[Garowe] The Kenya Defense Forces [KDF] have deployed a new commander in Sector II of AMISOM, just months to the reconfiguration of the forces serving in Somalia, a country that has struggled with instability for decades.
Brigadier Jattani Gula will now take over from Brigadier Jeff Nyagah, whose service in the country ended this week. The Sector II team is based in Dhobley which is near the Kenya-Somalia border and important in Jubaland.
[Garowe] The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... [UN] has resumed the much-needed humanitarian assistance in the troubled Tigray region, weeks after it warned that several people face starvation due to blockades imposed by Addis Ababa and Afar regional authorities.
In January, Tigray rebels attacked several towns in the Afar region, accusing local authorities of blocking humanitarian trucks from accessing the Tigray region. The United Nations estimated that thousands of people were facing starvation.
Getachew Reda, the spokesperson of the Tigray Defense Forces [TDF] confirmed on Wednesday that the UN had resumed humanitarian activities in Tigray weeks after suspension following hostilities witnessed in Afar, a rejoin which partners closely with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
"We have just learned that the UN has decided-apparently with the cooperation of federal and regional authorities-to resume humanitarian operations in Tigray with the first convoy slated to hit the road anytime soon. This is a welcome, if long overdue development," he said.
TDF, he added, will work closely with the United Nations to ensure the humanitarian teams are protected from aggression in areas under her control. Further, he said, the rebels will ensure they do everything possible for the mission to succeed.
"Will do everything it can to ensure the safe and secure passage of humanitarian aid convoys and their personnel within its areas of control," he noted. "We are ready to extend any support we can in order for the UN operations to succeed and for the needy to have access to badly needed aid."
Earlier this week, State Department called for a ceasefire between TDF and Æthiopia National Defense Forces [ENDF], arguing that the offensive had triggered a humanitarian crisis in the region, which is fighting to secede from Æthiopia.
The U.S. Department of State said that it is gravely concerned by the reports of atrocities, including sexual violence, committed by both TDF fighters in the Amhara region of Æthiopia in late and ENDF August and early September 2021, as described in a recent Amnesia Amnesty International report.
Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, big turban of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), which Nigeria declared a terror group in 2019, was previously the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Nigeria. He converted to Shi'ism after a visit to Iran, becoming a fiery Iranian sock puppet. Like the Muslim Brotherhood, IMN’s spinoffs, including Boko Haram/ISWAP, are much more violent.
[DW] The insurgency in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province is spreading to neighboring regions, according to a new study. This comes despite the intervention of SADC and Rwandan troops.
Mozambique's al-Shabaab militia, whose name comes from the Arabic for youth and which has no relation to Somalia's al-Shabaab terrorist group,
... actually, they hired members of Somalia’s Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabaab to train them in jihadi skills, explaining the local nickname. Since 2018 they’ve been known formally as Islamic State Central Africa Province-Mozambique (ISCAP), whence they moved in 2015 from the Congo, where they had called themselves Ansar al-Sunna (supporters of the tradition), more formally as Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jamah (ASWJ, adepts of the prophetic tradition). Originally led by Abu Yasir Hassan of Tanzania (also known as Yaseer Hassan and Abu Qasim), who moved between Mocimboa da Praia and jihadis in the Congo until 2015, when he may or may not have died. Al Shabaab-Mozambique funds itself through heroin, contraband, ivory, raiding, and selling the local girls into slavery...
has been carrying out brutal attacks in the nation's most northern province, Cabo Delgado,
.. known for coal and ruby mines, natural gas, and jihad...
[Breitbart] The Home Office revealed that nine out of ten boat migrants colonists who land in the UK are male, confirming prior statements from Nigel Farage.
In a data dump — as Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... ’s millitary invaded Ukraine — the Priti Patel-led Home Office admitted on Thursday that men account for ninety per cent of all illegal boat migrants colonists who reached British beaches in 2021.
According to the official statistics, 28,526 illegals crossed the Channel last year in 1,034 small boats. In total, 36,792 people entered the country illegally in 2021.
While as recently as 2018, small boat crossings of the English Chanel represented a miniscule fraction of illegal immigration to the UK, it has since grown exponentially, and now represent the vast majority of illegal entries to the country.
Of those who reached Britannia by boat, the Home Office said that 90 per cent were male, with three quarters aged between 18 to 39. Just seven per cent were adult females, with three per cent having their sex left unrecorded per the latest data.
Despite featuring prominently in photographs published by the establishment media, children only accounted for 12 per cent of illegal boat arrivals.
Breaking down the boat migrants colonists by ethnicity, 30 per cent hailed from Iran, the largest group, with Iraqis (21%), Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... ns (11%), and Syrians (9%) making up the next most common nationalities. The Home Office noted that previously Iranians made up the vast majority of illegal boat arrivals, accounting for 80 per cent and 66 per cent of landings in 2018 and 2019 respectively, however, as of 2020 the ethnicities have become more mixed.
Driven in large-part by the massive influx of illegal aliens crossing the English Channel, there were 48,540 asylum applications launched in 2021, a third higher than the peak seen during the European Migrant Crisis of 2016.
Though most of the 48,540 asylum claims were made by illegal boat migrants colonists, there were 8,000 made by those who snuck into the country in the back of lorries or by other means. The number of initial claims that were approved by the government reached the highest rate since 1990, with 14,734 being approved on their first try.
At the same time, just 2,830 people were deported in the year leading up to September 2021. The number of foreign criminals deported was 47 per cent lower than that of pre-pandemic levels.
The issue of illegal immigration to Britannia comprising almost entirely of young male migrants colonists has long been addressed by Brexit’s Nigel Farage.
"If they are really refugees and they are coming from countries that are so awful why are they deserting all the women and kiddies, none of this actually adds up," Farage questioned last year.
[Breitbart] Danish anti-Islam politician and activist Rasmus Paludan has been granted permission to hold a demonstration in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, nearly two years after his supporters burned a Qu’ran, sparking a riot in Malmo.
[DW] Officials in Serbia say more people from India have been joining migrants colonists from other South Asian countries in trying to reach the EU by irregular means over the past few months.
In the Serbian border city of Kikinda, located close to Hungary and Romania, about 100 Indian migrants colonists are living in a reception center after being denied entry into the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Its proximity to two EU member states makes Kikinda a popular destination for migrants colonists.
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[GreaterKashmir]Anjuman Auqaf has expressed resentment against disallowing of congregational Friday prayers at Jamia Masjid here.
"Today is the 30th Jummah Mubarak and the last ten days of the holy month of Mehraj-Ul-Alam are going on. Still the authorities did not allow the Moslems of Kashmir to perform important duties like Friday prayers at the largest place of worship in Jammu & Kashmir — the historic central Jama Masjid Srinagar," Anjuman Auqaf said in a statement.
Could it be that the objection is to a large number of Muslims gathering to be whipped up during the Friday service sermon?
[NPASyria] People of Syria’s southern city of Daraa accuse the Syrian government to remove former leaders and members of the Syrian opposition by killing or apprehending them.
Assassinations, carried out by anonymous button men, continue in Daraa and mostly target former leaders or members of the opposition.
A statistic by the Martyr Documentation Office, a local non-governmental organization that follows up the statistics of casualties and detainees in Daraa, said 70 former leaders of the opposition were killed following the first settlement process in 2018.
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[IsraelTimes] Assertion by Tehran’s nuclear chief contradicts reported draft terms of accord being negotiated in Vienna, which are said to restrict enrichment to 5%
Iran ...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both... will continue to enrich uranium to 20% even if the 2015 nuclear deal is revived and sanctions are lifted, its nuclear chief said Friday, according to Iranian news reports.
"(Uranium) enrichment... continues [at present] with a maximum ceiling of 60%, which led Westerners to rush to negotiations, and it will continue with the lifting of sanctions by both 20% and 5%," Mohammad Eslami, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, was quoted saying.
The 2015 JCPOA limits enrichment to 3.67%, but since the US withdrew from the accord in 2018, Iran has been openly breaching its terms, stockpiling mounting quantities of 60%-enriched uranium. It has said it is capable of enriching to 90% — weapons-grade. Before the deal took effect, it was enriching to 20%.
Eslami’s comments were surprising since, according to diplomats quoted by Rooters 10 days ago, the draft outline of the revived deal includes a series of steps for all parties to take following its final approval, starting with Iran suspending enrichment of uranium above 5%.
The first phase would also reportedly include the unfreezing of some $7 billion in Iranian funds stuck in South Korean banks under US sanctions, as well as the release of Western prisoners held in Iran.
Eventually, Iran would return to core nuclear limits like the 3.67% cap on enrichment purity, the diplomats said, and sanctions would begin to be waived.
Eslami also warned Friday that Iran can resume production of highly enriched uranium "at any moment" if a deal was agreed but the US again pulled out of it.
Eslami was speaking as talks in Vienna on bringing Washington back into the 2015 agreement reached a critical stage.
The 3.67% limit for uranium enrichment set in the 2015 deal was sufficient for Iran’s power generation needs although not for some other civilian uses, such as the production of medical isotopes.
After then-US president Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... abandoned the agreement and reimposed crippling sanctions, Iran responded by producing uranium enriched to 60%, a level that has sparked Western concern although it still falls short of weapons grade.
Iran credits its response with bringing US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The guy who lost Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle... ’s administration back to the negotiating table for on-off talks that have now lasted 10 months.
"Enrichment can be done at any moment when [officials] decide or there is the will for it," Eslami said on his organization’s website.
"If they [the US] do not fulfill their obligations, we will return to the previous situation.
"Enrichment is in place in the country with a maximum ceiling of 60 percent and this brought the West to negotiations."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] The Home Office revealed that nine out of ten boat 
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances....jpg "Kashmir")
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