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Ambassador Thierry Marchand the man known, to be pulling the strings By Ali Dan Ismael and Young Jean-Pierre | The Independentist As Cameroon prepares for its 2025 presidential elections, the political landscape has been jolted by the exclusion of opposition leader Professor Maurice Kamto, a decision that has raised eyebrows both domestically and internationally. While
Double statndards, the cry for statehood from one region inspire UN debates, while another—like Ambazonia—is met with silence? By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-Chief When French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France would officially recognise a Palestinian state, the international reaction was swift. Some praised the move as a bold step toward justice, while others, like
Brice Nintcheu,warns of mass resistance should Professor Maurice Kamto be excluded from the October 12 presidential elections By The Editorial Desk 26 July 2025 This week, the Cameroonian political diaspora—long detached from the brutal realities on the ground—has reawakened to the dictatorship it once accommodated. Brice Nitcheu, president of CODE (Collective of Democratic and Patriotic
Maurice Kamto has now been extinguished through what many see as a silent but calculated elimination. By the Editorial Desk | The Independentist It began with murmurs, then whispers, and now the inevitable: Professor Maurice Kamto, constitutional scholar, former Minister, and one-time presidential frontrunner, has been officially excluded from the 2025 presidential elections in La
Naming of tugboats; an act that reopens painful wounds and raises serious questions about the sincerity of LRC By Dr.Martin Mungwa The recent naming of tugboats after Dr. John Ngu Foncha and Dr EML Endeley, by Cameroon’s Minister of Transport may appear to some as a gesture of national unity and reconciliation. Yet for the
Emmanuel Macron’s recognition of Palestine, a troubling inconsistency in French diplomacy. By Martin Mungwa When French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France will recognize a Palestinian state at the upcoming United Nations General Assembly in September, many around the world applauded what appeared to be a principled stand for justice and self-determination. France is set
Paul Biya, the “Best Student” of a Colonial System that Does Not Change but Consumes By the Independentist Editorial desk Since Paul Biya assumed power in 1982, Cameroon has been ruled by a highly centralized political system anchored in the ideology of Communal Liberalism. While promoted as a form of participatory governance, many observers and
Joshua Osih, dishonestly reduces a people, to a linguistic entity By the Editorial Desk | The IndependentistDate: 24 July 2025 Joshua Osih has once again mistaken political ambition for historical truth. His insistence on framing the conflict in terms of an “Anglophone problem” is not only outdated—it is intellectually bankrupt, legally indefensible, and morally offensive.
Bit by bit, the distinct Common Law system has been stripped away and replaced with Civil Law—a French-style system marked by centralization, codification, and bureaucratic control. By the editorial desk- The independentist On July 16, 2025, the government of Cameroon signed a decree extending Notaires—civil law notaries—into the territory of Former British Southern Cameroons. At
“1992 must be remembered not as a hope lost—but as a warning sounded. No people should walk into the same fire twice.” Dr Samuel Sako Ikome Re:Response to the Open Letter to the Ambazonian Separatist GroupsIssued by the Department of CommunicationFederal Republic of AmbazoniaDate: 23 July 2025 To: Mr. Ndifor RichardSubject: Clarifying the Position of
