Ethiopia: The Global Society of Tigrai Scholars (GSTS) – An Urgent Call for Strong Action to Prevent Further Atrocities in Ethiopia (20.11.2021)

Sudan: Sudanese Congress Party – A statement on the party’s position on the political agreement signed between General Al-Burhan and Dr. Abdullah Hamdok (21.11.2021)

While today, peaceful protesters in the processions of the twenty-first of November are subjected to severe repression in the streets, a political agreement was signed between General Al-Burhan and Dr. Abdullah Hamdok.

In the presence of the military and civilian forces of the coup leaders, in a sudden political development that calls for clarification of the position of the Sudanese Congress Party in a clear manner that leaves no room for doubt or ambiguity:

First: We see that the political agreement did not address the roots of the crisis and was made hastily in closed rooms away from the live forces of the December Revolution and without the trouble of its advice, while a large number of its leaders from the political and civil forces are under the arbitrary arbitrary political detention.

Second: Based on that, and since Dr. Abdullah Hamdouk was previously appointed to his position by the Forces of Declaration of Freedom and Change, his unilateral decision to sign such an agreement without authorization is considered an act that lacks legitimacy and is outside the ruling constitutional framework The recognized document represented in the Constitutional Document of 2019 and its amendments in 2020 based on the Sudan Peace Agreement in Juba.

Third: The justifications on which the agreement was based strayed from objectivity and truth, because it renamed the military coup a correction, the political parties are responsible for the causes of the political crisis, while all the facts indicate that it is an artificial crisis that was prepared by the putschists by suffocating the country security and economically and creating a civil and political front parallel to the forces of declaring freedom and change to become a pliable tool in the hands of the putschists. it provides them with a political cover for the overthrow of the constitution and the subsequent grave violations of the rights of Sudanese women and men to life, freedom and a decent life.

Fourth: We consider that the current political agreement is an explicit legalization of the continuation of the coup regime in power. And it is considered a serious threat to the stability of the country and the security of its citizens because of the powers it grants to multiple forces that do not believe in civil democratic transformation or the right of peoples to determine their fate and future. Which threatens to explode this system internally and turn the country into an arena of intense regional conflict.

Fifth: Absent from the agreement are the most important points of contention that prompted the putschists to implement their uncalculated step of transferring the presidency of the Sovereign Council to civilians. The civil political authority’s management of the process of reforming the security and military systems, and the state’s jurisdiction over public money, including the companies affiliated with those systems.

Sixth: The agreement also missed the most important key conditions that would guarantee the success of the civil democratic transformation and the stability of the country in the future and represented in the exit of the military institution from the political process, and the unification of the mechanism for determining the foreign policies of Sudan and taking its own decisions within the civilian political authority.

Seventh: Any agreement that does not include the accountability of the military and civilian revolutionaries, means paving the way for the recurrence of the coup again in the future, and contributing to accepting and consolidating the pattern of impunity and accepting the behavior of seizing power by force.

The refusal of the free and rebellious masses in the processions of the twenty-first of November and in the various cities, villages and villages of Sudan to this flawed agreement came automatically and clearly and unambiguously, and we, as we renew our initial rejection of this agreement, affirm that we are proceeding with all determination in the path of resisting the coup regime and opposing it by peaceful means until its overthrow, and that we will always remain wherever the masses and the forces of the living revolution are ahead in their constant quest for liberation from tyranny and their aspiration for freedom, peace, justice and a decent life.

Long live our people free and victorious

November 21, 2021 AD

Sudan: The Agreement between Al-Burhan and Hamdok is dead on arrival

Today wasn’t a day of fanfare or of rejoicing in a new agreement between old parties. As the putchists wants people to forget what has been done and created by the army commanders who took total control. The Transitional Military Council and the Generals who swiftly overthrow the civilians in the Sovereign Council on the 25th October 2021.

Now, the same gentlemen and leader is supposed to grant the finer things again. Just like its water under the bridge. While the army and it’s security organizations are killing, torturing and silencing the opposition to its power. They are vandalizing hospitals and going house-to-house searches. The state is operating in a manner, which leaders of the civilian organizations are arrested and kidnapped. Therefore, the agreement today is futile and pointless.

The TMC have already breached the previous agreement. The TMC have already stifled the process and lied about it. The IGAD and African Union cannot save this right now. The TMC and the Army Commanders has to listen to the streets, the public dissent and the revolution of which it cannot contain or control.

The Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) and Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) have both denounced the agreement. The same has the Sudanese Congress Party (SCP). Therefore, the agreement isn’t broadly accepted. The provisions in it will not matter, because the army commanders will not honour it. They didn’t honour it last time. So, why will they do it now? Aye?

Does Al-Burhan and Hemeti think everyone else is stupid and they are Einstein geniuses? Clearly, they think everyone else is daft and can be punked on a daily basis. Since, this agreement of the 21st November 2021 is a fish out of water. This is a bunch of wasted paper and articles. These provisions and agreed upon is practically worthless.

Article three of it is really infuriating: “The partnership between civilians and the military is the guarantor of the stability and security of Sudan, based on an agreement to implement the partnership in a spirit and confidence, and a commitment to form a civilian government of independent competencies (technocrats)”.

This is not saying they will have an election and get civilian representation. No, this is technocrats, which means people that Al-Burhan and Hemeti trusts. They want to hand-pick the leaders and not have the public decide who is in government. That’s why this part of the agreement isn’t in the spirit of the revolution.

Article five says this though: “Ensuring the transition of the transitional authority on time to an elected civilian government”.

It is hard to believe that, when the same TMC and allies have blocked the timely transitional parts of the previous agreement. As they were losing control and power. Therefore, what stops them from stopping the process again? Who believes these articles and words in 2021?

The FFC and SPA will not be participating in the new council. That’s why the TMC racket is now in full force and Hamdok wanted to sell out like the warlords of Darfur did previously this month. They are all trading all goodwill for a quick slick slice of power. So, that Al-Burhan and Hemeti can both control council for now and secure the technocrats they want. In this way have much more influence and not get outside pressure from FFC or SPA in that matter.

Hamdok as a Prime Minister is a man without any credibility. The agreement is a tanking his role and what he can do. He is legitimizing the second coup and giving way again to Al-Burhan. Hamdok is trading all his assets to men who easily will violate him. He is a pawn and now they will trick him even further. The PM will not have power or be credible. No, his just a poster-boy for the military to keep continued siege over government. That is really it and Hamdok accepts that post now.

This agreement is a waste of time and only done by the TMC to get accepted again. They just want to buy peace and get international recognition again. They don’t care about the costs, the revolutionaries and the people dying in the streets. No, they just want to prolong the power and keep it. The TMC is just lucky to have Hamdok on board twice and his eating the filth they call gold. This document isn’t a sign of justice or hope for a better future. No, it is a violation of the civilians who wants their own representation and giving the TMC more time to define their wanted government. Which is what they wanted all along.

Hamdok is foolish to have accepted this trick and thinking he will have a say. He will just be the one for the headlines, but the ones controlling the game is Al-Burhan and Hemeti. Peace.

Sudan: The Unified Office of Sudanese Doctors – Statement (21.11.2021)

The Junta forces continue to attack hospitals and healthcare facilities. Earlier today, security forces fired tear gas inside Khartoum Teaching Hospital with no regard to the sanctity of the hospital, the patients, and the medical staff on duty. Security had repeated these attacks and raids against hospitals.

Several injuries among civilians have been reported during today’s anti-coup protests, with some in an unstable condition. CCSD will provide more details once confirmed.

November 21, 2021

Sudan: Sudanese Professionals Association – Statement (21.11.2021)

Our stand in the line of fire will remain wonderful for a long time

We will teach history what is the meaning of steadfastness and what is heroism

The treason agreement signed today between Hamdok and Al-Burhan is totally rejected, and concerns only its parties.

The points of agreement of subservience, on their merits, and their isolation, far from the aspirations of our people, are nothing more than ink on paper. Our people experienced the false covenants of the revolutionaries and the news of their contempt and their violation of it. The path of our people is clearer now than ever before, dropping the blood partnership and everyone who joins it.

And the continuation of the peaceful resistance by building its resistance bases in neighborhood committees and union entities, and diversifying the tools of non-stop resistance action to reach the democratic civil state and its pure revolutionary authority.

This treacherous agreement is in response to the declared goals of the putschists in re-empowering the remnants, the perpetuation of the authority of Al-Bashir’s murderous security committee, and a betrayal of the blood of the martyrs of the December revolution before and after the October 25 coup, we are certain that our people will nullify it and will continue its steadfast stance, in the face of the storms of oppression and setback that are trying to bring it back, upright.

We in the Sudanese Professionals Association are committed to the proposal of the political declaration that we presented to the forces of the revolution.

And its living forces that are committed to their declared proclamations must raise and expand their forms of coordination and ignore the calls to retreat and isolate the forces of the revolution from each other.

November 21, 2021

Opinion: Kabila have been siphoning funds for years – #CongoHoldUp

Former Congolese President Joseph Kabila who served as President from 2001 to January 2019. Kabila made agreements with the current President Felix Tshisekedi, which let him into the offices in 2019 after prolonged agony and a presidency on overtime. We know the CACH-FCC agreement secured Tshisekedi and Kamerhe secured they could govern. This blocking the opposition Lamuka from entering the offices. Therefore, we shouldn’t be shocked if Kabila is eating of the state still.

Yes, Tshisekedi have done someone mediocre plans and tried to show accountability. As President and with “Union sacrée”. The current President haven’t changed things and the problems of the state haven’t gotten smaller either. There is state of emergency in Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu, which haven’t stopped insurgency or the militias there.

Even if Tshisekedi thinks he rules supreme. He lives in office on the mercy of the agreement he made with Kabila. He has tried to block and make his party less viable. This being the FCC and everyone associated with Kabila. However, CACH-FCC agreement is what breathed life into his presidency and he couldn’t have secured this without Kabila himself.

That’s why when I read about a banking scandal, huge payouts from the state and whole corruption scandal involved Kabila in 2021. I am not shocked nor surprised… It seemed inevitable and made to be. Kabila had already had total control for about 2 decades in office. The former President had still after the election massive power in the provinces and in the chambers of power. Even with another party coalition in government. They still needed his blessings for their causes and not to get issues in Parliament. Therefore, Tshisekedi was the figure-head, but not the kingpin.

Kabila didn’t pay any price for his schemes of the past and neither any inquires into his vast family wealth. Kabila could just walk out of office and chill. He was earning money like no tomorrow and the state was still on his payroll. That was the deal and Tshisekedi accepted that to finally become President.

Tshisekedi cannot sanction him or target him like Vital. Because, if he does that… he risks not only the agreement, but also his future. For Tshisekedi and UDPS rather wants him re-elected. Than go after Kabila and his influence of the state. They are already indebted to him and cannot bring any sort of pain his way. Since if he does… Tshisekedi will regret and the FCC will punish him. This is something Tshisekedi knows and he cannot play with fire.

Tshisekedi cannot fix any of the grand issues in the Republic. He cannot fix the lack of schools, hospitals, national roads or the lack of electricity and water. Heck, the President cannot even stop insurgency and insecurity with huge mandates of martial law. That is how weak he is and this is why he cannot challenge Kabila either. If he does… he will be torched and possibly impeached. The CACH already did this allies of Kabila last year, but he wouldn’t dare to touch his wealth. That is a place nobody would go.

We know that the millions of dollars which is revealed is a small price the Tshisekedi presidency has paid for the silence of the predecessor. Kabila is already revealed to have 15 billion US dollars in tax-haven of the Cayman Islands. Therefore, the millions of dollars in question now. Is small funds and just the top of the ice-berg. Kabila have been eaten like a mad-man for years and he could, because there was no stoppage to his power. The vast wealth and resources of the Republic could easily enrich him and he could siphon funds like no tomorrow.

So, the #CongoHoldUp case is just showing the sinister side, which was already known about. The Kabila family and fortune is massive. The DRC have been robbed by their own and the current President made a deal with him. That’s why they wouldn’t dare to really challenge him. Since, then he would loose the agreement and ability to rule. Tshisekedi wouldn’t dare to do that. He could loose everything and they could find things to pin him with as well. He could end up like Kamerhe and be behind bars too. It is not far from power to the jail-cell.

Kabila stealing and siphoning funds isn’t shocking. What is shocking how people are reacting and thinking this is outrageous. This is what the man did as a career and misused his office. Kabila wasn’t a saint or a hero. He was a thief with vast power and nobody keeping him accountable. Therefore, the Sentry Report is positive, but Kabila has done this for years and it’s not breaking news.

A man doesn’t steal 15 billion US Dollars overnight. No that is steady operation over years. The conning man of Kabila will not be gone either. Some of his straw-men might fall and loose grace because of this. However, he himself will see another day and that’s because of the agreement he has with Tshisekedi. The President cannot risk his legitimacy and his office now. He cannot dare to question or be vocal now. If he does… he risks the next election and that is the most important thing for the President. At least that is how things looks from a far. Peace.

Opinion: Museveni’s recent address don’t reassure anyone

I’m not your usual president. I speak with action and let me remind you that I’m not going to show any mercy to anyone who is Found guilty of killing my people. We are not here to joke, Uganda is able to protect itself from people who think that they’re better than us. We have already Gunned down several ISIS leaders and now they know that I’m not a man who you should play with. The sheikh who ordered his men to kill my people should run because I’m also ordering my men to go after them, it’s fire for fire don’t confuse power and authority” – President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (20.11.2021).

Everything that General Museveni touches has to be violent. There is no peace and no sort of resolve. That’s how General solves things and not in a manner of which is with protocol. Yesterday he defended extra judicial-killings. He has no issues with it and seems to order it. This is not a warning, but a stern realization that the President believes he has the right of people’s life and death.

This national address on COVID-19 and National Security isn’t anything new. Very little was said that was striking or game changing. We have heard these things before and the state just shows intelligence in speeches, but without further proof. The President just speaks of intent and violent force. Because, that is how you strike fear and not how you generate peace. However, this is all that Museveni have after over 30 years in power. He cannot have love or care, neither concern or ability to read the room. No, he just have to blaze the guns and thinking that this is the manner of which terrorists will fear him.

As he continues…

If ADF had remained quiet and not attacked Gen Katumba we wouldn’t have known them.They are overestimating themselves. They wanted to kill Gen Katumba because he is a big government person to show they are there. Although Jamilu Mukulu was arrested, they wanted to show they are still there (in existence). They also thought that Katumba being the Minister of Works and was to work on road in DRC which is their territory, how dear he” (Museveni, 20.11.2021).

I have heard some arguments about Kirevu and how he was a good person. The attempt to kill Gen Katumba landed them in trap. All these incidents are linked. Our security was lax but when you provoke them, they wake up. We were able to use technology to identify some of them. It is a matter of time we got them” (Museveni, 20.11.2021).

It is strange how these things goes and how these things are connected. As the state claims it is ADF behind it all. While, there is no court trial or any evidence gathered for a court case. No, it is just empty statements in speeches. The Minister and General Katumba should be insulted of being used this way after surviving an assassination attempt and his daughter lost her life there together with his driver. They have not gotten justice or peace. Just like all the people in Kampala who lost their lives in the bombs.

The President is just showing his fierceness, but it is just a flex. This isn’t strength or ability to show control or have systems to ensure people’s safety. Instead it is boosting his own ego and his troops. They are just trigger-happy soldiers and officers who kills. Just like the terrorists does and without proof of alleged crimes or terrorist activity.

We should with certainty… but we cannot be happy with this. The President isn’t showing any sort of character or ability to govern here. Only that he can order people deaths and destroy lives. It is not like can secure or ensure anyone. That is missing here.. and he cannot regain that trust. Since he believes his guns and army can fix everything. That is evident here and parts of it is true. Because, we know he is only ruling because of it. If it wasn’t for the army and the soldiers, he wouldn’t have an office to go to. The President needs the UPDF and Intelligence Agencies to secure his political life. While, that will not give peace to the general public or secure their lives. As the President cannot find ways to make things peaceful and justifiable. If he did, he wouldn’t be speaking like this and be such an inactive person at the same time. Peace.

Sudan: Forces of Freedom and Change – Central Leadership Council – Press Statement (21.11.2021)

News from various media sources reported during the previous hours that an agreement had been reached between the leader of the coup and Dr. Abdullah Hamdok as a result of efforts for a national initiative, according to which the latter would return as prime minister to form a government of national competencies.

We in the Central Leadership Council of the Forces of Freedom and Change affirm our clear and previously declared position, that there is no negotiation, no partnership, and no legitimacy for the coup d’état, and that the crime of undermining the legitimate regime, overturning the constitution, killing peaceful revolutionaries and revolutionaries, and enforced disappearance.

Excessive repression and other documented crimes require that the coup leaders, the opportunists and the remnants of the former regime who formed this coup authority be brought to immediate trials, and we are not interested in any agreement with this brutal junta, and we are working with all peaceful, tested and innovative ways to bring it down.

With all the forces of the living revolution, professional bodies, resistance committees, and all the honorable people, let the processions of the twenty-first day of November be a new epic round of the glorious revolution rounds that will tighten the noose around the coup that will inevitably fall.

November 21, 2021 AD

Sudan: Sudanese Congress Party – Press Statement (21.11.2021)

This morning, local and international media circulated news about signs of an agreement between the coup plotters and Prime Minister Dr. Abdullah Hamdok, without obtaining confirmations of its details from official and reliable sources.

We in the Sudanese Congress Party announce that we will not participate in any direct negotiations or through representation from a strong coalition, the Declaration of Freedom and Change, and we affirm our firm position previously announced in our statement on October 31, 2021 AD, the cadres of our party will continue to work on the ground in the capital and the provinces with the masses of our steadfast and proud people and their living forces to resist the brutal coup d’etat by all the available and known peaceful methods until its inevitable downfall and the presentation of its masterminds and perpetrators and all those who committed violations, they were killed, wounded, oppressed and trespassed against the sanctities of homes since the twenty-fifth of October until fair trials.

We also affirm our participation at the forefront of the ranks for the processions of the twenty-first day of November and the following processions so that our people impose their will and aspirations for freedom and a decent life.

Our people lived free, dignified and victorious, and apostasy is impossible.

Noureddine Babiker

Party Spokesperson

November 21, 2021 AD

Malawi: Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) – Communique (20.11.2021)