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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
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
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
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
The Musk phenomenon therefore represents something larger than one billionaire entrepreneur. It represents the emergence of a new geopolitical era where: orbital systems rival navies, algorithms rival bureaucracies, digital platforms rival broadcasters, and private technological infrastructure increasingly rivals state capacity itself. By Timothy Enongene, Associate Editor-in-Chief The Independentist News For decades, the European Union projected
The state wants the optics of unity without addressing the fracture beneath it. It wants emotional symbolism without political accountability. It wants the image of reconciliation without the difficult concessions reconciliation demands. And perhaps that is why the doves stayed behind. Because even they understood that peace cannot fly where truth is still grounded. By
Trump unsettles elites not merely because of his personality. He unsettles them because he represents unpredictability inside the most powerful nation on Earth. For decades, Western governments relied upon: predictable American foreign policy, stable alliance systems, global free trade, and institutional diplomacy. Trump disrupted all of that. By Dr. Martin S. Mungwa, F.ASCE The Independentist
Six years after his death, the struggle for genuine equality remains unfinished. True reform demands more than symbolic statements or temporary outrage. It requires dismantling the structural biases, institutional protections, and cultural attitudes that permit injustice to persist. The demonstrations of 2020 may have faded from headlines, but the underlying issues that fuelled them remain
The events at Zoétélé unintentionally exposed what years of official speeches have attempted to conceal — that the Republic increasingly operates according to two separate political realities, two separate standards of state protection, and ultimately, two separate conceptions of citizenship. And as long as that asymmetry persists, Yaoundé’s annual appeals to “unity” will continue to
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