Editorial commentary

The African Bar Association’s 2026 communiqué is an important development in the continental legal discussion of Southern Cameroons. It condemns serious abuses, calls for international mediation, supports transitional justice and demands humanitarian access. Those commitments deserve serious consideration. The 2026 Cabo Verde communiqué places the Southern Cameroons conflict within Africa’s continental rule-of-law agenda—but does its

For the international community, the challenge is to recognize that diplomatic ceremonies cannot substitute for genuine conflict resolution. The central lesson of 2026 is therefore clear. The Pope’s visit cannot be used to silence demands for justice. The Archbishop’s call for inclusion cannot be reduced to an endorsement of exclusion. By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-Chief, The

Ambazonia is a people’s struggle. It is not the private property of Nkonda Titus, Tambe Tiku, colonial officials, political personalities or any armed faction. Its credibility rests with the people, its historical claims, its leadership and its commitment to justice. The people deserve the truth. Victims deserve justice. Those responsible for criminal violence must face

It requires negotiations, credible guarantees, institutional responsibility, and protection of the people whose lives have been defined by a decade of conflict. The decisive test for the Biya–Ngute administration is not whether it can announce another dialogue. It is whether it can demonstrate that this dialogue offers something substantively different from those that came before

For the people of the former British Southern Cameroons, the question is not whether dialogue sounds appealing. It is whether dialogue confronts the issues that have sustained the conflict and offers a credible means of ending the suffering. Political theatre can command attention. It cannot negotiate an agreement, protect a civilian, or settle a constitutional

An administration that possesses the authority to wage a war also possesses the responsibility to pursue a credible political path toward ending it. That responsibility cannot simply be transferred to traditional rulers, religious leaders, market women, youths, and communities already bearing the burdens of conflict. The measure of political leadership is not the number of

Cameroon does not need another mystery surrounding its oil. It needs accounts. It needs traceability. It needs corporate governance. It needs institutional responsibility. And it needs every major public investment to answer four elementary questions: Who signed? Who paid? Who benefited? What remains? The reported SNH audit has cracked open the door. Government now has

As Dr. Martin S. Mungwa argues in Ambazonia 2050 & Beyond, the objective is not simply to establish another state. It is to build a constitutional, productive and polycentric republic capable of converting sovereignty into human flourishing. That is the Ambazonia we must build. The future will not build itself. We must begin building it

Germany’s defeat helped create the partition from which the Southern Cameroons question emerged. But Germany’s later history gives Ambazonia another lesson worth remembering: Division does not have to be permanent—but political opportunity rewards the nation that prepared before the moment arrived. The deepest lesson is therefore simple. Ambazonia must not wait to become sovereign before

Calling Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh the “de facto President of Cameroon” remains a political interpretation, not an established constitutional fact. The deeper scandal may lie elsewhere. A country should not have to guess who is exercising its highest executive authority. By The Independentist News editorial desk For 62 days, President Paul Biya has remained outside Cameroon.