Nearly 100 aid organizations have pled to Elon Musk to keep his Starlink terminals running. “How do you run a soup kitchen in Khartoum where people have nothing to eat if the local responders don’t have access to telecommunications?”
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Somalia asked the UN's political mission in the country to cease operations by October, even as the East African nation faces a brutal, long-running jihadist insurgency trib.al/KCaUsLs

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and allied militia groups in Sudan led a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing in the Darfur region last year, according to Human Rights Watch trib.al/g4YGE71

The United States is openly blaming the the Rwandan Defence Forces for an attack on a camp for displaced people that has killed 9 and injured scores more.

The May 1 deadline set by Starlink for satellite internet to be shut down in areas where it doesn’t have a license came and went with some operators still functioning. Humanitarian orgs have warned restricting the service will undermine their work. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Sparks fly as the UAE cancels meetings with London’s Lord Mayor and other British officials as a dispute deepened over the Persian Gulf nation’s alleged role in the civil war ravaging Sudan.
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More than 400 bodies were found at mass graves around two Gaza hospitals, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense and the United Nations. Bloomberg located the grave sites by comparing news footage of the graves with satellite imagery.

“Kagame has made a calculation that he is too useful and too popular with his international allies for them to seriously punish him or isolate him over what he’s doing in Congo,' says Richard Moncrieff. Rwanda denies any role in the conflict. #Mustread Simon Marks neiL Munshi

Mystery has shrouded Rwanda's role in eastern DRC. We looked behind the curtain as Rwanda trains M23 and unleashes a flood of arms – including fixed-wing drones, Israeli-made grenade launchers, drone jammers and Russian SPG-9 anti-tank grenade launchers.
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Sahkr-Abdin Taha, 24 (third from right) is among many young Sudanese who previously fought the army to end the military’s decades’ long grip on power five years ago that have now joined its ranks.
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“If Sudan is a forgotten crisis, then prioritize it.” A year into Sudan's civil war, funding for crises in the likes of Ukraine has dwarfed what international donors have so far committed to Sudan.
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'In January, rebels fighting the Sudanese army shot down a drone near Khartoum. As jubilant gunmen posted video of the wreckage on social media, they offered a fresh data point on how Iranian technology is remaking the global weapons trade.' bloomberg.com/news/features/…