🇮🇷 - Iranian opposition media, 12 hours after Rerum Novarum, have begun to confirm the assassination of an Iranian missile commander in Kashan, central Iran.

The car of the commander of a missile unit within the IRGC, Reza Kasab, was struck by a small one-way drone while driving.

🇪🇹🇸🇩⚡- Ethiopia has begun constructing a major military base along the border of Sudan's Sennar region. The work on the site began in April 2025.

The large camp has 650 tents and 6 warehouses, enough to accommodate over 3,000 fighters. According to the Qatari Think Tank 'Eekad' the purpose of the base is to station the Rapid Support Forces, with the possibility of opening a new front against Sudan via the Sennar region.

Ethiopian media has recently been amplifying a false claim of an alleged build-up of TPLF-70 (anti Addis Ababa Tigray group in Sudan) along the disputed Fasherga region.

In recent months, Afrimeosint reports a surge of UAE-linked military cargo aircraft arriving in Ethiopia.