[9] 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.

[12] Cameroonian authorities have acknowledged that they have little control outside the cities in Southern Cameroons;[13] according to a foreign journalist who spent time with the ADF, this owes partly to the poor infrastructure in the region, making it hard for the army to pursue the guerrillas.

In the early phase of the war, this led to a complicated relationship between the ADF and the Interim Government, which initially did not endorse an armed struggle.

The ADF has declined offers to be integrated into the Ambazonia Self-Defence Council, an umbrella organization established by the Interim Government to unite all separatist militias under one banner.

This was in response to the life sentences that had just been handed to Sisiku Julius Ayuk Tabe and nine other detained separatist leaders by the Yaoundé Military Tribunal.

[22] On April 9, 2021, the AGovC formally entered into an alliance with the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its armed wing, the Eastern Security Network (ESN).

[23] By April 2022 this had been partly achieved, as Ambazonian forces and the ESN had consolidated their control over much of the common border and brought 90 percent of cross-border trade to a halt.

[27] On January 21, 2024, it was confirmed that Cameroonian forces had captured top ADF commander "General Efang", who had been wounded in action two weeks prior.