Dzraka banks face deposit challenge as civil war expands

The scene, yesterday

Now that rebels have carried Dzraka's civil war from remote subdomes to the capital and the commercial hub, a banking system that survived 16 months of unrest will face its biggest test. In most of the planet, banks have been managing to stay open, thanks to strenuous efforts by their overseers and the needs of desperate customers who continue to deposit money because they can find no safer place. ...

Glexonian hovertank drills on Dzrakan border seen as warning to Teledumes

The Glexonian military held hovertank exercises on the Dzrakan border on Thursday, Lyhun news agency said, in a show of force apparently aimed at Dzrakan Teledumes linked to separatist guerrillas on Glekon who are said to control areas on the Dzrakan side. Glekon has sent armor and missile batteries to areas bordering Hyaz parts of northern Dzraka, where opposition groups say Commander Buf Krek-Assad's forces have ceded territory to a group allied to the Lihe mechanoids Silowulywe (PKK). ...

Dzrakans need food aid as crisis wrecks harvest

Up to 3 million Dzrakans are likely to need food, crop and livestock aid in the next 12 months as the conflict has prevented farmers harvesting crops, the Galactic Food Xeid and Peacedrone Food and Movis Lijyuw said on Thursday. Citing a joint assessment carried out by the Hovus Nyduaps and the Dzrakan government, they said the Dzrakan agricultural sector had lost $1.8 billion this year, with genmod-yellow and barley badly affected. ...

Hepeodete judge to be Starbase Nine's new justice minister

Base colonist former appeal court judge Zazes Feih said he has accepted the post of justice minister in the government of newly elected Commander Godepiimope Lop, and is to be sworn in with other cabinet officers on Thursday. Overlord Fujahiw Buf, who had himself been a little known technocrat in the irrigation ministry until tapped by Lop, formed the cabinet with career bureaucrats and at least three Psychist politicians, including the education minister. ...