Spain court rules proposed Catalan leader must stay in jail

13, April 2018

Spain court rules proposed Catalan leader must stay in jail 0

Spain’s Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a request by Catalonia’s pro-independence presidential candidate Jordi Sanchez to be let out of jail and sworn in as regional head.

The Catalan parliament had been scheduled to hold a debate and vote on Sanchez’s candidacy on Friday, but after the court’s ruling Catalan parliament speaker Roger Torrent announced on Twitter he had suspended the session indefinitely.

Sanchez was remanded in custody in October pending charges over his role in last year’s failed Catalan independence bid.

An attempt to appoint him as president failed last month after Spain’s Supreme Court turned down a request for his release from jail.

But Torrent put Sanchez’s name forward as a candidate again earlier this month after the United Nations Human Rights Committee defended his political rights.

In letters sent last month to Spanish authorities and Sanchez’s lawyers, the UN committee requested the state take all steps to ensure he is allowed to exercise his political rights.

Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena once again turned down Sanchez’s request, arguing there were signs that he could “move in the direction of a rupture of the constitutional order”.

The judge argues it was justified in limiting Sanchez’s political rights given the risk that his release would pose to the collective rights “of the rest of the community”.

Torrent had appealed earlier on Thursday for the judge to agree to let Sanchez, a former leader of influential grassroots independence group ANC who was elected to the Catalan parliament in snap polls in December, leave jail to be sworn in.

“The court has the opportunity to take note of international law and the protection of political rights or write another dark chapter in the history of the Supreme Court,” he said in an interview to news radio station Cadena Ser.

The court ruling comes as Barcelona is gearing up for a huge protest on Sunday to mark the six month anniversary of the jailing of Sanchez and Jordi Cuixart, the leader of another separatist organisation.

(Source: AFP)


Boko Haram has kidnapped at least 1,000 girls since 2013

13, April 2018

Boko Haram has kidnapped at least 1,000 girls since 2013 0

The United Nations (UN)’s children’s agency has slammed the repeated attacks by the Daesh-linked Boko Haram terrorist group against children in Nigeria, announcing that at least 1,000 children have been abducted in the African country since 2013.

More than 1,000 children, mostly under 15 years of age, have been abducted in northern Nigeria since January 2013, the UN’s Children’s Fund, UNICEF, estimated in a statement on Thursday.

“Children in northeastern Nigeria continue to come under attack at a shocking scale,” said Mohamed Malick Fall, UNICEF’s Nigeria head. “UNICEF is appealing for an end to attacks on schools and all grave violations of children’s rights.”

He also called for the release of those still held in captivity.

Boko Haram has been regularly kidnapping youngsters. In 2014, 276 schoolgirls were abducted from the town of Chibok, located in Nigeria’s northeast. The mass kidnapping triggered global condemnation and intense criticism of Nigerian officials in the country as well as an international “Bring Back Our Girls” campaign.

“Nigerian authorities have made a commitment to make schools safer and more resilient to attack, and UNICEF stands with them to implement the Safe Schools Declaration, by which Nigeria commits to protecting schools and universities from violence and military use during armed conflict,” Fall further said.

The agency also said that at least 2,295 teachers had been killed and more than 1,400 schools had been destroyed due to the militancy in Nigeria.

The Boko Haram terror campaign in Nigeria is in its tenth year and has so far killed more than 20,000 and forced the displacement of over two million others.

Most recently, more than 100 schoolgirls were kidnapped by the group in the town of Dapchi, which had previously been unaffected by the militancy. The girls were later released reportedly through quiet efforts by the government.

Four years since the Chibok abduction, however, some 100 of the schoolgirls are believed to remain in captivity. Nearly 60 of the abductees escaped soon after the incident and some others have since been released through mediation.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, a former general, came to power in 2015 on a platform of stamping out the Boko Haram militancy. Despite retaking swathes of territory from the group, though, the government has been unable to prevent attacks from continuing against both civilians and government targets.

Buhari plans to seek re-election in 2019.

 

Source: Presstv


Southern Cameroons War: The Red Dragons of Lebialem strikes again

12, April 2018

Southern Cameroons War: The Red Dragons of Lebialem strikes again 0

The Red Dragons of Lebialem staged a massive raid on the gendarmerie post in Alou on Wednesday the 11th of April 2018 killing six officers who were in the locality to take part in the installation ceremony of the new commander of the Alou Brigade.  Cameroon Concord News was reliably informed that the Red Dragons carried out the attack immediately after the top military officers left the area for Bafoussam.

We gathered that the Lebialem Red Dragons also made away with heavy ammunitions that were ferried into the county by soldiers loyal to the French Cameroun regime in Yaoundé. Meanwhile, 14 elements of the Rapid Intervention Battalion were killed in Beluah and Nchobenyae and two military truck destroyed.

A military source contacted at the time of filing this report revealed that 15 of the soldiers with life threatening injuries that were rushed to MHA Hospital at Nveh died from wounds sustained during the battle for Beluah.  The French Cameroun government forces have reportedly placed Azi and Menji under high security surveillance after a huge explosion occurred at Moonhead Menji.

This item is developing

 By Chi Prudence Asong with files from Azi


Southern Cameroons Crisis: Government is overwhelmed

12, April 2018

Southern Cameroons Crisis: Government is overwhelmed 0

The Southern Cameroons crisis that started in 2016 has finally entered a very critical phase. The Yaounde government is in trouble as the two “cubes of sugar” refuse to melt.

According to a source in the military, many army soldiers have lost their lives and hundreds have been wounded in the jungles of Ndian, Manyu and Meme Divisions. The wounded are alive and are today telling their stories and many clearly indicate that there is something mystical in the way the Southern Cameroons fighters conduct themselves.

They are at a loss for words having witnessed the death and destruction the Southern Cameroonian ragtag army has inflicted on the government’s military. Our source adds that the Southern Cameroons crisis has become a business for many high-ranking army officers, especially the generals and colonels who are directly involved in efforts to roll back the advancing Southern Cameroonian army.

Today, many French-speaking Cameroonian soldiers are scared of going to fight in the restive English-speaking regions, having seen the type of wounds some of their colleagues have sustained in the battlefield. It’s now normal for junior officers to bribe their seniors so that they don’t get sent to Southern Cameroons which in the minds of many army soldiers is synonymous with death.

It is also being rumored that the country’s defense minister, Joseph Beti Assoumou, is making a huge fortune from the chaos that is playing out in southern Cameroons. A source close to the presidency has indicated that even the president is gradually questioning the rationale behind the fighting, as there is no light at the end of the tunnel.

Cameroon government officials are gradually coming to terms with the fact that the two “cubes of sugar” they thought would easily melt, will unfortunately not be melting anytime soon. The source added that the government was admitting that it had underestimated the role the Southern Cameroons Diaspora would play in the entire process.

Government officials, the source says, are aware that if the crisis has to fizzle out, the Diaspora must be appeased. But for now, they are not sure of who to talk to. The situation has spiralled out of control and it will be hard to stabilize the region without making peace with a Southern Cameroonian Diaspora that numbers well over three million and it is determined to give the government a good run for its money.

The human cost of the conflict is staggering. Soldiers and civilians have been killed in a conflict that could have been avoided. The government has simply stopped announcing the killing of army soldiers, as this may have a huge impact on those who are being sent to the restive English-speaking regions.

Besides, announcing the death of army soldiers could cause the docile Francophones to start asking questions about the essence of a war that was unnecessary. Despite this silence, Francophone Cameroonians are gradually becoming more vocal. The families that have not seen their loved ones or heard from them have begun asking questions about their whereabouts.

“It is unbelievable that I have not heard from my brother since he was sent to Ndian Division in January. I have called his number, but I keep on hearing that it is no longer in service. My brother was very communicative before he got deployed to the Southwest region. I have tried contacting the military, but none of those I have talked to has been able to give a clear-cut answer. I know the military is hiding something from us, but for how long will they do that. I know of a friend who was in the same situation and the top military brass kept telling them that their brother was on mission, until his friends sent them pictures of their brother having been killed by those ruthless Ambazonian fighters. The family has now got closure, but it does no longer trust the Cameroon army,” a relative of a soldier on mission told our correspondent in Yaounde.

While the physical wounds could be easily healed, the psychological wounds might never go away. Many army soldiers are now dealing with mental health issues and many of them have been caught in a nightmare that will not be going away anytime soon. For those who have killed civilians in the process, theirs appears to be the kingdom of tears. Many of them cannot sleep and are having a tough time eating.

Instead of dealing with these cases, the military has simply discharged some of these young men from the military to enable them find lasting solutions to their psychological crisis. But discharging them from the military does not look like a good decision. Some of these psychological cases are clearly exposing the government. They are telling the tales of agony that are coming from the war fronts in the English-speaking regions of the country.

The wounded are letting the world know the truth about the state’s finances. The government clearly lacks the resources to deal with the victims of a war it hastily declared. Many of the families affected by this situation are really questioning the wisdom behind this senseless war.

“Look at how my brother is suffering today. He was healthy before he left for Mamfe to fight those the government said were the enemies of the state. He got scarred both physically and psychologically and today, he has been abandoned by the government that promised to help them in the event of any casualties. He cannot sleep. He has not slept for days and he keeps on saying that he is seeing dead people around him,” the sister of a psychologically scarred army soldier told our correspondent.

But the government’s greatest problem is not the physically and psychologically wounded. It has found a way of ridding itself of this burden. According to the government, it suffices to give the affected family some money and discharging those scarred from the military. Since the system is not organized and data is hardly kept, it is a lot harder for the population to really figure out the truth.

The media is not developed and those who pass off as journalists, do not have the financial and intellectual capacity to conduct investigations that will clearly expose the government. This gives the government the feeling that it is off the hook. But the International Crisis Group and Amnesty International are carefully gathering information in this regard and this will surely embarrass the government when the time comes.

But this appears to be the least of the government’s concerns. Its focus is on its leaky treasury that is spelling hard times for the country’s burgeoning civil service. The country’s financial indicators are trending very low. Government coffers are empty, and many ministries do not have the resources to carry out some of the main projects that had been included in this year’s budget.

Many missions have been canceled and senior civil servants have been urged to reduce cost as much as possible. The Southern Cameroons crisis has hit the government like a ton of bricks. There is panic within government circles, as empty coffers spell huge problems for a government that is yet to recover from the punch it has taken to the liver.

Its image and reputation have been badly battered. Its noise about having one of the best military on the continent has turned out to be a bluff. Ambazonian fighters have put their young and poorly trained troops through their paces. They are simply not a match for these young, determined English-speaking fighters who are determined to take the war to East Cameroon.

The government is simply overwhelmed. It is out of resources and the French who have been supporting its military action are gradually back-pedaling. The French understand that the government has stirred a hornet’s nest and it will take time for it to find the appropriate solution to this problem. Even the government now knows that it is in for a long haul and if it has to successfully prosecute this war, then it must turn to other sources.

The French alone will not provide the much-needed resources to roll back the various armed groups in the English-speaking regions. This is being compounded by the government’s legendary corruption that has become its hallmark. The military generals are making hay while the sun shines, as the government heads abroad, cap in hand, to beg for money to prosecute a warthat was not even necessary.

Mr. Biya’s recent trip to China was designed for him to sweet-talk the Chinese into giving him money so that he could meet his domestic commitments. But the Chinese, noted for their craft and intelligence, carefully steered everything towards business and bilateral cooperation.

They understand the Biya government is a deep dry hole. They are simply not interested in pouring their money in a venture that will never yield any dividends.  Mr. Biya might have been promised lots of things, but he knows that it will be an uphill task for him to get free money from the Chinese who themselves are dealing with some financial headwinds, especially as the global economy is facing some tough challenges.

The Biya government is clearly on the back foot. Its dwindling resources are keeping government officials awake all night. Ambazonian fighters just have to continue pouring pressure on the old and ailing government and it will crack very soon. With its treasury running short of money, it is clear that civil servants will soon be taking to the streets to call for the payment of their salaries. If this happens, even the docile Francophones will join Southern Cameroonians to kiss goodbye to the reckless and inefficient Yaounde government. The writing is clearly on the wall and with elections looming large, the government knows this year may be its last.

It might have held senatorial elections which of course do not represent anything. But parliamentary and presidential elections will surely be a tough test for a government that is cash-strapped. The Ambazonian fighters are prepared to disrupt the elections. The government lacks the military and policing capacity to ensure the elections hold across the entire country. Boko Haram is also messing up things in the north and Central African Republic fighters are sowing chaos in the east. It is clear that the government has a lot on its plate. Its best option, according to political experts, is for it to sue for peace. But will its legendary arrogance let it do the right thing?

Cameroon is treading a dangerous path. The international community can not continue to look the other way while this bomb continues to tick. If the world does not act fast, the bomb might go off and it will bring down the entire Central African region. The ordinary Cameroonian, who is an innocent victim, is calling on the international community to help protect him against his protector – the government – that has been maiming and killing its own people. If the international community does not step in very fast, Cameroon will end up being another basket case in a continent that has had more than its fair share of chaos.

By Kingsley Betek

Cameroon Concord News Group

 

 

 

 

 


After La Republique: More African athletes missing from Commonwealth Games

12, April 2018

After La Republique: More African athletes missing from Commonwealth Games 0

A men’s squash pairing from Sierra Leone and a Rwandan para-powerlifting coach are the latest African absentees to go missing from the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Hours after Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton warned athletes who breached their visa conditions they’d be tracked down, locked up and deported, Sierra Leone’s Ernest Jombla and Yusif Mansaray did not appear for their men’s doubles match on Thursday morning.

It means Jombla and Mansaray failed to appear for either of their matches on the Gold Coast after skipping Tuesday’s clash with Welsh pair Peter Creed and Joel Makin. Despite the pair not making their matches, Sierra Leone officials insisted both were still at the village and had merely confused the times of their events.

Rwanda’s chef de mission Eugene Nzabanterura said coach Jean Paul Nsengiyuma hadn’t been seen since his athlete’s event finished at the Carrara Sports and Leisure Centre on Tuesday.

“Up to now we don’t know where he is,” Nzabanterura told AAP.

“We’ve declared it to the police and the administration of GOLDOC and we are still searching for him.”

Two Ugandans were reportedly missing but team officials were adamant all of their athletes and officials were accounted for.

The developments came a day after Cameroon revealed eight of its 42-strong Games team are missing, including two boxers who failed to appear for their bouts.

Most athletes and officials are on visas that remain valid until May 15 but Dutton was concerned by instances in which athletes missed their events at the Games “when that was the reason they were here”.

He said they were “taking the mickey”.

“The compliance officers will be out there, I promise, tracking these people down and they’ll be deported as quickly as possible,” he told Macquarie Radio.

“If they don’t want to be held in detention or locked up at the local watch house, they’d better jump on a plane before the 15th and comply with their visas conditions.”

Dutton said if any of the missing athletes claimed protection status, Border Force would test each case.

“These people and others that might have a similar objective need to hear this message very clearly – they aren’t going to game the system,” he said.

Commonwealth Games boss Peter Beattie said while the athletes’ visas allow them to spend time enjoying Australia, they should return to their home country as scheduled.

“We encourage people to get a visa, come here and compete, stay a little while after, spend some money in this country and then go home, and that’s our position,” Beattie told ABC Radio.

 

Source: World Wide of Sports


Togo police crack down on anti-government protesters

12, April 2018

Togo police crack down on anti-government protesters 0

Police in Togo have dispersed an opposition protest in the capital Lome. Reports indicate that teargas was fired to disperse protesters in Lome and in other towns across the country.

 The 14-member opposition coalition calling for the resignation of the president since August last year called a two-day protest beginning today.

Reports indicate that the violent clampdown by the police led to injuries to a number of protesters. Photos shared on social media showed how a vehicle belonging to opposition chief Jean Pierre Fabre was smashed.

View image on TwitterView image on TwitterView image on TwitterThe government had earlier warned the protesters against the plan. They said it was a violation of the terms included in a mediation effort led by President Akufo-Addo of Ghana. The said talks have hit a stalemate after the parties failed to agree on crucial issues after two rounds.

Anti-government sentiments have been on the rise in the West African country, one of the few that has no term limits for the president. Incumbent Faure Gnassingbe has been in charge since 2005.

He “inherited” a seat his father Gnassingbe Eyadema had occupied for 38 years till his death. He is in his third 5-year term which started in 2015 and is due to expire in 2020 when elections are next held.

Aside the main push for him to resign immediately, the opposition is also pushing for return of term limits, reforms to the electoral structure and the constitutional courts.

Source: Africa News


The Ambazonia Revolution: The distinguishing policies that define our unique identity

12, April 2018

The Ambazonia Revolution: The distinguishing policies that define our unique identity 0

Cameroon Concord News correspondents in Mamfe, reported that Justice Martin Mbeng, a retired Judge of the Court of Appeal in Buea Southern Cameroons was released after interrogation by Ambazonia Forces operating in the Manyu operational sector of Ambazonia revolutionary liberation war.   He was arrested a few days ago in his native Ewelle village in Manyu County of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and taken for interrogation. His release after interrogation by Ambazonia Forces highlights a determination by the fighting forces of Ambazonia to do no harm to civilians in the prosecution of the war. Cameroon Concord News applauds this principled policy.

The release of Justice Martin Mbeng like that of Professor Leke Tambo by the Red Dragons of Lebialem before, critically portray a determination by these forces to make a clear distinction between enemy forces and civilians who may not be taking active part in the war and crimes against citizens of the Republic of Ambazonia. This policy decision was clearly established by His Excellency Sisiku Ayuk Tabe the President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and reiterated by the Acting President His Excellency Samuel Sako. The Communication Secretary of the Interim Government Hon Chris Anu in decrying the execution of a civilian French Cameroun senior servant of Ambazonia nationality on the orders of a commander of one of the Ambazonia fighting forces reminded citizens of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia that we embarked in this self defense liberation war promising to protect civilians without a discriminatory basis in the prosecution of the war against our enemy, French Cameroon. The liberation of Martin Mbeng as that of leke Tambo is consistent with this principled policy commitment. We of this group of publication strongly endorsed the policy of the Interim Government and the widely acclaimed statements of Hon Chris Anu. Cameroon Concord News Group holds the considered position that the preservation of the sanctity of human life must be a sacred commitment of all.

In the light of this demonstrable policy which accords with the principles of international law and practices of civilized nations, Cameroon Concord News  and Cameroon Intelligence Report deems it necessary to once more highlight the history of international criminality on which French Cameroun was founded. This distinguishing criminal policy clearly defines French Cameroun’s identity and markedly distinguishes it from the Federal Republic of Ambazonia. The perpetual distinction between the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and French Cameroun lies in the premium placed by Ambazonia on the protection of civilians not participating in French Cameroun’s genocide war against Ambazonia and French Cameroun’s policy of cowardly criminal annihilation of armless civilians.  For example, while Ambazonia liberation forces arrested, interrogated and released, Professor Leke Tambo, Justice Martin Mbeng and other civilians, French Cameroun and its criminal collaborators like George Tabetando, kidnapped and executed in cold blood seven Ambazonia civilians in Kendem, Manyu County. In another cowardly act, a very desperate French Cameroun regime faked the abduction of foreign citizens who were controlled, protected and given safe passage by well-disciplined Ambazonia forces hoping to use the blackmail to obtain an adverse European Union resolution against the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and its revolutionary war of liberation. This criminal government network of kidnappers for ransom in French Cameroun and the immediate ethnic inner cycle of the Buhari government in Nigeria masked in the fight against Boko Haram superintended by this network are well documented. The Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia has expressly outlawed the abduction of foreign nationals and has consistently condemned the abduction of its President and members of its Interim Government by the criminal network in Nigeria and French Cameroun.  The plethora defining and distinctive irreconcilables between French Cameroun and the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, make life together in any form impossible.

One of the virtues of having a functional Interim Government is to enable the Federal Republic of Ambazonia to have a structured government to define, determine and direct our collective and individual actions in a manner that would clearly distinguish us from the brutal criminal enemy from which we have moved away. French Cameroun was built on the blood of its nationalists and citizens who sought true independence from the criminal French colonial empire of despair and death.  For fifty-six years, the economy of the Southern Cameroons has been raped, looted, pillaged and devastated to sustain the economy of the French colonial vampire.

The escalation of the fifty-six-year war of genocide against the Federal Republic of Ambazonia was determined by a declaration of war made by the French criminal colonial enforcement agent Paul Biya on his return from Abidjan Cote D’Ivoire where he went to brief and obtain permission from the visiting French President.  It did not surprise careful observers of the French Cameroun’s genocide in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia that the demented despot read from a script from his slave master declaring the war and genocide against the territory and people of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.  The preplanned genocide network which uses state and private media resources, administrative structures and a repressive military machinery to execute the genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes is directed controlled and supervised by Paul Biya.  Genocide ideologues and apologists like Issa Tchiroma, Enoh Meyomesse, Charles Ndongo, Laurent Esso, Fame Ndongo, Atanga Nji, George Tabetando, Mafany Musonge, Journalists of Television 4, CRTV, Cameroon Tribune and other French Cameroun media outlets consistently called for the extermination and genocide of Southern Cameroonians.  The superior commanders of the perpetrators of the genocide issued orders of a military and administrative nature to their subordinates. On their orders, several communities in Manyu were deported from their ancestral homes by the order of the colonial proconsul, one Oum II who also ordered the torching of civilian settlements. These acts of systematic criminality have been replicated in civilian settlements throughout the territory of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia. The burning to death of innocent civilians in their homes, the destruction of the subsistence economy of persons in urban and rural communities, markets, commercial motorcycles and transportation vehicles was ordered by the government of French Cameroun and enforced by soldiers deployed for the purpose. The campaign of extermination has led to thousands of civilians being executed in cold blood and buried in mass graves. Several thousands of Ambazonia citizens have been abducted and executed in cold blood based on their Ambazonian nationality. Those they were unwilling to execute were abducted and court-martialed in a French Cameroun Military Tribunal presided over by a woman whose husband is overseeing the intelligence unit responsible for the tracking down and abduction of citizens of Ambazonia within and far beyond our national frontiers.  He is a prominent member of national security council whose secretary-general the criminal kingpin Atanga Nji was recently rewarded for his overzealousness and brutality in executing his criminal mandate against Ambazonians  by an appointment in a  cumulative position as a Minister of Territory Administration. The husband of the President of the Military Tribunal was a leading member of the criminal gang that in a joint operation with Nigeria intelligence operatives abducted the President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia His Excellency Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and members of his Interim Government on January 5, 2018 in Abuja Nigeria.  That operation provided the very hitherto election cash-strapped Mohammadu Buhari the money which he is relying on to seek re-election in 2019.

A system of justice where the husband abducts, murders victims and brings others before a court-martial presided over by his wife, is undoubtedly an instrument of criminality.  A system of justice where criminals preside over the destiny of the victims of their crimes must be condemned and the criminals overseeing it held accountable for their crimes. Ambazonia must define the enemy to include this justice system and the justice mechanism mandated to execute the criminal agenda and the enforcement of the international crimes committed within and out of the territory of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia against the citizens of Ambazonia. The judicial officers enforcing this system are as culpable as colonial Divisional Officers, Gendarmes, Soldiers, Policemen, infiltrators, collaborators and all those supporting or contributing to the war efforts of the enemy against the people and territory of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia. The CPDM has long been classified as a terrorist organization in the territory of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and banned. The Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia banned elections organized by the colonial regime of French Cameroun on the territory of Ambazonia and all citizens of Ambazonia put on notice. The free movement of officials of the colonial government within the territory of Ambazonia should be banned.  Schools within the territory of Ambazonia were closed to protect Ambazonia’s core educational values but also to protect our girls from rape, and abduction for ritual murders by French Cameroons operatives and their masters. Like all responsible governments, the Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia expects these sensible orders aimed at protecting its territory and people to be scrupulously observed.  There is a war within the territory of Ambazonia and measures aimed at protecting our people and territory must be respected. The liberation of the entire of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia is the duty of all citizens.

Cameroon Concord News applauds the delivery of food and medical supplies to our refugees in Nigeria by the Interim Government and its continuing efforts to unite all our fighting forces to assure the liberation of our territory and protection of our territory.  The sharing of intelligence, strategy and operational support among our fighting forces is very important for our liberation.  Cameroon Concord News and its sister publications strongly condemns the personification of our liberation struggle. That unprecedented conduct is a recipe for failure and must be condemned.  A defense system and strategy build around an individual aided by visionless bloggers conflating the dissemination of credible information with infantile opinions cannot win this war. The focus must be our fighting forces in ground zero and the operational, intelligence, disciplinary, policy, tactical and strategic structures overseeing the prosecution of the war. That focus is being distracted by individual some over-bloated egos and an exaggerated operational and command capabilities from regions of the world far removed from the theatre of military operations. Cameroon Concord News strongly condemns this personification our war efforts. This conduct paints the struggle in bad light, complicates and jeopardizes field operations in ground zero and endangers the lives of self defense forces.  It must stop.

Cameroon Concord News Group recognizes the right of the citizens of Ambazonia to take up arms to protect our people and territory and strongly supports the efforts of the Interim Government to unite all the defense forces for purposes of co-ordination, logistic supplies and the well-being of our fighting forces.

To this I Put My Name

Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Chairman, Editor-in-Chief


Southern Cameroons War: Large parts of Akwaya under Manyu Ghost Warriors control

11, April 2018

Southern Cameroons War: Large parts of Akwaya under Manyu Ghost Warriors control 0

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


Battle for Ambazonia: Bodies of French Cameroun soldiers secretly dumped in the River Manyu

11, April 2018

Battle for Ambazonia: Bodies of French Cameroun soldiers secretly dumped in the River Manyu 0

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


At least 257 dead after military plane crash in Algeria

11, April 2018

At least 257 dead after military plane crash in Algeria 0

At least 257 people have died after a military plane crashed in northern Algeria, the defence ministry says.

The incident happened shortly after the aircraft took off from Boufarik military airport near the capital Algiers in the morning.

Most of the dead are army personnel and their families, according to the defence ministry. Ten crew members were also killed.

It is not yet clear what caused the crash.

The army’s chief of staff has ordered an investigation into the crash and will visit the scene.

It is the deadliest plane crash since July 2014, when all 298 people on board Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 died when it was shot down over eastern Ukraine.

It is also the second-deadliest plane crash since 2003.

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The authorities are working to identify remains of those killed. Footage from the scene shows smoke coming off wreckage in a field.

The plane, an Ilyushin Il-76, was travelling to Bechar in the south-west of the country.

Among the dead are said to be 26 members of the Polisario Front, seeking independence from Morocco for Western Sahara and supported by Algeria.

Four years ago a plane carrying military personnel and family members crashed in Algeria, killing 77 people.

 

Source: BBC


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