Four people including one gendarme officer have been killed following a suicide bombing at Kolofata in the Far North region on Wednesday.

According to our military informant, the Kolofata suicide bomber concealed his explosives in a mattress tied to the back of his bicycle and in the midst of a crowd, the suicide bomber exploded his charge, killing a gendarme and two little girls.

Cameroon security forces have also been informed that Boko Haram has kidnapped three girls in the small town of Mberche in the vicinity of Limani, Mayo-Sava Division.

By Sonne Peter

Cameroon Intelligence Report

Paul Biya is under intense pressure from the international community to resolve the Anglophone problem. Some three months ago, the Francophone dominated cabinet backed by some South West CPDM elites had signed a petition demanding that internet services be shut down in Southern Cameroons.  As ordinary Francophone citizens and politicians including the United Nations came forward to demand the Government adopt a more humane response to the Anglophone crisis, Etoudi indicated that some kind of climb-down was imminent.

An announcement – possibly involving the release of the leaders of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium – is expected within the next coming days. State radio and television reported that the 84 year old dictator has ordered the restoration of internet in Southern Cameroons.   The details of all pro Anglophone actions taken by the Francophone regime will be closely scrutinized by the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium and other Southern Cameroons Diaspora groups which have urged La Republique du Cameroun to release all Anglophone activists detained in Francophone jails.

Cameroon Intelligence Report can also reveal that Southern Cameroons liberation movements will be chosen a Prime Minister and Head of Government soon and they have launched a major appeal for donations to open a case at the International Criminal Court against senior political and military officials of the Yaounde regime.  Mass demonstrations are planned across Europe and America this coming summer and thousands of Southern Cameroonians have posted images on social media of themselves advocating for a referendum  on the future of Southern Cameroons.

The Secretary General of the Consortium, Wilfred Tassang was quoted as saying recently that it was UN’s moral responsibility to protect Southern Cameroonians fleeing persecution. Privately some Francophone ministers said they had been lobbying behind the scenes to get Biya to negotiate with the new Southern Cameroon leadership.  The Biya Francophone Government has faced criticism from other African capitals over its failure to accept that there was an Anglophone problem.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Cameroon Intelligence Report

Two Francophone government officials have paid a surprise visit to the South West region in a bid to combat the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium. The Minister of Public Works, Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi and the Secretary of State in charge of Roads, Louis Max Ayina traveled to the Buea province of Southern Cameroons and announced that work on the Kumba-Mamfe road will continue.

The Francophone government officials were accompanied in their tour of the South West by the Francophone Governor of the region, Bernard Okalia Bilai-an indication that Southern Cameroons remains a colony of French Cameroun. The Biya agents said the construction and rehabilitation of the Kumba – Mamfe road was the focus of their visit.

With Eyumojock now completely cut off from Nguti Sub Division after the Akak Bridge collapsed, Minister Nganou Djoumessi reading from an old CPDM script, expressed satisfaction with the evolution of work on the Kumba-Mamfe road.

By Eyong Johnson

The trial of Roman Catholic Bishops, rectors and principals of Catholic academic institutions that was slated for April the 21^st 2017 at the Bamenda Court of First Instance has been postponed to a later date amid confusion as retired Colonel Tamabang announced to the world that he has never been part of the Consortium of Parents.

The Mezam High Court said in a statement on Wednesday that judges will be participating in a funeral ceremony of one of their departed colleagues.  The release further stated that those who have matters in court should consult the board to have updates when they will be heard.

The Judges are reportedly washing their hands off the matter like the biblical Pontus Pilate. Archbishop Samuel KLEDA, President of National Episcopal Conference had maintained that the Catholic Church was not responsible for the stalemate in the Anglophone regions.

The ‘Consortium of Parents’ through their legal representative is demanding the sum of 150.000.000 FCFA as special and general damages. However, CIR understands the man widely believed to have created the Consortium of Parents retired Colonel Tamabang says he has never been part of the said Consortium that dragged the Catholic Bishops to court.

Lawyers for Colonel Tamabang have been quoted as saying that, “Our Client retired Colonel Tamabang Simon NCHE wishes to state publicly and categorically that he is not connected in any way to the so called CONSORTIUM OF PARENTS. He has never contacted any lawyer or bailiff to initiate court action against the above mentioned servants of Gods.”

By Sama Ernest with files from CIN

Barrister ACHU Julius NGU, the legal representative of the so-called Consortium of Parents which has dragged some Catholic Bishops to court, has revealed that some unidentified people are after his life and want him dead or alive.

Speaking on Equinoxe Television, a Douala based news channel; the lawyer described by one of the operation managers of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium as a clown  said his pictures are trading on social media with an inscription, “Wanted Dead or Alive.” Barrister ACHU Julius, who is the lawyer for the Consortium of Parents which has embarked on a legal battle with the Catholic Church in Bamenda, is claiming the sum of 150.000.000 FCFA as special and general damages for non school resumption.

The Consortium of Parents reportedly created by the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo regime is accusing the Bishops, Principals, Reverend Fathers and Sisters for their role in ensuring that school does not resume basing their arguments on numerous outings by the latter which according to the legal representative were offences and punishable under the Penal Code.

Reacting on the accusations, the President of National Episcopal Conference, Archbishop Samuel Kleda said the, “The Catholic Church did not begin the strike and cannot be accused today of preventing students from going to school.”

The Archbishop of the Douala Archdiocese wondered why only the Catholic Church when schools have been paralyzed in almost all sectors both in Public, Private and Confessional schools. However His Lordship Samuel Kleda said the Church has no lawyer but will be in Court for Justice to prevail.

Source: Cameroun Info.Net

The Francophone regime in Yaoundé reportedly taking the last kicks of a dying horse has created an obscure organization known as the Consortium of Parents  headed by highly placed military officers. The group announced its existence recently by dragging Southern Cameroon Roman Catholic Bishops, Principals and Reverend Sisters to a court in the Bamenda province.

Local media reports say Archbishop Cornelius Esua, Bishop George Nkou together with the Principals of Sacred Heart College Mankon, Saint Bede’s College, Ashing-Kom, Our Lady of Lourdes, Mankon and the President of Bamenda Episcopal Conference, BAPEC, have all been summoned for crimes alleged by parents whose children are in various Roman Catholic Schools. The Consortium of Parents is demanding the sum of 150.000.000 FCFA as special and general damages.

The hierarchy of the Bamenda Ecclesiastic Province has confirmed the news and added that they received a direct summons from the a group calling itself the Consortium of Parents to appear before the Bamenda Court of First Instance on Friday the 21^st of April, 2017.

In a release, the Bishops said the so-called Consortium of Parents was acting through a certain Colonel Tamambang and Lt. Colonel Terence SAMA both of whom are unknown to the Roman Catholic Church in Southern Cameroons. A senior Roman Catholic prelate was quoted as saying the summons and entire process might have a hidden commanding hand from the regime in Yaoundé.

By Sama Ernest

Dr. Boniface Forbin has met his end in his home in Yaoundé.  The circumstances surrounding his death have not been made public by his family. The publisher-editor’s death may not be separated from The Herald Newspaper. Former newsmen and women including the Herald People have observed that at the inception of multiparty politics in Cameroon, relations between the Herald and the Biya administration took a nose-drive and the Herald Group took an unfriendly view of the regime (e. g, Biya’s fictitious anti-corruption campaign). Such became the unfolding of fishing in trouble waters…

Forbin resigned from the defunct Cameroon Airlines and started The Herald Newspaper. He understood that media freedom was better in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and North Korea than in Cameroon. He successfully taught Anglophone journalists the difficulty of being a reporter in Francophone dominated Cameroon.

Forbin and his kinsman Asong Ndifor invested time in training young correspondents on the challenge for Journalism in Cameroon. Forbin had the support of Napoleon Viban and men like Dr. Joachim Arrey, the late Kum Set Ewin, Peter Ngea Mbeng, Tabe Paul Blondo, Ekinneh Agbaw-Ebai, Gerald Ndikum and the Herald Newspaper told the world that the story of the press in Cameroon was that of persecution and perseverance and closure of newspapers, often without an enabling law.

Forbin declared his unflinching support for the Publisher of the Cameroon Post Group, Paddy Mbawa over the Epey Mandengue Affair. Paddy Mbawa had been flogged, head shaved with broken glass and photos published by some sister Anglophone newspapers for 30 pieces of silver. Forbin stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the wives of journalists who suffered persecution.  He was in a Douala hospital to see the wife of the late Pius Njawe who lost her baby after her husband was forced out of their home and taken to the New Bell prison.

He told this reporter when he joined the Herald from the Weekly Post that “When you really want to expose human rights abuses in Cameroon… it becomes more dangerous.” Rest in peace Doc

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

The Biya Francophone government through the Bamenda Court of First Instance has summoned Bishops Cornelius Fontem ESUA, Bishop Michael, Bishop George NKOU, Fathers Michael KINTANG and Williams Neba for statements and releases made during the heart of the Anglophone crisis which according to the regime have paralyzed activities in schools.

In a summon with seven counts handed to the defendants, the complainant is accusing the Roman Catholic clergy men of failing to ask parents to send their children to school despite collecting school fees from them, causing confusion and persistently refraining from performing duties which are to teach children which according to the Francophone government is an offence contrary to and punishable under section 151 of the Penal Code.

Archbishop Cornelius Fontem ESUA and Bishop George NKOU after a meeting signed a release indicating that the non resumption of school was as a result of the Anglophone crisis. They are equally accused of causing the nonpayment of salaries of teachers in Mission schools for several months now an offence contrary to and punishable under section 183(2) of the Penal Code.

Other counts include release of Communiqué which propagated false information and puts national Unity in danger among others. The Civil Claimant is therefore claiming the sum of 150.000.000 FCF5, One Hundred and Fifty Millions Francs CFA for special and general damages from the Catholic Church which is the employer of the accused. They are expected to appear at the Bamenda Court of First Instance on April 21, 2017 by 9am.

Source: Cameroun Info.Net

The Yaoundé Appeal Court has rejected the Babeas Corpus appeal by defense Counsel of jailed AYAH Paul Abine on grounds that the complainant did not go through the right quarters before filing the appeal. The court session that held on Thursday April 13, 2017 recorded some few minutes of recess after Lord Justice Ayah Paul pointed out some irregularities in the process.

The case was later adjourned due to some technical reasons according to Judges at the Appeal Court. It was said that the defense counsel did not follow the normal procedure for filing appeal cases, according to the judges; the individual concerned was supposed to personally present it to the President of the Appeal Court upon acknowledgement receipt.

The Counsel of AYAH Paul has immediately filed an appeal at the Supreme Court, meaning that the fate of the National President of the Popular Action Party, PAP, will only be decided by his own colleagues at the country’s highest court. This is the second time the Habeas Corpus is being rejected. The first was on March 21 when the Mfoundi High Court turned down the appeal. AYAH Paul Abine was arrested on January 21, 2017 following orders from the Francophone Justice Minister, Laurent Esso.

Source Cameroun Info.Net

The Trump administration is closely following events in Southern Cameroons including the arrests and trial of Anglophone personalities and has issued a warning to the regime in Yaounde to resolve as soon as possible the Anglophone problem. CIR sources say the US has threatened to re-examine their military cooperation with Yaoundé following the numerous rapes, abductions and extra judicial killings in West Cameroon. A well-placed source hinted that some officials at the US State Department have called on President Trump to withdraw the 200 US marines in the Far North that have been helping Cameroon to fight the Nigerian Islamic sect, Boko Haram.

The 84 year old Cameroonian dictator is said to be under considerable pressure both at home and abroad. The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres attempted to reach him by telephone to discuss the human rights situation in Southern Cameroons. A UN aide who spoke to us and sued for anonymity observed that Biya promised to call back but has still not done so.

In the Vatican on March 23^rd, the Holy Father Pope Francis reminded Biya of the importance of national cohesion and respect for human and minority rights. Biya does not seem to take the international community seriously and has instead announced some funny steps to calm down the people of Southern Cameroons. The Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium including the Southern Cameroon Common Law Lawyers have all rejected the plans made public by the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo regime.

By Chi Prudence Asong