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Charades Continue as Invisible Man, Biya, continues “bid” for 8th Term

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Charades Continue as Invisible Man continues bid for 8th Term – they are no longer pretending that he is “doing anything for himself”. His “supporters” are meeting him by proxy! He has had the seventh term by proxy and his proxies now think his invisibility is … invisible!

In La République du Cameroun they have a few gems they roll out to describe and lament their plight. Every time they[resigned lamentations] are deployed, they [the victim-citizens of La République du Cameroun] must think “We have heard this before! Think of something new!”.

Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun is the most apt encapsulation of the helplessness that encompasses the victims of LRC.

How is it that “the favourite to “win” the election” has not even been seen declaring his candidature? Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun.

Why are the bishops trooping to Etoudi to support a political venture against their “flocks”? Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun.

How did the bishops cope with the idea that they did not meet the person they went to meet and been seen supporting? le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun.

OK so men of God should be peace-loving but surely they are not just supposed to preach “turn the other chick” without any pretence of seeking justice! How can they preach that while rushing to be seen supporting the party slapping they chicks?

What about the rag-tag group of “North West Chiefs”? When did North West Chiefs become messengers to travel to another person palace and stand to deliver a message? How did they cope with the idea that they did not even get to see the person they went to support and be seen to support? Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun.

As they persons insist on be referred to as North West Chiefs, they are not fooling anyone, least of all themselves. They know that North West Chiefs are servants of their people who guard their people’s dignity.

Since these persons were mute at home burnings, killings of their youth, killings of toddlers on their way to school and all the other indignities and harms, to which their people have been subject for such a long time, they know that are not North West Chiefs. Even if le Cameroun C’est le Cameroun, North West Chiefs have not become messengers and supplicants who turn up to worship an absent invisible bloke! Not in our name. As they have voluntarily made laughing stocks of themselves Le Cameroun c’est li Cameroun is not enough to save face even to themselves.

Now to the invisible man – how will the invisible man run for a new term without appearing? Well, as le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun, it is possible that the same coterie which has declared his candidature without him, will run his campaign without him [or the electorate] and declare his victory without him needing to appear. After all, le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun. When this victory to the invisible man is declared, will the French turn up to congratulate the invisible man in his absence? After all, la France c’est la France, right?

One thing is for sure, when this macabre charade ends in three months, Ambazonia will be blessed to have been separated from La République du Cameroun.

What Ambazonian Citizens should do.

Collaborate: On the ground, Ambazonian citizens should work with each other to take their destiny in hand. They should have the courage and dignity to ignore the occupation. The thugs blocking your paths are not better than you. If you work with the ARF+, their stay on your path will be short-lived as their impunity will be removed. le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun will not save them because Ambazonia is not in La République du Cameroun. If they are expecting to keep playing games of “deference” where, apparently Mr Biya The invisible is so above all the electorate that he does not need to appear to declare his own candidature, to address the electorate for his own term, or even do anything during his expiring term, apart from letting it be said that “things are done in his name”, they have lost it. There is nobody at home. There dam will burst soon – inevitably and we need to have the courage of our convictions and take charge of our country

The ARF+ need to collaborate with, and protect, all civilians to ensure that have a demonstrably better standard of life and livelihood compared to what they get from forceful occupier, La République du Cameroun. That should not be too onerous considering the absurdities that the occupier passes under the filter of le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun. It will also provide a safer environment for ARF+ when they and our citizens feel the dignity of our collective belonging and civilisation. It takes only a very small step and thankfully, Ambazonia is now at a juncture where everyone has learnt. We need to apply that learning in choosing who we go with for our long term future. With our civilians empowered to take charge of their socio-political development, life will be safer for all of us as they cannot intimidate an empowered free people who know the righteousness of their cause.

Our long term future does not sustain on any temporary fear of the brutality of La République occupation. Our dignity and sense of fair play does not, either as we cannot sustain the opposite of what we know to be right. That is what brought us out in 2017. Nothing since then has proved us wrong. Everything has proved our choice right and the only sustainable cause especially now we are emerging from the backlash of La République du Cameroun militias.

We must hold our nerve and ignore the strange charades going on. The bishops don’t represent us. Nor do the chiefs who would rush to Yaoundé to deliver a message and supplicate to an empty room. We may still respect our institutions but the individuals acting in these charades do not represent us. We know who we are and we now know who we can accept and trust.

We must be thankful that they, the stooges/clowns of this sad saga, helped to demonstrate that La République du Cameroun is on their last legs, compounding absurdity on absurdity in an “Emperor’s New Clothes” tragi-comedy designed to make-believe this final time…

Can they continue with the Invisible Candidate? You decide if you are a La République du Cameroun Citizen. If you are Ambazonian, thankfully you can only watch this tragedy and count the days until they leave, as they must, having legally seceded from the union that never was in 1984 [HCB/28/92] – and good riddance!

The most High God is always the Watchman of Our Nation – Ambazonia, risen never to fall!

Mr. Biya’s Regime: A Decline into Disorder

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In fewer than six months La République du Cameroun will have to hold “elections”. Things are falling apart as the centre can no longer hold.

It will be a chaotic event as Mr Biya is being “begged” to stand again as the “saviour”. That is not a surprise as there are no other contenders even within “his” RDPC ruling party. So how has it come to this, that at 92 and with failing health he is still being seriously even considered as a possible candidate?

Mr Biya has spent decades setting up and maintaining a tribalistic system where incompetence seems to be a requirement. Hence, the all the functionaries and “elites” of his party go out of their way to show how incompetent they are. They all state that they support the “natural” candidacy of Mr Biya, who is not well enough, and has not been well enough to run a bath. Mr Biya can be credited with insulating himself so well that non of the executive or rank and file of his RDPC dare point out the ever decreasing circle in which he finds himself. One brave member of the RDPC has pointed this out and remains at liberty, contrary to past form, where he would have been languishing in jail as soon as he dared…

From violating La République du Cameroun’s “laws” he has left himself outside the “statutes” of his own party which require him to have been “endorsed” in a congress. Of course that would have been a formality – so efficient is his insulation. The fact remains he is not healthy enough even to hold a congress in front of his captive audience! So how will he “run” La République du Cameroun when/if he wins the next “elections”? His “ministers” between filling their pockets and taking trips overseas for health care or to investigate “how embassies are using bilingualism” all insisting La République du Cameroun needs him to stand as the [violent and abusive] “father” of the nation.

While La République du Cameroun sleep walks towards chaos at the end of the year, their militias are still in Ambazonia committing with their usual impunity. For the last eight years they have gone from gleefully announcing the “neutralization of youths suspected of being separatist”, shooting toddlers on their way to kindergarten, murdering whole villages of pregnant women and children to, now maintaining a relative blackout on their continuing crimes.

There is slightly less intensity thanks to Ambazonian Restoration Forces’ self-defense efforts, which have come on leaps and bounds with experience.

As expected, other cracks are showing in Mr Biya’s regime and it is clearer and clearer that his time has passed. Mr Kamto returned from his rally in France [ yes France! why not?] and was only briefly obstructed before being allowed to go. This is contrary to previous practice when the regime broke limbs to dissuade. Mr Kamto even promised to “visit” the “Anglophone Regions” if elected president, as his first act to solve “the Anglophone Crisis”. Some might ask if the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle was so that we could benefit from a visit. The point is this would have been enough grounds to land Mr Kamto back in jail in the not-too-distant past, for “apologies for terrorism” or preaching “subversion”.

Earlier last week other oddities arose: Mr Bello Bouba Maigari, who has been a minister apparently since anyone can remember, and certainly since before the advent of Mr Biya, suddenly realized that the Biya regime has failed the people and is proposing to save La République du Cameroun – by running for the presidency himself. Better late than never! Thankfully he has not threatened to visit Ambazonia on being elected. Probably because he might be quite realistic about his chances.

Before Bello Bouba Maigari, Mr Issa Tchiroma did the unthinkable and said that he was leaving the coalition with thr RDPC “who had failed and harmed citizens in the forty-three years of Mr Biya”. To emphasize the point, he told his audience not to trust him, but instead consider him an enemy, if ever he came back to encourage them to vote for Mr Biya. It was akin to a famous Olympian saying “if you see me trying to row again, shoot me”. Just for the record, that Olympian came back, if memory does not fail, and won another medal. Thankfully everyone knew him enough not to take his word.

Should anyone take the word of Mr. Tchiroma. Afterall, he was the Communication Minister when La République du Cameroun propagandists thought it appropriate to make those “neutralization” announcements, making some of the “anti-anglophone” statements himself. Now, better late than never, he has even gone to the extent if stating that “anglophones”, as he mistakenly refers to Ambazonians, should have a voice to decide, including in a referendum! He even went out on a limb to rubbish the French proxy colonial “form of government”, namely a centralized dictatorship, of having failed and whose time had passed.

Chaos in coming to La République du Cameroun. Mr Tchiroma is still walking free! Mr Biya is not up to it!

Ambazonia News will verify and repost the Ambazonia Consultative Commission’s Crisis Plan in the coming days.

Justice Denied: The Flaws in AKA’s Military Trial

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The following is a a verbatim quote from the Lead Counsel to Abdul Karim Ali, who [AKA] was recently sentence to life by a military tribunal in La République du Cameroun, in absentia. Barrister Fru outlines some of the procedural short-comings:

The case against Abdul Karim Ali – AKA, like the thousand others against the APOCs, is procedurally and substantively flawed.

Procedurally AKA was abducted and kidnapped. He was not arrested pursuant to the procedures of the Criminal Procedure Code in cameroun. There was no arrest warrant or probable cause for his arrest. He was never caught flagrant delicto. He was held under inhumane conditions, in communicado, for several days – devoid of counsel and family.

AKA was charged under a terrorism law of 2014 that had been chastised by international jurists, including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, as overbroad and a dragnet against fundamental freedoms and liberties.

AKA was charged with secession with no proof of any document proving:
1) that there is a union treaty/agreement/contract or document between the Trust Territory of British Southern Caneroons and La République du Cameroun; and
2) that AKA signed or was an accomplice in signing any document abrogating or violating the supposed Union Treaty or Agreement.

If anything AKA is being persecuted for his thoughts, political opinions, nationality and membership in a particular social group of citizens of the Former British Trust Territory of Southern Cameroons advocating for the sacrosanct right of self determination. Proof of this is ocular in the confrontations that arose during AKA’s numerous interrogations, almost exclusively without Counsel, in which AKA’s conversations with accredited Diplomats and Human Rights Advocates were targets – if these conversations were criminal as insinuated, how come these named Diplomats were not subpoenaed for direct testimony and open to cross examination, at AKA’s in absentia trial?

AKA was tried and condemned in absentia, as a civilian, in a military tribunal against all international instruments forbidding the trial of regular civilians in military tribunals.

AKA, in a letter to the President of the Military Tribunal, in Yaoundé, dated May 24, 2024, refused to surrender himself to the military tribunal, as a subset of the jurisdiction of La République du Cameroun, over his Southern Caneroons nationality and citizenship. His legal thrust argument is that since there is no Union Treaty or Agreement between La République du Cameroun and Southern Caneroons and since the physical boundaries of La République du Cameroun were Frozen at midnight on December 31, 1959, pursuant to the Addis Declaration of 1964 establishing the boundaries of African States, La République du Cameroun’s presence in Southern Caneroons is annexationist and illegal.

Pursuant even to the nationality laws of La République du Cameroun, once AKA raised the issue of his nationality, the military tribunal was supposed, even by its own motion, to decline jurisdiction, and refer the matter to the locality of AKA’s claimed birth place. This was was not done.

This is a miscarriage and travesty of justice. As his Counsel, we must decry it in the loudest terms.

We have appealed the decision and it is our hope that AKA’s legal foundations will set the grounds not only to redress this manifest injustice but open the door to the necessary political actions that need to occur for a just and sustainable resolution to the war that is at the basis of AKA’s prosecution and persecution.

Joseph Awah Fru, Esquire
Lead Counsel for AKA and APOC.

Understanding the Ambazonian Independence Pact of 2025

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The Leaders Summit

It is no longer news that Ambazonian Leaders have met and signed the Indepdence Pact of Easter 2025.

In this post, Ambazonia News attempts to fill in the gaps and answer some questions.

As usual, we welcome more insights from more informed sources.

Origins

The Consultative Commission is the old Coordination Team which come to life immediately in the mele of initiatives for conferences post the [predictable] collapse of the Canadian Pre-Talks. The collapse was when La République du Cameroun publicly berated Global Affairs Canada, in effect calling, its boss and Canada’s foreign Minister equivalent … names. La République du Cameroun’s actions were entirely predictable because they have no negotiating position, even if they had “anyone at home” and, secondly, because one of their strategies is to out-wait the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle. The have done this through many schemes designed mainly to time-waste, playing for time in the hope that the momentum of the Ambazonian Liberation would diminish. That is why their response to Melanie Joly, for she was the GAC boss who first disclosed holding of the Pre-talks was utterly predictable.

Before that they had ridiculed the Swiss Process, of infamous memory, similarly, including through Justice Minister Momo’s ludicrous attempt to paint the diplomatic bungling as the clever work of Mr Biya to thwart the international community’s pressure to resolve the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle. That particular bungle, if anything, served to show that the international community was not only interested, contrary to popular perception, but involved in attempts to solve it. It is for another post to address the appropriateness and suitability of the involvement.

Other delaying tactics include the GDN, and its baby, Special Status. GDN was neither a dialogue nor great, being more of a monologue of hand-picked RDPC stooges who, just to be certain, were not allowed to use the word “federation”, which in turn, by then, was no longer a popular concept among Ambazonian Circles!

Maybe the last overt delaying tactic was the infamous reconstruction plan which turned out to be, like most La République du Cameroun projects, another embezzlement machine.

The Coordination Team, therefore was the Ambazonian response designed to consult Ambazonians, establish their preferences and aspirations in order to inform how the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle should be steered thereafter.

The report of the consultation is published and available to download from this link.

The Pact

  1. It is the outcome of the consultations that our Coordination Team carried out with our people, after several abortive attempts to move towards a negotiated settlement, which have resoundingly come out in favour of external self-determination – Independence.
  2. The Agreement shows the maturity in the Liberation Struggle after reflecting on many natural learning points and the appeals from the people
  3. It is a pact to collaborate to act in a more coherent and cohesive manner to expedite Ambazonian Independence and Freedom. By collaborating, Ambazonian Leaders will demonstrate to the citizens, La République du Cameroun and the international community that they are committed and intent on staying the course and taking the Liberation Struggle over the victory line. The necessary impulses will be applied to nudge LRC towards the realization that Ambazonian minds are made up, resolve solid and their faith strong and driving them to Freedom.

How it came about

After eight years of improvising the best they could in a struggle for which they were not prepared, which they couldn’t even claim to have been ill-prepared for, it was, still is, natural that they would stumble. They now understand that they have to get up each time they stumble and respond to the cries of our people to stand up collectively to the oppression and end the [illegal] occupation. They must hold their nerve and be mindful that La République du Cameroun’s ways of dealing with the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle include propaganda, some of which tries the deception that they are failing. Instead experience teaches us that Ambazonia is winning as even the La République du Cameroun’s worst excesses of terror and intimidation have come and done: village burnings, massacres, Moja…, “elites” have all proved failures and instead served to demonstrate how incompatible La Republique du Cameroun is to Ambazonia.

While [then] Southern Cameroons had a multitude of democratically elected Prime Minsters and peaceful transitions in less that ten years, La Republque du Cameroun is stuck on two President’s , non of whom have ever been democratically elected, for over six decades!

While Southern Cameroons ran an efficient public service providing utilities and maintaining infrastructure for social progress, La Republique du Cameroons, after six decades continues to regress and shows no embarrassment, rather pride, in being so backwards that they have to evacuate their ailing “leadership” overseas for simple health care.

Why it came about.

It is necessary for our people to access the same opportunities that all other people do. We need to end the skewed and corrupt system which has reduced our people to abject poverty as second class citizens in a chronically corrupt and incompetent regime where they literally have zero opportunities for social growth.

Our Ambazonian children are very talented and we owe it to them and humanity to harness those skills and talent for humanity’s collective future on an equal footing.

Ambazonia must emerge from the dark shadow of La République du Cameroun and realise her destiny of a bright and prosperous future in the community of nations.

We will work diligently and with conviction, knowing that we are linking arms to regain and possess our country. We will keep improving our ways and getting straight back up every time if we stumble. We are maturing into a nation relying on the resilience which has seen us to this stage even in the face of a clear perceived imbalance of power

Ambazonian Liberation is a righteous course. The Most High God is the Watchman of our Nation

The Heat Factor: Compelling La République du Cameroun to Negotiate

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For a time now the chorus of “the suffering of our people” has accompanied schemes and processes to get La République du Cameroun to the negotiating table “to stop the suffering of our people”.

The idea of getting La République du Cameroun to the table has been in the air since the Swiss Process and was present in the Canada Pre-talks which followed.

The positive of these micro overtures is that La République du Cameroun can be assumed to have recognised the need for a negotiation, though it has to be underlined that their idea of negotiation will not be the same as the Ambazonians’.

The ways of getting La République du Cameroun to the table start with the obvious proven one -namely “unbearable heat on the ground”. This proven as it was responsible for “enticing” La République du Cameroun to venture onto the Swiss and then The Canada Pre-talks. Even then, it has to be factored in that La République du Cameroun could use such encounters to play for time and wait for Ambazonian coalitions to fracture as Ambazonian still sadly has many gullible “leaders”.

The gullible leaders, though talking independence and probably meaning it display the naivety to have “bringing La République du Cameroun to the table” as an end it itself. They do not consider what will keep La République du Cameroun on the table and compel them to yield to the idea of Ambazonian Independence. La République du Cameroun This was PRAP’s ingenuity. To be fair to PRAP, they then figured that such a low bar was far removed from any idea of immediate independence so they honestly postulated the idea of stages, including a referendum in the future to determine that. While this might very well attract La République du Cameroun, it would empower anglophone unionists and give La République du Cameroun the leeway to buy self-interests and pervert any future referendum, assuming the process got there. The immediate danger is, in reality have to complete the “lure” by playing “dead”… and playing dead could engender actual death of the Liberation Struggle. It would tell the day-to-day victims that the leaders are trading in their condition and willing to callously risk their lives and livelihoods on trusting a La République du Cameroun which has definitively proved their untrustworthiness.

On the Ambazonian spectrum there is a more ludicrous group even than PRAP. They are the independentists who also use the “lure La République du Cameroun to the negotiating table” mantra but do not either think about the aftermath or talk about it. Worse, they too wish to rely on diplomatic overtures with only a very flimsy tenuous reliance on “heat on the ground”. They would be less successful than PRAP in luring La République du Cameroun as they would, being independentists, have to use the words “Ambazonia” and “Independence” – the ultimate repellent to La République du Cameroun! Hopefully times helps them to realise -unless they do already realise but have undisclosed intentions.

The simple clear and surest way is the “heat on the ground” which has the effect of communicating to all key stakeholders. If properly targetted and applied along the “Daring Move” parameters, heat will quickly compel not only La République du Cameroun but any of their backers with interests on Ambazonian soil.

They would also enthuse the Ambazonian citizens who have to live the daily oppression of La République du Cameroun’s occupation forces and show them that the leadership gets it and is on the right page to take the Liberation Struggle over the victory line.

Whichever method is used to bring La République du Cameroun to the table, it is crucial to have it figured out how to keep them there and get the desired result from the negotiation. Knowing that La République du Cameroun will employ the simple time-wasting method and wait for Ambazonians to tire, it is critical to ensure that “heat” persists and that the practical independence reigns on the ground.

Complimentary commitment demands that diaspora make their own part of the commitment the only way they can, which is to contribute material and time to support and communicate commitment to the civilians on the ground. On the ground, the civilians and the ARF+ have to have a mutuality which makes them one. The ARF+ will actually go out to bat in self-defence but the civilians need to implement Ambazonian independence by by-passing La République du Cameroun officialdom at every opportunity, especially when it comes to the education system. Ambazonia News is consulting to bring more practical suggestions for by-passing the La République du Cameroun-controlled system still choking the social progress of Ambazonian children with their corrupt assimilation system.

The Ambazonian Liberation Struggle is fateful and watched over by the Watchman of our nation. On their side La République du Cameroun is doing everything to antagonise Ambazonians and convince them, as if they still needed convincing, that the two countries are incompatible. On the Ambazonian side the PRAPs of this world, whatever iteration, are thwarted by, first the “lack of anyone at home in La République du Cameroun”, and the sheer illogic of their schemes whether to Ambazonian eyes or to La République du Cameroun’s.

Urgent warning from SCAC-Ghana

The Southern Cameroons Ambazonia Community – Ghana has issued an alert following the rescue of forty-three [43] people from modern slavery in Kumasi Ghana.

The victims were mostly of Southern Cameroons origin and are said to have been lured by the promises of Qnet, describe as a human trafficking network.

SCAC is urging Ambazonian families to ignore any promises of better opportunities made by Qnet or similar networks.

Read the letter here

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.

Canada the Sequel: Sequels never better the original!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Legal and Moral Position

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

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

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

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

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

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

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