🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- Mass rallies in the center of Bukavu, eastern DR Congo, in support of M23.

🇱🇧🇮🇷⚡- Pro-Iranian protestors block the Beirut International Airport, Lebanon, for a second night in a row.

Three UN vehicles were allegedly destroyed too.

🇱🇧🇮🇷⚡- The Lebanese military attempting to unblock the roads to the airport from the pro-Iranian protestors.

🇱🇧 Hezbollah/Amal in a statement: What is happening now on the airport road in terms of riots and chaos is a condemned act and has nothing to do with any peaceful demonstration or expression of opinion. Rather, it is a suspicious and chaotic act that has negative consequences.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- AFP, French outlet, claims a large number of Rwandan troops were involved in today's attacks on Kavumu, Bukavu Airport and Bukavu city itself.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- The Israeli newspaper of record, Haaretz, openly acknowledges that Netanyahu intends to attack Iran and pull the United States into the conflict.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Hamas has released three Israeli hostages. All three have arrived in Israel.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israel dressed Palestinian prisoners scheduled to be released today in white shirts bearing the Star of David and the phrase “We will not forget and we will not forgive."

🇨🇩🇷🇼🇺🇬⚡- BREAKING: Several Ugandan officials prepare to invade Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, and capture the entire Ituri region and its capital Bunia.

🇨🇩🇷🇼🇺🇬⚡- "Bunia will soon be in Uganda's hands," - Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Uganda's Chief of Staff.

🇨🇩🇷🇼🇺🇬 - Bunia, in the Ituri region of eastern DR Congo, is located just north of the Kivu regions where M23 currently operates.

The DRC's military, FARDC, has long accused Uganda of backing Rwanda and the M23.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- Approximately 50% of Bukavu, eastern DR Congo, is under M23 control.

Clashes were reported overnight in the center of the city.

🇺🇬🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- DR Congo military sources say Uganda has begun a build up of its military along the DRC-Uganda border.

🇺🇬🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- Uganda's Chief of Staff gives the DR Congo military, FARDC, "24 hours to surrender or withdraw from the Ituri region, or Uganda will attack".

🇨🇩⚡- The opposition parties in the Democratic Republic of Congo released a joint statement calling for the 'immediate resignation' of Felix Tshisekedi as President if he 'has any honor or dignity left'.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "As I told you, we are a small country, we are a poor country, but when it comes to the right to live, make no mistake. I do not beg, I will not beg anyone," - Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, at the African Union Summit 2025.

🇺🇳🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "There is no military solution [to eastern DR Congo]," - Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the UN, at the African Union Summit 2025. Guterres refrains from mentioning Rwanda even once for supporting the M23.

🇦🇿⚡️- Azerbaijan becomes the first majority Muslim country to define antisemitism in school textbooks.

🇱🇧🇮🇷⚡- Violent clashes between pro-Iranian protestors and the Lebanese military, with reports of gunfights too.

The protests have been ongoing for three nights in a row.

🇺🇬🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "We are on the way to Bunia [Ituri region capital, eastern DR Congo], the people are welcoming us as liberators. They should lay down their arms otherwise we will kill them all," - Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Uganda's Chief of Staff.

🇺🇬🇨🇩🇷🇼 - There are no verified reports as of yet confirming a Ugandan advance towards Bunia, Ituri region, eastern DR Congo.