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When regulatory decisions are contested, the public deserves clear legal explanations rather than contradictory administrative instructions. The events of the past week demonstrate why institutional independence cannot be measured simply by what the law says an institution is. It must also be measured by what that institution is permitted to do when its decisions conflict
By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-chief The Independentist News As Amazon associate this site earns from qualifying purchases Get books on productive Sovereignty and statecraft, By Martin Mungwa on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/s?k=martin+mungwa&crid=3ASZUKJG4IRKV&sprefix=Martin+mungwa%2Caps%2C439&linkCode=ll2&tag=njokings-20&linkId=d0cd52aaad0b05ab2d4cca6e7c133828&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Dr. David Makongo has called on the Cameroon government to engage Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and the Nera 10 as part of a process to end
Time is not a peacemaker. Peace is made by people who choose it. As Nelson Mandela observed: “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” By Abdulkarim Ali, Contributor to The Independentist News As Amazon associate this site earns from qualifying purchases
The decisive economic question is therefore no longer merely whether this conflict can be expected to “die a natural death.” It is this: How much investment, employment, enterprise and productive capacity will the Southwest lose while waiting for that death to occur? Peace cannot be postponed without economic cost. And capital will not wait forever.
Political conflicts rarely disappear merely because governments wait long enough. They may change form. Armed organizations may fragment. Leadership may change. Public support may rise or fall. But where fundamental disagreements about political authority, identity, governance and constitutional structure remain unresolved, the underlying dispute can survive long after particular armed formations disappear. By Timothy EnongeneAssociate
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
FROM GRAND NATIONAL DIALOGUE, THROUGH BLOODSHED, TO ALLEGED CO-OPTION AND TODAYS COMMUNITY DIALOGUE – WHAT COMES NEXT?
The people of Ambazonia need more than another cycle of announcements followed by disappointment. They need an honest accounting of previous failures and a process whose design reflects the dispute it is supposed to resolve. The question is no longer how many dialogue programmes can be launched. It is whether those shaping them are prepared