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By Martial Gnoukapasi Day old chicks being catered for at the centre The Bamenda centre for Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration's co-ordinator Kum Henry Ichu has said ex-fighters of the ambazonian struggle who long surrendered themselves and their weapons need to start making money, taking care of themselves and their families like every other  Cameroonian.  " The children should be able to make a living for themselves. I spent 3months in the bush and I know what it's like to be in one spot for long and can openly tell you that it's not easy. These are humans and can't continue to sit like this, waiting for some policy to be designed" he said To note that Mr Kum was speaking Friday July 15th after receiving a consignment of 5000 day old chicks accompanied by 25 bags of feeds he lobbied and obtained from the North West Livestock Development Fund (CDENO), Visad by the ministry of livestock. Kum Henry (in suit) receiving the birds from CDENO's Dire

By Colbert Gwain in Bamenda. image courtesy of africainharlem. nyc Frida Nain,(not her real names), 30, had escaped from Belo, Boyo division, one of the epicenters of the deadly separatist armed conflict in the North West Region, after clashes between government forces and separatist fighters saw her home go up in flames, early 2018. Scampering for safety, she decided to relocate to Bamenda, the Region’s capital where things were seemingly more stable. But that was only going to be the beginning of her travails in her new life as an Internally Displaced Person,( IDP). ” I was well received when I first arrived and managed to secure a one-room house at Ntamulung in Bamenda,” the desperately-looking lady told this investigative reporter. “The landlord and neighbours were so empathetic about what had happened to me back in my native Belo ,” she said. “ The land lord intimated that we were a family and that I could pay rents of FCFA 10,000 per month anytime I stumbled on something. The wel