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Maritime Blockade on the Fako Coastline: Yaoundé Enforces Economic Strangulation Under the Guise of Security

Yaoundé may close landing sites. It may deploy security forces and redirect trade through its customs posts. But it cannot extinguish the geographic, historical, and economic relationship between the Fako coastline and the wider West African maritime region. Nor can it indefinitely conceal economic strangulation beneath the language of security. By Timothy EnongeneAssociate Editor-in-Chief, Independentist

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UN Security Council, the Chokepoint of Global Extraction After 1945: How Five Permanent Powers Control International Enforcement in a United Nations of 193 Member States

The 193-member United Nations may speak, but decisive enforcement remains controlled by five powers. The global economy may diversify, but new financial relationships can reproduce old forms of dependency if smaller nations fail to govern them wisely. By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-chief The Independentist News The United Nations Security Council was created after the Second

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Trump’s New Vision of the US Economy—and the “War” Against the British Imperial Order: Where Ambazonia’s strategic interests lie in a changing international economy

For Ambazonia, however, the lesson is larger than the success or failure of one American president. Trump believes a country is not powerful merely because its currency dominates markets or its corporations earn enormous profits. It must possess the capacity to produce, build, feed, power and defend itself. By The Independentist News editorial desk Donald

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French When They Win, African When They Lose: What France’s World Cup Defeat Reveals About Race, Citizenship, Leadership, and the Fragility of National Belonging

France lost because Spain was superior on the day. England lost because it surrendered control after taking the lead against Argentina. Neither defeat was caused by the racial composition of the team. Neither defeat changed the nationality of the players. When France wins, its Black players are French. When France loses, they remain French. When

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Brenda Biya’s Explosive Claims: What the First Daughter Revealed—and What Remains Unproven

For Ambazonians, this moment should reinforce the need for disciplined preparation. The Southern Cameroons question will not be resolved by waiting for Etoudi to implode. It will be advanced through unity, credible institutions, civilian protection, professional diplomacy and a political case capable of surviving any change of government in Yaoundé. By Timothy Enongene Associate Editor-in-Chief,

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Cameroon’s Ageing Military Command: Why the Generals Matter to Ambazonia A verified command map—not an unsourced list—could strengthen accountability, diplomacy and political strategy

The essential question is not simply: Who are Cameroon’s generals? It is this: Who commanded which forces, during what period, under whose authority—and what did that command do when civilians were placed at risk? By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-chief The Independentist News A circulating list of senior officers in the Cameroon Armed Forces appears, at

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The Bedrock of Africa’s Divisions: How colonial borders, imported institutions and post-independence failures continue to separate the continent

Africa’s diversity is not its curse. The curse is the repeated political manipulation of that diversity. Colonial powers drew the borders. But present-day African leaders decide whether those borders become homes shared by equal citizens or prisons maintained by force. By Prince Tebo, The Independentist News contributor Africa is frequently described as a continent divided

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The Gaullist Architecture of Containment: Why Yaoundé’s Political System Recruits Southern Cameroonian Elites to Defend Centralized Rule

Southern Cameroons does not need more symbolic inclusion in a structure that denies its political identity. It needs a settlement based on consent. Until that happens, every new appointment will polish the appearance of unity while leaving the architecture of containment standing. By Timothy Enongene. Associate Editor-in-Chief, Independentist News Yaoundé – July 14, 2026 –

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Empire, Extraction, and the Warning to Ambazonia Part I: Churchill’s Empire of Extraction What India, British Africa, the CDC, and PAMOL Teach Ambazonia About Economic Sovereignty

The choice facing Ambazonia is therefore not simply between colonial rule and political independence. It is between an economy organized for the prosperity of others and a Republic designed to retain the value created by its own people. Anything less would not complete liberation. It would merely localize extraction. By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-chief The

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Trump’s Hamiltonian Gamble: Economic Nationalism, Tariffs, Public Credit, the Cost of Empire, and the Unfinished Return of America’s First Industrial Strategy

Trump has reopened that debate. His challenge is to prove that America can reduce the cost of empire, resist the doctrine of extraction and rebuild productive power without sacrificing public credit, institutional stability or the alliances that support its global influence.Tariffs can open the door to industrial renewal.Only investment, knowledge, fiscal discipline and enduring institutions

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