeks. Wesco is survived by his wife, Stephanie, and eight children. The Wescos sold most of their possessions in the United States and moved to Cameroon last month to serve as missionaries sent by the Believers Baptist Church in Warsaw, Indiana. An online fundraising page benefiting the family has raised over $100,000 in nine days.

Stephanie Wesco and her children arrived safely back in the United States this week, according to an update from the GoFundMe page’s organizer, Matthew Barnes. “It was my high honor and privilege to assist in picking up the Charles-Stephanie Wesco family at the airport this evening,” he wrote in the update. “The Wesco family are modern day heroes of the faith.”

The family will hold a funeral for Wesco next Monday at Community Baptist Church in South Bend, Indiana.

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11, November 2018

Number Of Ambazonian Refugees In Nigeria Reaches 30,000 ⁰

The number of refugees fleeing violence in Cameroon and seeking shelter in Nigeria exceeded 30,000, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a statement on Friday.

“The number of Cameroonian refugees fleeing violence and seeking refuge in Nigeria crossed the 30,000 mark this week. Refugees fleeing the South-West and North-West Regions of Cameroon have been arriving since September 2017. Almost 600 arrived in refugee settlements in the last two weeks,” the statement read.

UNHCR stressed that an overwhelming majority of these refugees were women and children.

Rights groups registered almost 400 civilian deaths in Cameroon last year due to the escalation of the conflict between separatists and the government, the statement read.

According to UNHCR, the agency together with the Nigerian government monitor the situation at the border areas inside Nigeria.

Cameroon has been facing a separatism crisis in the country since last year. On October 1, 2017, activists from Cameroon’s English-speaking regions proclaimed their independence from the country’s French-speaking areas which resulted in violent protests. The declaration came on the anniversary of South Cameroon’s independence from Britain in 1961.

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11, November 2018

First food aid to reach Southern Cameroons after months ⁰

Tens of thousands of people who fled Cameroon’s separatist conflict will receive food aid next week after months of hiding in the forest with nothing to eat, the United Nations said.

About 437,000 people have fled their homes in Cameroon’s western English-speaking regions since late last year, when insurgents started fighting to break away from the majority French-speaking state.

But government restrictions and a lack of security on the ground have made it difficult for aid agencies to reach them, and a tense election last month halted humanitarian work for weeks, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

President Paul Biya was re-elected by a landslide on Oct. 7 to extend his 36-year rule, while the opposition claimed fraud.

The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) will deliver food to 50,000 people on Nov. 14 in the first major food drive, said WFP country representative Abdoulaye Balde.

“The problem is access,” Balde told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The United Nations delivered some non-food items over six months ago, but afterward struggled to get into the zone, he said.

“We didn’t know what there was there. We didn’t know where these people were.”

The government has organised several small-scale food distributions in recent months, but most people have yet to benefit, said Modibo Traore, head of OCHA in Cameroon.

Cameroon’s government spokesman and minister of territorial administration could not be reached for comment.

“The food situation in the coming months is going to deteriorate,” Traore told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

“Funds from external donors have been very, very limited. That’s preventing us from scaling up the response,” he said, adding that lengthy government clearance processes have also hampered aid delivery.

Many of the people are living outside, in need of shelter, medical supplies, and basic items such as soap, he said.

But several among them said hunger was the greatest concern.

Jenny, a 22-year-old who gave only her first name, is living with extended family in the outskirts of Douala after fleeing her village in the southwestern region when fighting broke out.

“Thanks to God, we are alive,” she said. “But we don’t eat.”

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11, November 2018

Netanyahu says unaware of corruption linked to submarine deal ⁰

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he was unaware of any corruption linked to a deal to buy German submarines, after police recommended charging his lawyer in the investigation.

“As you know, there are no claims as to my involvement,” Netanyahu said late Saturday in his first comments on the issue since police issued their findings in the long-running investigation last week.

“Which is not a minute thing since people don’t hesitate to blame me with the most absurd claims.”

Asked about the alleged offences committed by his relative and family lawyer David Shimron, Netanyahu said: “You know I didn’t know.”

“Secondly, I suggest to wait until the end of the procedures and not rush to make a judgement,” he said before boarding a plane for Paris, where he will join world leaders in marking the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.

Police said Thursday there was evidence to charge Shimron and others with bribery in connection with negotiations for Israel’s purchase of submarines and other vessels from German industrial giant ThyssenKrupp.

The investigation into the deals reportedly worth $2 billion is one of several cases that have put Netanyahu’s long tenure in office under the spotlight.

Besides Shimron, police said the former chief of Netanyahu’s office, David Sharan, is also suspected of bribery, as is the former head of the navy, Eliezer Marom.

Two other navy ex-generals were named as being suspected of similar offences, as was a former minister, Eliezer Zandberg.

Netanyahu was questioned as a witness and not a suspect in the case.

The police’s findings will now be handed over to the attorney general, who will decide whether the suspects should be charged.

Israeli opposition politicians have questioned how Netanyahu could be unaware of the alleged corruption and called for a commission of inquiry.

In February, police recommended Netanyahu be indicted in two other graft probes, though the attorney general has yet to decide whether to do so.

Allegations against Netanyahu include seeking a secret deal with the publisher of Israel’s top-selling newspaper Yediot Aharonot to ensure positive coverage in return for pushing forward a law that would have limited the circulation of a rival.

Another case involves suspicions that the prime minister and his family received luxury gifts from wealthy individuals in exchange for financial or personal favours.

Netanyahu denies all the allegations, calling them a bid by his political enemies to force him from office.

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