🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- The UN reports that 3,000 to 4,000 Rwandan troops are fighting alongside M23 in the eastern DR Congo.

🇬🇧🇮🇷⚡- Daniel Khalife, former British soldier, sentenced to 14 years in prison after spying for Iran and breaking out of HM Wandsworth's Prison.

🇺🇸🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- The US urges its citizens to leave the Democratic Republic of Congo immediately.

🇺🇸🇸🇴⚡- Somalia's President, Sheikh Mohamud, has expressed his strong opposition to any US attempts to recognize Somaliland. Mohamud has said people close to US President Donald Trump are trying to push him to officially recognize Somaliland.

🇨🇳🇳🇪⚡- Two Chinese engineers from China National Petroleum Corporation, CNPC, were kidnapped by gunmen in Niger.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- Rwanda and DR Congo leaders will attend an emergency summit in Tanzania this Saturday.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "I would like to remind you that we are no longer talking about M23, but as you know, in recent days the Rwandan army has sent up to 10,000 soldiers to our territory, special forces have been mobilized in the Lake Kivu area," - Patrick Katembwe, DR Congo Spokesman.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- Violent Turkish airstrikes across the Ain al-Arab area, SDF-controlled northern Syria.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- Turkish strikes against Dair Hafr, Manbij direction, SDF-controlled Syria.

🇮🇷⚡- "Iran secretly building nuclear missiles that can hit Europe," - The Telegraph.

🇮🇷⚡- "IRGC air force experts are working on warheads with a 3,000km range at two sites disguised as satellite launch bases. The nuclear missiles are based on designs handed to the Islamic regime of Iran by North Korea," - The Telegraph.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Sribnoye, Pokrovsk direction. Russian troops have also entered the first few houses of the town called Zaporozhye.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "I don't know," - Paul Kagame President of Rwanda, when asked if Rwanda's military is in eastern DR Congo.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "There are many things I don’t know. But if you want to ask me, is there a problem in Congo that concerns Rwanda? And that Rwanda would do anything to protect itself? I’d say 100%" - Paul Kagame President of Rwanda.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump to hold an unscheduled press conference sometime later today.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "Rwanda will do whatever it takes to protect itself," - Paul Kagame President of Rwanda.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "M23 receives no support from Rwanda," - Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda.

🇷🇺🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "There will be many stories. We have to do what we have to do. We have to make sure we survive any storm that blows across our country," - Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, when asked on the comparisons that have been made between him and Russian President Putin in the Donbass region in 2014.

🇺🇸⚡️- Bret Baier will sit down with President Trump for the annual Super Bowl Presidential interview.

🇬🇧⚡️- Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch signals party purge as she tells CCHQ staff to "pull their weight or leave" seemingly blaming the Party apparatus for their continued low popularity despite Labour falling drastically in the polls.