News analysis

A Desperate Regime’s Last Card: Why Cameroon Risks Turning a Political War into a Communal Conflict

If tensions escalate into communal confrontation, it is local families who bear the long-term consequences—displacement, retaliation, and the erosion of trust among neighbors who must continue living side by side. That cost is never evenly shared. By Carl Sanders The Independentistnews Soho London To the Mbororo community of the Savannah Zone—Bui, Boyo, Menchum, Ngoketunjia, and

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Commentary

The High Cost of Resistance: Bamenda’s Blood and the Politics of Fear

To the people of Bamenda—and to all who watch from near and far—steadfastness does not mean surrendering to despair, nor to rage. It means refusing to let violence define identity or fear determine the future. The night may be long, but history shows that endurance grounded in awareness is harder to extinguish than any campaign

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News commentary

There Are No “Road Accidents” in French Cameroon — Only State-Created Deaths

Until corruption is treated as a public health emergency, until negligence is treated as criminal liability, until state failure is treated as mass manslaughter, there will be no road safety in French Cameroon. Because what they call “accidents” are not accidents at all. They are state-manufactured deaths. By Ali Dan Ismael Editor-in-Chief The Independentistnews In

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Communique

The Ambazonian self-defence chief speaks to Ambazonian state Army (ASA)

OFFICIAL BRIEFING NOTE: OPERATION RESTORE COMMAND (ORC) TO: All Unit Commanders, Savannah Zone & Restoration Forces FROM: Strategic Communications Bureau, Federal Republic of Ambazonia DATE: January 27, 2026 SUBJECT: Rectifying the Savannah Zone Tactical Failures (Ndu/Baba I) 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Federal Republic of Ambazonia has suffered severe tactical setbacks in the Savannah Zone, specifically

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Finance

High Interest, High Risk, High Truth: What Cameroun’s Debt Crisis Reveals About a Failing State System

History shows that when legitimacy collapses, finance follows. And when finance withdraws, systems change. This is not the end of a crisis — it is the exposure of one. And for Ambazonia, it is not just an economic data point. It is strategic evidence that the structure attempting to occupy its future is itself becoming

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News commentary

The Guardian Post Newspaper: Journalism, Power, and the Business of Influence

One of the most persistent claims concerns a special distribution arrangement involving copies of The Guardian Post allegedly supplied to senior state offices at prices far above street value. While a regular copy sells for a few hundred CFA, critics allege the existence of a premium internal circulation channel priced at approximately 15,000 CFA per

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Strategic Analysis

Strategic Assessment: Purpose and Structural Limits of the Friends of Ambazonia Press Release

When civil initiatives are framed as state-level diplomacy, they risk blurring lines of legitimate representation, creating parallel authority narratives, weakening centralized diplomatic coherence, fragmenting international messaging, and confusing access with authority. By The Independentistnews Political Desk The recent press release issued by Friends of Ambazonia Inc. regarding its participation in the World Spiritual Diplomats Conference

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Rebuttal/Response

Ngah Christian of The Guardian Post at it again — and this time the pattern is no longer deniable.

A struggle does not become illegitimate because it is costly. A resistance does not become criminal because it bleeds. A people do not lose their rights because they are attacked. A cause does not die because fighters fall. History does not remember surrender. History does not honor submission. History does not record obedience as liberation.

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Letters to the Editor

A Fervent and keen reader of the Independentistnews from Bui County writes to the editorial team, and chooses to stay Anonymous.

Letter to the editor. Subject: Congratulations for the quality and quantity of information and education we recieve from you at The Independentistnews. Dear Editor,I write to commend your efforts in establishing the truth clearly, loudly and relentlessly. One is simply shocked at the folly that goes around now instead of wisdom. “A statue has been

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Opinion

Reigniting the Flame of Tradition: Why a Free Ambazonia Must Restore the Council of Fons and Chiefs

A free Ambazonia must reject the “auxiliary” model completely. The County Council of Fons and Chiefs must stand as an independent, constitutional institution — the cultural, moral, and territorial guardian of our three foundational zones: the Savannah, the Midland, and the Atlantic. By Lester MaddoxThe Independentistnews Guest Writer, Oakland County, California The soul of a

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