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In an interview granted at his residence today Cardinal Tumi reechoed that there has never been any marriage between British Cameroons and French Cameroon. They are living as concubines, the Cardinal said. The man of God who was ordained bishop in 1980 said : “They signed nothing at Foumban.

Prime Minister John Ngu Foncha (who was a former Catholic teacher) did not have the power to negotiate, because Cameroons was under the tutelage of France and England.

The French who supported Ahidjo, were at the conference. But England and the United Nations who were to validate the act, were not present. There has never been a document about what happened in Foumban. People went there to drink wine. 

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Rita Akana

23.Aug.2017

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Southern Cameroonians both home and abroad must become more resolute now than before. The resistance home in terms of ghost towns and school shut down must be maintained and intensified. The United Nations and its members must continue to see that things home are different. Home forces must continue to make ground ungovernable.

United Nations meet in New York in September and one of the item on the agenda directly concerns us. Point number 72 on the United Nations Agenda reads " The Right Of Peoples To Self Determination". This is where our case shall be discussed in the UN. As AU court in Banjul which is an auxiliary arm of the UN declared years ago that Southern Cameroons is a "People" and more recently the same AU Human Rights office which called for the release of Balla et al declared similar statement as we are a "People". In international law, and according to the UN charter, a people refers to those with right to self determination and yes Southern Cameroons has the right to self Determination. Now, we are seeing that the UN meeting in September has that item on the agenda, off course it is open. 

This is where all Southern Cameroonians come in. We must give our unflinching and united support to the Southern Cameroons Governing Council and its constituent members so that they continue to do their back door negotiations and diplomacy quietly that will enable a member state to raise up our issue when agenda number 72 comes up in the United Nations General Assembly. This is capable and possible to happen but the Governing Council and others must go into deep diplomacy like they are currently doing.

However, physically they will need our support for this to happen in the UN.

1. All Southern Cameroonians back home must be unified in shutting down schools, courts and observing ghost towns. This is a MUST and a duty.

2. Ground forces must be able to take some secured risks now and escalate the issue to ungovernable levels. The UN needs to see these two happening above greatly.

3. More importantly, all Southern Cameroonians in the United states must rally in New York during the one week of UN GA on a daily basis. They must sleep and camp at the UN in New  York protesting and organising events. They should move there with their mattresses. During this one week camping, large screens must be projected showing the shootings and killings of our people, showing the names of all those abducted, showing the brutality of our lawyers, showing the maiming and sewage rubbing of University students and the marks on their bodies. In fact, all photos must be projected. This must be a one week event during the entire UN GA. We must camp there, produce flyers, burned CDs, brochures and share to all police officers, passer-byes and all those entering the UN GA. The noise must be loud for the UN to know that they have to finish the decolonisation of Southern Cameroons as Britain failed to achieve.

Once the above are done, the governing council and its members are doing their back door diplomacy quietly without revealing any detail information.

Yes, agenda 72 on the UN GA concerns us but we must seize it and do things that will warrant it to be discussed at the UN GA. Aware that most of the powers lie in the UN Security Council, the talking of the Southern Cameroons Case at the UN GA will be a big fat step in our restoration agenda that will change the dynamics once and for all. yes, we can.

Share this until all Southern Cameroonians must have read.

Mark Bareta

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Baretanews

23.Aug.2017

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Dear honourable exco members of the Southern Cameroons Council in Belgium,
Dear Southern Cameroonians,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

Good evening,

The governing council of Belgium salutes you all.

We have all been witnesses to the prevailing state of affairs in Belgium and in our forums.

We deem it necessary at this point in time to sound this robust warning to all those propagating divisive tendencies,  insults and distractions within  our community in Belgium.

The principle of Democracy, which we dearly uphold, does not call for division, insults nor undermining the existence of other opinions. These variation of opinions must however be expressed within limits to the existence of that of others. Coexistence of these diverse opinions is necessary and constitute a solid foundation wherein our struggle must stand, in order to be successful.

It is undeniable that there is a deliberate willingness to institute some cracks in Southern Cameroons Belgium but, it is also our collective responsibility to repel such forces of darkness whose intentions are only to divide and weaken.

Bringing about unity in our struggle is the primary duty to all comrades in general, no matter your opinion or your group. Uniting all groups and opinions in Southern Cameroons Belgium has always been our main objective. This is the sole reason that motivated the name “Southern Cameroons Belgium”.  Therefore, Southern Cameroons Belgium is a unifying forum and shall be so. There should be therefore no prevalence nor the promotion of any group in Belgium. If any group must exist, there should be no competition with Southern Cameroons Belgium, but  complementarity for the sake of our struggle.

This present Interim Council of Southern Cameroon Belgium has been able to secure legalisation and registration of Southern Cameroons in Belgium. We have therefore acquired the legal capacity to carry on our activities without any interference from who ever. We reserve the right to institute legal actions against any obstruction to our proper functioning.

We wish to assure every Southern Cameroonian in Belgium that our unity cannot be tempered with. This is the reason why we have endorsed SCACUF as a group that has brought about a platform of unity for all the groups within our struggle. We have the duty not only to support but also to sustain SCACUF. In the future, we shall constitute a SCACUF secretariat. We believe all groups in Belgium and the diaspora as a whole are following this path.

We therefore take the opportunity to inform every Southern Cameroonian in Belgium about the upcoming visit of the chair person of the Governing Council who is presently our Interim President.

We are appealing to everybody to converge at the Zaventem International Airport on  Thursday the 24th of August 2017 at 7 am to give a historic welcome to the Chairperson and his delegation made of The deputy Chairperson Mr. Tassang Wilfred, The Secretary General Mr Milan Atam and the great Professor Carlson Anyangwe.

The reasons for this visit are twofold; diplomatic and fundraising. From Brussels, the delegation shall proceed to Munich Germany, only to be back in Brussels on the 30th and 31st  of  August 2017 for a town hall meeting with All Southern Cameroonians in Belgium, Holland and France.

We are expected to exhibit our cultural values of  Southern Cameroons during his welcome. All cultural dance groups in Belgium and beyond are invited to come out and dance during this event. Bring out your traditional dresses. This is the long awaited moment we have been clamouring for since our struggle ignited. You cannot afford not to be a participant to this welcome. We need to send a strong message to LRC and the world at large that we are capable of governing ourselves. The Chairman himself has instructed this.

Logistics, security and protocol services are underway for the event. A security team of minimum 20 men shall be needed. Those interested to serve in this team should contact the following comrades;

 Sama Thomas of Antwerp for registration. His Telephone number is: 0466291252.

For protocol team, contact comrade Marcellus Atanga. Tel: 0466205809

There is a fund that has been created to take care of the delegation while in Belgium. we the Exco members have taken the commitment to contribute 100 euros each for this event.

We are calling on every Southern Cameroonian in Belgium to be part of this fund. Be proud to bring in your modest support to this event. For your contribution, contact the following: 

For Antwerpen contact: SCB Treasurer Diba Dickson tel:0466 27 95 07
For Brussels contact chair lady of fundraising committee: Anna Fien: Tel: 0485 99 19 65
For all Leuven contact SCB Sec Gen.  Ufa Uygnns Tel:0465 92 76 71
For all other cities do it directly in the SCB account if you cannot get to these people incharge.

SOUTHERN CAMEROONS BELGIUM BANK ACCOUNT
IBAN: BE57 6304 0696 1135
BIC: BBRUBEBB

ADDRESS: ING BANK BELGIUM
PALAIS DE JUSTICE
PLACE POELAERT 1,  1000 BRUXELLES

 Remember to sign against your name and the amount you donate.

We also take the opportunity to remind all Southern Cameroonians in Belgium, of our upcoming elections, to put in place a permanent executive which shall be charged to run the affairs of Southern Cameroons Belgium for the next two years. Elections are scheduled for the 09th of September 2017 in Antwerp, Address: Carnotstraat 78, 2060 Antwerp. Check out the eligibility rules in the communique with the electoral committee.

At the level of Europe, all countries have to pay 600 euros each to take care of the flight tickets and transportation of the delegation around Europe. The delegation will visit 6 countries in Europe, Belgium being one of them.

We shall be updating you from time to time, as we progress into the organisation phase of this grand and historic event.

Thank you all for your commitment to the struggle.


Our struggle continues and God bless our projected Nation.

Barrister Ndeh Tangie David

Chairperson Southern Cameroons Belgium via Alhaji Ahmadu   Communications Department

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Rita Akana

23.Aug.2017

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There is a saying that: It’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. I am NOT also a lawyer or a legal expert but facts are facts even though you do not agree with them. All what matters to you is your opinion and common sense (which is not common).

So here are some very important facts about our struggle which am pretty sure you and your fellow Southern Crayfishes are not aware of:

[1] The Annex to UN article 102 says that if the UN is a party to any international treaty, then it’s the duty of UN secretariat to register the treaty ex officio. Now take a look at Statement of Treaties and International Agreements registered or filed and recorded with the Secretariat during October 1961: 

On page 12
No. 118 Trusteeship Agreement for the Territory of the Camerouns under British Administration. Approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 13th December 1946.

Termination with respect to the Southern Camerouns

In accordance with the General Assembly's resolution 1608 (XV) adopted on 21 April 1961, the above-mentioned Agreement was terminated with respect to the Southern Camerouns, on 1 October 1961, upon its joining the Republic of Cameroun.

Registered ex officio on 1st October 1961.

[2] S.T Muna, the very last Southern Cameroonian to address the UNGA was on the floor of the UNGA on 17 October 1961, barely two weeks after unification telling the Assembly that….

13. “My delegation wants to assure the General Assembly that unification and independence have been achieved in a peaceful atmosphere. As time goes on, the problems arising out of the marriage of British and French cultures in Cameroon through unification will be solved one by one.”

18. “Finally, we successfully produced a draft Federal Constitution, which, having been adopted by the two legislatures of East and West Cameroon, now binds the two States together as a Federation, which came into being as the Federal Republic of Cameroon on 1 October 1961. We are proud to report that this Constitution, drawn up by us, is typical and adaptable to our peculiar and existing problems.”

The question now is: Was Muna under any form of Coercion when he delivered that speech to the UNGA? What would you do if you were the UNGA? You can read the whole of Muna’s speech by visiting www.ambazonia.org/information/documents/Muna's Speech at the UN GA Acknowledging Unification & Independence of The Cameroons

Now, The UN which we need help from says there was a union that was registered ex officio, but we are the ones who keep saying there was no union. The very UN in United Nations Human Rights Committee Decision CCPR/C/83/D/1134/2002 in the case of Fongum Gorji-Dinka -V- Cameroon says in para 2.5 that Law 84/01 dissolved the union of the two countries and yet we say you cannot dissolve a union that did not exist. The said union which is our second International Treaty, known locally as the Foumban Accord, is cited in the United Nations records as an INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION, thus emphasizing the fact that the two parties to the Treaty were mutually sovereign states, each having its own government and parliament and that they had thus created a third parliament to which each subscribed members for the purpose of dealing with matters of common interest to the two countries.

It is the same UN that got Paul Biya to sign the UN Bakassi Accord stating that “I President Paul Biya of the Republic of Cameroun do hereby, in a bid to provide lasting peace to the Bakassi conflict, commit myself and my government to respect the territorial boundaries of my country as obtained at independence.”

It is the same UN that planted huge boundary pillars separating both Cameroon & Nigeria from Ambazonia. It is the same UN that presented two giant framed maps to Paul Biya showing clearly the British Cameroons and The Republic of Cameroon.

It is now 56 years after our country was illegally annexed and forcibly occupied by Cameroun. Instead of we acknowledging our mistakes and capitalizing on technology to find out the truth about our past so as to move the struggle forward, we'd rather sit our fat arses behind our computers and question facts that do not align with our preconceived ideologies.

Are we now going to question the UN why the treaty between Southern Camerouns and the Republic of Cameroun was Registered ex officio?

Tanyi Ojongmboh
Republic of Ambazonia.

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Rita Akana

23.Aug.2017

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A loud explosion was heard in Cameroon on Tuesday night in the same area where Boko Haram terrorists have been wreaking havoc in recent time.

Cameroonian newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel, said the bomb blast occurred in Amchide, a locality in the the country’s far north, which was recently hit by Boko Haram.

Casualty figure was unknown as the blast happened in the night in this central/west African country. 

Boko Haram has been wreaking havoc in Cameroon since 2014, leaving thousands of people dead and hundreds of thousands scampering for safety away from their ancestral land.

In neighboring Nigeria, where the insurgency began in 2009, more than 25 thousand people have been killed by Boko Haram and over two million others have been displaced.

Nigerian leader, Muhammadu Buhari and Cameroonian President Paul Biya, had all vowed to crush the ISIS partners in West Africa, but as days turned into weeks and weeks painfully turned into months and years, it soon became clear that they had failed as the terrorists continued to kill. 

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Simon Ateba

23.Aug.2017

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The abductions of Southern Cameroonians continues. Here is one Journalist in Bamenda, Miss Nadesh Omaghen. She is a Reporter at the Cameroon Report (TCR ) based in Bamenda. This news paper which sells only for 100CFA has been reporting on the current crisis in Anglophone Cameroon. Cameroon Report is a digital media established by her Boss. Her boss was arbitrarily arrested last month and locked up in Bamenda for reporting on the Anglophone Issues.  

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Rita Akana

23.Aug.2017

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