PRAP deploys charm offensive with emphasis on offence!

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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:

  • set out their plan and objectives in detail
  • present the plan and objectives to as wide an audience as possible
  • gather as much feedback as possible from the audience (and make it clear they appreciate and value the feedback)
  • answer (or try to) as many questions as possible (and make it clear that they appreciate the questions and feedback as nobody could, even if they tried, think of everything)
  • refine their plan on the basis of feedback, taking into account all the questions and attempting o address them constructively -if they are seeking to build a broad-based consensus.

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.

  1. It centres heavily on personal insults towards an Ambazonian leader for daring to inspect and question ICO. Rather than offer any explanations and ideas to expand the tent as a leader would do, the chairman embarked on a tirade of personal insults exactly like a leader who is proposing to build a broad coalition to negotiate would not.
  2. The chairman claimed there were 14 entities in APJ – fact which must be accepted as it is his word. It does raise the question whether all 14 groups approved the chairman’s video message. Ambazonia News would not, purely on the basis of probability, imagine that a consultation of the fourteen would clear the insults and counter-productive approach especially if they hope to convince others to join the process. Ambazonia News cannot assume that the video went out without being cleared, or at least previewed by the fourteen, so it would be reasonable to imagine that the fourteen are not actually equal partners who would offer transparent views to help the APJ’s objectives.
  3. PRAP’s strategy seems to centre around “doing all they can” to “entice” LRC to the table – so much that they are calling on ARF to “give peace a chance” even before the remotest possibility that La République du Cameroun would agree to negotiate – anything. Ambazonia is in this position because LRC started a war against us for making much softer “requests”. Ambazonia News is of the view that PRAP’s approach is naive as it proposes to lay down arms even before La République du Cameroun considers their peace plan, and then to rely on the good judgement of the people who calculated that they had nothing to fix at the first mild protests and requests. They then went further to unleash militias, with a seemingly free hand in the atrocities they could commit in Ambazonia, all while claiming they were there to “protect lives and property”. Those are the people whose good judgement PRAP is relying on, after laying down arms, to grant devolution, which PRAP thinks is more “valuable” than decentralisation [or at least more likely to succeed in placating Ambazonians]. PRAP then expects [hopes, that is, for LRC have so far not heard of PRAP] that La République du Cameroun will be so impressed with downed arms, that they will agree to a referendum in five [5] years time in 2030. Two sticking points: La République du Cameroun is unlikely to agree to any of that and there are no levers the nebulous ICO proposes to pull to compel La République du Cameroun; and secondly PRAP has its work cut out to convince ARF who experience and know La République du Cameroun’s methods only too well to lay down arms on faith – or the offensive charm of PRAP, judging by the chairman’s ability not only to offend, but to post the offence to the whole planet Earth! Talk about NAIVE!

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.

PRAP? More like NAIVE

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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.

Mr Biya Does it again – Or rather doesn’t again!

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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.

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.