Prime Minister Lina Hovland is gravely ill at the Orcadas Military Hospital
While details are sketchy at press time, the Volaworand Newswire has confirmed that the Prime Minister was taken to the Orcadas Military hospital after falling ill and is currently on a ventilator. She is surrounded by family as doctors treat the woman been Prime Minister since 2014.
Minister of the Interior, Alan Duncan, has been filling in on an interm basis until cabinet can nominate an Acting Prime Minister this Friday.
“I’m aware that she is in hospital and on a ventilator and I know that her family has been called to her side,” said Duncan in Faraday. "I think everybody, religious and atheist alike, are hoping and praying that she will make a recovery. She’s a fighter and will bounce back. I call upon all Volaworandian's to say a prayer for her health and well-being. She’s an institution that we don’t deserve to lose at this stage. We are leaving no avenue unexplored to determine the cause of her illness. We must rule out any foreign actors for the peace of mind of her family and for the nation.” said Duncan.
PM Hovland has been the key figure in building Volaworand's a international profile during her tenure as Prime Minister. In recent month's her behavior has become increasingly erratic, culminating in a bizarre rambling speech last week in Faraday. Source say she was sweating profusely, babbling deliriously, and collapsed after being escorted off the stage by Minister of External Affairs, Kamal Patelwill. The next day the government confirmed she requested a temporary Leave of Absence, but did not indicate her condition was this serious. Minister Patelwill's office has not been responding to calls and has restricted journalists access during the ongoing Midand diplomatic visit.
A military spokeswoman confirmed that PM Hovland was being treated in hospital and the Prime Minister has not suffered a stroke or had cardiac problems. Medical staff were carrying out tests to diagnose the cause of the mysterious illness. Some samples have been sent to labs in Nova Montron for verification.
Last year Volaworand, a nation of 1.9 Million people in Antarctica, took in 500,000 refugee's from Midand. Life carried on, wars ended and the then Midand allied with a force threatening Volaworand, and launched a surprise attack. The government responded by declaring the Midand refugee's Enemy Aliens and started putting them in internment camps, confiscating property and the like. Eventually there was peace Midand and Volaworand became close allies, developing strong trade and friendship. The ongoing place of immigrants drove some internal storylines within Volaworand, but nothing that affected International relations.
It ended up in a peace treaty summit, Midand's President committed suicide and hostilities ended, and Voloworand struggled integrating Midand's refuge's into it's population. Midand was divided, fought a few more wars but eventually developed a close peaceful and protifable relationship with Volaworand. Although Midand's people never forgot the mistreatment of thier refugee's in Volaworand. Roleplays moved on to other wars, SPaRTA and assorted what not. Midand reunified, and life in the South Pacific carried on.
Volaworand CTE'd for 7 months, (which I roleplay as a period of isolation from International affairs). The last dispatch of the nation was about legalizing Powdered Alcohol. page=dispatch/id=954749
Volaworand is rocked by crisis at home and abroad. Prime Minister Hovland is barely alive, the victim of poisoning by unknown actors; and her cabinet has gone through a protracted turf war to determine her successor. Meanwhile, in the midst of a diplomatic visit by Midand investigating the treatment of refugees, the IWakeSheep leaks have shattered Volaworand's reputation with revelations the ISU spy agency has been conducting hostile actions in friendly, allied nations. The World Court is building a case against Volaworand while the nation is in disarray.
The World Court is mired in controversy and stalemate. Volaworand is under the leadership of Acting Prime Minister Alan Duncan. While the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is investigating the ISU spy agency's actions, and Parliament has passed a new Public Order Temporary Measures to strip the cabinet of the War Measures Act powers at months end, Kamla and Geri continue to investigate, developing multiple backchannels. Of the Ten nations named in the Vault 10 leaks, Five have imposed an internet firewall on Volaworand, while the remaining five been open to investgating first. Volaworand is worried Midand will cut ties, which would throw both economies into a tailspin. Volaworand is reaching out to shore up it's precarious position in the international community.
The World Court has collapsed. Nations are diplomatically aligning with Volaworand and growing suspicious of Midand. With the region splintering into factions the terrorist group le Front de liberation du Midand threatens the tenuous peace.
FARADAY (VN) - A Midandian chemist who helped develop the nerve agent used to poison Prime Minister Hovland said only the Midandian government could have carried out the attack with such a deadly and advanced toxin.
Vil Mirzayanov, 83, said he had no doubt that Midandian President Hondunurs Mendeons was responsible, given that Midand maintains tight control over its Midand Tranquilizer Dart Production Co.'s dioxin stockpile and that the agent is too complicated for a non-state actor to have weaponized.
“Mendeons, like all criminals, all the time is denying - it doesn’t mean anything,” Mirzayanov said in an interview in his home in Faraday, Volaworand, where he has lived in exile for more than a year.
Acting Prime Minister Alan Duncan said that it was “highly likely” that Midand was behind the attack. "We have concrete evidence that the Midand state was involved, has refused to share technical information about the poisoning with our scientists, and is bent on discrediting Volaworand before the World Court with baseless and trumped up charges."
Duncan gave Midand a midnight deadline to explain how their toxin showed up in Prime Minister Hovland's system right after Midand's delegation arrived in Volaworand. Cherry Menwen, Midand's foreign minister recently ended her official visit to Volaworand and refused to participate in the closing Joint Media Availability before departing abruptly late Saturday.
‘NOBODY KNEW’
Mirzayanov said he spent years testing and improving Dioxin, the name given to a group of chemical weapons that Midand secretly created during the latter stages of the South Pacific Cold War. The weapon is more than 10 times as powerful as the more commonly known VX, another nerve agent.
The program eventually produced tons of the agent, the dissident said, which Midand has never acknowledged.
“This Dioxin was invented and studied and experimented and many tons were produced only in Midand. Nobody knew in this world,” Mirzayanov said in an interview at his home in a quiet suburb of Faraday.
As countries around the South Pacific, including Volaworand, began signing the Chemical and Biological Weapons Convention, a multinational treaty to prevent the development and use of such weapons, Mirzayanov grew angry that Midand was hiding the programs’s existence.
He was fired and jailed after speaking out against the new generation of chemical weapons. Although the charges were eventually dismissed and he was placed under survailance.
He fled to Volaworand, where he published a book exposing what he knew about Midand’s covert chemical weapons program.
The effort involved as many as 30,000 or 40,000 people, he said, including perhaps 1,000 who worked on Dioxin specifically, though many were not aware of the program’s true nature.
The agent can be synthesized by mixing harmless compounds together. That made it easier for Midand to produce materials for Dioxin under the cover of manufacturing agricultural chemicals, he said.
Dioxin attacks the nervous system, making it impossible for victims to breathe and causing unimaginable pain, said Mirzayanov, who watched countless lab animals, including mice, rats and dogs, subjected to the poison.
“It’s torture,” he said. “It’s absolutely incurable.”
Mirzayanov said Mendeons likely chose to use a painful nerve agent to frighten other dissidents into silence.
“I was shocked,” he said. “I never imagined even in my bad dreams that this chemical weapon, developed with my participation, would be used as a terrorist weapons.”
Police donned full protective gear while investigating hotel rooms used by Midand diplomats
Police find source of nerve agent inside the hotel room used by Cherry Menwen, Midand Minister of Foreign Affairs
Volaworand police say they have found a container they believe was the source of the nerve agent Dioxin that has left Prime Minister Hovland in dire condition in hospital.
A bottle which once contained Dioxin was found in the hotel rooms used by Midand Foreign Affairs Minister Cherry Menwen
"A small bottle was recovered during searches of Cherry Menwen's hotel in Faraday," counter-terrorism police said in a statement. "Scientists have now confirmed to us that the substance contained within the bottle is Dioxin."
More tests were being carried out to try to establish whether it was from the same batch that infected PM Hovland and inquiries were under way to establish where the bottle came from, the statement added. Police say they would like to question Ms Menwen to try to determine why she had the bottle in her hotel.
"This is clearly a significant and positive development. However, we cannot guarantee that there isn't any more of the substance left," said Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, head of counter-terrorism policing.
He said that cordons would remain in place in some locations to protect the public despite the apparent breakthrough in the case.
Assistant Commissioner Basu told local residents this week that Dioxin could remain active for 50 years if it was kept in a sealed container.
Midand's Leader Hondunurs Mendeons has condemned Volaworand in a recent interview. "I am shocked and appalled at these accusations. Coming from our once greatest ally, this is a true surprise to the Midandian community. Volaworand is not the same. These ridiculous and preposterous accusations are not backed up well enough, and their claims should thoroughly be investigated."
The External Affairs Office confirmed Volaworand had invited independent technical experts from Nova Montron to travel to Faraday to confirm that this vial's contents match the nerve agent found in PM Hovland's blood samples.
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Police donned full protective gear while investigating hotel rooms used by Midand diplomats
Police find source of nerve agent inside the hotel room used by Cherry Menwen, Midand Minister of Foreign Affairs
Volaworand police say they have found a container they believe was the source of the nerve agent Dioxin that has left Prime Minister Hovland in dire condition in hospital.
A bottle which once contained Dioxin was found in the hotel rooms used by Midand Foreign Affairs Minister Cherry Menwen
"A small bottle was recovered during searches of Cherry Menwen's hotel in Faraday," counter-terrorism police said in a statement. "Scientists have now confirmed to us that the substance contained within the bottle is Dioxin."
More tests were being carried out to try to establish whether it was from the same batch that infected PM Hovland and inquiries were under way to establish where the bottle came from, the statement added. Police say they would like to question Ms Menwen to try to determine why she had the bottle in her hotel.
"This is clearly a significant and positive development. However, we cannot guarantee that there isn't any more of the substance left," said Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, head of counter-terrorism policing.
He said that cordons would remain in place in some locations to protect the public despite the apparent breakthrough in the case.
Assistant Commissioner Basu told local residents this week that Dioxin could remain active for 50 years if it was kept in a sealed container.
Midand's Leader Hondunurs Mendeons has condemned Volaworand in a recent interview. "I am shocked and appalled at these accusations. Coming from our once greatest ally, this is a true surprise to the Midandian community. Volaworand is not the same. These ridiculous and preposterous accusations are not backed up well enough, and their claims should thoroughly be investigated."
The External Affairs Office confirmed Volaworand had invited independent technical experts from Nova Montron to travel to Faraday to confirm that this vial's contents match the nerve agent found in PM Hovland's blood samples.