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The Mitterrand Doctrine and Britain’s Silent Withdrawal

France acted according to French interests. Britain acted according to British interests. That is how states behave. The lesson for Ambazonia is therefore not bitterness alone, but strategic maturity. No nation survives long-term through foreign sympathy alone. By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-Chief, The Independentist News The roots of the Ambazonian crisis are not merely local. They

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Profiles

Nzo Ekangaki: Intellectual Giant, Political Survivor, or Architect of Betrayal?A Political Biography and Commentary on One of Southern Cameroons’ Most Controversial Sons

Whether history ultimately judges Nzo Ekangaki as a statesman, a pragmatist, or a collaborator will depend largely on how future generations interpret the collapse of the federal experiment and the unresolved Southern Cameroons question. What remains beyond dispute is that he was not an ordinary politician. By The Independentist News Editorial Desk The Rise of

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Public scrutiny

The Death of Hope: How the SDF Sold Its Soul and Died Before Its Chairman

The final question now hangs permanently over Cameroon’s political history Who died first — Fru Ndi or the SDF? For many former supporters, the answer is clear. The SDF died long before its Chairman. And Ni John Fru Ndi simply lived long enough to witness the funeral of the movement that once changed history. By

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The Philipson Report: The Document That Betrayed Southern Cameroons, Britain’s Own Economic Findings Confirmed Viability — But Independence Was Never Allowed

Today, the Philipson Report remains preserved within the The National Archives under reference CO 554/1602. More than 300 pages long, it survives as one of the most politically explosive colonial-era documents relating to the Southern Cameroons question. Not because it contains radical ideology. Not because it advocates separatism. But because it reveals something far more

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City of London, Global Power, and the New Nationalist Order: Is the Anglo-American System Facing a Geopolitical Reckoning? From offshore finance and Greenland to Ambazonia and the Strait of Hormuz, the struggle over sovereignty is reshaping the Western world itself.

The great geopolitical reckoning now underway may ultimately determine not only the future of London, Washington, Canada, Greenland, or the Strait of Hormuz. It may also determine whether the twenty-first century continues preserving old imperial financial architectures — or finally opens space for new sovereignties to emerge. By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-Chief, The Independentist News The

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How China Built a New World to Escape America’s Invisible Empire: The story of how Beijing slowly realized that roads, ports, railways, and digital networks could become weapons against American global dominance.

China’s Belt and Road Initiative emerged because Beijing no longer trusted a world where nearly every major global artery passed through systems controlled by the United States. So China began building another world alongside the old one. A world of alternative trade routes. Alternative partnerships. Alternative technology. Alternative finance. Alternative logistics. Alternative influence. By Ali

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Communique

Hard work pays: The Independentist News Guest editor Timothy Enongene, gets promoted.

THE INDEPENDENTIST NEWSOffice of the Editor-in-Chief May 27, 2026 OFFICIAL LETTER OF PROMOTION Subject: Promotion of Mr. Timothy Enongene to Associate Editor-in-Chief Dear Mr. Timothy Enongene, On behalf of the Editorial Board and leadership of The Independentist News, it gives us great pleasure to formally announce your promotion from Guest Editor-in-Chief to Associate Editor-in-Chief of

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The Ndzerem-Nyam Massacre: How the Junta Created the ADF/Unity Warrior Monster to Destroy Bui

When armed movements lose discipline, civilians suffer. When states weaponise fear, civilians suffer. When propaganda replaces truth, civilians suffer. And when communities become battlefields for competing narratives and power struggles, entire regions risk political collapse. By Timothy EnongeneGuest Editor-in-Chief, The Independentist News The Horror at Ndzerem-Nyam BUI – May 27, 2026 – On Sunday, April

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Southern Cameroons the Case of Incomplete Decolonisation: How the collapse of the British Empire, the rise of the postwar financial order, and Cold War geopolitics left the people of Southern Cameroons trapped in an unresolved decolonisation process

The Southern Cameroons became one of those forgotten territories — a people caught between collapsing empires, postwar financial restructuring, Cold War strategy, and incomplete constitutional arrangements. More than six decades later, the consequences remain unresolved. For that reason, many continue to describe the Southern Cameroons case not simply as a political dispute, but as one

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The Illusion of Reform: Yaoundé Still Governs Like Ambazonia Does Not Exist

The world is changing. Africa is changing. The language of sovereignty is changing. And whether one supports Ambazonian independence or not, one fact is becoming increasingly difficult to deny: Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia) is no longer being viewed merely as a rebellious province. It is increasingly understood as a potential state. By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-Chief, The

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