Commentary

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

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

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

The central miscalculation of Yaoundé may therefore be this: believing that the imprisonment of leaders can extinguish the historical forces that produced the conflict itself. And until that misunderstanding changes, the search for a durable resolution will remain painfully out of reach. By Mankah Rosa ParksSenior Investigative Correspondent, The Independentist News, Soho, London YAOUNDÉ –

A signature extracted under conditions of detention cannot automatically dissolve a conflict sustained by years of collective trauma, displacement, militarization, and hardened political consciousness. And until Yaoundé fully confronts that reality, the judicial carousel will continue to turn without delivering the peace it promises. By Mankah Rosa ParksSenior Investigative Correspondent, The Independentist News, Soho, London

Judicial management may prolong detention. It may reshape media narratives temporarily. It may create the appearance of procedural flexibility. But it cannot by itself dissolve the historical grievances, competing national identities, and political fractures that continue to fuel the conflict. And until those deeper questions are addressed through a process perceived as credible beyond the

Communities must resist becoming vehicles for the escalation of violence against their own civilians. Preserving communal trust, protecting innocent life, and rejecting the manipulation of local grievances into military operations may prove essential not only for survival, but for any future possibility of reconciliation and peace. By Carl Sanders, Guest Writer The Independentist News, Soho,

The parallel trajectories of Somaliland and Ambazonia reveal that statehood in the contemporary international system is not determined solely by legal doctrine. It is shaped by diplomacy, strategic interests, governance capacity, historical narratives, and geopolitical realities. By Tarh Paddy King The Independentist News contributor The recent diplomatic breakthrough reportedly pursued by Somaliland — including discussions