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Issa Tchiroma Bakary, the fiery former government spokesman turned opposition challenger, has called the people to the streets at 3 p.m. to “defend their victory.” Behind this standoff lies a deeper game — not just about ballots and power, but about France’s quiet experiment in control. By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-Chief, The Independentist on special
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According to reliable sources in Yaoundé, President Paul Biya recently ordered elements of the national army to abduct Issa Tchiroma Bakary, the self-proclaimed winner of the October 2025 presidential elections. One senior general refused outright. His words were simple but historic: “The army cannot attack its own people.” By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-Chief, on Special
This investigation examines how communal liberalism, once sold as a philosophy of harmony, became entangled with France’s Napoleonic legal tradition, producing a centralized state that many citizens now see as alien to their realities. By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-Chief, on special assignment in Maroua, French Cameroun Cameroon’s political evolution has long been guided by a
The new Ambazonian constitution will anchor the common law as its backbone, while protecting traditional justice in villages and chiefdoms. A Truth and Reparations Commission will document past abuses, giving voice to victims and holding wrongdoers accountable. By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-Chief, on assignment in Buea, Ambazonia Across the vast stretch of French-speaking Africa, from
From his Los Angeles-based firm, Nsahlai claims the title of “international legal advocate,” but functions as an outsourced branch of Yaoundé’s Ministry of Propaganda.His firm’s mission has been clear — to brand Ambazonian activists as “terrorists” and lobby Western institutions to revoke their rights. By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-Chief, on assignment in Buea, Ambazonia As
Eighteen years after he rose to power promising a “stronger France,” Sarkozy returned to the headlines in disgrace, sentenced to five years in prison for criminal conspiracy in the alleged Libyan-financing scandal. The man who once boasted of making and unmaking African presidents was now just another inmate, stripped of grandeur but not of arrogance.
Under Biya’s 43-year reign, justice has been privatized. It is not blind; it sees only what the regime permits it to see. The judiciary has become a political militia in robes — an appendage of the presidency, designed to protect power, silence dissent, and legitimize repression. From fabricated terrorism charges to the imprisonment of journalists,
Tchiroma’s “Unity” Cabinet — Old Faces, New Tricks
For decades, each time French Cameroon faces political turbulence, its leaders reach for the same tired strategy: add a few English-speaking faces to the cabinet, call it inclusion, and present it to the world as reform. By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-Chief, on special assignment in Maroua, Cameroun When Issa Tchiroma Bakary stood before cameras this