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Compassion Without Clarity Is Not Liberation: A Response to “The Anglophone Crisis Continues as Calls for Action Grow Louder” As published in The Woodruff Times

Ambazonia does not exist because people speak English. It exists because a people were denied the right to complete their decolonization. Reducing that reality to an “Anglophone crisis,” misusing the language of open diplomacy, and substituting prayer and visibility for statecraft mobilize attention but dissolve legitimacy. By Ali Dan Ismael and Mankah Rosa Parks, the

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Editorial commentary

France Is Not a Model — It Is a Cautionary Tale

When French workers revolt, it is called democracy.When Africans protest, it is called instability. France raises retirement ages at home under police protection, but defends gerontocracy abroad. By The Independentistnews editorial desk France lectures. France prescribes. France supervises. But France itself is wobbling. A country where trains stop, streets burn, pensions collapse, youth wait, debt

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Investigative report

A Region Held Hostage: How the Kidnapping Industrial Complex Exploits the Amba Fighter Moniker for Evil Gains

Armed groups and opportunistic criminals exploiting the chaos and using the “Amba fighter” moniker as a bogeyman to perpetrate heinous crimes have one thing in common: they are usually disaffected individuals and imbalanced malcontents who have been drugged and radicalized. By Colbert Gwain | The Muteff Factor (formerly The Colbert Factor) North West Governor, Adolphe

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Investigative report

Baited Deaths and Useful Corpses: From Abe Michael to Ngwang Njeba, and Mayor Frida Joko — How the French Cameroon System Lures Lives to Blame Ambazonia

This editorial is not written to mock the dead. It is written to protect the living. Because every baited killing strengthens a lie—that Ambazonia is chaos rather than a people resisting annihilation. Every staged death stains the truth of the struggle. By The Independentist Investigative Desk There is a stupidity more lethal than bullets: refusing

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Editorial

Dictators do not learn. They are removed—or they die in power.

Dictators fall when three blades descend together: loss of legitimacy, loss of capacity, and loss of impunity. Biya is already bleeding legitimacy. Capacity erodes as a state governs by permanent emergency. Impunity collapses when crimes are documented, named, and pursued without pause. History does not negotiate with men like Biya. It removes them. By The

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Editorial

The Francafrique Command Structure and Crimes Against the People of Ambazonia

An administration that rewards atrocity is not malfunctioning; it is functioning as intended. The Ambazonian case is therefore not merely a humanitarian tragedy. It is probative evidence of a Francafrique system whose operational logic produces crimes against humanity. Judgment is overdue. Accountability is unavoidable. History is recording. An Editorial Indictment for the Court of Public

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Commentary

The CFA Franc: A Currency of Colonial Control and Economic Dependency

True independence cannot rest on declarations alone. It must be rooted in control over money, markets, and national priorities. Until Africa governs its own currency, political freedom will remain incomplete. By M. C. Folo The Independentistnews contributor In the heart of Africa—where natural resources abound and cultures pulse with life—a quiet but insidious legacy of

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Letters to the Editor

An anonymous Ambazonian Patriot writes to the editor of The Independentist news on the subject of the February 11th 1961 Southern Cameroons Plebiscite.

Letter to the Editor Subject: Why the Southern Cameroons Plebiscite Was Fundamentally Different Sir/Madam, Public discussion of the political status of Southern Cameroons is often dismissed as emotional or revisionist. In fact, the issue rests on a clear, verifiable historical and legal distinction: the plebiscite conducted in British Southern Cameroons was fundamentally different from the

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Editorial commentary

When a State Turns on Its Own People, It Loses the Right to Rule: Understanding Cameroon’s Legitimacy Crisis in Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia)

Cameroon may still control territory by force. It may still benefit from international inertia. But legitimacy cannot be maintained at gunpoint. A government that wages war on civilians forfeits the moral and legal basis to rule them. In Southern Cameroons, the crisis is no longer about reform—it is about whether a people can be governed

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Editorial commentary

Ambazonia and the Pan-African Reparations Movement: A Converging Struggle for Justice, Repair, and Self-Determination

Pan-African reparations are not only about repairing the past. They are about ending injustice where it still lives. Ambazonia’s case reminds the world that decolonization delayed is justice denied, and that reparations without political truth remain incomplete. By Ali Dan Ismael Editor-in-Chief Executive Framing The contemporary Pan-African reparations movement—revitalized through diaspora summits, continental dialogues, and

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