🇪🇹🔥📃 — 📰 AP News: Ethiopia’s Amhara region pleads for help with violent unrest after attempt to disarm local fighters
— " Authorities in Ethiopia’s Amhara region on Thursday asked the federal government for help, as a local ethnic militia clashed with federal security forces, halting some flights to key cities and leading the deputy prime minister, in an unusually outspoken statement, to call the situation “increasingly grave.”

The disturbances are “causing serious economic, social and humanitarian damage,” the regional authorities said in a letter to Ethiopia’s prime minister asking the government to take “appropriate measures.”

The U.S. Embassy in a security alert late Thursday urged its citizens in the Amhara region to shelter in place and warned against traveling there."

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🇳🇪❌🇫🇷 — 📰 Al-Jazeera: The Niger Military Junta cancel all military cooperation agreements with France and pledge to respond immediately to any foreign military intervention made by France and ECOWAS

https://fxtwitter.com/AJABreaking/status/1687236736902963201

🇳🇪📃❗️ — 📰 AFP Journalist Amaury Hauchard: The President of the CNSP (Niger Military Junta) announces to end by decree this 03/08 the functions of the ambassadors of Niger in 🇫🇷 France, in the 🇺🇸 United States, in 🇹🇬 Togo and in 🇳🇬 Nigeria.

🔗 Amaury Hauchard (@amhauchard)

🇳🇪🇺🇸🌐🆘 — Deposed President of Niger Mohammed Bazoum: I call on the US Government and the entire international community to help US restore our constitutional order and democracy in Niger

🇳🇪❌🇷🇺☠️ — Deposed President of Niger Mohammed Bazoum: The entire central sahel region could fall to Russian influence via the Wagner group PMC

🇳🇪❌🌍 — 📰 AFP Journalist Amaury Hauchard quoting a CNSP Junta Statement: ECOWAS being impersonal, any aggression or attempted aggression against the State of Niger will see an immediate response and without notice from the Nigerien Defense Forces on one of its members with the exception of suspended friendly countries*

🔗 Amaury Hauchard (@amhauchard)

* - The countries that were suspended from ECOWAS are: 🇲🇱 Mali, 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso and 🇬🇳 Guinea

🇳🇪🪖📃 — 📰 Washington Post OpEd | President of Niger: I’ve been taken hostage by a military coup
— "I write this as a hostage. Niger is under attack from a military junta that is trying to overthrow our democracy, and I am just one of hundreds of citizens who have been arbitrarily and illegally imprisoned. This coup, launched against my government by a faction in the military on July 26, has no justification whatsoever.

If it succeeds, it will have devastating consequences for our country, our region and the entire world."

https://archive.is/LOLFO
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🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — 1 hour ago, Russian channels reported that Air Defenses were activated over Feodosia in the Crimea against targets launched from Ukraine

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — An image shared on social medias show the result of the attack of Geram/Shahed UAVs on the port and oil infrastructure of Izmail, Odessa region, is visible from the satellite:

The image shows that from space puffs of black smoke can be seen over the port infrastructure following the strikes