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As promised in a previous post, please find the link for final report of the Coordination Team of the Consultative Commission. It contains a foreword explain it origins and aims, followed by the findings.
The framework is under review by the various leaders and will be posted once it is passed.
A quick heads up from Ambazonia News to alert readers of the imminent release of the Consultative Commission’s twin documents: The Final Report and The Framework.
The Report sets out the findings of the Consultation which the Coordination Team carried out to establish the wishes of Ambazonia as well as the methods they were prepared to carry out those wishes to attain their freedom.
The Framework sets out the -well, framework for the Consultative Commission in its aim to progress the Liberation Struggle to a desirable end based on the Ambazonians’ whishes as found from the initial consultation. The various officers, offices and committees are set out in a transparent way.
The expectation is that the Framework will be formalized an imminent meeting of the majority of Ambazonian Independentists groups, many of whom have been working with, and had seconded representative onto the Coordination Team of the Consultative Commission.
Ambazonia News will post both documents for download in the nearest future.
We at Ambazonia News can describe these developments as further proof, if any were needed, that The Most High God is the Watchman of Ambazonia.
The Consultative Commission lived up to its name and held it first 2025 consultation in a Townhall on Saturday 1st of February.
Among clarifying and dispelling various misconceptions, the CC promised important milestones for the year 2025, the culmination of which would be the All-Ambazonia Conference. Among one of the questions was a keen-eyed contributor’s observation that the acronym was exactly the same AAC as the old AAC of Dr Munzu’s day.
The Commission clarified that the All-Ambazonia Conference is a conference of Ambazonians, by definition, those who implicitly, and more likely, explicitly, believe in Ambazonia’s external self-determination outside of the purview of La République du Cameroun, whereas the AAC of yore was about “anglophones” within the shadow La Republique du Cameroun. Recall that the last contributions from Dr Munzu on the Ambazonia Liberation Struggle was about some forlorn dream of a Federation to be negotiated “within” even though La Republique has been hard at work intimidating their own citizens for merely using the word “federation”. Even if there were a sizeable of “Ambazonians” still hoping for a federation with La République du Cameroun, the irony would be that Ambazonia need not worry about them as La Republique would not countenance any such “solution”.
Among the milestones Ambazonia News can list are Collaboration among Ambazonian Independentists and active upskilling in expertise to be in a better position for when negotiations come at the end of the Liberation Struggle, talking of which, another misconception that the Commission sought to dispel was the idea that the Commission was seeking to unilaterally represent Ambazonia in “imminent negotiations”. The Commission clarified that its work was to upskill, build-ridges between Ambazonians through consultations to ensure that when La Republique reaches the pinch point of a Mutually Harmful Stalemate, Ambazonian side would be “ready”, knowing what and how they wish to get from negotiations. The Commission will not represent Ambazonia without first consulting and getting their consent. In fact the Commission cannot seek to represent Ambazonia as it is not in its Terms of Reference to do any more than its current function of building bridges between, and upskilling with Ambazonian independentist groups.
Away from the Commission per se, other milestones include the Community Mobilization and Ambazonia National Reconciliation, which both show our resilience and growing maturity in first recognizing the need, and then seeking to address it. Ambazonia is here to stay as Ambazonians want it and are in charge of actualizing it.
On Community Mobilization, Ambazonia News would point the organizers toward the key role they can play, should they figure out the mechanics, in achieving the a real milestone in decolonization. Our people on G0 need to start being independent and one of the methods is to promote and implement Community Schools away from and independent of La République du Cameroun’s impositions. Were this to spread, La République du Cameroun would see any remaining vestiges of influence on Ambazonian soil evaporate even quicker than with the expulsion of their “poor-people’s children”
International partners will address Ambazonia directly and independently of La République du Cameroun. This is in the wake of Ambazonia winning the last two encounters in Switzerland and in Canada, by 2-0, where La République du Cameroun’s shambles and “lack of an adult at home” contrasted sharply with Ambazonia’s considered and mature showing at a time when the “international partners” were still inclined towards presenting the Liberation Struggle as a conflict “in Cameroon”.
The Most High God is constantly watching over us and guiding us towards our independence.
The motto is Optimism and Milestones to Reach.
Probably on the back of compliments about his other videos PRAP chairman has made another video – with many contradictions and utterly counter-productive.
The Ambazomian Liberation Struggle is in the phase of “unity and collaboration” where nearly every forum is replete with calls for unity among the diaspora leaders of T Struggle. Several groups are rightly engaged in attempts to achieve levels of unity and collaboration.
Normally a leader seeking to build consensus and create a wide base of support would:
Building a broad base and consensus is extremely important, if you are seeking to negotiate and wish to be seen as coming from a position of strength both by the nebulous International Community and the enemy, La République du Cameroun. This is exactly why Ambazonians in their wisdom are calling for collaboration and unity.
LRC has previously dismissed Ambazonia with “who would we talk to?” Hence the importance of building coalitions to not only project unity and strength but actually be unified and strong. This would work for Ambazonia even if La République du Cameroun fail to negotiate as it would lead to a better chance of victory even through actively expelling La République du Cameroun, and would certainly speed up the drive to get to the fabled Mutually Harmful Stalemate that would encourage the International Community to engage and intervene, to attempt a mediation.
Beyond the Liberation Struggle, it is also vital for nation-building, post-struggle, to have gained the experience of consensus building.
We at Ambazonia News hope that future interventions and videos will be in the vein of the afore-outlined scheme and for the afore-outlined reasons.
The video made by PRAP chairman on 4/12/24 was exactly the opposite of attempting to achieve unity and collaboration.
This is painful to write as no logical thought could have gone into creating the video, and certainly not into posting it, especially from a group lead by the chairman who boasts about setting up the units. What has changed so that he [or PRAP] thinks it will work to drop arms and appeal to La République du Cameroun to grant “devolution” and a referendum in five years? What is the secret? Judging by the last video the fourteen [members of APJ] may sanction another batch of personal insults but we hope instead that they will address the questions and try to persuade rather than intimidate.
The contradiction is that while PRAP are going all out to attract La République du Cameroun, they are unwilling to do the minimum to broaden their tent on the Ambazonian side!
Ambazonia will survive as she has all these years under the Watch of the Watchman of our Nation.
NAIVE could be the “National Ambazonian Illogical Vague Endeavours”. Thankfully nobody has named any group or platform such. PRAP may not be NAIVE by name by they are definite, by nature.
On Sunday 24th November they issued a second video insisting that the visit of the Isreaeli-Palestinian delegation, including former Israel PM, Ehud Olmert and former Palestinian foreign Minister Nasser Al-Kidwa was an ICO delegation which went to present PRAP’s PPP to the pope. Anyone who has landed from another planet and knows nothing about the year-long war raging between Israel and Palestine could, with a very unsophisticated search on any browser for “vatican news Ehud Olmert”, find the report of the Pope being presented with a peace plan for the Holy Land.
Ambazonia News first posted the URL to this story when PRAP posted their initial video with the said image claiming to have had partners visit the Vatican.
An exaggerated claim about an image is one thing, but the truly naive action is to call on self-defense forces in Ambazonia to lower their weapons as a way to “entice LRC” to the negotiation table” to “request devolution”. PRAP’s whizz is to “lure” La Republique du Cameroun to the table and request devolution, because “otherwise La Republique du Cameroun would refuse to negotiate”. So La Republique du Cameroun declared war when the lawyers and teachers only sent letters and requests for fairer conditions, far less demanding than decentralization. Also, La Republique du Cameroun has sent many poor-people’s children to perish in Ambazonia while killing many Ambazonian civilians, including toddlers on their way to and from school and after eight years, PRAP is “leading” with the idea that Ambazonia should discard the only leverage we have, remove all the pressure on La Republique du Cameroun and that would “lure” them to grant “devolution” – which is different from “special status” in what way? PRAP claim to be working on a long term plan – to start with the request for devolution to “secretly and cleverly” lure La Republique du Cameroun to the table after forwarding the peace plan to Etoudi for [hopeful] approval.
Luckily Ambazonia has survived all such lunatic ideas, probably through the fabled watch of our ancestors, but far more likely, the intelligence and courage of our valiant self-defense forces on the ground. Ambazonia News would go as far as let PRAP keep selling their idea if they wish, in the firm belief that PRAP will soon exit stage left spent from its own illogic, without any intervention from any diasporan leader. Ambazonians on the ground should be credited for their fortitude and commitment in withstanding La Republique du Cameroun for so long and the discernment to bin CRAP’s lunacy.
Fon Fondum Gorji Dinka KC explains the facts and legalities of HCB 28/92.
This is a must read for all Ambazonians, and setting out the legal conditions and why we can go ahead with running our independent and legally separate nation without a grant from LRC.
Here is the PDF.
Also visit ambazonia.org for more references and resources.
On the 5th of November 2024 there was a landslide in Dschang in La Republique du Cameroun’s border province known as La Region de L’Ouest, for being the western-most province of that country bordering onto Ambazonia in the North.
Ambazonia News extends the prayers of neighbouring Ambazonia to the victims, many of whom have, for generations freely come and gone into Ambazonia, intermingling with Ambazonians.
Five days after the disaster, La Republique du Cameroun’s “Prime Minister, Head of Government” posted on X to blame nature and offer prayers and condolences to the victims. He referred to the voice of Mr Biya, whose own social media post is still to come. Mr Biya clearly think his other clever invention – the “presidential silence” is appropriate for this massive loss of life.
There has been no visit by any La Republique du Cameroun minister to assess the situation, probably because there was a similar landslide in the same area in 2021, killing more than 50.
As “Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun”, Ambazonia News is not questioning what was done to mitigate future occurrences if/when the 2021 episode was assessed.
Even for LRC, it is striking that the “government” has been so mute – even to the lack of the usual communique which would credit Mr Biya with releasing many billion of XFA to console the victims.
While there was nobody at home for the disaster, the government was busy projecting a documentary of Mr Biya’s achievements in his 42 years in office and organising celebrations and orations to mark ascension to the the Presidency. Don’t blame Ambazonia News! That is the language they use in their circles.
There is no shortage of ministers in La Republique du Cameroun but it seems they were all too busy – even JDDM who is meant to be from the neighbourhood of the disaster!
There is a possible explanation. The RDPC, Mr Biya’s “governing” party may well have been pre-occupied with celebrations on the 6th of November, but at least one of them could have commented or shown an interest. None of them did maybe for the callous reason that they did not want to be seen to be taking the lead. Yes that is a bad thing as Mr Biya is ailing and has a habit of culling the tall poppies. It wouldn’t do to project one’s self in the fevered atmosphere of Mr Biya’s imminent departure. So nobody did!
So they celebrate the 42 years of someone who succeeded a much younger person in office – the much younger person having decided to step down when they were a much better “leader” than Mr Biya subsequently proved to be!
The RDPC tabloid “Cameroun Tribune” ran an earnest editorial repeating Mr Biya’s 42 year old “mantra” of New Deal, plagiarized from the US of course, but claimed and celebrated as Mr Biya’s idea. No irony that under the new deal the regime not only could not carry out his other slogan of “Rigour and Moralization”, which were meant to fight nepotism, tribalism, corruption…
It is not an exaggeration to say that Mr Biya institutionalized those vices in his 42 years – to the extent that his regime is now in grid-lock too ashamed to repeat itself when “nature” provides the ill-timed [more like timely] evidence, if it were needed, that “Rigour and Moralisation” have become “Laissez-faire and Immorality” much like the descent of Rome into anarchy on the eve of the fall of the Roman empire. Speaking of Rome, this, if there were any doubts, is the nth crossing of the Rubicon! Even the normally fearful Camerounese are voicing discontent about the silence and disdain regarding this latest Dschang Disaster.
it is time for Mr Biya to formally bow out. It is no secret that he has not been “in” for at least a decade!
As Ambazonia News has postulated in the past, there is no one at home in La Republique du Cameroun!
Ambazonia needs to go ahead with running our country. It was never a protest or plea to gain special status of devolution or federation or any other supplicant status in a country which is so inept and unable to manage its own affairs.
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