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Russia Expels 20 Czech

artappraiser — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 02:15:02 +0000

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Russia Expels 20 Czech Diplomats as Tensions Escalate & further reporting on the activities of GRU Unit 29155:

Further reporting on the activities of GRU Unit 29155: https://t.co/tHGTtYeebc

With Continuing effects... https://t.co/erH5owjOOF
— Small Wars Journal (@smallwars) April 27, 2021

#Russia People gathered in

artappraiser — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 06:42:07 +0000

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#Russia People gathered in support of Alexei Navalny in Irkutsk. Protests are happening all over Russia. People are chanting, “Navalny must live!”, “Freedom for Navalny” and other slogans. Navalny was moved to a prison hospital as his health deteriorated during a hunger strike pic.twitter.com/9dQqP7PgvN
— Hanna Liubakova (@HannaLiubakova) April 21, 2021

Moscow protest. As night sets, protesters are switching on torchlights on their phones. Car horns blaring in support. https://t.co/XdZAMGHo6P
— Leonid Ragozin (@leonidragozin) April 21, 2021

Maduro gives the

artappraiser — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 00:55:35 +0000

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Maduro gives the international community the opening it's been waiting for:

Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro announced that he would seek emergency assistance from the U.N. to diffuse landmines planted by insurgents and drug traffickers in Venezuela’s Apure region.https://t.co/J7u4yRixBx
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) April 22, 2021

TTP radicals in Pakistan

artappraiser — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 00:23:28 +0000

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TTP radicals in Pakistan apparently really really really don't like China:

Powerful blast in Quetta’s Serena Hotel’s parking kills three. More than 13 injured. Attack was aimed at the Chinese Ambassador who narrowly escaped it by being late to the hotel.

Pakistan’s homegrown terror outfit, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claims the responsibility.
— Sonam Mahajan (@AsYouNotWish) April 21, 2021

President Idriss Deby's death

artappraiser — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 23:18:17 +0000

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President Idriss Deby's death on the battlefield leaves Chad with an uncertain futurehttps://t.co/t6qqxCGGc0 via @cnni
#Tsjaad #burgeroorlog #civilwar #FACT #informateur https://t.co/RnDzLe4W2N pic.twitter.com/0ASMMNY1Fm
— Bertus Buizer (@bbuizer) April 21, 2021

Refugee crisis brewing in Chad, some are heading to cameroon while most are heading to Nigeria. While there's a full blown insurgency going on, there's now something close to a civil war; a fight on ethnic lines.

A mess for Nigeria & all of west Africa.
— Chief Ojukwu (@ChiefOjukwu) April 21, 2021

interesting replies from other Africans to the above

Escaped girls tell of

artappraiser — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 22:56:26 +0000

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Escaped girls tell of insurgents’ mass abductions in Mozambique

Interviews undermine the US state department claim that extremist group has links to Islamic State

Jason Burke @ TheGuardian.com, Sat 17 Apr 2021 13.48 BST

Insurgents in Mozambique have abducted hundreds of women and girls, forcing many into sexual relations with fighters and possibly trafficking others elsewhere in Africa, interviews with some who have escaped the extremists reveal.

Most of the abducted women are under 18, with the youngest about 12 years old. They are being held in a series of camps and bases across insurgent-controlled territory in north-eastern Mozambique.

Many are chosen by young fighters as “wives” and forced into sexual relations. Conditions are extremely harsh, with limited medical care, long marches under guard, unreliable food supplies and a constant risk of attacks by government forces or mercenaries.

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The insurgency in Mozambique’s far north, which started four years ago, has killed thousands and displaced almost half a million people.

The interviews, conducted with 23 women last year by researchers from the Observatório do Meio Rural (Rural Environment Observatory), a Mozambique-based thinktank, offer an unprecedented glimpse inside an opaque and little-known group.

“This is the first time we have heard from people who have been inside,” said Joe Hanlon, an expert on Mozambique at the London School of Economics. The research also casts new light on the leadership of the insurgents, and appears to undermine claims by the US government and others that they have close ties with Islamic State.

João Feijó, author of a report based on the interviews, said that he believed more than 1,000 girls and young women had been abducted.

“These kinds of numbers would be a major logistic problem for the insurgents, and I believe that some girls have been trafficked. We have reports of women being selected to study English in neighbouring Tanzania, which sounds like a euphemism for being trafficked,” Feijó said.

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The recent successes of the insurgents in Mozambique – whose organisation is known as both al-Shabaab and Ansar al-Sunna – have prompted global fears of a new extremist Islamist enclave in southern Africa.

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Interviewees said that many of the leaders of the extremists in Mozambique were local men, but there were some foreigners from elsewhere on the east African coast, particularly Tanzania. There were also reports of South African nationals, Somalis and others presumed to be from Arab countries in Africa or the Middle East.

They also described the training of abducted teenage boys in the use of machetes and firearms.

One remembered seeing a 14-year-old boy going on his first mission [....]

Russia, Ukraine, sanctions

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:26:38 +0000

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Russia, Ukraine, sanctions

https://imrussia.org/en/opinions/3254-%E2%80%9Cmariupol-crisis%E2%80%9D

Yes pathetic, deluded,

artappraiser — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 06:20:07 +0000

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Yes pathetic, deluded, selfish and rich - like my aunt and uncle with their £3m+ London mansion and holiday home in France... the retired parents-in-law, Irish immigrants defying pleas of their children... my father who married an immigrant only recently https://t.co/LIEfLsvdM4
— Ben Lewis (@theuniversalben) April 19, 2021

So young, so brave. There are so many of them https://t.co/222AnkQMlj
— Ben Lewis (@theuniversalben) April 19, 2021

U.S. State Dept.:

artappraiser — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 19:52:32 +0000

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U.S. State Dept.:

.@StateDeptSpox: On behalf of the United States, we offer the people of Chad our sincere condolences as they mourn the passing of President Idriss Deby Itno. pic.twitter.com/8QBxdtdsOA
— Department of State (@StateDept) April 20, 2021

Real CIVIL WAR, not just

artappraiser — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 19:49:07 +0000

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Real CIVIL WAR, not just politics: Chad's President Idriss Deby killed in frontline clashes with rebels, state TV reports

By Niamh Kennedy, Stephanie Busari, Tim Lister, and Stephanie Halasz @ CNN.com, Updated 1:12 PM ET, Tue April 20, 2021

Chad's long-serving President Idriss Deby has died from injuries sustained in clashes with rebels, the army said in a surprise announcement Tuesday, plunging a volatile region deeper into crisis.

Army spokesman Azem Bermendao Agouna told state TV said Deby -- a longtime Western ally in efforts to quell Islamist militias in north Africa -- died "as a result of his injuries on the front line." Reuters said Deby had been visiting troops fighting rebels in the north of the country.

The announcement came a day after it was announced that Deby, who had been in power for 30 years, was projected to win a sixth consecutive term in elections held earlier this month.

Rebels, who have been seeking to oust Deby since 2016, had claimed a number of victories in the past week and clashes were reported in the north of the country at the weekend.

Rebels of the Front for Change and Concord in Chad -- known in French as Front Pour l'Alternance et La Concorde au Tchad (FACT) -- said Friday it had overrun a military garrison in Gouri. The claim was denied by the government, which instead said the rebels had been defeated.

On Monday FACT said that Deby was injured and on the run [....]