Liore

[Rogue]

Deltarian economy rebounds, global economic crisis officially over

[Rogue]

Deltaria announced "Dovani Economic Initiative"

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Mjumbe
"Lion, Crocodile, Eagle" Plan to be Resumed, Massive Naval Purchase
October 4857

Deltaria's Kirov-Class Battlecruiser will Serve as the Flagship of a New Liori Fleet

In 4827, the Arch Ministry of Defense embarked upon a plan to bring Liore's navy and air force up to the same standards as the army. Thirty years later, very little progress other than the initial purchase of combat vehicles from Kundrati was made in that goal, and the so-called "Lion, Crocodile, Eagle" Plan has largely been forgotten by all besides historical experts of the Siwatu Aguda era, and Liore's navy and air force remain small and outdated compared to the Liori army and the navies and air forces of other nations on the same international step as Liore. However the Party and the government are again looking into military modernization, and all sources indicate that the Lion, Crocodile, Eagle Plan, or at least a spiritual successor, will soon come to the forefront of of domestic development, and already public officials have announced plans for modernization.

The first step in such a plan has already been taken, Liore navy, which up until this point has been a meager collection of small patrol and torpedo boats primarily located on the Caltropic Coast, will be receiving a massive increase. In an arms purchase from Deltaria, Liore will effectively be acquiring a new fleet of modern warships to defend the Red Bass Coast. This purchase consists of ten Velryba-Class destroyers, four Gepard-Class frigates, and two Slava-Class cruisers, and with the main attraction of a single Kirov-Class battlecruiser, one of the largest non-carrier warships in use and the prospective flagship of the new Liori navy. This new fleet will be anchored in Bakundu to defend Liore from intercontinental threats, which became an issue twice in recent history. To accommodate the new fleet, Liore and Deltaria will be investing in the expansion of the port to support basing, trade, and shipbuilding, a project that will last three years.

Official statements suggest that this will not be the end of modernization, with a number of public officials, including People's Assembly Representatives and bureaucrats from the Arch Ministry of Defense, stating that the government and People's Front Party (as well as members of the opposition) are interested in continuing plans after the coming elections. Incumbent Presidential candidate Thimba Hami himself stated his commitment to modernization in an interview two years ago, and recently has stated that modernization programs such as the purchase of naval vessels from Deltaria will continue if he is reelected next January.

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Mjumbe
Utembo, Kurageri Added to Investment Bloc
July 4859

The Kuragerian City Ligembe has Historically Served as the Gateway between Liore and Kurageri

For the past three years, the nations of North Dovani and Temania have been the benefactors of a stream of investment from Liore and Vascania as apart of a joint-investment program aimed at developing the economies of eastern nations and encouraging self-reliance and regional cooperation as opposed to peonage to Western economies and corporations. So far, these investments are proving successful, with North Dovanian and Temanian growth rates moderately increasing and domestic companies fairing far better than they did four years ago, and also with commerce between the investor and beneficiary states at the highest rates in recent history. Seeing the success the first investment waves have had, Liore and Vascania have decided to add two more nations to the program: Utembo and Kurageri, two nations with relatively stable histories barring periods of foreign conflict. To start the program, Utembo and Kurageri will receive the same investment packages as North Dovani and Temania where Liore and Vascania will issue conditional grants to the beneficiary governments to be used in domestic economic and infrastructure benefits and will invest directly into promising ventures in the beneficiaries, and also opening Utemban and Kuragerian markets to investment from and cooperation with Liori and Vascanian private companies.

Utembo and Kurageri have also both been offered other means of assistance aside from the typical investment package aimed at fostering further development and cooperation. Both have been offered to be among the first nations in Dovani to open there pharmaceutical markets to large supplies of Lidor Pharma medication, with the Liore-Dorvik joint venture mainly supplying the Liori market while steadily growing over the past three years. Utembo will see the first and largest supply waves of pharmaceuticals, with the company's executives looking to make Utembo an example of the benefits of purchasing low-cost Dovanian-made medication as opposed to from international profit-driven corporations. Lidor Pharma will also be opening a production plant in Utembo's capital of Bajoum, creating jobs in the area and increasing the ability of Lidor Pharma to supply the Utemban market. In Kurageri, Liore will be taking a much larger role in assisting local infrastructure development, with the Liore National Infrastructure Company (LNIC) being sent across the border to assist Kuragerian firms in further developing transportation routes leading from Kurageri's trade hubs to Liore, with the aim of further developing cooperation and comradery between the two Kitembo states.

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Mjumbe
Liore to Participate in FOMAT-VI, Terra League II
August 4859

Kapuka Duo Najina has Topped Liori Charts for Over a Year, Becoming Liore's Most Popular Artist

The Festival of Musical Arts in Terra is back in its sixth iteration, after nearly sixty years without a contest since the festival was last hosted in Liore. Liore has had a successful history in the international music scene and in FOMAT, coming in second place with Ashur Jang with her entry into the contest in 4792 in Kalistan and coming out on top with Sauti Liore at Mesul, Jakania in 4797, it is only natural that Liore will be sending an act to participate in FOMAT-VI. Following in the tradition of Sauti Liore, the next act to be sent to Dolgava to display Liore's music scene is another wildly popular kapuka group from Liore's music club scene: the duet Najina, who has exploded in popularity in Liore in the past year. The now-famous couple making up Najina are Hassian and Zuri Okonjo, a husband and wife originating from rural Mwibonde but jumping to fame in the nightclubs of Nzurchanga by singing songs inspired by their traditional tribal lives and the culture shocks of living on Liore's west coast. For FOMAT, Najina will be performing Uwita, a personally-inspired love song about a man falling for a woman of a different tribe, which in the context of FOMAT is meant to serve as a metaphor for love and friendship across Terra's borders.

In similar news, Liore will be sending another cultural delegation to compete in an international contest. In Terra League, the nations of Terra send their best football teams to compete with the cream of other crops in a widely-popular international game. In the last game held in 5850, Liore's Imyi Gorillas and Yama Hammers were sent to represent Liore, and did so well with the Imyi Gorillas going as far as the semi-finals before being narrowly beaten by the Trudeau Navigators, and again Liore will be sending the top two teams of the Liore Football League for the year the contest is held. This year, the title of National Champion Team was again claimed by the Imyi Gorillas, who beat runner-up team Juuyada Comrades 4-0 in an unusually embarrassing game for the Comrades, who won every preceding game of the League by a wide margin. Nevertheless, both the Gorillas and the Comrades will be representing Liore at the coming match, and no doubt both will play hard for the glory of Liore.

[Pragma]

Liore cooperation set to enter next phase in Kurageri, Temanian nations
7 June 4861

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Mjumbe
Liori, Deltarian Navies Execute Naval Exercise; Ed. Min. Establishes New Universities
December 4861

New Liori Fleet to Gain Invaluable Experience in Naval Exercises

The Naval Ministry declassified details of a joint naval exercise held between Liore and Deltaria, revealing the plans and outcome of multi-day exercise held between completed elements of Liore's new ocean-going fleet (which was constructed by and purchased from Deltaria) and a larger Deltarian flotilla. Lasting three days and being conducted primarily in the waters just outside of the territorial zones of Liore and Istapali, the joint-exercise marks the first major maneuvers of the new Liori fleet. The first two days of the exercise consisted of a number of pre-planned drills being carried in tandem by the two forces, including surface and anti-submarine warfare exercises, air defense drills, mine laying and clearing, and other techniques. On the third and final day of the exercise, the Liori and Deltarian forces conducted a mock engagement within Liore's territorial waters, with the Deltarian forces moving to attack the Liori port while Liore's smaller fleet defended at all costs.

While the outcome of day three's mock naval battle was a Deltarian victory and throughout the exercise Liore's green fleet struggled to keep up with the much more experienced Deltarians, Liori naval crews and officers came away from the exercise with valuable experience and a much greater grasp on high seas maneuvers. While effectively being taught by Deltaria how to use the new ships of Liore's navy, a number of promising officers have been noticed by the Naval Ministry and have been assigned to higher commands within the navy while some have been given positions as instructors Liore naval academy. One such officer was Captain Jabali Onabanjo of the LPW (Liori People's Warship) Kubwa (The Kirov-Class flagship of Liore's navy) who has since been appointed to commodore and who commented on the exercises, stating that "we have learned much on how modern warfare is conducted on the high seas. We still have much to learn and a long road to walk, but the navy is now capable of defending her homeland, and we will be even more so in the future."

The government has another plan that has gone recently been made public, this time coming from the Education Ministry which has plans to expand Liore's higher education system through the opening of several new universities across the nation. Covering an array of academic fields, these new universities are aimed at boosting Liore's intellectual community and the nation's contribution to science ad thought. In total, the expansion will establish nine new universities in Liore consisting of four specialized institutions, three polytechnic schools, and two liberal arts academies, all to be open to Liori students at a subsidized price (and free of charge to promising students) as well as to international students at a higher, unsubsidized rate.

The four specialized institutions have been the primary calls for attention among the public, as analysts predict these schools to show the direction officials wish to steer Liore's academia towards. The first of these institutions is the Ndidi Afolayan Academy of Politics (to be located in Yamabiro) which is being created to "equip the next generation of Liore's statesmen and political thinkers" as well as to train future lawyers with its law program. Next is the Naranpá Medical University, which will be Liore's first medical school and will serve to train Liori medical doctors and perform medical and pharmaceutical research in cooperation with Lidor Pharma, which operates a major facility in Bakundu. Finally there are the Yrasema Zoological University (to be located in Darobi) and the Jarha School, which will both be dedicated to zoological, ecological, and environmental studies and have been personally given by President Hami the express goal of "documenting and preserving the magnificent wildlife and environment of Liore."

[ChitinKal]

Mjumbe
Election Analysis
January 4862

Election Map by People's Assembly District


People's Assembly Results
People's Front - 137 (+2) / 45.67%
National Movement - 128 (-1) / 42.67%
Free Liore - 21 (+9) / 7.00%
Independent - 14 (-10) / 4.67%

Presidential Results
Round I
Thimba Hami - 64.18%
Issa Bello - 33.65%
Other - 2.17%

The elections are concluded and with little change to the makeup of the government. In overview, the gap between People's Front and National Movement saw a slight widening, with the PF netting a total of two additional seats in the People's Assembly while the NM had a net loss of a single seat, widening the margin to nine seats in favor of the PF which will remain the plurality party in the legislature. Free Liore is the only party that received a relatively substantial change in composition, increasing its total in the legislature by nine seats, half the amount they lost in 4858, a rebound thanks in part due to the passing of the global depression and with it an easing of the fear of liberal economics among the population. Independent candidates have been the big losers of the night, with the non-aligned column of the People's Assembly losing a total of ten seats to party candidates, largely due to a mass retiring of a class of charismatic Representatives whose constituents had no other gifted independent candidates to vote for. This election proved to be one of solidifying party strongholds rather than turning tides in the legislature, with the PF and NM completely removing the other from Bakundu and Arami respectively and with parties slightly increasing their margins in other strongholds such as the PF in the northeast (Juuyada and Mwibonde) and southwest (Yrasema); the NM in Naranpá, Kipini, and southern Istapali border regions (Imyi and eastern Minaraha); and Free Liore in Nzurchangha. In the Presidential election, incumbent President Thimba Hami has once again claimed reelection by a widening margin, rising six percentage points from the previous election and beating runner up Issa Bello (the son of the previous President Kheri Bello) by more than thirty points.

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Mjumbe
Wasafiri to Play at FOMAT VII
November 4863

Wasafiri Lead Vocalist Amaziah Soyinka Performs at Concert in Jarha, Minaraha Department

With the seventh concert of the Festival of Musical Arts in Terra fast approaching and several other nations already announcing who they'll be sending to Beaumont-sur-Mer, Lourenne to represent their music scenes, Liore's FOMAT commission has been preparing an election for the Liori people to decide directly who will represent the nation, a departure from the tradition of the commission choosing directly who to send. This year also saw the departure of the trend of Liore sending west-coast kapuka artists (who share a similar sound with hip-hop and pop artists, but with a Kitembo twist), those who voted did so for Wasafiri, a more uniquely Liori band that has been on the tip of the spear of the rise in popularity of the Dovani-Jam music genre in Liore. Unlike most Liori musical artists who gain fame in the coastal clubs of the Caltropics, Wasafiri is Darobi-based band with roots in the jungle villages of Yrasema and skyrocketed to fame off the support and adoration of eastern Liore, but still maintains popularity nation-wide. At FOMAT VII, Wasafiri will be debuting a new song in Luthorian titled Ng'ambo, which the band's lead vocalist Amaziah Soyinka has described as "an anthem dedicated to the many diasporic communities in the world, and their search of home away from home."

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Mjumbe
New Liori Universities Welcome Freshmen Classes, Exchange Programs Created
August 4864

Opening Gate of the Jarha School Welcomes Liore's Future Environmental Scientists

Six of the nine universities chartered by the Education Ministry two years ago are soon to open and their freshmen classes begin their studies, while the remaining three schools are being planned to open next year after the acquisitioning of the final necessary equipment and staff needed for studies to commence. Among these initial six openings are two of the planned graduate schools, the Jarha School and the Ndidi Afolayan Academy of Politics (respectively dedicated to environmental and political science), while the remaining four opening schools consist of two liberal arts and two polytechnic universities. In the total, the number of freshmen students set to begin their studies this year is near six thousand, primarily undergraduates bound for polytechnic and liberal arts studies, with the two opening graduate schools being the destination for only several hundred students.

The Jarha School is the first of two universities dedicated to the environmental sciences and is set to be the smallest of the new universities with a freshman class size of only 167 students. The main programs being offered are it's three Doctoral programs in Biology, Zoology, and Environmental Science, but the school also offers Masters programs in a variety of other fields of study. Like its sister school the Yrasema Zoological University (that will open next year),the flagship program of the Jarha School is its PhD in Zoology, and there is no better location for it than where it is currently located. While YZU will be located in the Caltropic Highlands and near the jungles of Yrasema and will be dedicated to the study of the numerous primate species in the area, the Jarha School is located in the heart of the Liori savannah and will give its students the opportunity to study their fields in the field by getting up close to the bestial and botanical elements that make the Liori countryside unique to the rest of Terra.

On the opposite side of academia, the Ndidi Afolayan Academy of Politics will offer its students the knowledge of the intangible theories that govern the human aspect of the world. With more than double the number of students as the Jarha School, the NAAP's 389 students are offered PhD programs in Political Science and Statesmanship and Economics (both of which have a number of field of study specializations), a Juris Doctor degree program, and several other Masters programs from History to Sociology. Apart from disseminating knowledge and helping foster a new generation of Liori intellectuals and political thinkers, one of the primary goals enumerated in the university's charter is also to groom the future leaders of Liore, which is noticeably present in courses offered at the school and the structure of the Political Science and Statesmanship program which requires students chose two specializations, one in traditional Political Science and another in the field of Statesmanship.

Brief Interview with Marini Iwu, PhD Student at the Ndidi Afolayan Academy of Politics

(Reporter) E(lewiza) E(ze): "Thank you Ms. Iwu, my paper has only a few questions and needs only brief answers, so I won't take much of your time. First, what degree are you pursuing and, if any, what are the specializations of your field of study?"

M(arini) I(wu): "Oh it's really no problem. I'm planning on studying political science and seeking a PhD in the field. I haven't decided entirely on my political science specialization yet, I'm thinking either comparative politics or theory, but for my statesmanship specialization I'm certain on the diplomacy option.

EE: "What will your course of study look like in obtaining your degree? That is, will your classes be focused more on traditional class instruction or will you have more opportunities to have a more hands-on learning experience?"

MI: "I believe it'll be a mix of both, definitely if you include independent research as 'hands-on' learning, because I'll of course have to research and write our final dissertation to earn a PhD, and part of the curriculum is required research each year. And I'll also have more than a few regular classes, this semester for me is almost entirely those classes, like Principles of Jamii Socialism and Party and State Synergy. Oh, and I'll also have to shadow an individual who works within my field of study, which for me I'm hoping for an ambassador or even Representative Oyenusi."

EE: "With your degree, what career path are you hoping to follow?"

MI: "I definitely wanna become a public official and I hope my education can help me get there. Specifically, I'd like t be a diplomat and be able to go see faraway countries and represent Liore internationally. Kalistan is at the top of my list because of its unique culture and place in the world and history. If I can't be the ambassador to Kalistan, well I guess I'll settle on World Congress Rep!

EE: "Thank you for your time, Ms. Iwu, that is all I needed."

As an additional step to help bolster the diversity of thoughts and ideas exposed to students in Liore, the Education and Foreign Affairs Ministries have been working to create a comprehensive international student exchange program for Liori students to study abroad and foreign students to study in Liore. The fruits of the two Ministries' labor has been the creation of two distinct programs: the Dovani Higher Education Initiative and the Liore International Student Exchange. The former is a one-way program which invites gifted students from across Dovani (particularly from underdeveloped nations on the continent) to study in Liore and gain the knowledge needed to return to their home countries and increase their labor pools of educated individuals. The latter is a two-way program where students from Liore are sent to study in the universities of partner nations while the students of those nations are invited to Liore to study. Deltaria is the first nation to have agreed to participate in the LISE and will as such Deltarian students will be given priority status for the foreseeable future. For both the DHEI and LISE, participating Liori universities will be required to set aside ten percent of their maximum student slots (totaling twenty percent for universities participating in both) and will be granted subsidies for the foreign students participating in the programs. These programs will officially begin with the 4865-4866 academic year, giving prospective international students a year to find and apply to Liori universities.