Friday’s attack on the French embassy in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou is the fifth in a series of attacks on French embassies in Africa since 2000.

Mauritania, 8 August 2009: Three people, two of them French gendarmes, were slightly injured in an Islamist bomb blast on the country’s embassy in the capital Nouakchott – the first suicide bombing to have taken place in the former French colony.

Ivory Coast, 8 April 2011: The French embassy in the capital Abidjan was fired on by militants loyal to the country’s strongman Laurent Gbagbo, when they attacked the headquarters of his rival, UN-recognised President Alassane Ouattara.

Central African Republic, 26 December 2012: French forces were deployed around France’s embassy in Bangui after protesters angered by a rebel advance in the north of the country hurled stones at the building, tore down the French flag, burned tires and vandalised the building’s entrance.

Libya, 23 April 2013: Two French gendarmes were injured, one of them seriously, when a car bomb exploded at France’s embassy in Tripoli.

Source: France 24

The United Nations (UN) has stopped its relief operations in northeastern Nigeria following an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants that left three humanitarian workers dead and at least three others missing.

The UN said in a statement late on Friday that aid work had been suspended in the town of Rann in Borno State, which hosts a refugee camp where 55,000 people displaced by militancy are settled.

“All humanitarian personnel have been evacuated from Rann, and all humanitarian deliveries in the area have been temporarily suspended,” the UN statement said.

The three aid workers, alongside eight security personnel guarding the camp, were killed in a militant attack on Rann late on Thursday. It is suspected that the three missing aid workers — possibly females — have been abducted by the militants.

Two of the deceased aid workers were contractors with the International Organization for Migration, working as coordinators in the camp, and the third deceased aid worker was a medical doctor employed as a third party consultant with UNICEF.

“At the time of the attack, over 40 humanitarian workers were in Rann,” the statement said.

In a similar measure, medical aid organization Doctors without Borders said on Friday that it had suspended its charity operations in Rann, too, and that it had evacuated both local and foreign staff.

Meanwhile, Nigeria’s security forces have reportedly driven out the militants from the town of Rann, which is located in Nigeria’s militant- infested lawless northeast.

Last month, militants kidnapped 110 girls from a school in the northeastern town of Dapchi.

The kidnapping of the college girls from impoverished families in Dapchi, which bears similarities to the 2014 abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls from the city of Chibok, has caused outrage in the country.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari says the army and air force are searching for the girls and are doing everything in their power to save them.

However, the biggest fear of the families in Dapchi is that they will have to wait many years until they receive any news from their daughters. Despite four years having passed from the Chibok incident, about 100 of the girls are still unaccounted for.

Source: Presstv

Cameroon Concord News holds the considered opinion that the appointment of Paul Atanga Nji by the ailing and demented demonic dictator Paul Biya of neighbouring French Cameroun as his Minister of territorial administration is one step further in fine-tuning his genocidal war strategy against Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia.  The appointment of Atanga Nji is aimed at maximizing the ongoing extermination of the Southern Cameroons ’civilian population. Cameroon Concord News can confidently state that Paul Biya by the appointment intended to send mixed signals and to confuse and confound.

He intended to deflate criticisms that he has never appointed Southern Cameroonians to a key ministry of state sovereignty. With that, he hoped to hoodwink slave status Southern Cameroonians at the marginal fringes of the CPDM crime syndicate to believe that at long last he has rehabilitated his colonized Southern Cameroons slaves who have been agitating and clamouring for rehabilitation, recognition and a place on the master’s table.

In the coming days, motions of support will be sent by paid agents and collaborators from supposed Fons, Chiefs and elites from the Northern Zone and South West Zones of Ambazonia. So-called elite associations will join in praising and calling on the 86 years old demented Paul Biya to decree unto himself eternal life and eternal presidency.   Cameroon Concord News Group invites these categories of slave status worshippers to be extremely cautious of the harm their gullibility may bring to the endangered people of the Southern Cameroons and themselves.  Atanga Nji’s mission is to oversee the genocide machinery of death that has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Ambazonia civilians.  Any one cheering his appointment and sending motions of support to the murderer Paul Biya is cheering the genocide which he is appointed to oversee its implementation.

Paul Biya removed Rene Sadi who has until now overseen the genocide of Ambazonia, the abduction of the President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and members of the interim government in Abuja Nigeria and the terrorization of Southern Cameroon and replaced him with the traitor Atanga Nji his Secretary of his National Security Council.   Paul Biya intended to distance one of his potential heirs apparent from these crimes from near Paul Biya and place the responsibility for the crimes on Atanga Nji.  Paul Biya will command the execution of the crimes through the remote control of Rene Sadi who by him, will through Paul Atanga Nji coordinate the genocide and crimes against humanity.  The criminal responsibility will fully fall on a ruthless, robot and nitwit Atanga Nji. Any Ambazonian celebrating this appointment and the appointment of other Southern Cameroonians into the government of an alien enemy and country that is slaughtering armless civilians, torching civilian settlements, raping students and women, looting our economy and terrorizing the citizenry, qualifies to be an enemy of the Ambazonia people.  

Cameroon Concord News reminds Ambazonians that the network of terror which French Cameroun used to oversee the colonization of the Southern Cameroons/ Ambazonia over the past fifty-six years was placed under the superintendence of the Minister of territorial administration. The Minister of territorial administration oversees elections rigging, enforcement of curfews and states of emergency, abduction and disappearance of persons and enforces all repressive legislation.  Paul Atanga Nji like Nalova Lyonga supervised or ordered the massacre of civilians and students.  Their appointment is a reward for the murder of innocent persons which will haunt their consciences for ever if at all their consciences are alive.  The appointments have a higher purpose of rewarding murder, treachery and criminality.  In effect, it is a reward for impunity.

Paul Atanga Nji, has always occupied a place of honour in Paul Biya’s crime laboratory. He was always his cherished hitman. He is an old hand in the job which he is appointed to do in Paul Biya’s crime syndicate. He operated from the shadows and was a key player in the abduction of the President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia in Nigeria, members of his interim government as well as the abduction of Captain Guerandi Mbaya a former French Cameroun army captain who along with Isa Tchiroma and others took part in a failed coup in French Cameroun.

Paul Atanga Nji also has a mandate of a political nature. He is to make sure that elections that have been banned in the territory of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia take place on the blood of hundreds of thousands. He has a mandate to make sure that divisional officers use every available force at their disposal to make sure the supposed opposition candidates are prevented from holding campaign meetings. They must make sure the elections are rigged in favour of Paul Biya and the CPDM crime syndicate.  The appointment of a man from the crime underground to oversee a genocide and the rigging machinery makes the months ahead potentially dangerous.   Cameroon Concord News calls on citizens of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia to reject these appointments and to concentrate on contributing to the interim government to to expel the enemy from our territory. 

Cameroon Concord News recalls the crimes that French Cameroun has committed against us for the past fifty-six years supervised by its so-called Minister of territorial administration. It is the Minister of territorial administration of French Cameroun who directly administered the Southern Cameroons from when it was annexed and renamed West Cameroon through a Federal Inspector of Administration, criminally disregarding our Prime Minister and our state institutions. The so-called Federal Inspector of Administration oversaw the effective annexation and dismantling of the Southern Cameroons state institutions through a reign of terror, abductions, disappearances, corruption, and engineered treachery by some of our own leaders.  French Cameroun relies on French Cameroun divisional officers under the control of the Minister of territorial administration to terrorize the colonized territory of the Southern Cameroons and supervise the looting and pillage of its natural resources for the benefit of French Cameroun France colonial master and the crime syndicate in power in the French vassal state.

Cameroon Concord News Group identifies the following among many  instruments of state terror that Paul Atanga Nji like his French Cameroun’s counterparts will use to humiliate Southern Cameroonians: The institution of a permanent state of emergency in the territory of Ambazonia; press censorship, calle calle, rape, torture, cultural genocide, humiliation, land grab, murder, corruption, spying, assimilation, and destruction of all symbols of Southern Cameroons national and cultural identity.  

Cameroon Concord News Group holds the opinion that at this moment when the Southern Cameroons revolution and resistance to the reign of terror has forced the colonial strangulation of the Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia to be collapsing on its own weight, all citizens of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia must stand resolutely behind the interim government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia to free our land from external aggression and genocide, and our President, members of the interim government and all Ambazonians under colonial detention.   Only fools cheer their own genocide.  As our ongoing revolution signifies, Ambazonians are not fools and will not cheer the death machinery put in place by French Cameroun and its criminal appointees or even condone them.  Cameroon Concord News therefore strongly holds that cheering the appointments of renegades, traitors and enemy collaborators to support the enemy genocide war effort against our own people and our territory must be considered an act of treachery and thus banned from the territory of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.

To this I put my name

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

A Malaysian official says the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 by a US company will likely end in June, as families of passengers marked the fourth anniversary of the plane’s disappearance with renewed hope that the world’s biggest aviation mystery will be solved.

Malaysia in January inked a “no cure, no fee” deal with Houston, Texas-based Ocean Infinity to resume the hunt for the plane, a year after the official search by Malaysia, Australia and China in the southern Indian Ocean was called off.

The plane vanished March 8, 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.

Malaysia’s civil aviation chief, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, said Saturday that the search is going smoothly and is expected to end by mid-June.

(Soure: AP)

Two people have been shot dead on the campus of a university in the US state of Michigan, setting off a manhunt for the suspected shooter. Central Michigan University tweeted on Friday that the dead were not students and “police believe the situation started from a domestic situation.”

There were no additional injuries and the suspect remains at large. “Two individuals were fatally shot at Campbell Hall on campus this morning. The deceased are not students and police believe the situation started from a domestic situation,” the university said in a statement.

“Campus is on lockdown as the suspect is still at large,” the university said, and identified the suspect as James Eric Davis, “a black male, approximately 19 years of age.”

Police were searching the campus and surrounding areas in order to find the suspected shooter.

More than 30,000 people die every year due to gun violence in the United States where the firearms industry is selling millions of guns annually.

In 2016, the arms industry sold a record 27 million guns, and about the same number of firearms was sold to Americans in the following year.  The industry is making billions but American civilians are paying the price for it by losing their sons and daughters to shootings which are becoming a daily occurrence now.

Source: Presstv

President Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia would regard any use of nuclear weapons against its allies as a “nuclear attack” on itself and give an “instant” response.

Delivering his annual state of the nation speech in Moscow on Thursday, Putin expressed concerns about the new US nuclear posture, which has lowered the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons.

The new American policy allows the use of nuclear weapons “in response to a conventional attack or even a cyberthreat,” the Russian president said, adding, “Russia reserves the right to use nuclear weapons only in response to a nuclear attack or an attack with other weapons of mass destruction against her or her allies, or a conventional attack against us that threatens the very existence of the state.”

“Any use of nuclear weapons against Russia or its allies, be it small-scale, medium-scale or any other scale, will be treated as a nuclear attack on our country. The response will be instant and with all the relevant consequences,” he pointed out.

Putin also said that Russia had tested a number of new advanced strategic weapons, which could not be intercepted, saying they would render NATO’s US-led missile systems “useless.”

They include a nuclear-powered cruise missile, a nuclear-powered underwater drone and a hypersonic Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that have no equivalents elsewhere in the world, Putin said.

The Sarmat system is capable of carrying a wide range of nuclear weapons and has virtually no range limit, able to strike across both the South and North Poles, according to Putin.

“I want to tell all those who have fueled the arms race over the last 15 years, sought to win unilateral advantages over Russia, introduced unlawful sanctions aimed to contain our country’s development: all what you wanted to impede with your policies have already happened,” he noted, adding, “You have failed to contain Russia.”

Putin further stressed that Russia had begun working on ways to counter American anti-missile capabilities as early as 2004, but that Washington had ignored Moscow’s call for dialogue.

“As you see, we didn’t keep our plans a secret. We talked about them openly to encourage our partners to negotiate. I repeat, we talked about them in 2004 already. It is surprising, but despite all the problems that we faced in the economy, finance, defense industry, and in the military, Russia remains the largest nuclear power. But no, nobody wanted to talk to us. They didn’t listen to us, so listen to us now,” he said.

Elsewhere in his address, Putin said Moscow’s counter-terrorism operation in Syria had showed Russia’s increased capabilities in the defense sector. He said “enormous work” has been done in recent years to reinforce the Russian Army and Navy.

Culled from Presstv

The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 82 Division Nigerian Army, Major General Adamu Baba Abubakar, at the instruction of the Chief of Army Staff(COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, held an elaborate security stakeholders meeting on the 27th of February, 2018 at the 245 Reconnaissance Battalion at Ikom, Ikom Local Government Area of Cross River State. The meeting is to confirm/assess the reported occasional security threats at the border areas between Nigeria and Cameroon with the view to addressing the situation. The GOC, on behalf of the COAS, thanked the various security agencies for their efforts in ensuring peace and security of all Nigerian citizens at the border areas in the midst of the reported/recorded security threats. He used the opportunity to urge the leaders and youths of the affected communities not take laws into their hands, remain law abiding and endeavor to report any security infraction to available security organization close to them.

General Abubakar reiterated the resolve of the Nigerian government to protecting lives and properties of her citizens and the capacity of the Nigerian Armed Forces to defend the territorial integrity of the country at all times. Present at the meeting include the Commander 13 Brigade Brigadier General I Isah, Commander Military Intelligence Brigade Colonel Kingsley Nwoko, Commanding Officer 245 Battalion Colonel Solomon Diwa, a member Cross River State House of Assembly representing Boki Local Government Area Dr. Mrs Abang, the Chairmen of Boki, Ikom, Etung and Obubra Local Government Areas, Commissioner of Police, State Director of Security Services Cross River State and other heads of paramilitary organisations in the State as well as traditional rulers of the affected border communities.

The representative of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHRC), UNHRC Sub – Office Calabar Mr Josiah Kolleh Flomo also graced and made a brief at the meeting. Two important highlights of the event was the briefs made by the various commanders and heads of security agencies to the GOC and a visit to Ajasso – Etung – Mfum border with Cameroon in Etung Local Government Area of Cross River State.

Culled from prnigeria.com

Source: World Bulletin

Nigerian authorities have released two Cameroonian separatists who were detained by the police last week. Five members of the Ambazonia separatist movement, a Cameroonian group seeking independence from the Francophone country, were detained at an Abuja police station last Wednesday.

Before then, they had been detained at a secret facility by Nigeria’s intelligence agencies. The two that were released are among the 12 leaders of the group the Nigerian government arrested last month.They are John Ojong Okongho and Nsoh Nabowah Bih. Local media reported that the separatists’ lawyer said they were granted bail on Monday on medical grounds.

“They were released on bail because they have medical challenges. According to the police, investigations have been concluded and handed over to the Inspector General’s office.

Abdul Oroh, who has been providing legal support for the detainees, also confirmed that three separatists are still in detention without trial.

“The two that were released are among the 12 leaders of the group the Nigerian government arrested last month.They are John Ojong Okongho and Nsoh Nabowah Bih,” Oroh said.

In January, Nigerian authorities detained and later extradited members of the separatist movement including their leader Julius Ayuk Tabe.

Cameroon receives separatist leader, 46 others deported from Nigeria

While the government of Cameroon proudly announced that it had received the deported separatists, Ayuk’s lawyer has complained that he has not been able to see his client or any of the other people arrested and extradited with him.

Source: Africa News