So many innocent people at the mercy of criminals and fools.

ELROND: the Ring must be taken deep into Mordor and cast back into the fiery chasm from whence it came BOROMIR: one does not simply walk into Mordor ELROND: the rules were you guys weren’t going to fact check

There is no "right to respond" in international law. There is a right to halt and repel an ongoing unlawful armed attack. When an attack is clearly over, the use of force will not maintain peace and security. It will lead to escalating cycles of retaliation and pointless death.

I ukas episode av Afrikansk politikk har Maren Sæbø og jeg fått med oss Morten Bøås til å fortelle om Vest-Sahels juntaer og jihadister, og om den sammensatte historikken som ligger bak dagens regionale konfliktbilde podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/afr…

Any deliberate attack on peacekeepers is a grave violation of international humanitarian law and of Security Council resolution 1701. We are following up with the IDF on these matters.

I agree with the sentiment but I would try to get the relevant UNSCR number right (UNSCR 1071 dates from 1996 and concerns Liberia).

Many who back Israel are in denial about how far the Israeli state is willing to use Assadist tactics on Gaza, Lebanon and West Bank to destroy its enemies. Many who oppose Israel won't acknowledge how far Hezbollah and Hamas's crimes and blunders played into Netanyahu's hands.

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RSF twitter account Rapid Support Forces - قوات الدعم السريع currently suspended for violating the rules - a seminal moment for Sudanese voices like Mohamed Kambal who have been pushing for RSF/Hemedti account suspension. H/t to Olive Enokido-Lineham for letting me know!

Using white phosphorous against UN peacekeepers. That's the stage Israel has reached. It is frankly unconscionable that the US continues unconditionally arming Israel in the context of these crimes. This is the stuff of rogue state behaviour: of Russia, Syria, and the like.

📢 El Fasher being reduced to rubble. SAF air bombardment is leveling the eastern side of city. RSF artillery strikes are hitting hospitals, water points, and markets. Meanwhile, civilians are dying everyday as cemeteries continue to fill up. Read Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at YSPH new report👇

Its impossible to look at this video and not be reminded of the images of Serb General Ratko Mladic loading the men and boys of Srebrenica Bosnia onto buses to be led to their deaths in shallow mass graves. That was a genocide in Bosnia in 1995. In Sudan today its a footnote.

Last year, Ethiopian authorities were implicated in diverting & misappropriating donor-funded food aid. Two years ago, they were implicated in using hunger as a weapon of war. This year, aid agencies face funding shortfalls because of the resulting trust deficit.

Taiwan, Ukraine, the Baltics, South Korea, most of Europe, Japan, and Iran at the moment:

A lot of US politics analysis feels like it overestimates the likelihood of fascist government and underestimate the sheer societal and economic damage that chaotic government can inflict

🚨SITREP🚨 The fall of El-Fasher to RSF may occur at any time. RSF is encircling 3 targets: SAF Airbase, SAF Headquarters & B-26 route out of El-Fasher. The Zamzam IDP population is growing as the camp prepares for potential RSF attack. 🛰️ Maxar Technologies medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnood/…

At some point sooner or later a frustrated King of America will turn to his courtiers and ask who can rid him of this troublesome Musk

Quite a development - not just JNIM specifically targeting IS commanders, but targeting people for defection and turning them in this way. Shows incredible sophistication in operations.

Leopards who eat faces party is getting a lot of showing these days.

New study on the death toll from #Sudan's conflict estimates over 61,000 deaths in Khartoum state alone, with over 90% of deaths there since the war began having gone unrecorded.