🇾🇪 - Siege of Ta'izz:

Ansarullah have advanced across the southwest of Tai'zz city, capturing Najd Qusaym, the Bir Basha area, and al-Misrakh

The al-Hanjar Gate to western Tai'zz city has also fallen to the al-Houthi forces, giving them control of the city's northern, eastern and now western entrances to Ta'izz, further tightening the siege.

🇫🇷 - Riots in France are expected to peak this weekend as several Yellow Vests had planned to rekindle the movement on the 17th October. However, due to heavy leftist interference in the ongoing ethnic riots, the renewal of the Yellow Vests movement is unlikely.

The movement was originally built as an anti-Macron social event. It lost strength in 2019 overtime precisely because of a forced confluence of struggles from the left-wing part of the movement.

🇫🇷⚡️- Hundreds of grocery stores across France were hacked between Sunday and Monday. Temperatures of refrigerating devices were set as high as 50C°.

Several tons of food have wasted away in stores belonging to Intermarché, Super U and Leclerc.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- Deputy Army Commander of the Tigray Defence Forces, TDF, Berhane Gebreananya, has reportedly been captured by Ethiopian National Defence Force, ENDF, troops during fighting near Enticho, Adwa direction in northern Ethiopia.

Four other senior TDF officials were also captured alongside him.

🇬🇧🇷🇺⚡️- Prime Minister Andy Burnham accuses Russia of having interfered in the 2016 Brexit referendum.

🇪🇹⚡- The major town of Enticho, Adwa direction, northern Tigray region, has fallen to the Ethiopian National Defense Forces.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- BREAKING: The Tigray Defense Forces, TDF, have essentially completely collapsed across all fronts, except for the Sheraro direction, northwest Tigray region. TDF are withdrawing into Eritrean territory en masse.

The chapter of TPLF's dominance of Ethiopian politics over the past 2-3 decades has come to an end, at least for the time being.

🇪🇹⚡- The historical city of Aksum has been captured by the Ethiopian National Defense Forces.

🇮🇷⚡️- 3 ballistic missile launches are reported from Yazd, central Iran.

🇪🇹⚡- Ethiopian National Defense Forces, ENDF, now control most of the Tigray region, northern Ethiopia. Adwa remains the only stronghold for the Tigray Defense Forces in the north of the region.

The Sheraro front in the west remains active.

Map key:
• Green - Tigray Defense Forces,
• Red - Ethiopian National Defense Forces,
• Orange - Areas captured by the Ethiopian National Defense Forces since the start of the current phase of the Tigray war,
• Black Line - The Tigray Interim Administration regional borders.