Month: October 2024

Ambazonia Consultative Commission’s Crisis Plan – Still pending but…

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In a previous post we promised to post the CC’s Crisis plan for Ambazonia [ and La République Citizens] in the [imminent] event a downward spiral in La République du Cameroun.

Since that post, there have been more pointers from La République du Cameroun.

There are now at least two videos of deliberately recorded footage by La République du Cameroun’s “Secret Services” torturing people who are in no way political threats to Mr Biya; and posted on social media. This could be some inept attempt to instil fear in the populace but, if so, it only shows that the regime has nothing to lose. If that is not the aim, it would indicate, rather further confirm the regime’s increasing loss of control over its machinery.

In Mr Biya’s home region, there was open talk of a “federal state” in the Region du Sud where protesters complained about the shenanigans of Mr Biya’s close circle. In a state built on tribalistic actions this can only be an alarming indicator of the descent to chaos that the CC’s feared as they set about drawing up the Crisis Plan.

There is also anecdotal evidence that Mr Biya’s chefs de terre are profiling citizens in their areas since one of them has reportedly requested locals to report any “strangers”. “Allogenes” is actually a term in the lexicon of the so-called “les gouvernants” of La République du Cameroun. This is the word used to distinguish people “not from this tribal area”, used by the same people whose rhetoric includes phrases like “any Camerounian should be at home anywhere in Cameroun”.

Since the start of the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle the vast majority of people who would be quickly tagged as allogenes would be the so-called internally displaced – the people who have escaped the violence in Ambazonia and sought temporary “refuge” in La République du Cameroun.

Ambazonia News hopes the plan never gains any use and that the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle comes to be resolved through negotiation, but our aim is that, should the needs arise, all those caught up in any crisis would have had some forethought and would act in a more measured, considered and inherently safer way to mitigate any risks to their physical safety.

Read the very rough draft here – we will endeavour to post any further refinements of the plan.

Longue Longue and Sir Elton John’s different experiences : two-tier CW

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The legacy of slavery is vastly underestimated. Almost every behaviour of populations around the planet owes some psychological of engrained idea from the centuries of slavery and colonialism.

Some campaigners think that there should reparations from the beneficiaries to the  victims. While there is no denying there are victims, for most of the population of the world are victims even today, it is still a big call to decide who should “accept” any reparations, never mind what would constitute reparations.

In the world where capitalism has won it would be relatively simplistic, actually just plain simplistic, to attempt to place a value on what adequate reparations should be.

Having said, the foregoing, it is worth noting that reparations were agreed way back when slavery was “abolished”.  Relatively recently the British Government finished paying “reparations” to the descendants and estates of former slave owners, perversely using tax money which included victims’ descendants’ contributions! The argument about the appropriateness of reparations is spurious and the British establishment is somehow hoping to get by on their “authority and integrity” or the elusive “British sense of fair play”.

This writer is of the opinion that the value of “reparations” for the evil of slavery is infinite for the enduring effects it has had and continues to have. That the final “reparations” paid to slave owners and their descendants were so recent that the source of those payments included taxes from [descendants of] victims of  slavery says something about the offenders’ values than the victims. Tragically, they were able to determine financial values for the lives of the people those paragons of British Imperial society held as property.  For the victims it is impossible to place a value on the reparations that must be paid, or decide where the reparations show be spent. The worst aspect of it is the idea that reparations could be  the end of the story, so maybe it is better to keep learning lessons, but while learning those lessons, the West needs to stop operating proxy colonies to continue to practice latent slavery.

Today the trade which allowed human beings to uproot other human beings from the homes and transport them to “lives” as property and being valued less that beasts of burden persist on a daily basis as psychologically broken populations of the world take perilous journeys on their own effort, attempting to gain self-imposed status as slaves in the lands of the people who first built their economies and empires literally from the blood and toil of their [today’s self-transporting slaves] forebears.

They borrow all they can to fund the perverse new trade where todays slavers trade in boats and the ultimate culprits somehow “don’t” know how to defeat the traders.

Reality is that the boats and commerce can be traced very easily and halted if anyone really wanted to halt it, but today’s declining empires, despite their protestations still need the free labour that immigrants bring. It is more and more obvious that the declaration of human rights so often cited is only for the humans it was for when it was first made with many slaves still in captivity.

The King said “lessons should be learnt”, speaking at a gathering of Commonwealth Heads of Government.  The lessons we learn from the Commonwealth do include the obvious one that “good governance and human rights” are only for the white parts of the club.  The established pattern is that human rights abuses and corruption are tolerated in many “less white” Commonwealth member countries. This reinforces the idea that those privileges are only for the people the human rights declarations were meant to benefit, for during those declarations and  afterwards and onto today, the black populations can be spared to be tortured or abused and the Commonwealth declares those abuses tolerable and measures “progress” towards democracy.

In La République du Cameroun one of the best artists was recently humiliated when the secret service published footage of him being tortured in the same week when the nominal head of government of La République du Cameroun, Joseph Dion Ngute is attending the CHOGM. As LRC is a black country, that does not matter much.  So in Britain, Elton John got a knighthood and became Sir Elton John as he should, but in the darker end of the Commonwealth in 2024 his counterparts and frightened for their lives. Longue Longue is that victim.

Nor is the obvious link between such poor governance and the migrant boats so obscure. It is only common sense that better just societies around the world would drastically cut the numbers of people who fee compelled to travel thousands of miles in search of better economic opportunities even when they are elusive in reality. Instead, the King is literally patronising crooks and tyrants while asking for lessons to be learnt, by who we cannot tell.

It has been eight years now since La Republique du Cameroun has been actively killing youths in Southern Cameroons who are suspected of being separatists. Resident slaves from that territory many of who would dearly like to vacate Britain and reduce the migrant crisis, have been to the Commonwealth Secretariat to count on the club’s “values and objectives” and met with no support.

Meanwhile the head of the club has been to pose with dictator Paul Biya and receive gifts. When leaving afterwards, they applaud he progress that La Republic du Cameroun is making towards democracy! A veritable slap in the face for all those people who used to be subjects of the Queen in  British Southern Cameroons.

What lessons should they learn?

The club is expanding. The neighbouring dictatorship to La Republique du Cameroon, despite being a French colony, with no colonial link to Britain, is progressing, no pun intended, towards membership of the Commonwealth. Their citizens could be forgiven, if on reading the CW charter, their imagined their lives were about to improve.

Lessons should be learnt!

The King is right about lessons and not attempting reparations. In the current world system any reparations would go in a few pockets and end up in back in European banks.

The lesson to lean is to improve the governance in the south so that more of them stay at home. But where would that leave the NHS and other western health systems? Slavery has  not gone yet! It is not time to talk reparations even if an appropriate magnitude could be ventured.

Biya’s “triumphant return” fails to sooth Ambazonia Consultative Commission.

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In the last few weeks fevered speculation in La République du Cameroun has outpaced their poor functionaries as they appeared to know so little about their domain.

Mr Biya’s close circle had tried to let it be “understood” that he was maintaining a “presidential silence” but that he was “fighting fit”. Eventually his ministers had to “insist” on being “trusted” that Mr Biya was “not fighting for his life”. That did not work so they upped the ante by issuing a ban on free thought – well expressing free thought anyway. At the risk of experiencing a SED “exploitation”, all expressions of concern for the health of the 91-year old weakling were prohibited.

That helped divert the speculation among ardent RDPC militants. The rest of it was an intimidation too many. A cry-wolf, which fuelled the frenzy as many found ways to explain the things that were banned and talk about the role France could play, drawing from the French record of dynastic transitions in other French colonies in Africa.

Among Ambazonians, the Consultative Commission had time to think about the consequences of the inevitable crisis brewing in La République du Cameroun as pertains to the effects it might have on Ambazonia and Ambazonians.

Ambazonia News understands a draft of the plan is in the offing over the weekend.

We invite all Ambazonians to look out for it as, we are led to believe, it contains many sensible actions and paths to follow in the event of different occurrences when nature finally wins.

With the international community explicitly issuing warnings and the inept officials of La République du Cameroun showing how far out of their depths they are … it is truer than ever that “nobody is at home” in our neighbours’ house. Ambazonia needs pray and hope someone turns up soon so that a durable peace can be negotiated.

Italy warns against doing business in La République du Cameroun

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Cameroun’s Confabulations On Normalcy in Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia Get BUSTED and SANCTIONED By The Italian Government : 25% OF CAMEROUN’S ANNUAL GDP AT RISK

Italy is finally discovering Cameroun’s long-lasting deceit on political, economic, and social normalcy in Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia amidst the ongoing 7 year Cameroun-Ambazonia War declared by the octogenarian dictator Paul Biya of Cameroun.

On October 22nd, 2024, in a press conference at Palazzo Chigi in Rome, the Italian Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr. Matteo Piantedosi officially declared Cameroun as an INSECURE nation, in line with the Italian legislative decree approved by the council of ministers, on “urgent provisions on procedures for the recognition of international protection” of the political, economic and social integrity of Italian citizens and businesses.

Such outstanding political statements are fruits of persistent silent diplomacy and are aimed at alerting the Italian government, Italian multinationals, Italian citizens and governments of other sovereign nations on the potential risk of life and the current high risk of investments in Cameroun. This Italian government move is an indirect economic sanction that will jeopardize the political, economic and social credibility of the Cameroun genocidal regime at the international level, with regards to her confabulations on the subsistence of political, economic and social stability, as well as further cripple Cameroun’s economy as no Italian citizen or multinational will willingly engage in tourism or trade deals or invest in an insecure country.

It is worth noting that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), which accounts for around 15% of Cameroun’s GDP, has experienced a 16.6% decrease since 2020. Also, most of the FDI to Cameroun comes from China (70%) and 30% from the European Union, particularly France, Germany and UK, and targets the mining industry, including oil extraction. A reduction of FDI from Italy and other nations will for sure shatter the Cameroun government’s attempts to deny the current devastating political, economic, and social instability that is secondary to the 7 year Cameroun-Ambazonia war.

Also, between 2019 and 2022, tourism accounted for almost 10% of Cameroun’s annual GDP, with about 30% of inbound arrivals from 5 nations (France 11%, Belgium 6.5%, UK 5.5%, USA 4.5% and Germany 2.5%) and 70% from the rest of the world.

By implication therefore, any foreign government position that directly or indirectly discourages tourism (10% of Cameroon’s GDP) and investment (15% of Cameroon’s GDP) in Cameroon, like the official announcement of the removal of Cameroun from the list of safe countries by the Italian government, will put at risk 25% of Cameroun’s annual GDP.

Italy is not the first to break cover on the true level of trust-worthiness of La République du Cameroun. The US issued protected status to refugees from Cameroun and Canada, even if they have not formally broken cover, were (im)famously in a diplomatic spat over the pre-talks spat when La République du Cameroun’s “les governants” royally stepped in it by rubbishing non-other than Canada’s head of diplomacy, the Minister in charge of Global Affairs Canada. For memory, Monsieur Rene Sadi issued a communique accusing her of making up the pre-talks episode. The warning from Italy will obviously resound even outside Italian business circles and will undoubtedly exacerbate La République du Cameroun’s woes at a time when they need sardine money to rig 2025.

To add to the Italian warning, Ambazonian Independentists are studying the spate of sales illegal of lands from the CDC estate by Okalia Bilai’s cronies. Any such “investors” should know that no La République du Cameroun functionary has any authority to sell any land in Ambazonia, and should take their business risks with the full knowledge that The Federal Republic of Ambazonia will be consolidating all Ambazonian resources.

The Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia appreciates the efforts of the Italian government in this tactical indirect sanctioning and the efforts of international humanitarian organizations like Human Rights Watch (HRW) in reporting Cameroun’s crimes against humanity. In line with the DARING MOVE prescription for priority execution of impactful and significant destruction on the economy of invading Cameroun in the prosecution of the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle, The Interim Government solemnly calls on the Ambazonian diaspora not to relent in their advocacy, support to our ARF+ and diplomatic efforts in their respective resident countries, geared towards exposing the gruesome crimes against humanity perpetrated by the invading Cameroun military on vulnerable Ambazonian civilians.

Ambazonia will undoubtedly triumph as an Independent and Sovereign Nation as barbaric La République du Cameroun bleeds tears over an Amba-induced crumbling economy.

Mid-Eastern Peace Mission meets Pope – Sadly not for Ambazonia yet

Olmert and Al-Kidwa meet Francis, bring their peace plan for Israel and Palestine

The above is a link to an article on AsiaNews.it by by Giorgio Bernardelli
It is a report on an Israeli-Palestinian delegation which met Pope Francis on 17th October 2024 to propose a plan for peace between Israel and Palestine. The delegation included former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert.

Ambazonia News can recommend a visit to read the report on AsiaNews.it

A more-detailed-looking article appears in Vatican News website with more images of the meeting – not in English.

https://www.vaticannews.va/sl/papez/news/2024-10/pri-papezu-olmert-in-al-kidva-pogovori-o-mirovnem-nacrtu.html

Ambazonia News looks forward one day to Ambazonia being the subject of similar meetings.

Constitutional Vacancy in La République du Cameroun.

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Today Friday 18th October 2024 is day 46 of Mr Biya’s absence from his office in Yaounde.

As he is “not” ill, he has no reasons, not to say excuses, for being away from his “constitutional workplace” for this long without justification. Mr Biya is deemed to have resigned his post by abandoning it…

“In the event of a temporary impediment, the President of the Republic shall instruct the Prime Minister or, if the Prime Minister is unable to attend, another member of the Government, to carry out some of his functions, in the case of an express delegation.”

He is not ill as per the 8th October Communique from his Chief of Staff, just to be clear so the 45 day limit is applicable – at least to be considered as unreasonable for anyone to be absent from their workplace without justification.

While the same communique may have claimed he was doing his job, article 8(1) defines his work place as the presidency in Yaounde, primarily, or other justifiable locations within La République du Cameroun. He certainly could not do his routine job overseas. Non-routine parts of his job would be diplomatic aspects – and nothing like being cloistered in secret in a Swiss hotel.

Certain minsters have been quick to say that there is no actual time limit at which the vacancy would be triggered but Mr Biya’s habits would have lead him to try to make it back within the disputed limit. That eh did not suggests bigger considerations than any argument about the time limits not being defined.

What should happen now?

The Constitutional Council should notice, having been  been made to notice the vacancy [called resignation, if he has abandoned his place of work and his job] by the Speaker of the Lower House, and they should act to address it as by passing the torch to his constitutional heir…

That constitutional heir would be the speaker of the senate Niat Njifenji, who, sadly is in no state to step in as he is off for treatment in Europe. His vice-speaker should step in …

Quickly, it is clear that there are just too many improvisations to be called into play if the CC were to do its job. It is exactly the sort situations where the French have been known to step in to “help” and everyone can guess their “advice”.

As it happens, if the vacancy is not noticed, Barrister Tamfu has petitioned the Speaker of the Assembly to ensure he notices the vacancy and seizes the Constitutional Council.

All of the foregoing has built-in loop holes. For one thing, all the players in the chain are appointees of Mr Biya and are very unlikely to play their parts to discard him.  The speaker will wait as long as possible, giving the Constitutional Council all that time to wait, before they wait again as they “deliberate”. The upshot, Ambazonia News surmises is that this law, even in spirit, is only for the poor, like most La République du Cameroun laws.

Mr Biya’s fall will, in the end, not come directly from the law. Had he been in any position to circumvent it he would have tried to get back just in time to avoid the criticism – at least avoid his lackeys having to defend his position in front of the international community.  That he has not does not bode well for his basic functional health, rendering the “debate” about 45 days and any semantice and technicalities completely moot given his is very unlikely to be able to evcen contin ue to issue “high instructions” having failed to show himself “capable”.  “His” [Mr Biya’s] dubious tenure has seen him burn bridges in the diplomatic arena, for instance with Switzerland and Canada most reccently, both of whom “he” duped into fools’ errands  over the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle. To recall, he lead these two partner nations down the garden path of playing at “negotiations” before publicly disowning their statements. In the case of Canada, it was Global Affairs Canada’s head, the Minster of Foreign Affairs for Canada,  who was disowned summarily contracdicted, having been misled to publicly announce dealings known as Pre-Talks between La Republique and Ambazonia. If La République du Cameroun had dispatched a functionary to slap her in the face that could not have been more offensive.

In Switzerland’s case, La Republique du Cameroun allowed a peripheral “opposition” minister delegate to issue an op-ed claiming Mr Biya was a genius for dribbling the international community away from sanctions. An admission of the genocidal crimes coupled with offending international partners – quite apart from the establishment of a reputation as unreliable. 

These two are only the overt players in the scene and, as is the way of international partners, there will be others whose bridges were torched less publicly in the same, or related episodes.

Ambazonia News brings these examples to show that “dirty launders” of the vacancy could not have come at a worse time – the lowest ebb of “trust”.  The secondary losses will fall on France who will have to further break cover when the try to crown their preferred “dauphin”, if their shenanigans in other French colonies is to be engaged again. Their standing in region is already tenuous and with the capital they have deployed in supporting La République du Cameroun’s genocidal war against Ambazonia they will need to have a lot of credit to burn, or a colossal amount to gain, to risk the attempt of a coronation in La République du Cameroun. If they do not line up their ducks, they will come unstuck especially in a theatre already primed and ready for exploitation by any disgruntled frenemies.

As Ambazonia News conjectured on the eve of expiry of the 45-day “understanding”, it does not matter  much whether Mr Biya returns or not and there is hardly any credit to be had for dying in service, given that he has never been in service and would likely have died showing his disdain for the country he was claiming to serve – frequenting a foreign health facility for his own failure ro cause the creation of one within “his” country, which fellow citizens could benefit from as part of his legacy.   Instead, he would be shown to have chosen to lavish resources on himself and his cronies while leaving abject poverty, incompetence, ineptitude and anarchy as his legacy.

His name would be “mud” so the French would have their work cut out to sustain a dynastic transition.

It will be intriguing to see how it unfolds in the next few days and weeks and months.

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Paul Biya: La Republique du Cameroun goes too far again!

As these words are committed Mr Biya is spending his 44th day outside of Yaounde and Cameroun. In order not to fall foul of his constitution, he needs to return by Thursday 17th October 2024. But that is still not the end of it nor should it be. To be clear Ambazonia News couldn’t be less concerned with the functioning of Cameroun in any aspects that do not concern Ambazonia. Their constitution clearly does not concern Ambazonia in whether it is respected or abused. Whatever mechanisms and technicalities are used to help Mr Biya “comply”, will do no more than kick the can beyond the end of the road. It would not be outlandish to see a blinded vehicle driven through Yaounde with the insistence that the contents are Mr Biya’s “resting a recuperating” personification of bravery and service for returning in time to avoid depriving La République du Cameroun of his service. Some idle people would them bite into the futile “debate” of a back-and-forth of whether it is actually him or whether he is alive…

The question for any thinking person would be whether it matters whether Mr Biya returns dead or alive. The answer would be “No”. He is in no state to run a bath, never mind any country. He has not been for a long time – which begs the question why is he hanging on? Is he covering while some forces manipulate in the background or is he actually convinced that he is serving La République du Cameroun, or even that he has ever served? The answers would be a guess as he is notoriously slot-like in avoiding any kind of effort. It is questionable whether he has ever read any paper or had any discussion or thought in the last at least twenty years. Many incredulous Camerounese like to make excuses for him, claiming that the corruption and ineptitude could not be visible to him or he would act against it! Ambazonia News would be of the editorial view that if he were alive and serving La République at any stage he would have noticed even by mistake. Clearly he has been seen alive all these years and that means he has not been serving – certainly cannot claim to have been serving. Instead, he lets others insist he is and that he is serving so well La République du Cameroun would be lost without him! They are strange people. If he has been alive and alert the only conclusion would be that he despises La République du Cameroun, proof being that he avoids any stays there, basing his itinerary on the need to avoid the 45 days out that would require him to have to justify the unjustifiable. That constitutional unjustifiable is actually minor for La République du Cameroun as they would go out of their way to find their own justification for such a great and irreplaceable servant, without whom they would be lost.

The more difficult justification would be the office-sitting he has done so many years when he clearly hates the country! What is the proof that he hates the country? He is about to die out the country getting “rest and recuperation” abroad because there is literally no health facility in La République du Cameroun, either for him to have that “rest and recuperation” or any of his, illogically, grateful acolytes to be treated for the most mundane ailment. That after so many years of “serving” La République du Cameroun. He hates it there and had remain as a block on the futures of youth of La République du Cameroun. Why?

Does La République need him back whether dead or live? Does it matter? In view of his actions and attitudes during his tenuous tenure it is arguable that the former state would be preferable and more beneficial to La République du Cameroun as the block would disappear and Camerounese would finally start looking forward and be forced to replace the irreplaceable. Some common sense and stability in La République du Cameroun and the advent of a leader could lead to a faster acceptance that Ambazonia and La République need to chart their separate paths. Anyone serving the country would not keep dispatching the poor citizens’ children to die trying to kill Ambazonians in a completely futile attempt to prolong and preserve an illegal and forceful occupation of Ambazonia.

He does not have to return. He can remain where he likes to be but the irrationally child-likely helpless Camerounese would have to stand on their own two feet.

So Mr Biya, you have nothing more to prove. Go [stay away] for pity’s sake! Camerounese have never offended or wronged you, have they? Let them fledge! Please!

Consultative Commission Rejects Canada “Conference”

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The Consultative Commission, which groups a wide cross section of Ambazonian Independentist Groups has issued a withdrawal of consent to the organiser of a would-be Ambazonian conference in Canada.

After updating Leaders in a recent meeting the CC issue a press release reflecting the view of the Leaders.

The organisers have postponed the conference and may come back with some answers but the gap, Ambazonia News understands, was unbridgeable.

Read the press release here

CC Press release of 7th October 2024.

Canada the Sequel: Sequels never better the original!

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Ambazonians and the international community know only too well the lengths to which La République du Cameroun will go to avoid the genuine and inevitable solution of the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle. As they contend with “other fish” just now, another supposed Ambazonian saviour conference is in the offing, once again in Canada! The new acronym is PRAP, which might be a witty rhyme with what it represents, on closer inspection! Luckily the Consultative Commission has rejected it as “not meeting the minimum standards”.

Throughout the “crisis”, i.e. the current phase from 2016 onwards, La République du Cameroun has realised how untenable their position actually is.

Despite HCB29/92, La République du Cameroun got away with “ignoring” the grievances and counting on the international community’s inertia to continue to “forcefully and illegally occupy” Ambazonia. It could be argued that they did not take the ruling seriously, mistaking the said inertia for support of their position. They failed to note that the international community sticks to “reality” until there is a compelling reason to switch. The reality that La République du Cameroun was entrenched in Ambazonia did not mean that the entrenchment is legal. On the contrary, it was the case that “fingers remained crossed” so that the crisis would remain legal rather than violent. Unfortunately, La République du Cameroun did not figure this out until they had unleashed the violence that would start the international community’s switch. In around 2017, slowly realising the actual importance of HCB28/92, La République du Cameroun found herself in a bind regarding her legal borders as attached to her name. For background the African charter defines borders as those acquired at independence. As such, LRC’s borders were acquired in 1960 a year before the “reunification” with Ambazonia (then British Southern Cameroons). “Reunification” was an important word as its used would justify aspects of LRC’s behaviour after the “joining”.  La République du Cameroun assumed they were getting territory back but the practicalities and expectations of international law were that it was a union of two equal-status states based on mutually exclusive consent. That is, any constitutional changes would have to have been agreed separately by both states before they could proceed. The Federal Republic should not have been altered without the separate approvals of both states. Still the reality was that La République du Cameroun was entrenched so  they “got away with it” – until 1984 when they continued the “consolidation” too far and were challenged by Gorji Dinka, who won in the HCB 28/92 ruling. Even then, La République du Cameroun still continued to get away with it because the “protest” did not have enough mass and, hence, “the reality” was that La République du Cameroun could dictate.

In 2016 when assimilation was choking, La République du Cameroun miscalculated. The “wrong teachers lawyers” could simply have been withdrawn with minimal impedance to the assimilation but impatience got the better. OK, the phenomenon of “social media” also enabled the propagation of the information about grievances, but a slow down with some semblance of acceptance of the validity of the protests would have maintained some of the “reality”, giving La République du Cameroun “time”. La République du Cameroun tried to row back on the wrong aspects, for instance toying with the idea of undoing the name change. For a time, the name “United Republic of Cameroon” re-emerged, as anyone booking flights may have found, before fading away again, probably as La République realised that La République had not legal standing to include Ambazonia in any name changes, having effectively seceded in 1984.

 La République du Cameroun has been playing for time in a simpler but also less effective way. They hope that the momentum of the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle would subside and they would co-opt enough “elites” to return to “tolerable reality”.  While waiting, they engaged in some distractions which would, they hoped, fracture the Ambazonian Liberation Movement and aid that subsidence of momentum.  They find peripheral figures from the movement or from the “elites” and engage international partners to basically flatter them,  hoping that they will be pacified by the mere stroke of being engaged. In the two previous episodes, it appears the international partners may not have been in the know about La République du Cameroun’s intentions and aims. GAC clearly were acting in good faith believing La République du Cameroun was in earnest, until the unceremonious undiplomatic “communiques”.

La République du Cameroun has now refined their method, somehow and are now repeating the scheme in “Canada, The Sequel”. New “elites” presented and the international “partner” on the end of the dangle is the Vatican, this time, as a remote future fig-leaf.  They will just have far less “important/impressive” international “coordinators” and even La République du Cameroun is more remote. The “elites” actually straight-facedly argue that Ambazonia should create peace plan – not too controversial for La République du Cameroun – and submit it [to La République du Cameroun], who will, hopefully, accept it as a basis for negotiations. They argue that omitting “independence” from the plan would help make it less unpalatable for La République du Cameroun. They also “assure” that “devolution” [how is that different from Special status, or outside La République du Cameroun control] would be a palatable word! Playing for time at its best!

First, they [La République du Cameroun] encouraged Switzerland to host the “Swiss Process” then chickened out at the last minute. “Chicken-out” is wrong, considering the aim was never to negotiate.

Enter “Canadian Facilitation Process” and a host of meetings. GAC published what they assumed was an agreed route out of the “Process”. La République du Cameroun publicly disavowed Canada.

So what did La République du Cameroun want? To play for time. They did not even play along with the flaw in the GAC’s published proposal whereby the “crisis” would have been treated as an internal problem – which could be solved through internal reforms, such as the joke “special status” dangle. Many Ambazonians made it clear they did not accept that implicit assumption and were relieved to be vindicated when La République du Cameroun took the matches to their diplomatic bridges!

Jean de Dieu Mommo, the “opposition” minister at Cameroun’s ministry of justice published a ludicrous “analysis” to say that Mr Biya was a “clever Leader” for dribbling the international community to avoid sanctions. He said nothing of the embarrassment La République du Cameroun had accrued for the international community, notably Canada in that debacle.

This month, October 2024, La République du Cameroun has deployed proxies again in a sequel to Canada!

This time they are dangling the prospect of a “meeting in the Vatican” where a “peace plan” would be discussed. Only, with straight faces, the puppets, some of whom are from the college of bishops of La République du Cameroun and peripheral figures who were once in the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle in various capacities, are contorting to describe the sequel as an opportunity for “devolution”.

Without having embarked on a trip to Damascus, they seem to have come across the “burning bush” somehow! So ignoring previous failures in  La République du Cameroun schemes, the gullible or disingenuous are hoping to sell the lesser idea to a people who have endured many more atrocities. Their clever method is  that Ambazonians should meet on their own and draw up a supplicants’ list of “requests” to submit to La République du Cameroun, who may “grant” a “negotiation”. The “puppets” warn that La République du Cameroun may “reject negotiation” if Ambazonians mention independence! So PRAP is busy crafting semantics to sign up for devolution, in whose name we don’t know! We know much less how they hope to implement their schemes. They recommend avoiding mention of “Independence” for fear that “The President” may reject the “Peace Plan”. La République has summoned and jailed anyone mentioning the word “federation” and now a group claiming to be “Ambazonians” have determined that “devolution” is the keyword likely to be acceptable … to the people they hope to negotiate with!

Actually we do know what is going on and it is the same as was going on from the Swiss Process through the Canadian Facilitation. JDDM did not know but was nearly right, La République du Cameroun had no intention to negotiate then, nor do they now. What they desperately want is to play for time and hope that the Liberation Struggle subsides. The likes of ICO are in this for their “consultancy fees” and can genuinely claim neutrality as they have no preference how the Liberation Struggle concludes.

The “Ambazonia-leaning puppets” want “peace” which La République du Cameroun calls “normalcy”. The bishops want to tend to their gullible flock, collecting offerings and consoling and promising a better life in the next life for the meek. They don’t  mind La République du Cameroun killing a few school children in Ambazonia. They are willing to demand that we must turn the other cheek and beg La République du Cameroun for devolution, careful not to use the word independence! Their accomplices such as DC don’t know what they want, unless the burning bush is on the way to Yaoundé!

The Legal and Moral Position

Having endured these years of atrocities, no Ambazonian will follow any carpet-bagger asking them to water down their aspirations to create a begging list to submit to La République du Cameroun! Yes they actually state that the “plan would be submitted to La République du Cameroun govt!”  It is not a moral position and will die a natural death under it own illogic, amorality and callousness.

La République du Cameroun being called La République du Cameroun means it has separate borders, set at their independence in 1960, to Ambazonia, whose borders were reset when La République du Cameroun revived in 1984,  and cannot grant any requests to Ambazonia! By sending those “requests” Ambazonian would be reversing their own strong position to that of a supplicant. This border protocol is in the African Charter.

La République du Cameroun also lost a case in HCB 28/92, establishing that they are illegal forceful occupiers of Ambazonia. They have nothing to grant to Ambazonia and no Ambazonian is going to submit a peace plan to them. We can discuss the route to peace as part of our formal separation process when La République du Cameroun is bound to cease the illegal forceful occupation.

Ambazonians should concentrate on consolidating their citizenship by running their own institutions no matter how small the process starts. Community schools need to be encouraged to implant the and nurture the dignity of having control separately from La République.  Ambazonian Independentists need to stick this this and communicate it clearly to International Partners as the people wish in their external self-determination.

Though Canada 2, and PRAP, will not succeed, further time-wasting schemes need to cease and that will happen when Ambazonia makes it clear – for instance through the resolutions of the Consultative Commission.

The proponents of PRAP, if they are in earnest, must be sincere and transparent. For their own sakes, they must consider the positions of all the parties they wish to “bring together” to solve the “crisis”. It is a non-starter to usurp the position of representative of one side and then, worse still to attempt to put words in their mouths, so contrary to their grievances for the purpose of draw up a plan, to which the other side has made no commitment. Even if they had, how could PRAP maintain a “neutral” position while deliberately attempting to “bargain away” Ambazonia’s position ahead of any negotiations?

Ambazonia News can only conclude that this is another in the playing-for-time schemes engineered from the opposite camp.