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Governing from the Crypt: The 21.6-Billion-FCFA Decree and Yaoundé’s Ghost-Signature Controversy

The controversy surrounding this decree will continue—not because critics invented uncertainty, but because the regime created it. The question is no longer merely whether Paul Biya signed the decree. The question is: who is governing La République du Cameroun, and in whose name? By Timothy EnongeneAssociate Editor-in-Chief, The Independentist News YAOUNDÉ -July 22, 2026 –

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The Absurdity of Rule by “Remote-Control”: Dismantling Fame Ndongo’s Defense of an Empty Presidency

What the country cannot accept is a presidency conducted like a political séance—an invisible ruler, inaccessible to the public, invoked by ministers and represented by papers emerging from behind closed doors. Fame Ndongo may call this continuity. To millions of people, it looks increasingly like government without a publicly accountable governor. By Timothy EnongeneAssociate Editor-in-Chief,

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Markets Without Ownership: How Economic Power Was Separated from Black America and Ambazonia (Part I)

America admitted and selected some immigrant populations under conditions that favored economic advancement while continuing to burden Black Americans with the accumulated consequences of centuries of dispossession. The lesson is not that one minority succeeded by stealing from another. It is that a society can celebrate diversity while preserving an economic order in which Black

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Empire, Extraction, and the Ambazonian Warning (Part II) America Saved Britain—but Not Its Empire: How War, Debt, Dollar Power, and Decolonization Ended British Supremacy—and What Ambazonia Must Learn

Ambazonia’s liberation cannot rest upon the guilt of Britain, the generosity of America, the weakness of La République du Cameroun, or the rivalry of foreign powers. It must rest upon the organization, knowledge, productive strength, diplomatic intelligence, and institutional discipline of Ambazonians themselves. A people waiting for another power to complete their freedom may wait

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Smoke and Mirrors: Procedural Failure and the Search for Truth in the Martinez Zogo Trial

The court now has a choice. It can continue moving through missing appointments, disputed reports, incomplete devices, and procedural adjournments. Or it can establish an organized, independent, and technically competent process capable of following the evidence wherever it leads. Cameroon does not need another performance of justice. It needs the truth. By Lester MaddoxGuest Contributor,

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Editorial commentary

Biya and the Legacy of Division: Why Ambazonia Must Unite, Organize, and Prepare for the End of an Era

A ruler’s departure cannot liberate a divided and unprepared people. But a united, disciplined, diplomatically mobilized, and institutionally prepared people can transform the departure of a ruler into the beginning of a nation. The era of waiting must end. The era of national readiness must begin. Ambazonia must stand together—and Ambazonia must be ready. By

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The Nera 10 Legal Carousel: Last Thursday’s Court Stalling and the Next Step for Our Leaders

On August 19, the issue will be larger than the fate of ten men. The court will be asked to demonstrate whether Cameroon’s judiciary can correct its own errors, confront the legal consequences of an unlawful cross-border seizure, and provide civilians with a genuinely independent hearing. By Timothy EnongeneAssociate Editor-in-Chief, The Independentist News YAOUNDÉ -July

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Nine Years Without a Judgment : The Tragedy of Miyaou Kome Exposes the Lawless Rot of the Yaoundé Military Tribunal

After nearly nine years, the delay has effectively become the verdict and imprisonment the sentence—without the state ever accepting the burden of proving guilt. That is the deepest corruption exposed by the empty bench of July 16. The court’s absence did not merely postpone a proceeding. It revealed a system in which time itself has

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Adapting After Defeat: What England’s World Cup Rebound Can Teach the Ambazonian Movement

England did not win the World Cup, but it recovered sufficiently to finish with pride. Ambazonia’s struggle is far more consequential, and its destination remains unfinished. Its people must therefore cultivate the capacity every enduring nation requires: the courage to confront failure, the humility to learn, and the discipline to rise again. By Carl SandersGuest

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The Geneva Ghost: The 40th-Day Deadline—but a Deepening Constitutional Vacuum in Yaoundé

The Geneva ghost is therefore not merely the absent image of Paul Biya. It is the absence of accountable institutions capable of functioning without him. That is the constitutional crisis Yaoundé can no longer conceal. By Lester MaddoxGuest Contributor, Independentist NewsOakland, California YAOUNDÉ – July 19, 2026 – Paul Biya’s prolonged absence from Cameroon has

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