Cameroonian President Paul Biya held talks in Yaounde with a special adviser to Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré on a range of issues which included health and security.

According to a statement from the presidency, Biya and Thierry Hot spoke about security, fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and governance.

Burkina Faso and Cameroon have their own security challenges with the insecurity in both countries resulting in the deaths of thousands of people and the displacement of thousands of others.

Burkina Faso has been struggling with jihadist violence since 2015 which has resulted in the killings of several people. Christian religious leaders and Muslim religious leaders, whom jihadists do not consider radical enough, are targeted by the extremists.

Cameroon, meanwhile, has been embroiled in conflict since 2017 when separatists from the Anglophone regions sought to form a breakaway state called Ambazonia.

As regards COVID-19, Cameroon has recorded 18,662 confirmed cases and 408 deaths while Burkina Faso has reported significantly less with 1,338 cases and 55 deaths, according to the Africa CDC.

Hot, who spoke to journalists after the meeting, said: “We are sharing experiences of good practices in those sectors.”

Hot said there was a coming together of views between the administrations of both countries. He added that the convergence reflected the excellent relations the two countries enjoyed.

Source: Africa.cgtn

The Southern Cameroons Interim Government has accused La Republique du Cameroun and its leadership of seeking continues bloodshed over Yaounde’s recent plan of building refugee makeshift camps in Eyumojok to transfer Ambazonian refugee from neighboring Nigeria into them.

Vice President Dabney Yerima informed the Southern Cameroons war cabinet late on Monday that Ambazonia Intelligence Services are already carrying out an investigation and that any attempt by the French Cameroun governor to visit Ambazonia refugees in Nigeria’s Cross River State will be met with a stonewall.

Dabney Yerima said the French Cameroun regime is presently putting Southern Cameroons refugees in Nigeria under immense pressure to return to the war ravaged territory. The exiled Southern Cameroons leader further noted that it is impossible to force the Ambazonian populations that flee to Cross River and Taraba States in Nigeria to return to Southern Cameroons.

Yerima stated that due to the severe escalation in the armed conflict in the Southern Cameroons and gross human rights abuses registered on a daily basis with women and children bearing the brunt, the Southern Cameroons Interim Government will take part in the International Conference on the armed conflict in Southern Cameroons to hold from October 30 to November 1 in the United States.  

By Chi Prudence Asong

One of the pioneers of the Manyu Liberation Council has roundly denounced Southern Cameroons CPDM officials who are presently cooperating with the Biya French Cameroun regime saying such Ambazonians are complicit in the Yaounde regime’s crimes against the Ambazonian nation.

Seseskou Dr Ako Peter also stated that Southern Cameroons traditional authorities supporting the Yaounde regime are indeed partners in crimes against the Ambazonian people. The senior Manyu figure made the comments in a telephone conversation with Cameroon Concord News late on Sunday.

He also censured efforts by French Cameroun administrative officers to portray a good image of the ruling CPDM crime syndicate, emphasizing that Southern Cameroons villages who still welcome Francophone DOs and SDOs on lame and ridiculous reasons that they wish to resolve chieftaincy issues are actually turning a blind eye to facts, and telling lies in a bid to justify their corrupt mindsets.

“The French Cameroun regime became strong by destroying the Southern Cameroons House of Chiefs and shattering our Southern Cameroons traditional institutions through appointing the wrong persons as chiefs and killing innocent Southern Cameroonians. Biya and his French Cameroun regime remain the worst enemy of the Ambazonian nation, and has been sinister, destructive and dubious in its relationship with the Federal Republic of Ambazonia” Seseskou Dr Ako Peter pointed out.

He said that French Cameroun political elites before and after Biya only think of exploiting the people and resources of Ambazonia.

By Chi Prudence Asong with files from Soter Agbaw-Ebai

The Southern Cameroons Interim Government has warmed that French Cameroun dictator will pay the price for declaring a war against the people of Ambazonia.

In a televised address to Southern Cameroonians last week, Vice President Dabney Yerima said that the French Cameroun regime and its corrupt leadership must bear the consequences and pay the price for the continued killings going on in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.

“Over the last three weeks, the barbarisms of the French Cameroun Army and the regime in Yaoundé have been laid bare and the world is witnessing again the unpleasant side of the Yaoundé neo-colonial regime. The past few weeks are a clear sign of its utter desperation in the full realization that our people have decisively rejected annexation and colonial bondage for good. I come to you today on the 34th anniversary of the Lake Nyos disaster to speak of the tragic loss and devastation the Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia) has faced over the last three weeks” Yerima observed.

British Southern Cameroons, home to some eight million people, has been under a Biya French Cameroun imposed war for over four years now which has caused a catastrophic decline in the living standards as well as unprecedented levels of unemployment and unrelenting poverty there.

Vice President Yerima revealed that “On 7 August 2020, a staff of COMINSUD, an implementing partner for several United Nations agencies, was kidnapped from his home and later killed by unidentified armed individuals. On 11 August 2020, an unacceptable and despicable video circulated on social media of the slaughter of a woman in Muyuka. Upon close scrutiny, Ambazonia Intelligence Services identified that the perpetrators spoke with French Cameroun accents.”

“On Wednesday, 12 August 2020, three Southern Cameroonian minors were murdered in their gardens as they hunted for snails by French Cameroun prowling forces.  A lawyer commissioned to ascertain the facts surrounding their murder was unlawfully arrested, harassed, detained for two nights. French Cameroun lawless forces continued their genocidal campaign by invading the village of Mautu, in Fako County on 13 August 2020, slaughtered over 30 civilians and recorded themselves dragging the lifeless body of a young man along the streets” the exiled Ambazonia leader furthered.

The Cameroon government army has also launched major operations against Southern Cameroonians residing in the rural areas, killing thousands of Ambazonians each time and shattering the impoverished territory’s already poor infrastructure.

Yerima noted that “Paul Biya and his minions have committed every crime under the sun. Over the last three weeks, we have been reminded of Paul Biya’s atrocities by the hideous execution of a woman in Muyuka, the murder of three children in Tiko, the abduction and brutal execution of four men in Bafut, the massacre in Mautu, the burning of villages in Ikata, the murders in Ndop and the dragging of the body of a slayed young man on the road. These genocidal crimes were committed by Biya’s tribal army and their proxies.”

Ever since the UN Security Council called for an international ceasefire to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, the French Cameroun war machine has been pounding different Southern Cameroons counties through artillery fire and claiming that the military operations were mainly targeting the so-called separatists.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai