News analysis

The Evil of Yaoundé: How Blacklegs Are Used to Impose Illegal Taxes on Ambazonian Civilians

What is happening on the Bamenda–Kom road must be named without euphemism. It is not security. It is not community regulation. It is not resistance taxation. It is state-enabled extortion by an occupying power, executed through blacklegs to maintain deniability and control. By Kfusalu Bochong, for The Independentistnews The occupation strategy of Yaoundé has entered

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Editorial commentary

France Can’t Pass a Budget — Yet Claims to Rule Others

A country that once dictated constitutions abroad is now begging for emergency laws just to keep spending. Parliament is paralysed. Governments fall one after another. Deficits explode. Investors watch nervously. This is what decline looks like. By Ali Dan Ismael Editor-in-Chief France is entering a new year without a budget. No plan. No agreement. No

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Editorial commentary

The system behind the violence

Across towns and villages in Southern Cameroons, the same things happen repeatedly. Homes are burned. Villages are raided. Civilians are killed. People disappear after arrest. Families flee into the bush. Children stop going to school. These are not isolated events. They follow the same script in different places, at different times, with the same outcomes.

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Editorial commentary

France Without Africa Is Not a Power

Without African raw materials, cheap labor, captive markets, and obedient elites, France would not be a global power. No uranium from Niger. No oil contracts. No logistics monopolies. No military bases. No leverage. By Ali Dan Ismael and Kemi Ashu The lie is finished. Let us stop pretending. France is not losing influence in Africa

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Commentary

UNITY AS A WEAPON, LIBERALISM AS A HALLUCINATION

Ambazonia does not reject unity. It rejects false unity. It rejects unity without justice, unity without consent, unity enforced by guns. True unity is chosen, not imposed. It is built on equality, not domination. The blade falls here as Yaoundé’s strategy depends on one lie: that repetition can replace legitimacy. It cannot. By Ali Dan

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News analysis

FRANCE IS LEAVING. THE SYSTEM IS COLLAPSING. AND CAMEROON IS NEXT.

Cameroon did not take Southern Cameroons through law or agreement. It took it through deception, pressure, and foreign backing. That backing is disappearing. When France can no longer impose legitimacy in Africa, and when the United States refuses to subsidize illegitimacy, the occupation loses its oxygen and cameroon is next. By Mankah Rosa Parks The

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News analysis

France Is Leaving Africa—Except Where Silence Still Pays

Let us be honest. France’s exit from Africa is not a moral awakening. It is a strategic retreat. Where pressure is loud, France leaves. Where victims lack a state, a seat, or a powerful voice, France stays silent. By Kemi Ashu The Independentistnews contributor The Old Order Finally Admits Defeat France has finally admitted what

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Science & Development

A Cure at Last: What the Sickle Cell Breakthrough Means for Our People

Using advanced gene therapy, doctors take the patient’s own blood-forming cells and correct the faulty instruction that causes sickling. The repaired cells are returned to the body, where they begin producing healthy blood. Once this happens, the painful crises stop. Transfusions are no longer needed. Life resumes. By the Independentist Scientific Desk For generations, sickle

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Communique

The Independentistnews team extends seasonal greetings to her readers and contributors

On behalf of The Independentistnews editorial team, I would like to extend our sincere appreciation and seasonal greetings to all our readers and contributors who have made The Independentistnews their information source of choice. We encourage you to remain engaged by reading, commenting, and following us across all our platforms. Your interest, feedback, and critique

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Commentary

Yaoundé Governs by Illusion — and Occupies by Force

They may endure for a time through fear, but they do not survive the moment when the illusion collapses under its own weight. That moment is no longer theoretical. It is already visible — in Yaoundé’s paralysis, and in Southern Cameroons’ refusal to be ruled by a state that no longer exists as a governing

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