French “Trojan Horse” arrives in Bamenda, Report.

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French Ambassador to LRC turns up in a thin disguise to fool the people of Bamenda

According to an unverified report, signed by Colbert Factor ” “The Anglophone Conflict Will be Resolved in the Months Ahead”, Thierry Marchand, French Ambassador to Cameroon “

It would appear the French are breaking cover in their colony as their Ambassador, General Thierry Marchand (Retd.) “has hinted that the eight-year-old Anglophone conflict, which has claimed thousands of lives and displaced many more in Cameroon’s two English-speaking regions, may soon come to an end.” While the LRC government has been asleep, it would appear the French have chosen to break cover and directly issue propaganda on behalf of their mentees.

The report claims that: ” During his second visit to Bamenda on Thursday, February 27, 2025, Ambassador Marchand stated that France, along with the entire European Union, is working diligently to implement a political solution to bring the conflict to a satisfactory conclusion. While he refrained from providing details on the strategies being put in place by Cameroon’s bilateral and multilateral partners, he emphasized that the conflict remains a Cameroonian issue requiring locally crafted solutions. “

It must be a diplomatic first for a “foreign” nation to implement a political project in a sovereign country which has not previously “hinted”, to borrow a word, at any such intentions or movements.

The report continues: “Ambassador Marchand’s statement offers a glimmer of hope for a region that has been plagued by violence and instability. The fact that France and the European Union are committed to finding a peaceful resolution to the conflict is a positive step towards ending the crisis. However, the success of this endeavor depends on the willingness of all parties involved to work together towards a common goal.”

This comment must be directed at Gen (Ambassador) Marchand’s mentees, whose last diplomatic foray was to publicly humiliate the boss of Global Affairs Canada, the Canadian Minister of foreign affairs by disowning her announcement of outcome of Canadian facilitated “talks about talks”. In other sovereign nations, members of foreign diplomatic missions who reach out so far out of their mission would be on the next flight home before anyone could finish typing the words “violation of their status”, but the truth is Gen Marchand has a different status, since LRC – and other African “States” are actually French colonies in all bur name. Canada tries to maintain diplomatic niceties and gets burnt, the French break cover as colonial masters – what happens? Nothing yet…

According to the report, the Ambassador is also oblivious to the role of the French in creating and sustaining the conditions that generated the “crisis” as “The French Ambassador to Cameroon expressed optimism about France’s role in reconciling the people of the two English-speaking regions after the conflict ended. Speaking to the press at the end of his working visit to the Regional Office of the Franco-Alliance center at Bamenda’s Veterinary Junction, he highlighted the rich cultural heritage of the North West region as a potential avenue for reconciliation.” Yes, the French would seem to feel they are well placed to persuade their victims to reconcile! LRC is using the methods the French used to set up the proxies when they [French] carried out genocide against La République du Cameroun independentists. A few months after they issued a report to those very proxies about “the excesses” of their colonial repression their co-victims [of the French’s and their proxies], the UPC, the Ambassador is prancing around Bamenda in a local outfit.

As any “anglophone” will know, the French proxies in Yaoundé failed in so many infrastructure promises even when they promised to “personally supervise those projects” [think the elusive Ring Road] so the French are now so fed up with their proxies that they are taking over and “personally reconstructing” as the report continues: “The Ambassador emphasized the crucial role the Franco-Alliance center would play in rebuilding the region in the months ahead. He also dispelled common misconceptions about Franco-Alliance centers, noting that they are not solely dedicated to promoting the French language and culture. Instead, these centers exist in English-speaking countries across Africa and work to promote diverse cultures, reflecting France’s history of cultural diversity.”

And so Ambazonia News finally learns that the French are nice – they are not promoting their language and that they will solve the “crisis” in a few months, even though they have not bothered to let anybody know – and nor have their mentees in Yaounde. They are just nice. Eight years have passed, millions have been displaced, thousands killed, thousands of homes burnt, many children, including toddlers on their way to school, killed by their mentees. All that time they kept their counsel, but they were nice all along! Now they are breaking cover to help -and not promoting their language!

Finally the General upped sincerity to “hint” at the reasons for going out on a diplomatic limb: “Marchand regretted the impact of the ongoing conflict on French investment in the region … , which has been severely affected by the seven-year-long Anglophone crisis.” So that French miss their free hand at looting Ambazonian resources.

Another irony is that the French interfrence in Canada is now being quoted as case study for “solving” the “Anglophone Crisis”, as they like to refer to the Ambazonia Liberation Struggle, says the report: “France’s concern for minority welfare led them to advocate for greater autonomy for Quebec in Canada. Today, residents of the French-speaking region proudly identify as Quebec nationals within a united Canada. This sense of identity is acknowledged by the Canadian government, as evident in the Prime Minister’s recognition of Quebecers as Quebec nationals. ” French, which does not want to promote the French language, went to safeguard the rights of the people of Quebec including their right to French culture, coincidentally, including the French language. While Quebec enjoyed a distinct education system, among other autonomies, “the Anglophone Regions of Cameroun” found themselves facing French-speaking teachers in their chidrens’ classrooms and having to travel to Yaounde for the most mundane routines in life and the wiping of their identity when their identity was obliterated by renaming Cameroon to La République du Cameroun, the Country which Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia joined to form a Federation.

The Trojan horse was actually a misnomer as it was the Greeks who brought it, rather than the Trojans, who were the dupes.

The would-be dupes in this episode would be the Ambazonians, if they bring in the horse and beautify gifts from the Greeks, … sorry the French. But Ambazonians are not Trojans and the French are not as convincing as the ancient Greeks. They [Ambazonians] have seen enough of the French and know enough about the French and their mentees to fall for a smiling French man just because he decided to disguise himself and claim to be trying to promote their culture while asking them to sit tight in a dispensation which has been running a scheme to obviate that same culture! Even if Ambazonians were gullible there is no denying it

The Most High God is the Watch Man of our Nation.

Imminent from the Consultative Commission…

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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.

Consultative Commission promises important milestones for Ambazonia in 2025

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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.

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.