Djibouti: RADDE – Massacre d’Arhiba du 18 Decembre 1991 : Le RADDE exige la Verite et la Justice (18.12.2021)

Opinion: Elections in the Republic under Museveni is run like an Casino

If the Kayunga District By-Election results proves what some of us has been saying. It proves that the state machinery and the electoral commission is working in tandem. The state and the State House has all the advantages in a race. The state agencies and authorities are all coinciding with the memos, decrees and the whims of the “high above”. That’s why elections aren’t open, independent or fair. Free and fair elections is a myth here and it’s all rigged to fit the Presidency.

Let’s be clear, here is unwritten rule that you don’t challenge Museveni and expect to win. He might act like it is a fair fight or an open race. The President allows a few challengers, but they will not have the same spotlight, the access to media or even ability to campaign like him. They will be violated, silenced and stopped from doing their ordinary politicking. While the President can canvass, campaign and be on every single media house any part of the day. Meanwhile, his authorities, regional leaders and whatnot blocks the main opponent from doing the same. They are blocking the venues and making the assembly illegal even during election road-map, which is just made to mask the proposed “election period” for everyone.

This has been occurring for so long. This didn’t only happen in 2016 or in the General Elections in 2021. There been so many By-Elections hit by this and we can surely go back to 1996 and forward to know. Anyone who has had a legit campaign and popularity have suffered by the hands of the state. These folks have been called any name of the book and been blocked for “safety” reasons. The state have blossomed into a war-machine, using the military and police to enforce the will of one man. That’s why they have no real chance of winning or ability to do so. The state has made it impossible, as the parties can only convene in the headquarters in Kampala and they are blocked from operating nationwide. Only the ruling regime can be able to do so and freely. That party will not have issues with primaries or anything. They are allowed and nothing will be illegal. While the opposition cannot even open a party office in up-country without meeting security agencies and have arrests as well.

That’s why the General Elections and Elections in general in Uganda is run like Casino. The state and the NRM is the HOUSE. In concern to a Casino, the house never loose. Yes, it allows some to win and make them hooked. They allow some big prices get taken, as it is a hook to get you tricked into the system. Alas, the House is rigged to win. It might give some the idea that they can win. Nevertheless, the whole race and the crab-table is rigged for the House to profit. You can play blackjack, poker or whatnot. Whatever game you play… the Casino will win and have profits from it all. If it didn’t it wouldn’t operate or roll out the games.

The Casino during Museveni have given away some prices and illusions of victories for the opposition. However, the whole elections are made in a manner of which he wins. Not only does he win, but the NRM will secure the majority across the board. The opposition will not able to field candidates or even hold primaries to have flag-bearers in newly minted districts. Neither does they have the cash to pay to stand as a candidate. While the state has endless funds and the state machinery behind it. This is why the opponents can have great cards on its hands, but it will not matter, because you might win one round… nevertheless the next race will be bloody. There will be no return and the Casino will ensure to get returns on every investment and game. Therefore, the opposition is only being another player, but a sucker who will inevitably loose.

Museveni and his Casino is opening the tables, but the dealer and everyone else knows the NRM will win in the end. The players might believe they have a shot and get some prices. However, they hope the opponent continues to play and will loose all the coins he had. Maybe even ruin their careers and have to borrow from loan-sharks to repay the Casino it’s debt. That’s where Museveni can come in and swoop the opposition candidate from the other parties. In manners of paying off their debts and make them loyal to him. This is what he has done and how he rigs it.

So, never expect Museveni or the Casino to let anyone really win. He only does to make it look like the illusion it is. That is the reality here and it’s tragic. Peace.

Opinion: Defeatist of Duterte to withdraw from the senatorial race

The boot-licker’s and the Duterte supporters should be dismayed as he withdraw his candidacy for the senatorial race on the 11th December 2021. After he filed in the forms in mid-November 2021. So, he was just in the race for a month before dropping out.

Rodrigo Duterte have now been the supposed candidate for Vice-President and later become a Senator. The President of the Republic and Chairman of the PDP-Laban party. It is like his bowing down to Bong Bong Marcos and Inday Sara. That he bickers and bows his knees to this ticket. Because, he don’t want to campaign or make it ugly with his daughter. That’s how it looks like now…

He has faith that Inday Sara will do well and ensure his safety after leaving office. The President knows, if she comes into office. She will use her influence and her position for his gains. Blood is thicker than water and this is why this is a legit reasoning.

We know already that Bong Go and others within the PDP-Laban will be directly loyal to Duterte and his daughter. So, now the party is initially helping the ticket of them. While they are giving all way.

It is like his defeated before even trying. While it would have been possible for him to get elected into the senate. His popularity and record would usher him into Congress. This just make the whole process and latest months a open wasteland.

Duterte have toyed around, the same has the whole PDP-Laban and now it just looks weak. It seems to be deliberate to give more power to the daughter and her candidacy. His the one who is supposed to be strong, resilient and a conning politician. With these moves and backing out only make him go out in sadness.

He doesn’t look smart, brilliant or even wise. It looks he cannot make up his mind or find his new place after presidency. Duterte just jumps around like a soaked-up teen who has drunk too much energy drinks. That’s why his never slowing down and just jumping ship every month.

Now he has returned back to retirement and that can only because of Inday Sara. Anything else at this point must be a lie. Since, he will not say this and that will be humbling to him. While it isn’t a sign of strength the way he bowed out.

This is like he was slapped around the face and he was worried about he was supposed to carry himself in the 2022 elections. That’s how it looks like… A strong-man who carries himself a bitch. That’s how this last few months make him look like. Not like Bong “Go” looks smart either…

The PDP-Laban campaign and plan for 2022 is clearly not solid. Duterte cannot even decide himself what his doing. That’s why his dropping out this late…

This is an whimpering end of Duterte. You would think he had an idea of what he would after the presidency. Instead, it looks like the old man is searching for relevancy and he cannot find the way out it.

Time will tell… but there will be some who will miss him. While other will celebrate this. Therefore, time will tell what sort of effect this has. Nevertheless, PDP-Laban looks like a lightweight into the 2022 elections. Peace.

Mali: Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres et de la Cooperation Internationale – Communique (17.12.2021)

Sudan: Sudanese Professionals Association – Statement (17.12.2021)

The authority of the coalition of the Military Council and Abdullah Hamdok continues its repressive practices without a compass. After the systematic killing and the use of excessive force in the face of the peaceful processions of the revolutionary forces, it is working to close roads and bridges.

There are also reports of its intention to cut off internet and communication services again, all of which are measures it is taking in panic over the expected mass exodus on December 19, 2021. Our great people and its forces have experienced these authoritarian fascist tactics, and they are capable and ready to defeat them with the organization and innovative tools that they have been creating throughout three years

In another aspect, a public symposium organized by the Central Council of the Forces of Freedom and Change in Shambat Square was attacked and attacked, and despite our deep disagreement with the visions and practices of this Central Council and its deviation from the course of the revolution and its demands, we condemn in the strongest terms the targeting of public platforms.

Attempts to silence mouths and confiscate the rights of expression, assembly, and organization from any side. The goals of the glorious December revolution are complete freedom that is guaranteed and protected for all without discrimination, solid and sustainable peace, and comprehensive social and legal justice.

The Sudanese Professionals Association calls on the masses of professionals and wage workers to align and unite with other revolutionary forces in order to defeat the putschists and their flimsy civil cover, and to wrest the people’s full civil authority, which is carried out under the protection of the mass will by making the revolution’s program and goals a reality.

We appeal to the masses of our people of all stripes to come out and participate widely and effectively in the processions of December 19, 2021, in order to turn them into a new earthquake that will hold the forts of tyrannical tyrants.

December 17, 2021 AD

Botswana Patriotic Front: DIS Continues harassment of BPF members (17.12.2021)

Ethiopia: Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Press Release (17.12.2021)

Sudan: Forces for Freedom and Change – Statement (17.12.2021)

A statement from the Forces for Freedom and Change regarding the coup plotters’ sabotage of the public symposium in Rabat Square, Shambat, Bahri Elements affiliated with the coup plotters and the interfaces associated with them sabotaged the first public symposium called for by the forces of freedom and change in the League Square in Shambat this evening, Friday, December 17, 2021, in support of the historic mass movement against the October 25 coup.

These elements bombed the symposium with tear gas canisters, attacked it with white weapons, destroyed chairs and symposium equipment, and attacked the media and the audience.

We hold the putschists responsible for sabotaging the peaceful and mass activity, and it is a new proof that the coup d’etat brings nothing but repression to our people, and that what happened once again confirmed the failure of the November 21 agreement in all tests, and in the continuation of the systematic violence from the coup security services.

We will work with our people to establish the pillars of peaceful mass activity and the right of our people to freedom, peace and justice, and we will not retreat in the face of the violence of the putschists until our people regain their right to a civil, democratic rule that the martyrs took away before the living. And the Rabat Square in Shambat is a land liberated with the blood of the martyrs of our people who fell in this field since September 2013.

We call on the regional and international community to realize before it is too late that the November 21 agreement will not reform the October 25 coup that aborted the civil democratic transition. The prevention of this public symposium is only another proof of that, and a coup that cannot be tolerated by a mass symposium cannot bring about free and fair elections.

The symposium of the forces of freedom and change, which was not completed, will be completed by our people the day after tomorrow on December 19, which will shake the pillars of the coup regime. And finally, we feel proud and proud of the position of the forces of revolution and change and the masses of our people, especially the revolutionary forces in Bahri and Shambat, who confronted the sabotage of the symposium.

This confirms the need to move forward in establishing the broadest popular front to defeat the coup and complete the tasks of the glorious December revolution.

December 17, 2021

Kenya: County Government of Kisumu – Office of the Governor – Unfortunate Remarks by UDA on Corruption (17.12.2021)

Ethiopia: Tigray External Affairs Office – Press Statement on the recent air bombardment of Alamata town, Tigray (17.12.2021)