La République du Cameroun: le renouveau témoigne de son âge

In La République du Cameroun, it is over a month since the RDPC “won” – well, that is, was declared winners of the presidential poll, by Mr Biya;s hand-picked Constitutional Council.

When Mr Biya first came in 1982, his catch phrase was “renouvea”, the French for renewal. Now ailing and decided not “new”, he is fighting the people of La République du Cameroun against “renouveau”. How ironic!

This week, in more “evidence”, for want of a better word, of the RDPC’s fight against renewal in La République du Cameroun, Mr Biya’s government has deployed military units to encircle the home of Prof Maurice Kamto, he who was pre-defeated in the infamous and embarrassing, president poll, to stop his party from … meeting. Meanwhile, propagandists of Mr Biya’s RPDC have published another precious letter of congratulations on social media to show that an important foreign country state has shown implied support for the presidential poll!

At this point, Mr Biya’s RDPC seems so desperate that they have not deemed it necessary to “renew” the inept and corrupt government which had already largely survived Mr Biya’s 2018 poll rig. The question asks itself: what is Mr Biya planning to do other than fight the citizens he promised peace to in the run up to the October 12th 2025 poll rig? No movement to start using the “mandate” to govern yet but he has resorted to calling out the armed forces to stand against “the people”!

Since the poll, some of the validator “candidates” have broken their cover and started “offering to take part in a government of national unity”. In 2018, they had carried out their task by making noises and complaints about the electoral system prior to the poll, and then quickly folding and congratulating Mr Biya after the poll rig. Even back in 2018, it was clear Libii, Osih or even Muna were not contenders but were only in for the cheques. This year, they again fulfilled the same role but, having banked the cheques, they are making overtures and angling to join the gravy train that is Mr Biya’s “government”. Poor La République du Cameroun!

It is such a good time to call oneself Ambazonian! Imagine having to admit to being from La République du Cameroun. It is time for Ambazonians to return to Complimentary Commitment to actualize their freedom. All the Ambazonians out of harms way away from ground zero should do their duty and support the brave Ambazonian Restoration Forces Plus. They can do so by getting back to their choice of Independentist Entity.

Many of the major independentist groups are signatories of the Leadership Pact, working collaboratively under the umbrella of the [Ambazonian] Consultative Commission. Ambazonia News urges Ambazonians to press their chosen groups to work more actively to remove this final humiliation of of being occupied by a lame duck RDPC which is unable even to “enjoy” its stolen election victory in their own place.

Corruption in Cameroon: The Biya Administration Exposed

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Mr Biya “did so swear” again. At Ambazonia News we would gladly swear that all the fingers on his obscured hand were crossed, just as they were the previous times. Legend has it that if one swears intending to dupe or lie, or not meaning it, they avert the curse if they have their fingers crossed. Ergo, Mr Biya’s fingers must have been crossed.

In his previous term, he failed to protect the any aspect of the country’s interests, instead spending vast periods of time wasting the nations resources, he could have deployed to create health facilities for the benefit of the nation, on lavish personal provision, admittedly for his health but hardly for the benefit of the nation. On the subject of health facilities, have failed to cater for the numerous women who fell victim to a corrupt and inefficient decaying health “infrastructure”.

It is common knowledge that many women “lost” their babies delivered in the system, sometimes said to have died during birth, sometimes literally “misplaced”, as in stolen from the institutions. Some were detained after “treatment”, or, more accurately, a “stay” in “hospital”, until they could cough up the fees. He did not try to provide the basic health care, a president should, who has sworn without crossed fingers.

In La République du Cameroun, under Mr Biya’s watch, it has also become normal to openly demand bribes from travelers on numerous check-points. These check points have been constant, including during all the peaceful periods, and are openly acknowledged and understood to be a racket run by the police hierarchy to supplement their pay. That means business is stifled on a daily basis. The hard-working citizens have to factor in these extra random costs which render business completely unpredictable and anything from less rewarding to pointless. When it comes to business in LRC, any operator must first become corrupt and metaphorically willing to swim in a cesspool.

As for the young who are supposed to be beneficiaries, according to Mr Biya’s latest promise, gaining admission into any public educational institution is paid for, for the lucky. The “concours” system is known to be a racket for ministers to collect huge sums to designate the “pass list” for places such as ENAM, which, unsurprisingly, produces corrupt administrators, who borrow colossal amounts to gain access to “training” and then immediately, on graduation, try to recoup their investment. Even secondary schools generally operate on a “Tchoko” system where spaces are sold.

The ENAM graduates all rely on Mr Biya for appointments.

Mr Biya’s fingers must have been crossed in 2018 as he hardly appeared during his expiring term, instead wandering the globe usually oblivious of where he was and what he was there to do and wasting resources he could have deployed to keep some of his promises – except he had crossed fingers.

Even forgetting that he did not formally declare that he was running for the latest poll, it is still odd that he did not turn up to any campaign during the process. He also left the country during the campaign to get medical treatment abroad, highlighting hi own failure and negligence to provide health care he could rely on. This fact would be political death in any other democracy, and was for Mr Biya, except it did not matter because the poll was utterly unfair.

ELECAM, the election commission is his commission of his party members. The aforementioned administrators from ENAM are all appointed by him and they are in charge of the logistics of the poll. If one could ignore the unfairness of ELECAM and the ENAM administrators, one still has to reckon with the Constitutional Council, a group of retired judges, all members of Mr Biya’s party and appointed by him!

The upshot of all these is that Mr Biya, who has failed seven times in providing for his citizens, did not formally enter the race nor campaign AND was running genocidal conflicts in parts of the country, and therefore should not have been able to stand is a very unlikely, and unbelievable “winner”. “Unbelievable” as in “lacking credibility”. There is no credibility in any idea that anyone with the flaws Mr Biya “brought” into the campaign could have won, never mind that he did not even campaign!

Unsurprisingly, the diplomatic missions in La République du Cameroun were loath to be seen at his investiture and nor did they send him any messages of congratulations on the election. The US sent a letter to congratulate Mr Biya on his investiture. The electoral charade may as well never have happened!

Mr Biya is not the only one to blame. On reflection he could be argued to be blame-free of the whole system. Clearly he did not personally “tamper” with the ballots in “North West” or “South West” or anywhere else.

The system in La République du Cameroun is as untenable, not to say intolerable, as the French system around the 1780s. As the best student of the French Mr Biya must have ways of avoiding the fate of the French system all those centuries ago.

Whether the people of of La République du Cameroun “object” or not, Mr Biya will find that time objects more and more as he tries to navigate another term of high instructions.

Ambazonia’s route

Ambazonia had a small hope of a slightly more genuine negotiated exit from the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle thanks to Mr Tchiroma’s manifesto “commitments”, even if they fell well short. As short as they fell, they went much further, and infact, out of sight of any ideas Mr Biya has postulated. It is well known that, regardless of any double-talk, Mr Biya literally offers no solution as he hopes to defeat Ambazonia’s quest for freedom. Equally, it was always virtually certain, from experience and thr RDPC’s “efforts” in the campaign that they would resort to their back-stops in the machinery and so Mr Tchiroma’s offer was only really useful for international partners to be aware that there could be an alternative solution to Mr Biya’s and the RDPC.

The reality now is as it was before the charade was entered in La République du Cameroun; we have to win our freedom. In a way, a clear and unique goal is no bad thing and the charade has blown many entities’ cover as well, further distilling the Ambazonian camp to the truest independentists. The truest independentists with experience and stronger arguments to present to any international partners of good will.

The truest independentists with clear sight of the fifth columnist who defied shame and indignity to operate the RDPC’s fraud machines purportedly from Ambazonian soil. Their day is coming.

Ambazonia’s day is imminent.

The watch words are “Daring Move”, “Action and Accountability”, “Complimentary Commitment” and “Building Bridges”.

The Most High God is the Watchman of Ambazonia

Ambazonia’s Response to Biya’s Re-election: A Fragile Future

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As expected, the hand-picked and dozy Constitutional Council announced Mr Biya as the winner of the 12^th October 2025 presidential poll in La République du Cameroun. The decision from a feeble would-be grandiose presentation had already been trailed and rejected by the already-wised-up electorate. For the week before the announcement, while Biyta’s proxies tried to “bring back” Tchiroma in “secret” negotiations in France, there was a fevered atmosphere of “not this time” as more and more PV’s showed a clear victory for Tchiroma, Mr Biya’s camp dismissing the evidence as “raw data”.

“Raw data” would be laughable in other contexts. In La République du Cameroun sounded as ominous as “guarantor of peace, youth interest, women’s interests”, the ideas which were postulated in Mr Biya’s “ambitions” for an 8^th term! Those Ambitions, with hindsight could be seen as threats, suggesting Mr was threatening to unleash his yet-more-misnamed “forces of law and order” on the “beneficiaries” of those electoral “ambitions”. The “ambitions” would not tally with a long “serving” president who is running a civil war against women, children and youths; has maintained a system of “only-the-old”, whose only objective is to survive. During the “campaign” , in which he did not campaign or even present his own candidature, he had to go to Europe for medical care, having failed to achieve in four decades, the simple ambition of creating one health facility to which he would entrust he care. In his last term and prior, women have lost babies in hospitals, many patients have been detained for bills … Even his proxies would not swallow his “ambitions”. In context, “raw data” – not yet cooked, not yet “processed”, not yet falsified.

“The people” have rejected Mr Biya’s “re-election” with [sporadic] marches of protest which have left Mr Biya and his proxies seeking ways to “exercise authority”, to the extent that they have gone to ridiculously petty lengths. One of the “targets” is reported to be Mr Biya’s self-proclaimed best supporter being stopped from entering Garoua and turned around to return to Yaounde. Yes, because “Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun”, Pr Messaga Nyamding was prevented, on arrival, from leaving Garoua Airport and sent back on the same aircraft.

This suggests Mr Biya’s cronies were hopping to be breaking more limbs by now. Instead, they are left waiting. Ambazonia News does understand there have been several deaths. The atmosphere, though is still expectant.

Mr Biya’s regime is in place still – just. It is very much devoid of any power. It is not in power. Even the traditional “letter of congratulations” has not arrived from mentor France!

Imagine being in office but not in power, looking for ways to “show” or exercise power.

By contrast, there are more voices openly challenging the regime but cleverly not presenting the regime with the fodder they would dearly love to go at! The Camerounese have their voices back and have finally caught up with the idea that they must run their own lives and livelihoods. Ambazonia News will keep tabs on the various ways they device to nudge Mr Biya’s regime aside.

This story is not yet told! The regime is going to die of idleness and self doubt at this rate.

What should Ambazonians do?

Nothing new. There was never going to be a speedy solution whatever the result in La République du Cameroun’s poll. The fragility of Biya’s regime does present an opening.

Ambazonia does not to clean up the slur that Mr Biya “received 86%” of votes in Northern Ambazonia. Though this clearly fictional, the authors still need to account for the damage to the memory of all the ARF, women and children who have fallen to La République du Cameroun’s genocide.

From Ambazonia’s perspective Mr Biya’s “victory” has the one positive of keeping our number of choices at one. We still need to get our country back and one more year of experience only helps.

We need to stride out now more focused on what we need to do and do it with, for want of a better phrase, sang froid, deliberately aiming our efforts for the most impact and effectiveness in uprooting the illegal and forceful occupier.

Tchiroma “Wins” but … Biya could still be announced.

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“Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun” is a summary of an electoral process which, in any other corner of the world would not be under discussion, never mind “in the balance”.

But, as “Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun”, Tchiroma’s victory, like those of Fru Ndi in 1992 and of Kamto in 2018, is still in “doubt” despite every “indication” and reasonable observation showing it as the inevitable outcome.

Mr Biya did not campaign, anymore than he did in 2018 when he “won” through control of the football, the goal posts, the referee, the match delegate … and a back stop of the “homologation committee”. “What is a homologation committee?”, some might ask. In Cameroun football, there is a committee which can change he results of league games in football, sometimes weeks after the final whistle, no jokes!

The ”doubt” over Mr Tchiroma’s victory is purely down to the “convention” that the “homologation” committee has to announce official results. Sorry we are confused at Ambazonia News! In the case of presidential polls, the equivalent of the homologation committee (of football) is the “Constitutional Council” a backstop in the true sense to ensure that the RDPC, really in this case Mr Biya would be announced as the “winner”. In football, when the homologation committees change results they cite “irregularities” and that is quite rare, but suffice it to note that they really do exist and can be dusted off in “emergencies”. The “Constitutional Council” usually stands in to “reject irregularities” raised by contenders. For instance, they would reject the irregularity that the election process is handled all over La Republique du Cameroun and in the Diaspora, literally, and managed by functionaries whose continued employment relies on patronage and membership of Mr Biya’s RDPC. Even when they cart off ballots to other locations out of sight and regularity, this homologation committee rejects complaints. Nominally the Constitutional Council is a separate arm of La Republique du Cameroun’s system, but in reality, the members are all appointed by Mr Biya and have membership of the RDPC. Hence, even though Mr Biya did not present his candidature or campaign, it is still a real possibility that he could be announced as the “winner”!

In addition to not declaring his candidature or campaigning, he has a record which would, in any other country, have shamed him out of attempting to run again – even by proxy. As “Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun” his proxies announced his candidacy for him, issued his campaign on “high instructions”, started a campaign of intimidation for him and generally set about preparing the ground for the ~~homologation committee~~ Constitutional Council to announce for him again. MINAT, for instance has been threatening all and sundry with the comical idea of “the law” even though “Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun”!

The bad news for RDPC this time is that Mr Biya is not physically up to it, never mind mentally! He had to be transported to Europe in the middle of the campaign for medical care, which, in any other electoral campaign where it could not be said “Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun”, would spell doom for any candidate, even ones who were not responsible for not having ONE medical institution in the country where they could entrust their health care. Mr Biya has been in charge for nearly a half-century and cannot boast of being able to trust any health care institution created on his watch! But “Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun”.

His proxies also tried to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear when they tried to portray Mr Biya as the “guarantor of security, women’s and young people’s interests”.

In La Republique du Cameroun, the job of youths and women is to come out and dance when Mr Biya returns from medical treatment in Europe. Clearly not all of them can do that so the rest are unemployed and unable to make ends meet. The irony of being 92, unable to handle a “run” for another seven-year term, having to leave the ~~manipulation~~ run to proxies would appear to be too subtle, given that tag and the knowledge that the top of his “out-going” administration is populated by sickly over-aged individuals, who all benefit from being able to by-pass the lack of medical institutions they can trust in their country.

In Ambazonia, which RPDC and Mr Biya like to claim to be part of La Republique du Cameroun, Mr Biya has had a lot of poor people’s children risking their lives to kill, among others, youth, women and children of Ambazonia – a logical part, were his tag to be credited, of the groups whose interests his proxies are proposing he would guarantee.

“Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun” is why there is even any tension over Mr Tchiroma’s victory when Mr Biya did not declare a candidacy, campaign or have any record to show for his previous tenure, instead only having a record that would, were “Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun” not applicable, have spared everyone his name on the ballot!

Ambazonia News will re-post our Consultative Commission and Ambazonian Leadership Pact’s crisis plan. This would appear to be sorely needed to prepare our citizens as the signs are ominous and getting more so with the illogical “Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun” tension still hanging in the air like an over-staying inept, incompetent, corrupt dictator.

The Most High God is the Watchman of Ambazonia

Mr. Tchiroma’s Missteps: Ambazonian Sovereignty Explained

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As La République du Cameroun approaches their impossible conundrum of a poll, contender Tchiroma has been recounting what he “knows” of Ambazonian history – very kind of him. Ambazonians should beware and not be moved by such faint flattery. For one thing the flattery carefully avoids the important facts of Ambazonian history.

While Tchorima did state that La République du Cameroun gain independence before Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia), he omitted to point out that La République du Cameroun gain her thence frozen international borders on that fateful 1st of January 1960, meaning that while La République du Cameroun is known as La République du Cameroun, Ambazonian cannot be legally or logically within her borders nor, therefore, fall under La République du Cameroun’s sovereignty. Knowing this, Mr Tchiroma, would not be able to make the promises he made or continue to imply that when/if he became President of La République du Cameroun, that he would grant favours to Ambazonia under any assumption of “internal solution” of a wholly external conflict. As the legal position stands, Ambazonia is a separate country from La République du Cameroun so any negotiations cannot proceed from any idea that La Republique du Cameroun could grant a federation to a separate “state of equal status”.

The second omission by Mr Tchiroma was that the federation, he rightly recounted, was never signed off and, therefore, both states are as if the status was still frozen at the negotiation stages between 1960 and 1961. Had the federation been signed off and respected, the provisions/terms would not have allowed any changes the form of the federal state without the separate majority approvals of both states. That is, West Cameroon and East Cameroon would have needed to separately vote for a change before it could be instituted. Even the idea of holding a referendum would have had to be agreed separately by both separate “states of equal status” in their parliaments before any such referendum could be held. The Federation already suffering from a lack of legitimacy was further abused by a “member” state against rights of the other. Mr Tchiroma left this out from his account, which means he would continue this illegality were he to somehow emerge as the “winner” of La République du Cameroun’s poll.

As if the lack of treaty and the illegal referendum were not enough, Mr Tchiroma also glossed over the 1984 decree which effectively seceded La République du Cameroun from the dubious “United Republic of Cameroon”. Though it is clear that the URC itself was a tenuous entity owing to its origins, having emerged from an incomplete federation, illegally transformed, it had the small merit of not being the La Republique du Cameroun which had borders established in 1960 without Souther Cameroons (Ambazonia). So Mr Biya open a one-way door and dragged La Republique through. The only state with the right and prerogative to choose whether to open that door again from the other side if Ambazonia. La République du Cameroun had has no further sovereignty over Ambazonia and neither Mr Tchiroma nor any other contender in La Republique du Cameroun’s poll will have any legal or logical power to grant any favours to Ambazonia under any idea of a federation, especially that state having established and demonstrated that disadvantages of any association over the last six decades.

Mr Tchiroma will also be aware that HCB 28/92 established that La République du Cameroun were illegal forceful occupiers of Ambazonia, a ruling and conundrum which remains unresolved. If Mr Tchiroma or any other runners in the La République du Cameroun poll are unaware they need to source a copy of Le Messager to peruse the ruling. Ambazonia’s self-determination is external and is non-negotiable, belonging solely to the sovereign people of Ambazonia.

Whatever promises or nods occur or are implied between any parties originating from Ambazonia, Ambazonian sovereignty cannot be traded by any of the fifth column who may want to make-believe that they represent Ambazonia in La République du Cameroun.

What Mr Tchiroma should do is promise to pursue the aborted negotiations started in Canada where Ambazonian Leaders were available to negotiate at an appropriate status external to La Republique. As Mr Tchiroma said the internal so-called “great national dialogue” was inappropriate and had no power as it wrongly sought to cast Ambazonia as internal to a state with separate far-removed borders. Even the presence of some presumptuous fifth columnists did not translate to any king of Ambazonian representation.

There is no such thing as NOSO in La République du Cameroun – your borders do not extend that far.

The Most High God is the Watchman of Ambazonia.

For meaningful peace negotiations start from the legally right premise.

Ambazonia News expects all international partners of good faith to come to the aid of La République du Cameroun’s political classes to get them to the position of accepting the legal reality that they seem to willfully ignore, and turn a blind eye to seemingly hoping “everything will be alright” even if the HCB 28/92 is still pending.

Ambazonian Leadership Pact: Rejecting La Republique’s National Day Charade

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The Consultative Commission has issued the Ambazonian Leadership Pact’s ban on this years edition of the La Republique du Cameroun charades on Ambazonian territory.

La Republique du Cameroun, the “former” French colony which “gained independence” on January the 1st 1960 has a habit of marking their national day on May the 20th in typically Camerounese behaviour, which ignores the day they purportedly gained independence and instead highlight’s the day they botched their assimilation attempt on the then West Cameroon.

For recall, West Cameroon was the equal-status state to East Cameroon in the Federal Republic of Cameroon which should have been created after the 1961 plebiscite, which saw British Southern Cameroons vote to “gain independence by joining La Republique du Cameroun”. As it happens, La Republique du Cameroun broke all her international engagements on the process.

First the Federation was not signed off so it never actually existed. Then, it was illegally “modified” in a “referendum” which could not have legally taken place, especially as it did not follow any modification of the “constitution” of the Federal Republic of Cameroon, which itself had not been passed by both of the equal-status federal states, and therefore …

As if these breaches of international law were not, enough, in 1984, La Republique du Cameroun decided to “improve national unity”, further by reverting to their name at independence. Fortunately for Southern Cameroons, then “West Cameroon” and, now, Ambazonia La Republique du Cameroun’s decision to revert to their 1960 name, by the provisions of the Africa Union’s Charter also shrank La Republique’s borders to their state in 1960, thereby releasing Southern Cameroons from any engagements flowing from the 1961 plebiscite and any “understandings” expected from same.

These ideas have been tested variously in court in Banjul and in Bamenda, in particular where the ruling in Ambazonia vs Cameroun, HCB 28/92 was issued in favour of Ambazonia. Elsewhere in Banjul, La Republique du Cameroun’s argument that “Southern Cameroons” was not a people was dismissed by the African Court, who accepted the grievances of the complainant Southern Cameroonians, urging La Republique du Cameroun to address the “legitimate” grievances.

La Republique du Cameroun’s perennial “solution” was to cultivate a class of “elites” from among the people of Ambazonian origin, whose role is to benefit from privileges under the patronage of La Republique du Cameroun’s ruling “elite” – ironically called “les gouvernants” in their common parlance! The Ambazonian-origin “elites” are somehow supposed to benefit from those privileges and patronage on behalf of the rest of the people!

Every year La Republique du Cameroun stages marches to prove the “unity” that they have spent so much time undermining. They will do it again this year and will try to persuade their citizen with tinned fish and bread, to come out and make-believe. As outlined in previous paragraphs, La Republique du Cameroun does not include Ambazonia and Ambazonians have asserted their independence, which they are protecting through self-defense in the face of continued intimidation and “illegal and forceful occupation” by La Republique du Cameroun militias and military. Any Ambazonian who succumbs to bread and fish inducements by either the “eiltes” or directly from La Republique du Cameroun functionaries, does so at their own risk and could be caught in the cross fire of Ambazonian self-defense forces as they resist the La Republique occupation forces.

Ambazonian citizens are urged to continue to show their independence and enjoy their dignity rather than be seen with fish and bread from their oppressors. In Ambazonia’s future all our citizens will be metaphorically taught to fish rather than given fish. Our children shall shine like the stars above and be able to go out into the wider world and fish on an equal footing to all other skilled peoples of the planet.

Consultative Commission promises important milestones for Ambazonia in 2025

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.

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

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On the 5th of November 2024 there was a landslide in Dschang in La Republique du Cameroun’s border province known as La Region de L’Ouest, for being the western-most province of that country bordering onto Ambazonia in the North.

Ambazonia News extends the prayers of neighbouring Ambazonia to the victims, many of whom have, for generations freely come and gone into Ambazonia, intermingling with Ambazonians.

Five days after the disaster, La Republique du Cameroun’s “Prime Minister, Head of Government” posted on X to blame nature and offer prayers and condolences to the victims. He referred to the voice of Mr Biya, whose own social media post is still to come. Mr Biya clearly think his other clever invention – the “presidential silence” is appropriate for this massive loss of life.

There has been no visit by any La Republique du Cameroun minister to assess the situation, probably because there was a similar landslide in the same area in 2021, killing more than 50.

As “Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun”, Ambazonia News is not questioning what was done to mitigate future occurrences if/when the 2021 episode was assessed.

Even for LRC, it is striking that the “government” has been so mute – even to the lack of the usual communique which would credit Mr Biya with releasing many billion of XFA to console the victims.

While there was nobody at home for the disaster, the government was busy projecting a documentary of Mr Biya’s achievements in his 42 years in office and organising celebrations and orations to mark ascension to the the Presidency. Don’t blame Ambazonia News! That is the language they use in their circles.

There is no shortage of ministers in La Republique du Cameroun but it seems they were all too busy – even JDDM who is meant to be from the neighbourhood of the disaster!

There is a possible explanation. The RDPC, Mr Biya’s “governing” party may well have been pre-occupied with celebrations on the 6th of November, but at least one of them could have commented or shown an interest. None of them did maybe for the callous reason that they did not want to be seen to be taking the lead. Yes that is a bad thing as Mr Biya is ailing and has a habit of culling the tall poppies. It wouldn’t do to project one’s self in the fevered atmosphere of Mr Biya’s imminent departure. So nobody did!

So they celebrate the 42 years of someone who succeeded a much younger person in office – the much younger person having decided to step down when they were a much better “leader” than Mr Biya subsequently proved to be!

The RDPC tabloid “Cameroun Tribune” ran an earnest editorial repeating Mr Biya’s 42 year old “mantra” of New Deal, plagiarized from the US of course, but claimed and celebrated as Mr Biya’s idea. No irony that under the new deal the regime not only could not carry out his other slogan of “Rigour and Moralization”, which were meant to fight nepotism, tribalism, corruption…

It is not an exaggeration to say that Mr Biya institutionalized those vices in his 42 years – to the extent that his regime is now in grid-lock too ashamed to repeat itself when “nature” provides the ill-timed [more like timely] evidence, if it were needed, that “Rigour and Moralisation” have become “Laissez-faire and Immorality” much like the descent of Rome into anarchy on the eve of the fall of the Roman empire. Speaking of Rome, this, if there were any doubts, is the nth crossing of the Rubicon! Even the normally fearful Camerounese are voicing discontent about the silence and disdain regarding this latest Dschang Disaster.

it is time for Mr Biya to formally bow out. It is no secret that he has not been “in” for at least a decade!

As Ambazonia News has postulated in the past, there is no one at home in La Republique du Cameroun!

Ambazonia needs to go ahead with running our country. It was never a protest or plea to gain special status of devolution or federation or any other supplicant status in a country which is so inept and unable to manage its own affairs.

Longue Longue and Sir Elton John’s different experiences : two-tier CW

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The legacy of slavery is vastly underestimated. Almost every behaviour of populations around the planet owes some psychological of engrained idea from the centuries of slavery and colonialism.

Some campaigners think that there should reparations from the beneficiaries to the victims. While there is no denying there are victims, for most of the population of the world are victims even today, it is still a big call to decide who should “accept” any reparations, never mind what would constitute reparations.

In the world where capitalism has won it would be relatively simplistic, actually just plain simplistic, to attempt to place a value on what adequate reparations should be.

Having said, the foregoing, it is worth noting that reparations were agreed way back when slavery was “abolished”. Relatively recently the British Government finished paying “reparations” to the descendants and estates of former slave owners, perversely using tax money which included victims’ descendants’ contributions! The argument about the appropriateness of reparations is spurious and the British establishment is somehow hoping to get by on their “authority and integrity” or the elusive “British sense of fair play”.

This writer is of the opinion that the value of “reparations” for the evil of slavery is infinite for the enduring effects it has had and continues to have. That the final “reparations” paid to slave owners and their descendants were so recent that the source of those payments included taxes from [descendants of] victims of slavery says something about the offenders’ values than the victims. Tragically, they were able to determine financial values for the lives of the people those paragons of British Imperial society held as property. For the victims it is impossible to place a value on the reparations that must be paid, or decide where the reparations show be spent. The worst aspect of it is the idea that reparations could be the end of the story, so maybe it is better to keep learning lessons, but while learning those lessons, the West needs to stop operating proxy colonies to continue to practice latent slavery.

Today the trade which allowed human beings to uproot other human beings from the homes and transport them to “lives” as property and being valued less that beasts of burden persist on a daily basis as psychologically broken populations of the world take perilous journeys on their own effort, attempting to gain self-imposed status as slaves in the lands of the people who first built their economies and empires literally from the blood and toil of their [today’s self-transporting slaves] forebears.

They borrow all they can to fund the perverse new trade where todays slavers trade in boats and the ultimate culprits somehow “don’t” know how to defeat the traders.

Reality is that the boats and commerce can be traced very easily and halted if anyone really wanted to halt it, but today’s declining empires, despite their protestations still need the free labour that immigrants bring. It is more and more obvious that the declaration of human rights so often cited is only for the humans it was for when it was first made with many slaves still in captivity.

The King said “lessons should be learnt”, speaking at a gathering of Commonwealth Heads of Government. The lessons we learn from the Commonwealth do include the obvious one that “good governance and human rights” are only for the white parts of the club. The established pattern is that human rights abuses and corruption are tolerated in many “less white” Commonwealth member countries. This reinforces the idea that those privileges are only for the people the human rights declarations were meant to benefit, for during those declarations and afterwards and onto today, the black populations can be spared to be tortured or abused and the Commonwealth declares those abuses tolerable and measures “progress” towards democracy.

In La République du Cameroun one of the best artists was recently humiliated when the secret service published footage of him being tortured in the same week when the nominal head of government of La République du Cameroun, Joseph Dion Ngute is attending the CHOGM. As LRC is a black country, that does not matter much. So in Britain, Elton John got a knighthood and became Sir Elton John as he should, but in the darker end of the Commonwealth in 2024 his counterparts and frightened for their lives. Longue Longue is that victim.

Nor is the obvious link between such poor governance and the migrant boats so obscure. It is only common sense that better just societies around the world would drastically cut the numbers of people who fee compelled to travel thousands of miles in search of better economic opportunities even when they are elusive in reality. Instead, the King is literally patronising crooks and tyrants while asking for lessons to be learnt, by who we cannot tell.

It has been eight years now since La Republique du Cameroun has been actively killing youths in Southern Cameroons who are suspected of being separatists. Resident slaves from that territory many of who would dearly like to vacate Britain and reduce the migrant crisis, have been to the Commonwealth Secretariat to count on the club’s “values and objectives” and met with no support.

Meanwhile the head of the club has been to pose with dictator Paul Biya and receive gifts. When leaving afterwards, they applaud he progress that La Republic du Cameroun is making towards democracy! A veritable slap in the face for all those people who used to be subjects of the Queen in British Southern Cameroons.

What lessons should they learn?

The club is expanding. The neighbouring dictatorship to La Republique du Cameroon, despite being a French colony, with no colonial link to Britain, is progressing, no pun intended, towards membership of the Commonwealth. Their citizens could be forgiven, if on reading the CW charter, their imagined their lives were about to improve.

Lessons should be learnt!

The King is right about lessons and not attempting reparations. In the current world system any reparations would go in a few pockets and end up in back in European banks.

The lesson to lean is to improve the governance in the south so that more of them stay at home. But where would that leave the NHS and other western health systems? Slavery has not gone yet! It is not time to talk reparations even if an appropriate magnitude could be ventured.

Constitutional Vacancy in La République du Cameroun.

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Today Friday 18^th October 2024 is day 46 of Mr Biya’s absence from his office in Yaounde.

As he is “not” ill, he has no reasons, not to say excuses, for being away from his “constitutional workplace” for this long without justification. Mr Biya is deemed to have resigned his post by abandoning it…

“In the event of a temporary impediment, the President of the Republic shall instruct the Prime Minister or, if the Prime Minister is unable to attend, another member of the Government, to carry out some of his functions, in the case of an express delegation.”

He is not ill as per the 8^th October Communique from his Chief of Staff, just to be clear so the 45 day limit is applicable – at least to be considered as unreasonable for anyone to be absent from their workplace without justification.

While the same communique may have claimed he was doing his job, article 8(1) defines his work place as the presidency in Yaounde, primarily, or other justifiable locations within La République du Cameroun. He certainly could not do his routine job overseas. Non-routine parts of his job would be diplomatic aspects – and nothing like being cloistered in secret in a Swiss hotel.

Certain minsters have been quick to say that there is no actual time limit at which the vacancy would be triggered but Mr Biya’s habits would have lead him to try to make it back within the disputed limit. That eh did not suggests bigger considerations than any argument about the time limits not being defined.

What should happen now?

The Constitutional Council should notice, having been been made to notice the vacancy [called resignation, if he has abandoned his place of work and his job] by the Speaker of the Lower House, and they should act to address it as by passing the torch to his constitutional heir…

That constitutional heir would be the speaker of the senate Niat Njifenji, who, sadly is in no state to step in as he is off for treatment in Europe. His vice-speaker should step in …

Quickly, it is clear that there are just too many improvisations to be called into play if the CC were to do its job. It is exactly the sort situations where the French have been known to step in to “help” and everyone can guess their “advice”.

As it happens, if the vacancy is not noticed, Barrister Tamfu has petitioned the Speaker of the Assembly to ensure he notices the vacancy and seizes the Constitutional Council.

All of the foregoing has built-in loop holes. For one thing, all the players in the chain are appointees of Mr Biya and are very unlikely to play their parts to discard him. The speaker will wait as long as possible, giving the Constitutional Council all that time to wait, before they wait again as they “deliberate”. The upshot, Ambazonia News surmises is that this law, even in spirit, is only for the poor, like most La République du Cameroun laws.

Mr Biya’s fall will, in the end, not come directly from the law. Had he been in any position to circumvent it he would have tried to get back just in time to avoid the criticism – at least avoid his lackeys having to defend his position in front of the international community. That he has not does not bode well for his basic functional health, rendering the “debate” about 45 days and any semantice and technicalities completely moot given his is very unlikely to be able to evcen contin ue to issue “high instructions” having failed to show himself “capable”. “His” [Mr Biya’s] dubious tenure has seen him burn bridges in the diplomatic arena, for instance with Switzerland and Canada most reccently, both of whom “he” duped into fools’ errands over the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle. To recall, he lead these two partner nations down the garden path of playing at “negotiations” before publicly disowning their statements. In the case of Canada, it was Global Affairs Canada’s head, the Minster of Foreign Affairs for Canada, who was disowned summarily contracdicted, having been misled to publicly announce dealings known as Pre-Talks between La Republique and Ambazonia. If La République du Cameroun had dispatched a functionary to slap her in the face that could not have been more offensive.

In Switzerland’s case, La Republique du Cameroun allowed a peripheral “opposition” minister delegate to issue an op-ed claiming Mr Biya was a genius for dribbling the international community away from sanctions. An admission of the genocidal crimes coupled with offending international partners – quite apart from the establishment of a reputation as unreliable.

These two are only the overt players in the scene and, as is the way of international partners, there will be others whose bridges were torched less publicly in the same, or related episodes.

Ambazonia News brings these examples to show that “dirty launders” of the vacancy could not have come at a worse time – the lowest ebb of “trust”. The secondary losses will fall on France who will have to further break cover when the try to crown their preferred “dauphin”, if their shenanigans in other French colonies is to be engaged again. Their standing in region is already tenuous and with the capital they have deployed in supporting La République du Cameroun’s genocidal war against Ambazonia they will need to have a lot of credit to burn, or a colossal amount to gain, to risk the attempt of a coronation in La République du Cameroun. If they do not line up their ducks, they will come unstuck especially in a theatre already primed and ready for exploitation by any disgruntled frenemies.

As Ambazonia News conjectured on the eve of expiry of the 45-day “understanding”, it does not matter much whether Mr Biya returns or not and there is hardly any credit to be had for dying in service, given that he has never been in service and would likely have died showing his disdain for the country he was claiming to serve – frequenting a foreign health facility for his own failure ro cause the creation of one within “his” country, which fellow citizens could benefit from as part of his legacy. Instead, he would be shown to have chosen to lavish resources on himself and his cronies while leaving abject poverty, incompetence, ineptitude and anarchy as his legacy.

His name would be “mud” so the French would have their work cut out to sustain a dynastic transition.

It will be intriguing to see how it unfolds in the next few days and weeks and months.