The Puerto Polloan government has declared the state of emergency in the capital Danjer Cove, after a violent storm hit the island and caused flash floods to descend from the higher grounds toward the coastal capital. Two people at least have been confirmed dead, while many others had to leave their homes for safety. The weather is luckily improving and rescue operations should become more feasible.

Cheng Thap Luyu, one of Kai Fa most prominent activists and independent journalists, has been arrested for alleged propaganda against the state, according to a rights group.

Kai Fa authorities charged Ms Cheng with making, storing, disseminating or propagandising information that aims to oppose the State, for which the harshest sentence is 20 years in prison.

Ms Cheng is the author of numerous books and a frequently publishing journalist, activist and blogger whose work has covered topics including LGBT rights, women’s rights, environmental issues, police brutality, the suppression of activists, and land rights.

Her arrest comes amid a clampdown on journalists and activists.

Six months after the historical succession of Brother Unclepear to the helm of Bruuma, the first change in the cabinet made public has been unveiled. Anatoly McFaul, up to now Ambassador to Huawan, has been nominated the new Minister of Foreign Affairs in place of Sergej Hunt, who has been reassigned as Ambassador to the Frost Empire.

Analysts were well expecting the new leader to reshuffle the deck of ministers, and there may have been other changes, since not all positions are so exposed to the international eye. The reasons for the demotion, as it has been widely interpreted, of Hunt may lay in its failure to negotiate favourable concessions for Bruuma in the Serevan and Reizen theatres, or/and the inability to secure strong alliances outside the socialist countries. The choice of McFaul, relatively young and attached to the Peony’s court, may instead signal a will to shift the regime’s foreign policy toward a more pragmatic approach.

McFaul will be succeeded in his role in Huawan by Rosa Farrell, a diplomat of senior experience with a legal background.

Yesterday, Brother Unclepear held a speech in Bayougrad during the annual commemoration of the Serevan War, which ended three years earlier. The Dear Lader took advantage of the occasion to announce that on April 13th - Revolution Day* in Bruuma - the VII General Congress of the Workers' Mojo Party will be held. 

It is worth noting that, while Revolution Day do celebrates the Party, it marks also the first year since Brother Unclepear succeded to papa Unclepear at to the helm of the country.

WMP's General Congress were generally held each decade, but in 2015 Papa Unclepear decided to summon again the beaurocracts after seven years from the previous gathering. The 2015 Congress was marred by squabbles between the Party and the military, with factional clashes reported in the streets.

*It celebrates the Wokers' Mojo Party declaration of the armed struggle against the colonial rule in 1936. It was chosen since the founding date of the Party is unknown, being someday of 1931.