Sudan's military leader says the army has regained full control of Khartoum from its rival, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.  The RSF still holds almost all of the Darfur region in western Sudan.  bbc.in/423EwY9

Periodic reminder that, while many are tempted to call #Abkhazia and other breakaway republics puppet states of their closest ally countries, it's usually not that simple. #defacto #geography #independence

UPDATED VERSION: On April 25th the China Coast Guard announced it had landed on Sandy Cay Reef to "declare sovereignty" and to observe "illegal activities of the Philippines." Recent discussion around this announcement has conflated Sand Cay, administered by Vietnam, with

Congratulations to Ido Levy and The Conversation/The Conversation U.S. for getting something right that most news media get wrong: #Somalia's #Puntland state is just "autonomous", not "semi-autonomous". It operates entirely independently, while saying it's officially part of Somalia.

#LawOfTheSea #geopolitics

Always worth getting out of the very arbitrarily small box we tend to see the world within.

UN's #WorldCourt (#ICJ) rules that #Gabon has to give 3 tiny #islands it seized in 1972 back to #EquatorialGuinea. Having the islands implies rights to surrounding #oil-rich seabed, though actual sea #borders are unsettled. bbc.com/news/articles/… #geography #sovereignty #Africa

New case of the use of water systems as a weapon of war: #Flooding that drove #AfricanUnion's #AUSSOM forces from base in #Somalia this week was reportedly engineered deliberately by #AlQaeda-affiliated #AlShabaab rebels #waterconflict #hydrology #warfare Pacific Institute

#CartographicPolitics #Somalia govt upset that BBC published map of countries included in new US travel ban that didn't color in self-declared independent #Somaliland as part of Somalia (in fact, much more of Somalia's territory is outside its control than just that) #geography

Nice map of the disputed #Spratly islands in #SouthChinaSea by Chris Dayton, with some innovative symbology compared to other maps of this area. #cartography #geopolitics

Cool project

Has anyone been tracking how many "Islamic State" fighters #Puntland claims to have killed in total during the course of #OperationHilaac? #Somalia #ISIS #ISIL

Oh no, X used to be the one major social media platform that didn't reload the feed when you didn't want it to. Now it reloads every time I click the browser's back button out of a post, and I keep losing what I was looking at and getting discouraged. Branden Spikes?