Kevin Rideout: 36 jours après son enlèvement au Niger, le mystère demeure entier Les autorités nigériennes et américaines restent dans l'expectative devant ce rapt sans revendication ni demande de rançon. Ce qui fait craindre le pire. - sahelintelligence.info/kevin-rideout-…

Fuel crisis threatens security and stability in the Sahel A good round-up on the current security situation in the Sahel based on interviews with Wassim Nasr Cagatay Cebe and myself (by Anadolu Ajansı) aa.com.tr/tr/dunya/sahel…

Attacks on fuel convoys bound for Bamako have brought parts of Mali to a standstill, with more than 130 tankers destroyed since September. A new Bellingcat investigation uses ACLED data to show how the JNIM-led blockade strikes at Mali’s economic core. 🔗 bellingcat.com/news/2025/12/0…

“I never thought I’d go on TV and beg for children not to be intentionally starved and that would be controversial.” — Ms Rachel

Reform UK have accepted £9m from foreign-based businessman Christopher Harborne. Reform UK Deputy Leader Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 in 2018 on George Soros donating to UK organisations: "He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"

What a recommendation! Thank you ALASTAIR CAMPBELL & Rory Stewart both for recommending the podcast AND backing The Citizens campaign for an inquiry into Russian interference in UK politics 👊👊👊

I was locked in solitary confinement at a militia base in Iraq, yet I was rejoicing seeing Assad's brutal dictatorship crumble newlinesmag.com/first-person/c… My new article for New Lines Magazine

#Mali-Politique/ D’après mes informations, l’imam Mahmoud Dicko, a officiellement ( une première) donné son accord pour être membre d’une coalition d’opposants maliens basés à l’extérieur et à l’intérieur du Mali. L’objectif de la coalition: Le retour à l’ordre constitutionnel.

A thread about the brutal odyssey of the Ikrima group, a subfaction of #JASDJ #BokoHaram. A pretty basic and tentative map here, from a 2024 report, so you can follow (I’ll admit, it’s not a simple story). unidir.org/publication/bo…

Belgian weekly magazine HUMO interviewed Nizar Trabelsi, his first interview after his arrest in Belgium on September 13, 2001. He was suspected to plan an attack on Belgian airbase Kleine Brogel, where we stock American nuclear weapons. He spent 24 years in prison 1/

Soldiers at a shooting range in Greenland. Shortly after the Danish Army soldiers arrived in Greenland, they headed out to the shooting range. Here, they had to zero in their weapons and get their first lessons on how to handle their weapons in freezing temperatures, wind, and

🇫🇷🇬🇧🇷🇺 – FRANCE / UNITED KINGDOM / RUSSIA 🔴 The Mediterranean Maritime Prefecture stated that the seized tanker is the GRINCH (IMO 9288851), which is subject to European, British, and U.S. sanctions, and was operating under a false Comorian flag. 👉 The operation was carried

France to launch #Orion26 military exercise from Feb 8 to Apr 30, involving about 12,500 soldiers, 25 ships including aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, 140 aircraft and helicopters, and 1,200 drones to test high-intensity, multi-domain operations with 24 allied nations.

The names of the UK personnel who died in Afghanistan: George, Darren John Busuttil, Robert Gregory, John Kitulagoda, Jonathan Sherwood, Steven Cridge, Mark Craddock, Peter Edward Philippson, Jim Bartlett, Paul Patten, David Hashmi, Jabron Thorpe, Peter Jackson, Damien Raymond

#RIPAlexPretti

This type of info is posted as misinformation and its insinuations have been repeatedly debunked Ireland was working with Britain extensively and exclusively to defeat Germany, a relationship Ireland set up in 1938 9% of its population went to the UK war effort, zero to Germany

Some brilliant seals from all the way back to the late 12th/14th century, the birth of modern heraldry: Top - The episcopal seal of the Bishop of Ossory, Kilkenny Middle - Henry de Londres, linked to Dublin Archbishop Bottom left - Domhnall (Donald) Kavanagh, Leinster Gaelic

People pray over the coffins of 14 innocent men murdered by the British Army Parachute Regiment in Derry 54 years ago on 30 January, 1972 Thinking of their families who campaigned for Justice with dignity for many years. "They tried to bury us, they didn't know we were seeds."

Solidarity with the Bloody Sunday families 30/1/1972-30/1/2026

🤔 A coup in France? Shocking images, alarming headlines...and millions of views. And yet none of it is true. But algorithms speed up the disinformation. It’s not a bug, it’s a destabilization strategy. We must take action to protect ourselves.