🇺🇸 — Syria/Iraq: USAF E-11A BACN up into Iraq to support Combat Air Patrols. Still reports of air activity over border region tonight. To be clear CAPs are up most nights, but IRGC backed militias are concerned about more airstrikes.

🇺🇸 — Iraq/Syria: USAF KC-135 refuelling heading into Iraq to support CAPs.

🇺🇸 — Fighter jets are currently flying over eastern Deir ez-Zor, & reconnaissance drones have also been reported along the border line of the Euphrates.

For the second day in a row, relative calm dominates the eastern countryside, as all parties are being cautious with their moves.

🇮🇳🇳🇬 Indian Muslim televangelist meets "Muslim Airforce" in Nigeria

Famed Islamic televangelist Dr. Zakir Naik, who is now banned from his native India and a host of other countries for 'extremist' views, is now visiting Nigeria.

He was invited to give a lecture tour in the country by the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa'ad Abubakar.

Naik has infuriated Nigerian Christians by repeatedly labelling everything and everyone in the country as 'Muslim', such as the "Muslim Immigration" system, and the "Muslim Airforce", and referring to the Sultan as the head of state, as though Nigeria were an Islamic sultanate.

In reality, almost half of Nigerians are Christians and many have taken to social media to complain once again about "creeping Islamization" in the country.

🇳🇪🇳🇬 Niamey court confirms ex-President Mohamed Bazoum attempted to escape to Nigeria

An appeal court in Niger's capital has confirmed that an elaborate plan was devised by ex-President Bazoum and his supporters to escape the country, despite being under house arrest since a military coup earlier this year.

Bazoum, his family, and his cooks planned to be smuggled to a house on the outskirts of Niamey, and from there take a covert helicopter trip to Birnin Kebbi, in northwest Nigeria.

The plotters were caught partway through this plan some time ago, with a large stash of foreign currency and sim cards.

🇺🇸 — Initial reports of a drone attack on Al-Omar Oilfield, eastern Syria.

🇨🇩🇺🇳 Conflict uproots record 6.9 million people in DR Congo reported the International Organization for Migration

Conflict and escalating violence have uprooted a record 6.9 million people in the DR Congo, mostly in the east of the country, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.

Most of those forced to flee their homes live in the eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu, Ituri and Tanganyika, according to the data collected by the United Nations.

In North Kivu alone, up to one million people have been displaced due the ongoing conflict with a Tutsi-led rebel group M23, IOM said.

IOM said since June it had built 3,347 emergency shelters and distributed 7,715 kits with non-food supplies but warned that operations remain underfunded.

#DRC #UN

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