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Our people are so hungry for freedom and so anxious to get to Buea that they are not savoring small victories on the way there and they are growing increasingly deaf to the kind of diplomatic lingo that rebukes colonial regimes like Yaounde. The meeting yesterday at the UN HQs in New York with Deputy Secretary General Amina J. Mohammed was one of those small victories on the way to Buea. As the leading diplomatic organization in the world, the UN was not going to put an exclamation mark at the end of its rebuke of the Biya regime. It came very close to pelting Prof. Ghogomu and team with rotten eggs. Thanks to the hard work that our people have done in preceding LRC to the UN with the truth, the lies Yaounde hatched for this delegation failed to convince. The readout of the meeting published by the Office of the Spokesperson has two very important messages for the colonialists in Yaounde:

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Rita Akana

10.Aug.2017

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The anglophone civil society consortium has called or the suspension of Gohst Towns next week. The suspension was made public in a press release which was published on their Facebook page on August 8, 2017.

Below is what is stated in that press release:

It has come to our knowledge that the 15th of August 2017 is the feast of Assumption; the Day Catholic Christians believe Mary the mother of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ascended into Heaven body and soul.
Consequent on that, we, members of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium, CACSC have unanimously agreed to suspend ghost town operations scheduled to run from Monday the 14th to Wednesday the 16th of August 2017. We pray all Catholics and Christian Faithful in general to use these days and intensify the ongoing Novena, so that the Lord may make haste to deliver us according to His Word.
It is our fervent believe that all and sundry understand the purpose of our ongoing resistance; it is not possible to seize your freedom and be able to control your own destiny without sacrifice. We all understand how difficult it is, but we must go all the way. Some of our compatriots have already paid with their lives, while others have offered their freedom and the rest their comfort off the motherland. We must negotiate this defining bend with even greater determination; the kind of determination that will tell the world that we are effectively in total control of our land.
We are hereby calling on the peace-loving people of Southern Cameroons to arm themselves by stocking their homes with as much foodstuff as possible. This phase will require a lot of sacrifice and we are urging you all to scrupulously respect the directives that will be dished out in the days ahead so that we can all stay safe.
As we resist in fasting and prayer, let us remember our brothers in the underground bunker at the SED. Information reaching us indicates that Patrick Ndangoh who sent out the video showing their terrible conditions has been beaten to near death with wounds all over his body. An additional reason for our renewed call to sacrifice!

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Rita Akana

10.Aug.2017

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At least three suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers blew themselves up in Cameroon on Wednesday morning, killing only themselves and no one else, but sending another message that their insurgency was far from being over.

The suicide attacks took place between Djakana and Kalguiwa in the country’s far north, reported Cameroonian newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel.

This attack comes after series of bombings by Boko Haram in the past few days left dozens of people killed and thousands displaced. At least 2000 Cameroonians have paid the supreme price since 2014 by Nigeria-based terror group.

The latest deadly attack occurred overnight August 5 and August 6. At least eight children were killed. That attack left parents in tears and triggered anger against Amnesty International, the international human rights group that issued a report recently accusing Cameroonian security forces of torture.

Simon Ateba News did not receive that report because Amnesty International although working in Africa prefers to send its reports to Western, white people owned-media. Protests for such racist behaviors against Amnesty International by this newspaper were met with disdain and silence.

In an interview received by Simon Ateba News, the Mayor of Kolofata, one of the most hit towns in Cameroon’s far north, blasted Amnesty International for looking the other way when Boko Haram massacres innocent Cameroonians but blatantly lying against Cameroonian security forces when the terrorists are murdered.

He was reacting to an attack carried out by Boko Haram in the night of August 5 and August 6. At least eight Cameroonian children, some as young as seven years old were killed.

The Mayor said Amnesty International should tell Boko Haram to respect the rights of innocent children.

“I would like to inform Amnesty International that there was a terrorist attack overnight August 5 and August 6, 2017 in the department of Mayo Sava in the district of Kolofata. That suicide attack left eight young Cameroonians dead,” the Mayor of Kolofata said in French.

He read the names and ages of the victims. The youngest was seven years old and the oldest was 13 years old.

“Following this tragic event, the mayor of Kolofata would like to inform Amnesty International which pretends that the rights are being violated, that in carrying out their ignoble task, the suicide bomber also died”.

But Amnesty International had said it was not against the killing of suicide bombers but the arrest, torture and murder of innocent Cameroonians in the name of fighting the war against Boko Haram.

Security forces often raid homes without warrants of arrest, often based on unfounded allegations. These behaviors have been widely condemned even in Cameroon.

But with Amnesty failing to cooperate with local newspapers and focusing on white or western media, authorities seem to be succeeding in painting Amnesty International as an organisation that supports terrorists.

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Simon Ateba

10.Aug.2017

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Cameroon's lone state owned Newspaper in its today's edition reports of over 4.400 candidates who sat for Special Court Registrars and Police Exams in Bamenda.

The paper wrote:

The neighbourhoods of GBHS Bamendankwe and GBHS Bamenda hosted thousands of candidates in search of places in the police corps and the National School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM). In effect, GBHS Bamendankwe featured some 755 candidates for the special public service examination ordered by the Head of State to recruit 30 pupil Court registrars of English expression into the Common Law department of ENAM in response to some concerns raised by protesting Common Law lawyers. 

The examination that took place on 5thand 6th August 2017 featured questions on land law, family law, civil procedure, criminal law, organization of Courts and their competences, general knowledge etc. Dieudonne Fon Sam ensured superintendence as the Head of mission with; Ekane Ivo as the Head of the Bamenda center while Ndi Ngam Meredith turned full circle with technical issues as the “Charge de mission”. A week earlier, on the 29th and 30th of July, 2017, the Bamenda centre also hosted 131 candidates of English expression for the recrutement of Pupil Administrative Judges, Accounts Judges and Judicial Judges for the Common Law department at ENAM.

Elsewhere; the examination to recruit 5000 Constables into the police corps featured 3610 of the total 3620 that registered at the Bamenda center. It is all about the recruitment of some 4840 Constables for general services, 100 drivers and 60 musicians in the police corps. The Regional Delegate of National Security, Gousmo Emile told Cameroon Tribune that the Bamenda centre will on August 19th, 2017 host another competitive examination for candidates who registered to train as Inspectors of police.

Source: Cameroon Tribune

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Rita Akana

08.Aug.2017

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Meeting in Bamenda over the weekend, the Social Democratic Front, SDF, National Executive Committee, NEC, adopted a number of resolutions, among which the party said Biya has failed in handling the crises in Cameroon, especially the Anglophone Crisis and, as such, he should resign.

The SDF took a firm stand that, for schools to resume, Anglophone detainees in Yaounde that are being tried in military courts be released, and that the Government should stop the harassment of citizens. “The SDF is committed to the proposition that education is life. It bares emphasising that parents are ready to send their kids to school, teachers are ready to return to the classrooms, pupils and students are eager to learn and, above all, the population yearns for a return to normalcy in this two Regions. But this requires the Biya regime to create an enabling and conducive environment, which consists, among others, the conditions stated above.”

These confidence-building measures which have been addressed in previous SDF communiqués, the party believes, that if handled properly, it will pave the way for constructive and meaningful dialogue on the Anglophone Problem.

“This ought to be the regime’s priority, instead of wasting taxpayer’s funds dispatching delegations abroad to misinform the international community as to the true nature of the Anglophone Crisis,” the SDF holds.

“The party reiterates that the responsibility to resolve this Crisis rests on the shoulders of Mr. Biya, and his shoulders alone. Mr. Biya, who has so spectacularly abdicated from his functions as Head of State, should finally give full effect to his actions by resigning from this office.

The incompetence, negligence, laxity and inertia of Government are the very reasons why this party, Ni John Fru Ndi, who presided at the NEC meeting, states, unequivocally, that: “The Biya regime’s refusal to engage the Cameroonian people in meaningful dialogue on the form and nature of the Cameroon State, its persistent false characterisation of Federalism as Secession and championing, for the last 20 years, a meaningless decentralisation process has brought Cameroon to where it is today.””

In other separate resolutions of NEC, the party assures Cameroonians that, upon the arrival of the SDF to power, it will bring to light the truth on the recurrent murder of religious officials in Cameroon. The party condemns the lack of an adequate road maintenance policy in Cameroon.

The party expresses worries on the inadequate level of preparation of the African Nations Cup and says Biya will be held responsible for any eventual disgrace. At the end of the meeting, NEC resolved that the elective convention will hold from October 26 to 28, 2017.

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Rita Akana

08.Aug.2017

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“I don't know much about your country but as I was praying this morning, God told me Son! Limbe will become like London."

These were the words of prophesy delivered by celebrated Nigerian Cleric, Apostle Johnson Suleman, on Tuesday, August 2, at the start of a two day crusade at the esplanade of the Limbe Omnisport Stadium.

According to the firebrand Man of God, there is a link between Limbe and London.

However, frontline activists dreaming of a statehood for the Northwest and Southwest Regions of Cameroon have gone celebrating since the prophecy was issued in Limbe and are using it to re-fire their campaigns.

These words isolated from many other pronouncements he made including prayers for Cameroon have gone viral on social media.

Anglophone activists and others in the Diaspora have picked up the message to mean that God is on the verge of giving them a new country.

Even those who openly criticised the Man of God at the onset of the crisis in 2016, when he announced during one of his live Sunday Service on television that " Southern Cameroonians or East Cameroonians there is nothing worth fighting for'' have  now jumped into making meaning out of the Limbe pronouncement.

These are the same persons who criticised the prophet in 2016 when he asked the nation to pray against a 'Black Sunday' shortly after the Eseka train derailment that claimed many lives.

Besides many other things he said and prayers the preacher made for President Paul Biya and those in position of authority, the activists  have lifted just the line on Limbe to engage in their social media campaigns.

A handful full of other Cameroonians saw something different from the message which the Journalist cum preacher made concerning the sea side town.

During the August 3 crusade, Suleman in the course of preaching said, Limbe was a city of oil but its population was living in abject poverty.

He prayed for the population of Limbe, starting from market women before proceeding to pray for the President, his cabinet, the military, paramilitary, navy, police and all sectors of the nation.

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Abeh Valery

08.Aug.2017

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