Ambazonia Defence Forces

Ambazonia Defence Forces
Leaders
  • Julius Nyih (Interim C.I.C, 2024-present)
  • Ayaba Cho Lucas (C.I.C, 2017-2024)
  • Benedict Nwana Kuah (Chairman of ADF Council)
  • Former: Capo Daniel (deputy defense chief, 2017-23)
Dates of operation2017 – present
AllegianceAmbazonia Governing Council
IdeologyAmbazonian nationalism
Size
  • 1,500 (according to the ADF; as of July 2018)
  • 200–500 (according to independent sources; by 2019)
Part of Ambazonia
Allies IPOB (ESN)
Opponents Cameroon
Battles and warsAnglophone Crisis

The Ambazonia Defence Forces (ADF) are a military organization that fights for the independence of Ambazonia, a self-declared independent state in the Anglophone regions of the former Southern Cameroons, Cameroon. It was formally established by the Ambazonia Governing Council (AGovC) on 9 September 2017, the same day as the organization declared a war of independence.

Whereas other separatist militias have refrained from bringing the war outside the Anglophone regions, the ADF has taken a different stance. Since April 2021, the ADF has been allied with the Indigenous People of Biafra and its armed wing, the Eastern Security Network. Furthermore, then-AGovC leader Ayaba Cho Lucas declared in 2021 that if Cameroonians rise up against the government of Paul Biya, the ADF will support them militarily.

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