Here is a list of internationally valid treaties, laws, resolutions, declarations, historic facts, court judgments etc. which constitute Ambazonia’s sovereignty as a state, nation and country. This list is long, but the main thing remains that both Ambazonia and Cameroun emancipate mentally, economically and legally from any foreign neo-colonizer, be it the British, the French, the Germans, the Chinese, the Americans, ... whoever. For that knowing the historic facts written below is important, but realizing that Ambazonians and Camerounese have a precolonial history and a non-colonial future too, is more important!

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• Ambazonia is the present name for the country which was once described as The United Nations Trust Territory of Southern Cameroons Under The United Kingdom Administration.

• Ambazonians have come under continuing colonial domination for over one and a half centuries: British from 1858 to 1887, German from 1888 to 1914, British again from 1914 to 1961, and La “Republique” du Cameroun since 1961;

• Ambazonian territory was administered by Britain from 1914 to 1922 as conquered territory of an enemy belligerent, Germany; from 1922 to 1946 as a League of Nations Mandated Territory; and from 1946 to 1961 as a United Nations Trust Territory;

• Britain administered the territory as though it formed part of its adjacent territory of Nigeria; 

• In 1953, after thirty-eight years of administrative union with Nigeria as part of the Eastern Region of that country, the Southern Cameroons exited Nigeria and became a self-governing territory but remained connected to Nigeria until 30 September 1960;

• By 1954 the territory of Southern Cameroons had established an autonomous parliamentary system of government.

• Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia) was a self-governing entity between 1954-1961, had a different political future and conducted the first democratic elections in Africa in 1959;

• In the memorandum (T/1393 of 27th June 1958) the United Kingdom, the Administering Authority, informed the United Nations that the territory was ripe for independence and that since it was being administered as part of Nigeria, arrangements be made to terminate the trusteeship on or about the same time as the independence of Nigeria on 1 October 1960.

• On the 27th of June 1958 the British Government submitted to the United Nations a document, Memorandum T/1393, in which it assured the World Body that the Southern Cameroons had not been delayed in its political evolution towards full autonomy and independence;

• Eighteen months later the British Parliament enacted the Southern Cameroons Constitution Order in Council, 1960 (SI. 1960 No. 1654) preparatory to independence for the territory;

• By termination of the trusteeship agreement, Ambazonia (Southern Cameroons under the United Kingdom administration) became de facto independent having inaugurated its own constitution, “the Southern Cameroun Constitution Order-in-Council” with effect from that same 1 October 1960.

• From 1st of October 1960 to 30th of September 1961 the Southern Cameroons was a fully autonomous, self-governing country poised for independence;

• The United Nations Charter, Article 76.b, spells out the objectives of trusteeship thus: “To promote the political, economic, social and educational advancement of the inhabitants of the trust territories and their progressive development towards SELF GOVERNMENT or INDEPENDENCE as may be appropriate to the PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES OF EACH TERRITORY AND ITS PEOPLE……”

• There are United Nations Articles & Resolutions related to Preparation of Trust Territories towards self-governance and Independence (UN Article 76 (b), UN RES 1514 of DEC 1960, UN RES 224-111);

• French Cameroun achieved independence on 1st of January 1960 under the name and style of République du Cameroun (La “Republique” du Cameroun) as successor state to French Cameroun Trust Territory, its frontiers inherited from French colonisation becoming frozen on that date;

• Between 1959 and 1960, Cameroun gave to the United Nations and the people of the Southern Cameroons two critical assurances: (1) that La “Republique” du Cameroun would be prepared to associate with the Southern Cameroons in a confederation of two states, equal in status, if at the United Nations Plebiscite to be conducted in the Southern Cameroons the people expressed the wish “to achieve independence by joining” La “Republique” du Cameroun; and (2) that La “Republique” du Cameroun was  not  an  annexationist  state  and  would  not  colonise  the  Southern  Cameroons;  

• The United Nations Plebiscite in the Southern Cameroons on 11th of February 1961 unwarrantedly prescribed only two options, independence by leaving out the critical political status option of independence as a separate state ostensibly on the basis of the fiction that the territory was economically non-viable, even though it is trite learning that it is for the people to determine the destiny of the territory and not for the territory to determine the destiny of the people;

• The public assurances given to the United Nations by La “Republique” du Cameroun  influenced  the  Southern  Cameroons  Plebiscite  vote  in  favour  of ‘independence by joining’ that country rather than ‘independence by joining’ Nigeria;

• The  term ‘joining’ in  relation  to  Cameroun  Republic  was  clearly understood by that country, the Southern Cameroons, the United Kingdom, and the United Nations to mean political association of the Southern Cameroons and La “Republique” du Cameroun in a federation of two states, equal in status; that is to say, a free association in which the Southern Cameroons would be connected to, but not be part of, La “Republique” du Cameroun;

• The refusal of La “République” du Cameroun to convene a conference to decide the fate of a UN Trust Territory, and the absence of the UN and UK at the Foumban masquerade in 1961, and the Non-implementation of the UN Post Plebiscite RES 1608(XV) make LRC’s illegality in Ambazonia manifest:

• 1961 was no Act of Union deposited with the United Nations Secretariat, that violated SC’s international boundaries;

• Article 20 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights was violated;

• Article 4(b) of the African Union Constitutive Act which recognizes to AU Member States only the boundaries inherited at independence and noting the current UN mission to the Ambazonia for the purpose of retracing boundaries inherited at independence by each nation;

• The United Nations overwhelmingly voted in favour of independence for the Southern Cameroons in a separate vote earlier taken on the matter and proceeded to adopt Resolution 1608 (XV) of 21 April 1961 in which it: (i) endorsed the decision of the people of the Southern Cameroons to achieve independence, (ii) decided that the independence of the Southern Cameroons would take effect on 1st of October 1961, and (iii) decided that the Trusteeship Agreement regarding the Southern Cameroons would be terminated on the same 1st of October 1961 upon the finalization, before that date, of arrangements for the implementation of the agreed two-state confederation;

• British Cameroons (Ambazonia) is documented as having exited the British Empire in 1961 as Independent territory (British Empire Archives);

• Due to the bad-faith and duplicity of La “Republique” du Cameroun finalization of arrangements for the implementation of the agreed two-state confederation was never done and, as a result, no consensual federal constitution was ever adopted and submitted to the parliaments or peoples of the two countries for approval, and there has never been any legal or political document whatsoever subscribed to by both countries attesting to consensual political association between them;

• In August and September 1961, La “Republique” du Cameroun violated the territorial  integrity of  the  Southern  Cameroons  when  its  French-commanded troops crossed the frontier into the Southern Cameroons and committed a progrom at Ebubu, perpetrated further killings in Bamenda, destroyed property, and embarked on the implementation of a policy of generalised terrorization in the Southern Cameroons which has known no respite to this day;

• On the 1st of September 1961 the National Assembly of La “Republique” du Cameroun passed a constitutional amendment law (Loi no. 24/61 du 1 Septembre 1961) deceptively denoted as a federal constitution,

• In fact that statute was in the nature of an annexation law in that it fraudulently asserted territorial claim to the Southern Cameroons as part of the territory of La “Republique” du Cameroun and falsely claimed that the Southern Cameroons had been returned to La “Republique” du Cameroun by the United Nations and Great Britain;

• Another objective of the said annexation law by La “Republique” du Cameroun was to suppress and nullify the independence of the Southern Cameroons voted for by its people, endorsed by the United Nations, and declared by the United Nations to take effect on 1st of October 1961, and thus to exhibit the federation as resulting from a domestic act of La “Republique” du Cameroun by which it changed the form of its unitary state to federal in order to facilitate and accommodate part of its territory returned to it;

• On the 30th of September 1961 the British Government invited a foreign head of state, the President of La “Republique” du Cameroun, to the Southern Cameroons and transferred sovereignty to that country, resulting in the re-colonisation rather than decolonisation of the British Southern Cameroons Trust Territory;

• For reasons which are too dishonorable for mention, the Administering Authority insisted that Ambazonia whose population is more than that of Gabon, Congo and Equatorial Guinea put together, should be made to join either Nigeria or La Republique du Cameroun, an act which was totally unfair, retrogressive and inconsistent with the letter and spirit of Article 76.b of the United Nations Charter.

• In order to circumvent this unfair imposition the phrase “achieve independence” was inserted by the United Nations in the two alternatives presented to our people at the Plebiscite of 11 February 1961.

• If the Ambazonian people had refused to participate in the Plebiscite and boycotted it, Ambazonia would have been automatically recognized as an independent state within the provisions of Article 76.b of the United Nations Charter.

• Even after the people had voted to have a political link with Cameroun, if the Ambazonian leaders had decided not to implement the Plebiscite as was canvassed by the Honourable P.M. Kale, the United Nations would have no authority to force Ambazonia into any link with Cameroun, since such a link was an invention which went contrary to Article 76.b of the U.N. Charter as it applied to a de facto independent state.

• A Treaty which is known locally as the Foumban Accord is cited in the United Nations records as INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION, thus emphasizing the fact that the two parties to the Treaty were mutually sovereign states, each having its own government and parliament and that they had thus created a third parliament to which each subscribed members for the purpose of dealing with matters of common interest to the two countries. Since Ambazonians were not Cameroonians, Article 1 paragraph 9 offered Ambazonians the right to Cameroonian citizenship, if their country became the Federated State of West Cameroon under the Treaty.

• The Inter-Parliamentary Union thus created a union of sovereign states entitling Ambazonia to a seat at the United Nations thus giving full effect to Article 76.b of the U.N. Charter.

• The opening article of the Foumban Accord Treaty reduced each country into a Federated State (the Republic of Cameroun becoming the East Cameroon, while Ambazonia alias Southern Cameroon becoming the West Cameroon.)

• Since the functioning of the trusteeship system was the assignment of the General Assembly, the General Assembly of the UN it did not obey its own regulations to properly implement this option and avail Ambazonia alias Southern Cameroon a seat in the United Nations.

• The Inter-Parliamentary Union became the only link between the two countries and also the only limitation placed on the sovereignty of each of the two countries.

• The Ahidjo constitution on its own part was rendered illegal and totally invalid ab initio by article 47 of the out stated Federal Constitution which not only forbade any act seeking to transform the Union between the two nations from a Federal to a Unitary one, but also forbade any other method of revising the said constitution except by a law of the federal parliament voted for by a special majority. (A decree DF72-270 of 2/6/72 imposed the Ahidjo Unitary counterfeit and invalid constitution upon the two nations).

• In June 1972 La “Republique” du Cameroun, again acting unilaterally, abolished the so-called ‘federal republic’ instituted by its annexation law of 1st of September 1961 and replaced it with a counterfeit ‘united republic’, itself also decreed out of existence in February 1984 by a law which revived the hitherto extinct ‘République du Cameroun’ as a distinct and separate legal and political expression but thenceforth    with    expansionist    pretensions; 

• This colonialism is more invidious because unlike European colonialism which was founded on a forged or extorted document as a treaty of cession of territory signed by local Chiefs and therefore suggesting colonialism by consent, there is not even a forged signed instrument of cession of territory that La “Republique” du Cameroun can exhibit as the basis of its annexation and colonial occupation of the Southern Cameroons;     

• The untoward effects of the colonization of the Southern Cameroons by La “Republique” du Cameroun include the subjection of our people to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment; the intolerable humiliation and mortification of the dignity of our people as colonial subjects; the equally intolerable debasement of the political status of the Southern Cameroons from an autonomous fully self-governing state to an annexed and Balkanized colonial dependency under the suzerainty of La “Republique” du Cameroun; and the transportation of our country politically, socially, economically, culturally and developmentally backwards by more than sixty years;  

• The termination of the Trusteeship Agreement relating to our country did not entail the territory’s decolonization but rather its surreptitious colonization by  Cameroun  Republic  as  successor  colonizer;  and  the  1961  Plebiscite vote for consensual federal political association with La “Republique” du Cameroun accordingly lost its effect by operation of the clausula rebus sic stantibus;

• La “Republique” du Cameroun’s oppression and domination, structural violence and discrimination, armed repression and terrorization, spoliation and plunder, in our country has known no respite since September 1961;

• Over the years the Ambazonian people have, by the most decent representations and memoranda demanded La “Republique” du Cameroun to end its colonial occupation and its defilement of Ambazonia by its contempt of all virtue and practice of every vice, immoral principles and wicked actions; but these petitions have instead produced more indignities, namely, violence; oppression; repression; pogroms; torture; massive arbitrary arrests; extrajudicial killings; aggressive assimilation policy and practice as an instrument of annihilation; abduction and transportation of our people beyond our borders to La “Republique” du Cameroun where they are paraded in its court-martial for pretended offences and sham trials conducted in French and under French law; imposition of long custodial sentences decided beforehand and imprisonment under life-threatening conditions; all these draconian measures are carried out as part of the official policy of La “Republique” du Cameroun aimed at the total destruction of our people and the disappearance of the Southern Cameroons from the surface of the earth;

• Taking advantage of this systematic pre meditated dilution of the constitutional fabric of the 1961 Cameroon Confederacy, Biya formalized the breakup of the union by promulgating the Restoration law 84/001 of 4/2/84, and used it to effect the Restoration of the identity of La Republique du Cameroun which had been extinct since 1/10/1961. The restoration of the identity of La Republique du Cameroun in 1984 had the legal effect of automatically restoring the identity of The Southern Cameroons alias Ambazonia as independent state. Cameroun has formalized the restoration of its name from East Cameroun back to La Republique du Cameroun which it was before the Treaty of union.

• The document The New Social Order on 21 March 1985 formalized the change of the state’s name from West Cameroon to Ambazonia and sought to reassert its sovereignty also, but has not been able to do so because Ambazonia has been illegally occupied by Cameroun.

• All peaceful efforts made towards restoring the Independence of the Ambazonia since 1985 were ignored: (New Social Order (1985), AAC 1 & II (1993-1994), Washington DC Summit (2001), Minnesota Conference(2004), Dallas Conference (2007), UK Conference, 2007,Abuja Lawsuit (2002), Banjul lawsuit (2003), Geneva lawsuit (2006);

• In the past fifty-six years La “Republique” du Cameroun has obstinately spurned all calls by eminent persons from within and without, including a call by the African Union for dialogue and a peaceful resolution of the Southern Cameroons Question and another call by the United Nations for La “Republique” du Cameroun to address the root cause of the Southern Cameroons Problem;

• La “Republique” du Cameroun has pretended not to understand the clear legal and political significance of the framed two separate large maps, one of the Southern Cameroons and the other of La “Republique” du Cameroun, presented to the President of that country in 2010 by the United Nations through the General Assembly President at the time, Dr Ali Triki;

• In its continuing disregard of the voice of the people of the Southern Cameroons for freedom, peace, liberty, safety, and happiness, La “Republique” du Cameroun continues  to  visit  the  Southern  Cameroons  with  every  species  of  calamity, ically letting loose its uncontrollable trigger-happy forces to commit the most horrid devastations;

• La “Republique” du Cameroun has enlisted the assistance of ‘dogs of war’ and ‘intellectual mercenaries’ to help it in its genocidal project of procuring the extermination  of  the  people  of  the  Southern  Cameroons  or  at  least  their  reduction to conditions of complete serfdom;

• The people of the Southern Cameroons have in the past fifty-six years suffered at the hands of La “Republique” du Cameroun a form of colonization, oppression, extreme cruelty, repression and exploitation far more vicious, evil and dehumanizing than anything any African country ever experienced under European colonization;

• In order to maintain its colonial and exploitative stranglehold over our country, La “Republique” du Cameroun has intensified its obsessional measures aimed at promoting internal convulsion, fission and community factionalism in Ambazonia as well as exciting domestic rivalry and suspicion as part of its policy to destroy us;

• La “Republique” du Cameroun has also constrained those of our fellow citizens taken captive by its bribes and temporary lure of office and threat of death to sell their country, the Southern Cameroons, for a mess of potage, to turn against it, to deny the right of its people to existence, and to become traitors and executioners of their friends, families and fellow citizens;

• The moderation, patience and endurance demonstrated by our people have procured no mitigation of the various wrongs and usurpations by La “Republique” du Cameroun, and no hopes remain of obtaining redress by those pacific means alone which have been tried for the past fifty-six long melancholic years;

• La “Republique” du Cameroun is historically and congenitally addicted to violence, is duplicitous and completely untrustworthy, and, in the conduct of public affairs is politically deceitful and is notorious for duplicity, obfuscation, mendacity, dishonesty, patronage, fraud and corruption;

• The people of the Ambazonia refuse to interweave their destiny with that of La “Republique” du Cameroun and refuse to entangle their peace, safety and prosperity in the evil and toxic interest of that country;

• It is irreconcilable to good reason, good conscience, natural law, and the  demands  of  honour  and  human  dignity,  for  the  people  of  Ambazonia to acquiesce in annexation, colonization, and unremitting armed oppression and repression;

• The people of the Ambazonia have under international law and the law of nature an unquestionable right to assert their independence and statehood, and claim the intangibility of the international boundaries of Ambazonia in conformity with the continuing and inalienable right of self-determination and the international law principle uti possidetis juris;

• The people of Ambazonia are entitled to sovereignty over all their natural resources;  

• New York, October 10-1990: The Republic of Ambazonia invoked THE LEGISLATIVE MANDATE IN RESTORATION LAW 84/01 to formally introduce Ambazonia to the world. This happened when the official document dubbed “PROCLAMATION FORMALIZING THE INDEPENDENCE OF AMBAZONIA” was tabled at the United Nations in October 10-1990 and signed by the RoA Head of State Fon Gorji- Dinka. This is the RoA official reminder that following the dissolution of the 1961 Cameroon Confederation, anything thereafter is illegal, unconditional and non binding to the RoA and its people in perpetuity until the sovereign state of The Republic of Ambazonia is in operation! Thereafter, this would be how the Republic of Ambazonia Quest to justify its case for recognition as the sovereign state will be conducted. A very important aspect of this justification process has been the legal victories which are attributed to the Republic of Ambazonia granting it the additional attributes of legitimacy as its JUDICIAL MANDATE!

• In 1992 as the Bamenda High Court the Judgement called HCB 28/92 became The JUDICIAL MANDATE that exhausted all domestic remedies as can be ever contemplated. HCB28/92 essentially is the judgment passed inside Cameroons’s judicial system that confirmed Cameroon’s recognition of the Republic of Ambazonia.

• Excerpt of HCB/28/92

BETWEEN: 1. The State of Southern Cameroon alias the Republic of Ambazonia 2. His Royal Excellency Fon Fongum Gorji-Dinka, 3. Blaise S Berinyuy

AGAINST: 1. The State of La Republique du Cameroun 2. His Excellency Paul Biya

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

The Defendants to show cause why the following should not become judgment absolute of this Court

if within 5 days of being served defendants fail to enter appearance, or if after entering appearance

he fails to file an affidavit of facts which would enable the Court to either set the orders aside or

vary them:

DECLARATION THAT:

The restoration of the Statehood of the Republic of Ambazonia has been achieved by the Proclamation to this effect signed by Fongum Gorji-Dinka Head of State of the republic of Ambazonia as per annexure 3A

The republic of Cameroon is guilty of aggression by illegally and forcibly occupying the territory of the Republic of Ambazonia

Paul Biya is guilty of (the capital offence) of high treason for furthering the coup d’état of 2 /6/72 by effecting the secession of the Republic of Cameroon on 2/1/84 from the United Republic of Cameroon.

It is reasonable felony for anyone to execute orders or perform any function which derives authority from the Republic of Cameroon or Paul Biya

Public Servants of Ambazonian Origin (civilian and military) are discharged of the duty allegiance,

obedience or loyalty which they owed to the Republic of Cameroon and Paul Biya; so they are

henceforth answerable to the republic of Ambazonia and its Head of State Fongum Gorji-Dinka

AN ORDER:

Prohibiting persons elected in Parliamentary Elections from constituencies in the Republic of

Ambazonia from attending personally or by proxy the National Assembly of the Republic of

Cameroon.

Expelling from the territory of the Republic of Ambazonia all persons whose presence or duties in

Ambazonia derive authority from the Republic of Cameroon, Paul Biya or any government based in

Yaounde. Since the defendants failed to even enter appearance within 5 days or at all, the process

which the High Court registrar signed, stamped, and issued as HCB/28/92 automatically became the

judgment absolute of the High Court without a judge having to copy it in the Courts own Book. So the judgment HCB/28/92 is therefore only in the files of the parties and of those of the Bamenda

High Court Registry.

• The English speaking people of Ambazonia can not be as they have never been Cameroonians! This declarative statement of principle is what the world needs to see emanate from all Ambazonian polity in order to received the requisite recognition from sovereign states.

• The people of Ambazonia  in their ad hoc All Anglophone Conference  assembled  in  1994  solemnly  resolved  that  on  the  expiry  of  a ‘reasonable time’ and upon the continuing stubborn refusal by La “Republique” du Cameroun to end its  annexation, colonial occupation, exploitation, oppression, domination, and massive human rights abuses, conditions exist for the Southern Cameroons to invoke its inalienable right of self-determination as a remedy of last resort and to come into being as a sovereign independent State;

• In a Signature Referendum conducted by the Southern Cameroons National Council in 1995, the people of Ambazonia again overwhelmingly  pronounced  themselves  in  favour  of  asserting  the  sovereign statehood of the Southern Cameroons, thereby reiterating the 11th of February 1961 Independence vote;

• The eternal law of self-preservation dictates that the Southern Cameroons unites and exerts the strength of its people for self-defence action and other  forms  of  cooperation  for  humanitarian  intervention  in Ambazonia;     

• It is imperative that the exercise in Ambazonia of every kind of authority under La “Republique” du Cameroun should be totally suppressed and that all the powers of government should be exerted under the authority of the people of Ambazonia for the revival, preservation and promotion of freedom, virtue, order, internal and international peace, and for the defence of life, liberty, and property, against the hostile invasions and cruel depredation of La “Republique” du Cameroun;

• Faced with the on-going state of extreme danger, the Ambazonian liberation movements united in a broad-based common Front (viz. the Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia Consortium United Front - SCACUF), representing the people of Ambazonia and reflecting the will of the overwhelming majority of them, are left with no other alternative than to take all appropriate action warranted by  the circumstances in the best and supreme interest of the good people of Ambazonia;

• In the facts and circumstances of the annexation and colonial occupation of Ambazonia by La “Republique” du Cameroun, the liberation movements  of  Ambazonia,  united  in  a  common  Front,  and representing the eight million people of Ambazonia rightfully in revolt against annexation, colonial occupation and brutal armed repression by La “Republique” du Cameroun, in fulfilment of the inalienable right of self-determination and the natural law of self-preservation, and in due reflection of the will of the Southern Cameroons nation overwhelmingly expressed at the 1961 Plebiscite and reiterated in the 1995 Signature Referendum

• adopts this day basic measures restoring and safeguarding the independence of Ambazonia unlawfully suppressed by La “Republique” du Cameroun, and  

• calls upon the people of the Southern Cameroons to defend by any means their humanity and dignity, their very survival and existence as a people, and the integrity and honour of their families and Homeland;

• 2001-2010 is United Nations decade of decolonization and the Ambazonia is still being annexed and recolonized by another African Former UN Trust territory of the same Category B status;

• ACHPR on Communication 266/2003 on the Ambazonia self-determination question and underlining the determination of Ambazonia to obtain their independence whichever way the ACHPR rules;

• Paragraph 178 of the African Commission of Human and Peoples Rights by which Ruling the Commission finds that “the people of Southern Cameroon” (Ambazonians) qualify to be referred to as a “people” because they manifest numerous characteristics and affinities, which include a common history, linguistic tradition, territorial connection, and political outlook. More importantly, they identify themselves as a people with a separate and distinct identity. Identity is an innate characteristic within a people. It is up to other external people to recognize such existence, but not to deny it”.

• The recognition of Ambazonia as a People, automatically confers on them all the rights embodied in the African Charter, including the inalienable and unquestionable right to self-determination and resistance to foreign domination as provided for in Article 20 (1), (2) and (3).

• November 24th-25th, 2007 International Meeting In Johannesburg South Africa, which re-asserted the inalienable rights of citizens of Ambazonia to self-determination and their political past as a self-governing entity duly recognized by the United Nations between 1954-1961;

• Instituting the Ambazonia Restoration Government on November  25th, 2007;

• The declaration of the former UN Secretary General, H.E. Kofi Annan in AD 2000 calling for dialogue between the People of the Ambazonia and the occupying government of La Republique du Cameroun, which stance has been spitefully ignored by la Republique despite multiple overtures from the People of Ambazonia;

• Many US Congressional Hearings and Resolutions on the Southern Cameroons National Council and the British Southern Cameroons;

• UN, AU, UNHCR, Amnesty International Hearings and Resolutions directly concerning or touching on the Ambazonia and its liberation movements;

• European Union, individual African, European and worldwide governments Declarations and Resolutions on the British Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia);

• UNPO Processes and Resolutions on the British Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia);

• The unleashing by La “Republique” du Cameroun of massive brutal military repression,   state   terrorism,  and  persecution  en  masse  in,  and  increased militarisation of Ambazonia since October 2016 has made it impossible for the people of Ambazonia to congregate and elect a constituent assembly to frame a constitution and set up a government in the Southern Cameroons, and that these dire circumstances make it imperative and expedient for the will and wish of the people to find expression through some other appropriate and legitimate form

• The People of Ambazonia declared the independence of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia on 1st of Oct 2017 in reflection of the formal, definitive and irreversible Restoration of Independence voted for by the Southern Cameroons on 11th February 1961, endorsed by United Nations General Assembly in Resolution 1608 (XV) of 21st of April 1961, and reiterated in the 1995 Signature Referendum.

• This Declaration was in full accordance with  

• the United Nations Charter, Articles 1(2) and 76 b;  

• the United Nations Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, UNGA Res 1514 (XV) of 14th of December 1960, numbered paragraphs 1 to 5; 

• Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States in Accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, UNGA Res 2625 (XXV) of 24th of October 1970, fifth principle;  

• the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, paragraph 3 of preamble, Articles 19 and 20;

• the Constitutive Act of the African Union, Article 4 b;

• the OAU Cairo Declaration, 1964; and  

• common Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights;

• The Ambazonian Interim Government deems it necessary to apply for full membership not only of the United Nations, the African Union, the Commonwealth and other international organisations but also of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), these being fora in which Ambazonia shall seek to contribute to the pursuit of international peace and stability;

• The Ambazonian Interim Government acknowledges that the frontiers of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia have always been, and will continue to be, as defined, delimited and/or demarcated in the relevant sections of the following instruments:

• As regards its frontiers with Nigeria to the west and north:  

• sections IX-XXX of the Agreement between Great Britain and Germany

• Respecting the Settlement of the Frontier between Nigeria and the Cameroons from Yola to the Sea, signed at London, 11 March 1913 (106 B.F.S.P. 782);

• the maritime boundary in Bakassi from the thalweg of the Akwayafe River

• down into the sea as specified definitively by the International Court of Justice in Case Concerning the Land and Maritime Boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria (Cameroon v Nigeria: Equatorial Guinea Intervening), ICJ Judgment of 10 October 2002;

• sections  11-21  of  the  Agreement  Concerning  the  Demarcation  of  the Anglo-German Boundary between Nigeria and the Cameroons from Yola to he Cross River, signed at Obokum, 12 April 1913 (I.B.S. No. 92 – Revised, p. 19); the Agreement between Great Britain and Germany respecting Navigation on the Cross River, London, 11 March 1913 (106 B.F.S.P. 782);

• the Second Schedule to the British Order in Council providing for the

• administration of the Nigeria Protectorate and the Cameroons under British Mandate, London, 2 August 1946 (146 B.F.S.P. 298);

• As regards its frontiers with La “Republique” du Cameroun to the east:  

• sections 23-41 of the Franco-British Declaration respecting the Frontier between the British Cameroons and French Cameroun, London, 10 July

• 1919 (134 B.F.S.P. 238; U.K.T.S. No. 34 (1931); and sections 65-138 of the Declaration made by the Governor of the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria and the Governor of the French Cameroun

• determining the Frontier between British Cameroons and French Cameroun, London, 9 January 1931 (U.K.T.S. No. 34 (1931); 134 B.F.S.P. 238).

• The Federal Republic of Ambazonia declared that Ambazonia shall establish good relations with all its neighbours, including, subsequently, even with La “Republique” du Cameroun in spite of the horrific experiences with that country;

• Today the Republic of Ambazonia is the outcome of the failed 1961‗inter-parliamentary‘ union between the now extinct states of Southern Cameroons and the Republic of Cameroun, and  should  be  operating,  if  the  Southern  Cameroon  is  not  to  be considered a ‗re-colonized territory by Cameroun.

• International law recognizes the right of the people of Ambazonia to form a government-in-exile.

• Capital Heights Conference in Maryland in January 2017 …

• All Ambazonian independence movements came together in the Hagerstown Conference in Maryland, USA, on 11th of February 2017 to confirm the name and independence of Ambazonia and …

• Resolution of the All-Ambazonian-Congress in Maryland on Feb 10th 2018 …