RSA: Leader of Opposition Mmusi Maimane letter the Public Protector – “In Re: Complaint Relationship of the President with African Global Operations, formerly known as BOSASA.” (23.11.2018)

South Sudan: Renaming of South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) – (23.11.2018)

RDC: LUCHA – Notre déclaration en rapport avec les « élections » du 23 décembre 2018 (23.11.2018)

Cameroon: Statement of the Bishop of Mamfe Diocese (22.11.2018)

USA: White House – Decision Memorandum – Subject: Department of Defense Support for Border Security (20.11.2018)

Mnangagwa cannot be disrespected: So when the Real Slim Shady shows up, you better stand up!

May I have your attention, please?

May I have your attention, please?

Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?

I repeat, will the real Slim Shady please stand up?

We’re gonna have a problem here…” – Eminem on ‘The Real Slim Shady’ (2000).

Today, the 22nd November 2018, the day will not be remembered for the National Budget Speech for 2019. Not that the Office of the President and Cabinet has given themselves 300m US Dollars for ordinary spending in the next Financial Year. Usually, that would be a big deal. However, there was other reports that is much more important. Because the President cannot handle opposition and is so thin-skinned, that he evicted the opposition MPs with force.

POLICE officers on Thursday afternoon forcibly removed some opposition MDC members of parliament after they refused to stand up for President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Parliamentary speaker Jacob Mudenda asked the opposition members to leave the chamber, accusing them of disrespect. When they refused, he called in the police and scuffles ensued. Opposition MDC party spokesman Jacob Mafume says two female members of parliament were injured and taken to a hospital” (Zoom – Zimbabwe News, 22.11.2018).

MDC MPs refuses to acknowledge ED when he arrived in Parliament and they are violently booted out by the police. Thats nonsense!” (The Herald Zimbabwe, 22.11.2018).

Clearly, the ZANU-PF and the President expects natural respect. In the Chambers of Parliament are usually strict rules and regulation of the business order of the House. That is all natural, as that is the governing body and the legislative branch of the government. However, that the President are so short sighted to throw people out not for standing in front of his grace. Shows his lack of sight too.

That Emmerson Mnangagwa not understand, that the opposition might not respect him or want to honor him. Something that is within reason, as the ZANU-PF has done whatever they can to disrespect and belittle the opposition, even targeting them and detain them. All of that is status quo.

However, what happens today, shows the arrogance and the approach to justice this government has. That one man cannot stay calm and ensure mercy, that the President cannot show them respect even. As he ordered them out like garbage and someone got hospitalized, because they didn’t stand up for him.

So, we have a problem here. A man who cannot manage himself in Parliament, who anticipate that everyone stand guard and awaits the fountain of honor. That they are all kissing the ring and giving him complements. That they are all his loyal subjects who are there to praise his breath. That is just the way it is.

PFee comrades can come kicking and screaming, but others cannot. Mnangagwa is now showing brutality in the National Assembly. That means everyone is fair game. Don’t expect positive changes. There will not be, only Mugabeisms in a new form, the Mnangagwa way. Peace.

Cameroon: Federal Republic of Ambazonia Press Release – Yaounde Moves H.E. Ayuk Tabe, Others to Long Term Incarceration (22.11.2018)

Brexit: Prime Minister Theresa May letter to MPs (22.11.2018)

Rwanda: FDU-Inkingi – Communique – Les Decouvertes de Plusieurs Cadavres a Kamonyi Peuvent-Elles Expliquer Certains Dispartitiones des Opposants Politiques rels ou Supposes? (22.11.2018)

The Brexit Nightmare Continues with the Political Declaration of 22nd November 2018

“Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.”Adam Smith

There is something amazing and curious about this whole situation, no matter what sort of bargain the Tories are doing in Brussels. The deals becomes more shady and more dire. The deals are so special and uniquely bad. That this is the second coming of illuminati steering the wheel, because who are they thinking they are fooling. The whole process has been flawed and the spin-control out of proportion. Still, the paperwork of the Draft Withdrawal Agreement and now the Political Declaration are telling, what so many new questions, but the final steering point is now the movement of people, but like always there are also some other issues.

Autonomy:

“The future relationship will be based on a balance of rights and obligations, taking into account the principles of each Party. This balance must ensure the autonomy of the Union’s decision making and be consistent with the Union’s principles, in particular with respect to the integrity of the Single Market and the Customs Union and the indivisibility of the four freedoms. It must also ensure the sovereignty of the United Kingdom and the protection of its internal market, while respecting the result of the 2016 referendum including with regard to the development of its independent trade policy and the ending of free movement of people between the Union and the United Kingdom” (Political Declaration, 22.11.2018).

Backstop in Northern Ireland:

“The Parties recall their determination to replace the backstop solution on Northern Ireland by a subsequent agreement that establishes alternative arrangements for ensuring the absence of a hard border on the island of Ireland on a permanent footing” (Political Declaration, 22.11.2018)

Financial Services:

Noting that both Parties will have equivalence frameworks in place that allow them to declare a third country’s regulatory and supervisory regimes equivalent for relevant purposes, the Parties should start assessing equivalence with respect to each other under these frameworks as soon as possible after the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the Union, endeavouring to conclude these assessments before the end of June 2020. The Parties will keep their respective equivalence frameworks under review” (Political Declaration, 22.11.2018).

Mobility:

“Noting that the United Kingdom has decided that the principle of free movement of persons between the Union and the United Kingdom will no longer apply, the Parties should establish mobility arrangements, as set out below” (Political Declaration, 22.11.2018).

Therefore, we can now see the signs of closed borders for people and movement from the EU to the UK. That is the meagre resolution here, as the Free Movement will be gone. What is also striking, is still the evident of Northern Ireland and Irish question. That is mentioned in passages all over the Declaration. However, the Welsh and Scottish are not mentioned. Neither is the Gibraltar, which certainly will get the Spanish fuming in Brussels. As they have been vocal about the wording in the Withdrawal Agreement earlier this month.

Now, there are not all questions fixed, and the lack of progress is evident. What is rare to is that Goods, Financial Services might go on like today, but the Free Movement is taken away. So the economic interests comes before the people. Which isn’t striking in the world of the Tories, but in general it is evident of what values that matters.

We have to see if this sort of arrangement get through and even if the Parliament are accepting the Withdrawal Agreement as it is or this Political Declaration too. Which shows the dire consequences of the bargain done now. City of London might not for instance will be hit before the 2020. However, the free movement of people will be. Meaning a possible brain-drain for the United Kingdom might appear more obvious. Since the public and educated might have to get work and visas abroad. Peace.