Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation
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This thread is only a fraction of what I've seen & what people told me in Sagaing, Myanmar.
If any editors would be interested in any stories about Sagaing, the people, fighters, refugees, war crimes, drone units etc, or if anyone know of any editors who might, my DMs are open!
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🇱🇾🇹🇷🇬🇷🇪🇬🇨🇾 Libya’s rival camps just united to ratify the 2019 Turkey-Libya maritime deal, reigniting fierce disputes with Greece, Egypt, and Cyprus.
Discover how this new scramble for the Mediterranean is pitting these countries against each other: thegeopoliticaldesk.com/anti…
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Blue Nile faces a “humanitarian crisis” as fighting has displaced more than 20,000 people since August.
The RSF now controls much of the state’s south and is about 60 km from the capital, Damazin.
Via @sudan_newsroom
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"As Ortega addressed cheering crowds, he appeared to speak to a bouquet of roses in his right hand, oblivious to the lapel microphone pinned to his white shirt."
Straight from a García Márquez novel.
reuters.com/world/americas/o…
I visited this exact area seven months ago when the entire road was still under resistance control. At the time I was already struck by how narrow the road gets at time through the thick forest.
Its a perfect setting for resistant ambushes. Very challenging for any conventional military to maintain control over.
Myanmar 🇲🇲: KIA and PDF resistance fighters report to have cut the road Sagaing-Kachin road between Indaw and Maw Luu.
The resistance launched an all-out assault on the road last week, seizing three junta camps in the villages of Si Pein, Hpar Pant and Pin Wai.
Myanmar 🇲🇲: PDF resistance fighters in a heavy gun battle with junta soldiers.
Reportedly filmed recently in the Myaung township of lower Sagaing region.
Myanmar 🇲🇲: footage said to show junta soldiers being ambushed by the Arakan Army somewhere on the Rakhine front.
Based on the landscape my feeling says it was likely filmed on one of the roads crossing the Rakhine Yoma on the border with Magway region.
video was uploaded by a junta soldier to Facebook facebook.com/share/r/1cmSarv…
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The Gambia 🇬🇲: Quite a showing of opposition leader Talib Ahmed Bensouda who went to IEC to submit his nomination papers and took along thousands of supporters.
Bensouda seeks to defeat president Adama Barrow, who is running for a controversial third term next month.
-Fatu Network
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‘That’s it’. Novaya Gazeta team vacates its Moscow office
Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Sergey Sokolov held the final editorial meeting at the newspaper’s office in Moscow on Monday, SOTAvision has reported.
The meeting was attended by the outlet’s former editor-in-chief, Dmitry Muratov, as well as staff members and representatives from other media organisations, including CNN and Reuters.
📹 | RusNews
Sudan 🇸🇩: the SAF continues to expand its foothold in West Kordofan as today Sudanese soldiers took control of the town of Ayal Bakhit.
The life cycle of the Russian propagandist always ends the same way.
Sudan 🇸🇩: SAF advancing on the Kordofan front after forcing a major breakthrough into RSF territory yesterday.
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#Cuba Acabo de llegar a casa, gracias a todos por la solidaridad y la difusión de la arbitraria detención que sufrí esta mañana. Ese apoyo fue el que logró descorrer los cerrojos y abrir los barrotes.
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Winter is going to be so rough for Ukraine. My biggest concerns, though, are with the Ukrainians in occupied territories. It goes beyond infrastructure & electricity concerns, too.
Every winter, we see deaths of Ukrainians who’ve been chucked out of or locked out of their homes &/or made to do things that Russian forces know fully well, will inflict hypothermia & potentially (and often does) lead to death.
Whether it be forcing them to strip down to bare skin, get into or submerge themselves in lakes, rivers, etc. All as a form of ‘punishment’. It’s just so sick.
If there is one thing which could upend the transitional process in Venezuela 🇻🇪 it would be Marco Rubio resigning.
Delcy knows Rubio is the only one in this administration forcing through an election. Trump just cares about the oil. If Rubio goes, she’s set to rule indefinitely
Breaking: Secretary of State Marco Rubio is weighing whether to leave the Trump administration, people familiar with the matter said bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Cuba: el país esta hambriento, el regimen es un fracaso absoluto, pero el estado policiaco sigue reprimiendo. La periodista independiente mas conocida fue detenida esta mañana en La Habana.
14ymedio.com/cuba/yoani-sanc…
RT @serbia_elects: Republic Electoral Commission tonight adopted the final results of the election.
The Student List won 2.354.417 votes a…