The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has become one of the most aggressive external actors in African conflicts, from Ethiopia, Libya and Somalia to Sudan. The leadership in Abu Dhabi obstinately denies its support for belligerents, yet it has maintained it. https://t.co/zal40gi4Ed
Ethiopia: PM Abiy’s war strategy: “At the center of this trajectory lies a governing approach that has normalized coercion as a primary instrument of strategy. Nowhere has this been more starkly reflected than in Tigray.” https://t.co/xIB9pDznv0
NEW Q&A | Power Struggle in Ethiopia’s Tigray: Averting a Return to War
The dramatic struggle for control of Ethiopia’s Tigray region has taken a sharp and dangerous turn, threatening to reignite a devastating conflict. We explain what is at stake.
https://t.co/gT1HNTme7z
The European Union should adopt clear enforceable human rights benchmarks in its engagement with Ethiopia, so recent diplomatic and financial normalization doesn't undermine accountability efforts regarding abuses in the Tigray, Oromia, and Amhara regions. https://t.co/czqEV7qap5
1/ Authorities in Ethiopia’s contested Western Tigray/Wolkait Zone are arbitrarily detaining ethnic Tigrayans and severely restricting their movements, employment, and access to services. New from @hrw
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The Advance LAIRCM system is now in Iran's hands. This system was supposed to protect large aircraft like the C-130 against heat-seeking weapons. AN/AAQ-24 LAIRCM.
The Advance LAIRCM system is now in Iran's hands. This system was supposed to protect large aircraft like the C-130 against heat-seeking weapons. AN/AAQ-24 LAIRCM.
Palantir AI + Claude was used to detect, prioritize, and strike over 1,000 targets in the first 24 hours of Operation against IRAN.
The success was so ridiculous, so game-changing, that the Pentagon didn’t even wait.
What used to be just a pilot project, just something they were testing out… suddenly became official, permanent, and everywhere.
Palantir is now the core AI brain of the entire U.S. military. It’s getting rolled out across ALL branches.
.@WHO has verified yet another attack on health care in #Sudan. This time, Al Deain Teaching Hospital in East Darfur’s capital, Al Deain, was struck, killing at least 64 people, including 13 children, two female nurses, one male doctor, and multiple patients.
As a result of this tragedy, the total number of fatalities linked to attacks on health facilities during Sudan’s war has now surpassed 2000. Over the nearly three-year conflict, WHO has confirmed that 2036 people have been killed in 213 attacks on health care, including Friday night’s strike in Al Deain.
This latest attack also injured 89 people, including eight health staff, and damaged the hospital’s pediatric, maternity, and emergency departments. In total, more than 720 people have been injured in attacks on health care during the war to date.
Beyond the devastating human toll, attacks on health care have immediate and long-term consequences for communities already in desperate need of both emergency and routine medical services.
Al Deain Teaching Hospital is currently non-functional due to the extensive damage caused by the attack, resulting in a critical interruption of essential medical services.
WHO is supporting local health partners to help fill urgent gaps by scaling up capacity at other health facilities. This includes strengthening primary health care services to provide outpatient, pediatric, and obstetric care; increasing capacity to treat the injured; and deploying trauma care supplies and essential medicines.
Enough blood has been spilled. Enough suffering has been inflicted. The time has come to de-escalate the conflict in Sudan and ensure the protection of civilians, health workers, and humanitarians.
Health care should never be a target. Peace is the best medicine.
🇺🇦❗️“I have no idea what the allies have been looking at for four years while we have been at war,” — Ukrainian military instructors who went to help counter Iranian missiles and UAVs are shocked by the way the US shoots down “Shaheds,” writes The Times
– First, the Persian Gulf countries launched as many as 8 Patriot missiles at one (!) enemy target, each costing more than $3 million.
– They often used a ship-based SM-6 missile, worth about $6 million, to shoot down a “Shahed” worth $70,000.
– The US and its allies often literally “shine” their radars like beacons — without proper camouflage. Ukrainians work differently: mobile radars constantly change positions.
For example: just three (!) cheap Shahed drones destroyed the AN/FPS-132 early warning radar (~$1 billion) and another air defense radar (~$300 million), which had been standing in one place for months and were perfectly “readable” from satellites.
Hi! It’s us — the developers of the STING interceptor. It was indeed designed as a very low-cost weapon against Shahed drones, since Russia attacks Ukraine with them in large numbers. STING opened the niche of Shahed interceptors and drones of this type. Ukrainian soldiers operating STING have already shot down many thousands of Shaheds.
We share more details about it on our page. And yes, STING isn’t free, but compared to the cost of a Shahed, and especially a Patriot missile, it’s almost nothing. Its effectiveness is 90–100%.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask 😎
Hi! It’s us — the developers of the STING interceptor. It was indeed designed as a very low-cost weapon against Shahed drones, since Russia attacks Ukraine with them in large numbers. STING opened the niche of Shahed interceptors and drones of this type. Ukrainian soldiers operating STING have already shot down many thousands of Shaheds.
We share more details about it on our page. And yes, STING isn’t free, but compared to the cost of a Shahed, and especially a Patriot missile, it’s almost nothing. Its effectiveness is 90–100%.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask 😎
From @HammerOfWar5 we have the Deputy Chairman of AFNM displaying a FPV drone in Ethiopia.
The drone is on a Mark4 V2 10 inch frame set up for OWA w/ an after market GPS mount & camera mount. Also displayed is a laptop w/ Ardupilot’s Mission Planner clearly showing Ethiopia.
From @HammerOfWar5 we have the Deputy Chairman of AFNM displaying a FPV drone in Ethiopia.
The drone is on a Mark4 V2 10 inch frame set up for OWA w/ an after market GPS mount & camera mount. Also displayed is a laptop w/ Ardupilot’s Mission Planner clearly showing Ethiopia.