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IG President Marianta Njomia addresses the fallacy of disunity in Independence-Day address.

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Speaking on the eve of Independence Day 2023 President Marianta Njomia raised the issues of silent complicity of the international community in the face of intolerable genocidal acts by La Republique du Cameroun. She encouraged Ambazonian citizens to continue to support the ARF+ in driving out the occupying forces and agents of La Republique du Cameroun. Even if all Ambazonian Independentists united, she argued, the international community would still wait for a mutually harmful stalemate, which could only be hastened by the actions of the ARF+ on ground.

She asserted that contrary to popular statements Ambazonian Independentist entities have been resolute every time their unity of purpose had come under examination, twice, in front of international witnesses, spontaneously asserting their uniform objective of independence for Ambazonia.

While it is true that Ambazonian Independentist entities have diverse methods it is unfair to continue to excuse La République du Cameroun’s crimes, or even tolerate them while calling for Ambazonia to show unity. There is no country where all the citizens are required to have only one political view!

The president pointed to the killings of two school children in school traffic, shot by uniformed agents of La République du Cameroun, as examples of acts which ought to have incurred the wrath of the international community regardless of whether Ambazonian entities were united or not.

The president stopped short of warning that the clamour for “unity” conferences risked diverting attention from the needful on G0, or worse, dissipating the momentum of the Liberation Struggle to La République du Cameroun’s advantage.

Read the transcript of the address below:

Text of the speech:
Fellow Ambazonians,
After seven years of our Liberation Struggle we can see how we have progressed towards our GOALS (the God-Ordained Ambazonian Liberation Struggle!)
We the Ambazonians pledge our loyalty.

We pause to pay our respects to the fallen heroes of Ambazonia over the last six decades as well as to acknowledge the efforts of the ARF+, who have, since 2/Sept/23, been engaged in The Daring Move. I hereby call on all Ambazonians to show their Complementary Commitment to our Ambazonian Liberation Struggle by supporting their counties’ and the rest of our nation’s ARF+ in The Daring Move.

Throughout the six decades of Southern Cameroons,  Ambazonia,  it was always the case that at any juncture there was only a quality few who only wanted La République du Cameroun to implement reforms to improve the lot of Southern Cameroonians, which, it turns out were already recognised and recommended by the African Commission way back in 2003 ( Communication No 266/2003 of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights.)

In the late nineteen fifties despite different methods and ideologies, our forefathers, dismayed at the lack of true representation, left the The British UN Trusteeship of Nigeria. They achieved self-governance with a proper multi-party system.
When we started it was only a quality few who only wanted improvements at each stage. In the late nineteen fifties despite different methods and ideologies, our forefathers, dismayed at the lack of true representation, left the Nigerian trusteeship. They achieved self-governance with a proper multi-party system.
When independence came, unjust though the process was, there was a vibrant discussion in civility among the different parties of our nation. Our then leaders did the responsible and accepted the vote as a method to decide and threw in our nation’s lot with the Federation of East and West Cameroon, subject to established pre-conditions.

Almost immediately some quality few could see the flaws, as the pre-conditions were roundly flouted, and stood up to be counted. They endured harsh political imprisonment and other inhumane treatments at the hands of the East Cameroun authorities but their aim, to ensure our identity survived, was achieved.
In addition to our quality few, Ambazonia has always had The Most High God as our Watchman. East Cameroun declined to seal our nation into the Cameroun Federation, thereby leaving us at liberty to reconsider at our convenience in the future. Of course, this depended on the assimilation failing and here again how could we explain how badly the assimilation went than that The Most High God, our Watchman, was at work? East Cameroon’s scheme was to assimilate but rather than make Southern Cameroonians (West Cameroonians) feel at home and among “brothers”, they set up a counter-productive system of discrimination and exclusion whose only possible aim would be to alienate and distance Southern Cameroonians from “their purported brothers” of East Cameroon.  The effect was far from assimilating West Cameroon as the progressive discrimination, exclusion, tribalism, corruption … and you name it, conveyed the clear message that West Cameroonians (Former Southern Cameroonians) had no place in the “Federal or United” Republic of Cameroon.
As if that was not enough, in 1984 East Cameroun decided to break cover and secede from the forged “federation”, a treaty void federation! Well, that was the implication of re-naming the then United Republic of Cameroun to La République du Cameroun as it effectively reverted La République du Cameroun to its borders at independence in 1960 as per the statutes of the African Union charter on human and peoples’ rights. Even this was a reaction to the actions of a quality few Southern Cameroonians who bravely sought redress at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR). What are the odds? A handful of quality people managed to get the Commission to rule that Southern Cameroonians, later Ambazonians, were a people with the right to external self-determination. Though those few only wanted reforms to ensure equality of opportunity, justice and recognition, it is remarkable how well they fared. The Commission recommended reforms to improve the lot of Southern Cameroonians (and East Cameroonians) but the East Cameroun government decided they needed to enforce “unity”! They all along miscalculated that the quality few Southern Cameroonians, despite prevailing against La République du Cameroun in an international court, could be ignored and that paper “unity” was better than the “unity reforms” the Commission had recommended!

How few is one? The next of the few in the sequence was the one and only Gorji Dinka, KC, who for his part underwent biblical torture to establish for the record that 1984 was in fact a secession by La République du Cameroun and, therefore, that not only were Ambazonians “a people” but that they had a country of their own with sovereignty just for the claiming. HCB 28/92 lives for ever on record to establish that the destiny of Ambazonians is with Ambazonians and not in the purview of La République du Cameroun. So “Grand National Dialogue” and “special status” and any other costume balls in La République du Cameroun are their things with no legal or other binding power over Ambazonia. As HCB 28/92 says “La République du Cameroun is illegally and forcibly occupying Ambazonia”. The “GOALS”, The God-ordained Ambazonian Liberation Struggle, is righteous. Any comments from La République du Cameroun are noise! If they wish to withdraw in an orderly fashion and be good neighbours in future that is the negotiation.
 It is inconceivable that after the last seven years of visiting all forms of repellent crimes on our people that they would imagine that they have any future association or cohabitation with Ambazonia! Of course, we have a common border which we cannot help, but that is it.
That brings us to the ludicrous “arguments” ongoing among Ambazonian entities.

First of all, how any entity which calls itself Ambazonian could be entertaining discussions about Federation with La République du Cameroun is a text-book paradox. La République du Cameroun started the current spate of killings and intimidation partly to dissuade all from using the word “federation” so it would take some contortions for an Ambazonian entity to square that even if their intention is to be seen as “inclusive”.

The reality is that it does not matter how inclusive we, the Ambazonians, are when it comes to those ideas of federation and any links to La République du Cameroun! It does not fit for any party to be Ambazonian and have “federalist” members or, worse, entertain “unionists” who happen to have been born in Ambazonia! Where does it go? Has La République du Cameroun offered anyone federation or is it really so obvious that certain naive are “preparing to negotiate federation” with the people who are willing to kill school children and pregnant women to stop the mere use of the word “federation”?

It is now common knowledge that La République du Cameroun has ventured into a “dialogue” of sorts twice and each time Ambazonian parties have demonstrated a unity of purpose which leaves no doubt and need not be proved through any conferences.  The unity Ambazonia needs is the drive to expel La République du Cameroun from our land and that will be achieved through appropriate action at the appropriate location. The appropriate location is not several thousand miles away and appropriate action is certainly not navel gazing discussions about hypothetical negotiations with a foe who has disowned at least two potential negotiation opportunities.  Are Ambazonians proposing to make concessions to show that “federalists” and “unionists” form part of our “unity of purpose” and expecting to get “any negotiation”?

La République du Cameroun has a very weak-to-zero negotiating position at this juncture where more and more Ambazonians should and are getting to know about HCB 28/92 ruling, especially when La République du Cameroun is doing their utmost to repel and alienate even the naïve “federalists”.

Conferences will come at an appropriate time when, like our forefathers, we will work in our diverse independentist entities to ensure our nation functions justly for all our citizens.  For now our unity of purpose is cemented on the total and unconditional independence for Ambazonia and that relies on the obvious, Daring Moves to expel La République du Cameroun from our land.

To the international community:

The apparent misguided perception of disunity of Ambazonian entities, quoted by the international community as a weakness, is a strength which has ensured that the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle has survived all La République du Cameroun attempts to undermine it. The diverse methods of Ambazonian entities have not affected their unity of purpose when it comes to the essential – the total and unconditional independence of Ambazonia. We would challenge the international community’s callous calm when faced with, for example, the killings of two nursery school children in two different locations over a fortnight in the absence of any Ambazonian Restoration Forces and the several killings of harmless and helpless civilians, such as pregnant women and children in villages, notably in Ngarbuh on Valentine’s day 2020. This lack of concern was all the more disturbing considering the reports and experiences of international human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch and MSF at the hands of La République du Cameroun.

While it is “obvious” that “unity” would help our cause, it is not fair to promote or propagate the idea that we are not united. This has helped La République du Cameroun to continue to try to out-wait the Ambazonians and engage certain fringes of the fifth column to orchestrate prevarication and self-blame, which all undermine our focus and increases the magnitude and volume of the genocidal crimes they visit on our people, who have continued to demonstrate their unity by abstaining from La République du Cameroun control for the past seven years, on at least a weekly basis.

We should refuse to fall prey to the illogical rhetoric of “Ambazonians need to be united for the International Community to intervene to stop the killings or suffering of our people”

We need to ask ourselves whether our so-called lack of unity justifies the impunity with which La République is able to commit those genocidal acts on our citizens. Is that the idea the international community wants to sell?  That they will not tackle La République du Cameroun for the killings of nursery school children by their agents firing live rounds into school-run traffic because until Ambazonians are “united”? Our answers to all these questions would be “No!” and we, the Ambazonians are left with but the one option which is to go it alone and let the international community live with their consciences as we endure every abdication of the high-sounding Responsibility to Protect.


1) There is no international treaty or consensus prescribing unity as a prerequisite for the competent institutions International community to intervene for global peace and security.

2) Ambazonians are already united in the purpose/outcome/objective of attaining a total and unconditional Freedom, Independence and Sovereignty of our Homeland – Ambazonia.
We the Ambazonians do not accept that the International Community that is condoning genocide with impunity to hide from their responsibility when they attempt to misinterpret or misconstrue differences in approach and strategy of fighting the enemy of the different Ambazonia Independentist Entities as signs of disunity. We see our differences and diversity as a strength, because those differences in approach and strategy allow us to survive all manner of schemes and ruses by the enemy to thwart our Liberation Struggle.  Those differences allow us a 360-degree perspective in the Struggle.

No number of conference resolutions announcing paper unity will ever be a passport for the international community to intervene because the same so called international community, constituted by sovereign nations that are signatories to the UN sanctioned R2P is silently awaiting with impunity, for 7 years now, the attainment of a MHS (Mutually Harmful Stalemate), which is the status that will pressure both parties to commit to any negotiation process. That means La République du Cameroun is deemed to not be motivated to engage in meaningful negotiations as they are not enduring sufficient suffering. 

A sustainable firepower escalation on the ground is therefore paramount to determine a paradigm shift in their thinking as its the sole tool that will quickly take us to an MHS, hence get LRC to commit to a negotiation process soonest.

To Ambazonians:  If we need to “prove” anything to the international community it is that we deserve our country and sovereignty back. That is not by caving in to illogical concessions even before any contact with La République du Cameroun! It is by funding, fighting and freeing our land from the occupying militias of La République du Cameroun. As the international community displays silent complicity for the killings of school children on the streets of our towns and pregnant women in our villages the message is that we have to dare to go it alone to dislodge La République du Cameroun and ALL her allies and agents from our land.

Support your county in its Daring Move!


Happy Independence Day,
To our Heroes boring the land with their blood to dare the enemy La République du Cameroun out of Ambazonia,

Happy Independence Day,
To the quality few patriots enduring in sacrifices to safeguard resources for a free, independent and sovereign homeland,

Happy Independence Day,
To you all citizens of the ancestral linage and terrestrial origin of Southern Cameroons Ambazonia.

The Most High God and our Ancestors continue to keep Watch for Ambazonia.

ACT -Team Ambazonia in fireside chat on eve of Independence day 2023

ACT, the Ambazonian Coalition Team, is holding a fireside chat this Saturday 30th September 2023 from 4pm Ambazonia time.

We the Ambazonians and friends and well wishers of Ambazonia are all warmly welcome to come and share.

Learn about ACT and how to contribute.

Be entertained by our artists.

Finally meet one of the British MPs who has been in our corner in this Ambazonian Liberation Struggle.

Our destiny is in our hands.

Running out of ideas LRC reverts to French mentors’ ideas

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Ambazonia News comes to you with a mix of reassurance that La République du Cameroun is losing the war and the sad fact that, like the French did six decades ago as they “left” their African colonies, La République du Cameroun want to cause as much pain as possible, in the vain and futile hope of terrorising us. Sadly we have seen it all before and endured it all before, before deciding to draw the line.

This week Ambazonia has seen another hero bear the land with their blood. In that event La République has seen fit to remain true to type by “displaying” his body like the French and their collaborators used to do with the nationalist independence fighters in Cameroun and the other colonies. We know that the collaborators of those days are still in office, even if not in power, in La République du Cameroun so it is no surprise they are borrowing from what they did all those years ago. Nor is it a surprise in Ambazonia as they have done it for the last seven years.

They have shot and killed toddlers on their way to nursery school, toddlers who literally could not hurt a fly and that did not deter us the Ambazonians. How could it?

They have indiscriminately killed a village-ful of pregnant women, children and elderly. Did that deter us? Did they learn?

They have similarly displayed other heroes. Did that deter us, the Ambazonians? No. We no longer have to try and convince those fifth columnists called federalists as it is now up to them not only to explain why despite La République du Cameroun systematically intimidating their own citizens for merely using the word federation, they think that we the Ambazonians should engage in a fanciful debate about a federation with people who, as if to make certain, are employing the methods of their French mentors to underline the utter untenability of even the loosest association.

As painful as it is we the Ambazonians must stay focused on the Daring Move methods to actualise our independence and expel the illegal and forcible occupiers of our land.

La République du Cameroun is a country outside and separate from Ambazonia not because we the Ambazonians say but because international law does . They are only on our land because they have been able to get away with it in the past. No more. We know how to get them out and we must stay the course and get our nation back for our future generations. The grand children of our fallen heroes need to fare better than the children of Um or Roland or … They must be able to see schools and universities and libraries and parks and streets named after those forebears who bore the land with their blood.

The Most High God is the Watchman of our Nation and the guide to our ARF+.

Ambazonia Unity – the myths and the reality

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Ambazonian unity is desirable.

That is an understatement it would be difficult, if not impossible, to argue against that simple assertion for if one did, the follow up accusation would be that only those who don’t care about the suffering on ground zero would even dare to discuss the issue of Ambazonian unity.

And yet here we are in an information war, La République du Cameroun’s last throw of the dice in a desperate attempt to out-wait Ambazonians. The simple idea is that Ambazonians will grow wary and the Liberation Struggle would fizzle out.

When tackled by the international community, La République du Cameroun said Ambazonia was a disunited rabble so they did not know who to talk to. They then implied that they were dealing with a little local difficulty with a few malcontents and it would soon be sorted. When it was not sorted as quickly but kept getting worse, they stumbled on the idea of getting the “divided” Ambazonian factions to “argue among themselves” to demonstrate to the international community that Ambazonians were divided and that La République du Cameroun was right about not knowing who to speak to.

At the same juncture, whether instigated by La République du Cameroun or not, Federalists inserted themselves in between as the “would-be reasonable sensible” compromise, giving interviews in which they highlighted the futility of a fight that could not be won. With almost callous smugness one prominent federalist said they were waiting until the two extremists fought it to a stalemate and realised that they had to negotiate. Then, said he, the federalists would come in and negotiate a federation. At the time Ambazonia News had not come across the apparently established method of conflict resolution among the international community where it was common practice to wait for the warring parties to reach a mutually harmful stalemate or something equivalent. They actually have the acronym for it, MHS. That is a state where they both see that they cannot win and should negotiate. That makes sense when considered – for the neutral international community. But would we want to fight our struggle and then hand over to people who had calculatingly sat cross-armed waiting for enough of our people to die? Knowing that those people proposed to bargain with the people who had inflicted the genocidal acts on our people?

The latest manifestation of federalists is in the current spate of conferences where Ambazonians seem driven to “prove” their unity as it would speed up the Struggle. Nobody is saying how but it does make sense that if Ambazonian resources were pooled it could in fact speed up the Struggle. So will unity come? Does it need to come?

It would be “nice” for unity to come. Well, unity is already here, the unity of purpose that is not mentioned in the information war and which discounts federalists. Without federalists, there is no need to demonstrate unity of attempt to “attain” it, for it has been here all along and in the best self-manifesting form, cropping up every time it is needed!

In the Swiss process, even though it brought together diverse Ambazonian entities there was a unity of purpose in that they all wanted unconditional independence for Ambazonia and could describe themselves as “Ambazonian Independentists”. In Canada, the focus was even more stark, driving La République du Cameroun to fall back to the out-waiting position, committing the most unspoken diplomatic sin on the way out! They let Global Affairs Canada issue a communique on their role and hopes for the future of a facilitation process before coming right out through an official and unmistakable channel to basically call Canada “liars”. That time, unlike when they bailed out of the Swiss Process, they did not leave it to a minor remote figure from outside the circle to try to spin the defeat as a clever ruse by the nonagenarian dictator, but sent out the official communication minister!

Ambazonia 2 – 0 La République du Cameroun. Ambazonia Coalition Team (ACT) was batting for Ambazonia on both occasions – without requiring all its members to fold into one! Yet look how well we did!

Since that defeat there has been fevered activity in the “Ambazonian” camp to ignore that unity and seek to attain “unity”. Some actors have tried to gain the new “unity” by avoiding the word “Ambazonia” as they sought to be “inclusive”. Some have been unable to cope with their transparency, first designating themselves with “Southern Cameroons” then suddenly switching to “Ambazonia”. When challenged, some resort to references to the “unbearable suffering” of ground zero to divert attention.

Ambazonia News maintains that the reason true Ambazonians will stick to the Liberation Struggle even if people keep talking about “divisions” is that true Ambazonians are aware that the “unbearable suffering” of our citizens on ground zero cannot continue. The way we will stop it is through the unity we already have and that is our common instinctive unity of purpose which was not orchestrated through any resolutions of a conference but through the instinctive response of diverse Ambazonians who, on at least two occasions, told La République du Cameroun, in front of international witnesses, that it is over and our independence is for keeps.

Ambazonia News believes that conferences are useful for keeping in contact and exchanging ideas but urges all well-meaning attenders to be open-eyed when they attend so as not to be disappointed. The Ambazonian Liberation Struggle is not to achieve unity in conference resolutions. It is to actualise our legally existing and owned independence. As such all Ambazonians should be relaxed about our Nation belonging to us. It is no longer up for discussion. The shortest way for us to get it is to drive La République and her agents and allies out of our land – ourselves. That will prove that we are united and deserve our Nation. Conference resolutions will not compel La République du Cameroun to negotiate nor the international community to pressurize La République, which even if they did, could simply ignore and wait – try to out-wait us.

In a real way HCB 2892 tells us that we do not need to negotiate with La République du Cameroun as they are “illegally and forcibly occupying” our land after their secession in 1984 – a secession which also rendered it impossible for them to do anything on Ambazonians’ behalf, be it offering special status or negotiation or posting stooges in what they called Great National Dialogue. They do not even have the right to propose a referendum in Ambazonia, for want of that sovereignty!

Even if “unity” does not come from those initiatives, all true Ambazonians should seek out groups that dare and are willing to make Daring Moves and join hands in that single domain… Our country belongs to us and we have no apologies to make when it comes to our right to fund, fight and free it for our future generations.

The Most High God has always been the Watchman of Ambazonia.

Team Ambazonia in SCAC Follow-up – Press Release 3

The planning group of the Southern Cameroons Ambazonia Consultation has announced a new series of consultations to follow the August 2023 sessions.

Ambazonia News encourages all previous attendees to attend as they need to be consulted on the way forward to ensure a unity of purpose and outcome for all Ambazonian Independentists.

If you did not attend the first series it is vital to get involved otherwise your voice may not be heard.

Three new sessions are on offer on 9/9/23, 17/9/23 and 23/9/23. As usual there will be links to participate online nearer each session. Registering beforehand will greatly facilitate your experience. Ambazonia News tenders apologies for the late posting of the press release.

Read the whole press release here.

Daring Move indications.

Since IG President Marianta Njomia signaled the Daring Move there has been noticeable daring on G0.

It is clear that we The Ambazonians must prove our readiness and ability to fund, fight and free and the Daring Move is the long term method to achieve our objectives.

As specified in the Executive Order which rechristened and renamed the ARF to ARF+ our liberation and self defense forces have better defined methods including ownership of their safety and local decisions in the immediate within the wider objectives of Daring Move: to target the economic interests and comfort of all La Republique du Cameroun allies and agents in Ambazonian territory. The fifth columnists are an urgent target though ARF+ stills own the immediate local target priority on the basis of their safety.

The IG maintains our appeal to international partners to come to the help of our civilian, notably children whose development is being impeded by the forceful and illegal occupation under which La Republique du Cameroun is imposing a deliberately substandard education on Ambazonian children. We endorse Community schools which will use and develop our own Ambazonian curriculum. The support we need from the international community is to enable safe zones around our Community schools.

The international community must not neglect the refugees currently enduring untold misery in neighbouring countries.

The Most High God remains the Watchman of our Nation and guide to the ARF+.

Daring move – Presidential decree; read it here.

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The Daring Move is underway since the second day of September 2023.

Our ARF+ are acting legally in defence of our separate and independent state.

We once more reject La Republique du Cameroun occupation and remind all international bodies that our consent cannot be presumed regardless of how many fifth columnists La Republique du Cameroun parades. They are not our representatives and do not represent our wishes.

The Most High God is our Watchman.

Download and Read the text here.

Ambazonian Independence – Daring Move

We the Ambazonians pledge our loyalty to our Nation and allegiance to the heroes, the ARF+. We count on the blessings and guidance of our ancestors as our ARF+ engage in the clear and focused duty in the actualisation of Ambazonian Independence and sovereignty.

The Daring Move will move the dial towards more intolerable hostility to LRC and her allies in the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle.

The ambiguous consideration of enablers and black legs as “ours” will be discarded. As allies if LRC they can expect the same hostility from our ARF+ proportionately. No longer shall they roam our territory or declare any treasonous allegiance to LRC in the impunity to which they may have counted.

The fifth column of LRC collaborators and enablers will face the same dire consequences their actions have visited on Ambazonian citizens. Ambazonian lives are precious and any acts which impinge on any aspects of the live and dignity of Ambazonian citizens shall attract proportional retribution.

Ambazonians are established and internationally recognised as a people and therefore own the right to their independence, dignity and inheritance. We the Ambazonians are going it alone to expel LRC from our land. We will call on all international partners of good will to help us negotiate the practicalities of separating our Nation from the colonial machinery of LRC after we have expelled the occupying artifacts. We welcome the support of all who witness and object to the genocide being perpetuated on our citizens to help with our Liberation as well as to care for our refugees.

We equally serve notice to those international parties who are enabling or supporting LRC genocide that the Daring Move will target their interests.

The Most High God remains the Watchman of our Nation.