The Southern Cameroons Ambazonia Consortium United Front (SCACUF) was a
nonviolent
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movement seeking the independence of the
Federal Republic of Ambazonia. It was an
umbrella organization
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, consisting of several indigenous and English-speaking nationalist movements.
On October 1, 2017, it declared the restoration of the independence of Ambazonia from a failed federation with French-speaking Cameroun, with Chairperson
Sisiku Julius Ayuk Tabe
Sisiku Julius Ayuk Tabe is an Ambazonian separatist leader, and is the disputed first president of the unrecognized Federal Republic of Ambazonia. as
president
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*President (government title)
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, and later transformed itself into the
Interim Government of Ambazonia
The Interim Government of Ambazonia is the provisional government in exile of the internationally unrecognized Federal Republic of Ambazonia.
History Ayuk Tabe cabinet (2017–18)
The Interim Government of Ambazonia was formed from the Sou ...
.
The cause of the fracture is rooted in (a) systematic underhand efforts by the 80% majority French-speaking Cameroun political leadership to annihilate
The Cameroonian state is the only grave digger in our Constitution
LeMonde online, Paris, 24 January 2017. Accessed March 15, 2020. the Anglo-Saxon cultural heritage of the former British Southern Cameroons, (b) covert policies to convert the indigenous people into French speakers in an expanded Francafrique, impose civil law practices in common law courts and undermine the Anglo-Saxon educational system, and as well as to (c) grant to imperial France unfettered access to natural resources and the sovereign right to determine the cultural, political and economic choices in Ambazonia as in the Cameroon Republic; all absent the consent of the indigenous people of the former British Southern Cameroons. These grievances ignited the Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia) crisis leading to the proclamation of independence restoration in 2017. The territory gained independence 1 October 1961 from the United Kingdom.
References
External links
SCACUF – Twitter account
Politics of Ambazonia
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