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Allegations of a deadly operation in Electric Line revive questions about accountability, civilian protection and the role of state-linked armed actors By Timothy Enongene Associate Editor-in-chief, The Independentist News. As Amazon associate this site earns from qualifying purchases Get books on statecraft by Martin Mungwa from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Book+by+Martin+mungwa&i=specialty-aps&srs=121082092011&crid=31ZNM3LO2LYZ&sprefix=book+by+martin+mungwa%2Cspecialty-aps%2C356&linkCode=ll2&tag=njokings-20&linkId=79b1484654c612f3da7eb8be87eef3d9&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl EKONA – September 20, 2026 — Fresh

That is why this story should not be reduced to: Cameroon is borrowing FCFA 250 billion. The deeper questions are: Who borrows? Who owns? Who captures the return? Who assumes the risk? And who exits with the value? Financial sovereignty cannot be measured on the day a government buys a bank. It must be measured

A commitment worth tens or hundreds of billions of CFA francs should not depend upon one person, one office, one meeting or one political instruction. Somebody outside the immediate decision chain should be authorized to ask: What happens if our interpretation is wrong? That is not bureaucratic obstruction. It is risk management. Engineers call it

What are you prepared to build? That is the question Cardiff places before Southern Cameroons. And perhaps that is why this one-page declaration matters. It does not merely say that nations should be free to discuss their futures. It reminds independence movements that the right to determine a future and the capacity to build one

Nkamouna may eventually become an important cobalt-nickel-manganese project. Its larger significance, however, may be whether it demonstrates that African states have learned one of the hardest lessons of the commodity age: The resource beneath your feet is not the final prize. The final prize is the productive system built around it—and the recurring value that

Jamaica may ultimately win its argument. It may lose it. Its petition may encounter jurisdictional or political barriers before the substantive questions are ever determined. But Jamaica has already demonstrated something important: History can be interrogated. And governments can be asked to answer for their role in it. By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-chief The Independentist

The question is: WHO IS PREPARED TO DO WHAT PEACE REQUIRES? Not another speech. Not another photograph. Not another predetermined dialogue. Not another temporary silence before another funeral. A credible process. A mutually acceptable facilitator. No predetermined political outcome. Protection of civilians. Credible international guarantees. And the courage to place the political dispute itself on

CRTV must explain itself—not because every restriction proves wrongdoing, but because public trust requires answers when enormous resources are deployed to document an event and the public is nevertheless shown so little. The camera may be operated by the broadcaster. But the broadcaster is funded in the name of the public. The story belongs to

Émile Joël Bamkoui’s reported new life in fuel distribution and trading should therefore be treated as more than a personality story. It is an opportunity to ask a larger question about Cameroon’s system of government: When extraordinary public power passes into private hands, what prevents privileged knowledge and privileged relationships from becoming privileged wealth? And

Paul Biya has returned after 73 days abroad. His arrival answers where he is today—but not who exercised presidential authority while he was absent By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-chief The Independentist News As Amazon associate this site earns from qualifying purchases shop with Amazon back to school https://www.amazon.com/s?k=amazon+back+to+school&crid=3U586C1NEJDOI&sprefix=back+to+school+on+amazon%2Caps%2C490&linkCode=ll2&tag=njokings-20&linkId=d9776a701f9696ecb706fbd136fabd9c&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl A Return That Does Not End the