Assassination of Princess Kei

Around 8:15 p.m. local time on November 20, 2023, Princess Kei of Afrelon was killed when her car exploded on Mojaisukoi Street in the suburb of Borushi Vuiazomī outside of Kunio. After attending the yearly event "Tōden," which bills itself as a family festival for art enthusiasts, she was heading to Kunio. According to investigators, the vehicle had an explosive device. It is unknown if her husband, Prince Niko, who was supposed to accompany her but decided to choose a different automobile at the last minute, was the intended target or if both of them were meant to be killed.

### Afrelonian accusations

Deni Pushirin, the governor of the Mataka Province, asserted that the explosion was the work of exiled Mozambican authorities.

The CIA, according to the Military Police Service of Afrelon (*Serubijiōru de Poritsuia Gingoku de Afrelon, SPGA*), were responsible for the murder. They allegedly employed Yuan Daiyu, a Taiwanese contractor, who fled to Kenya following the explosion.

Yuan, a mother of a 12-year-old girl, arrived in Afrelon 2 weeks prior and rented an apartment in the same building as the princess, according to the FSB. Both were present at the same event as the princess before she was slain.

Yuan allegedly entered Afrelon using a licence plate from Tanzania, then changed to a plate from Afrelon, before finally entering Kenya with a plate from Mozambique. The SPGA also released surveillance footage allegedly showing Yuan from cameras at the entrance of the apartment building and at the border crossing points.

The Mozambican government in exile vehemently denied any participation, saying that "we are not a criminal state like the Empire of Afrelon, much less a terrorist one" before attributing the assassination to internal politics. The assertion that the alleged murderer of Princess Kei escaped to Kenya was denied by the Kenyan government.

### Condemnation

Prince Niko, Kei's husband, said that "this is more reason to consolidate Afrelon's authority across Africa" and described the murder as a "terrorist act carried out by the Mozambican rebels in exile."

Jīku Iēgā, the Afrelonian ambassdor to the UN, demanded a probe into Princess Kei's assassination on August 23.

Emperor Jusutin expressed his anger for the killing of his relative and called her "a brilliant, conservative lady with a holy Afrelonian heart." He also vowed 'swift and harsh revenge' against those responsible.

### Children of Maputo claim of responsibility

Former National Council of Afrelon member Iriya Ponomare, who now resides in exile in Malawi, alleged that a Mozambican partisan group known as the Children of Maputo (COM)—Portuguese: Crianças de Maputo (CDM)—was responsible for the attack. According to Ponomare, the COM is an underground organisation operating out of Malawi that is committed to liberating Africa from Afrelonian rule. Later, he asserted that it is a "network" of covert cells operating across Africa.

The organisation had previously carried out anonymous arson assaults on military induction sites, according to Ponomare's account to the Daily Sun, but changed its focus to target the Prince and Princess as "something high-profile for which they could become well-known." He explained that a group contact had warned him a week prior to the killing to anticipate "something huge," and that on the day of the incident, he should "watch the news." Ponomare believes that after the assassination made headlines, he received proof of the group's involvement. Ponomare said that his informants thought there were two people in the targeted vehicle.

Ponomare broadcast the group's manifesto along with its admission of culpability for the murder on Twitter" which was praised as "a new chapter in African resistance to colonialism. Recent, but not the first."

When informed later that Yuan had been charged by the Military Police, Iriya Ponomare told the BBC that his alleged sources within the Children of Maputo denied Yuan was the offender while leaving open the possibility that she may have played a part.