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Cameroon: Between Rumors and Reality, What Ambazonians Should Actually Know

For Ambazonia, the lesson is simple:The struggle is not shaped by rumors, but by long-term weakness in Yaoundé’s governance and its failure to resolve historical injustice. By The Independentistnews Political desk Social media is once again flooded with dramatic claims: collapsing regimes, secret palace deals, foreign interventions, and imminent political endings. Much of this noise

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BETWEEN HOPE AND DESPAIR: Africa on the Threshold of 2026

The evidence of Africa’s reconquest and recolonization is abundant and overwhelming—if only we are willing to understand it honestly. The unspoken premises and overarching worldview behind it rest on deeply entrenched beliefs: that African (Black) lives do not count; that Blacks are not fully human; that they are genetically inferior; that they possess no history

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From Denial to Inevitability: Dr. Martin Mungwa explains How Ambazonia Crossed the Point of No Return

As 2026 begins, the message is unambiguous. There is no turning back. Institutions are in place. Strategy is aligned. Diplomacy is advancing deliberately. The struggle has outgrown improvisation and entered a phase of irreversible momentum. By Dr. Martin MungwaCommissioned Secretary of State for Communications and DiplomacyGovernment of the Federal Republic of Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia) As

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Biya’s New Year Address: A Familiar Speech in a Tired Nation

It is this Yindo Tangeh–like disposition that President Biya displayed once again on December 31, 2025, during his State of the Nation address — a pattern repeated consistently since he took power in 1982. Just as Tangeh blamed birds, wildfires, and chance for his empty barns, the presidency habitually points to external forces to excuse

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Somaliland and Ambazonia: What One Struggle Can Tell Us About Another

The real question is not why Ambazonia has not yet reached Somaliland’s stage—but whether the international community is willing to confront, early rather than late, the human costs of unresolved political unions and prolonged state violence. By Steve Neba-Fuh The Independentistnews contributor When people compare Somaliland and Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia), they are not claiming the

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Patriotism for Sale: When the Flag Becomes a Cover for Theft

Such systems thrive where loyalty to party or ethnic bloc outweighs loyalty to principle, and where supporters excuse corruption not because they doubt it exists, but because it benefits “their side.” By M. C. Folo The Indepenedentistnews contributor Across much of Africa’s political landscape, patriotism has been stripped of its meaning. It no longer serves

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Cameroon’s Conflict Cure: Stealing the Separatists’ Thunder

Names confer recognition. When the state refuses to adopt the language through which people understand their suffering, it sends a clear message: your reality does not count. That denial has consequences. By Colbert Gwain | The Muteff Factor (formerly The Colbert Factor) How the Government of Cameroon Can Begin Ending a Senseless Conflict by Appropriating

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Special Status: the oxygen mask to rescue Kamto’s Bamileke base under the Beti-Bulu rule.

Let it be written plainly: Special Status was never meant to free Ambazonia. It was meant to outlive Ambazonia. And Ambazonia refuses to disappear quietly so others may inherit its chains—polished, renamed, and called reform. By The Independentistnews Political Desk “In attempting to suffocate Ambazonia through ‘Special Status,’ Prof. Maurice Kamto may have been unconsciously

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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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Recycled Power, Permanent War: Yaoundé’s New Cabinet Exposes a State That Cannot Reform

This new cabinet leak, is not a reset. It is a holding pattern for a failing order. A government that answers crisis with recycling has already admitted defeat. History will not remember this cabinet as a solution—but as evidence. By Kfusalu Bochong and Mankah Rosa Parks, The Independentistnews Editorial Desk A Cabinet of Survival, Not

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