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Responding to growing concern over the discrepancies, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Mines, Industry and Technological Development, Calistus Fuh, acknowledged the seriousness of illicit gold flows and indicated that reforms are underway to address the problem. By Ali Dan Ismael and Timothy Enongene London bureau The Gold Export Mystery Recent trade and mining
The French diplomatic dispatch is not historical background — it is structural evidence. It proves that: the crisis was known, the risks were documented, the grievances were real, the system was unsustainable and the collapse was predictable. By Ali Dan Ismael, Kemi Ashu and Mankah Rosa Parks. The Independentistnews Political Desk A Strategic International Communication
During the tenure of former intelligence chief Maxime Eko Eko, the DGRE appears to have deviated from its lawful mandate. Intelligence files were reportedly commodified, sensitive information traded to private and political actors, and operational resources repurposed for personal or factional gain. If substantiated, these practices constitute a sustained misuse of state power. By The
Cameroonian troops, gendarmes, and regime-aligned militias operate there daily. So the first question any honest authority must answer is: Who controlled Gidado on Wednesday morning? If the regime was in control and civilians were massacred, then this is: either a failure of protection or complicity Blaming Ambazonia without investigation is an attempt to hide command
The true question is not which empire governed more wisely, but how deeply colonial power reshaped African political life, and how fiercely Africans continue to resist, renegotiate, and redefine those imposed systems. By M C Folo The Independentistnews contributor The proposition that British colonial policy better prepared African territories for post-colonial governance than French colonial
Today, from Senegal to Cameroon, nearly two hundred million Africans still use a currency designed in France, guaranteed by France, and historically supervised with French approval. This is not independence. It is rebranded domination. By Kemi Ashu, Mankah Rosa Parks, and Kfusalu Bochong Africa’s present condition did not begin with poor leadership or bad policy.
Nowhere was this more evident than in French Cameroun. French Cameroun was not a continuation of German Kamerun. It was a French post-war construction, headquartered in Yaoundé, administered through French military logic, and governed by officers shaped by wartime humiliation. By Kfusalu Bochong and Ali Dan Ismael One of the least discussed truths of French
“Re-unification” is not history. It is camouflage. It was designed to blur trusteeship law, erase British Southern Cameroons’ legal personality, and retrofit legitimacy onto a political takeover that never received the people’s consent. By Kemi Ashu and Mankah Rosa Parks One of the most enduring falsehoods in Central African politics is the claim that Southern
Without Christ, Christmas is empty.Without compassion, Ambazonia becomes unrecognisable. And without a moral compass, even the most legitimate struggle risks losing not only its direction, but its reason for being. By Colbert Gwain | The Muteff Factor (formerly The Colbert Factor) Christmas is meant to be a moment of reflection—of humility, compassion, and shared humanity.
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
