🇺🇸⚡- The alleged Palisades arsonist, Jonathan Rinderknecht, ignited the fires “out of resentment of the rich” and in an effort to copycat Luigi Mangione, where he ranted to his Uber customers about the killing of Brian Thompson and queried “Free Luigi Mangione” frequently online.

🇺🇸 - To note, beloved filmmaker David Lynch died shortly after he was evacuated from the Palisades fires, as he was suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which required Lynch to use supplemental oxygen at all times, which was exacerbated by the fire.

🇺🇸🌎⚡- “On May 4, at the direction of SouthCom commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Two male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed.”

🇲🇱⚡️- The arrest of Youssouf Daba Diawara was confirmed this morning. He is a close ally of the notorious imam Mahmoud Dicko and is the leader of the "Action Synergy for Mali", an opposition anti-junta anti-corruption coalition. The junta is now confirmed to crack down on any opponent, regardless of potential ties with the FLA or the JNIM.

Action Synergy for Mali was notably anti-JNIM.

🇳🇬🇧🇯⚡️- Nigerian and Beninese militias massacred dozens of Fulani shepherds this weekend. There are reports of anti-Fulani violences spreading to Burkina Faso and Niger.

🇦🇷🇨🇻⚡️- A cruise ship that departed from Argentina towards Cape Verde is under WHO scrutiny after 3 deaths and 7 presumed infections related to a hantavirus took place aboard.

🇪🇸⚡️- Spain has offered to dock the infected ship MV Hondius in the Canary Islands.

⚕️⚡️- BREAKING: WHO believes an inter-human infection may have taken place on the ship. It is an extremely rare possibility for a hantavirus to become an emerging zoonotic disease.

🇲🇱 - Current situation in Mali.

Map key:
- Purple: FLA + JNIM areas of control,
- Orange: FAMa,
- Green: Platforme (pro-FAMa),
- Grey: Islamic State of the Sahel region areas of operations.

Unmarked territory indicates JNIM areas of operations / influence, and weak FAMa presence.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "Israel is coordinating with the U.S. as escalating tensions in the Strait of Hormuz have put the Iran ceasefire at risk.

The coordination includes preparation for a potential new round of strikes on Iran, which would focus on energy infrastructure and the targeted killing of senior Iranian officials." - CNN, citing US defense officials.

🇷🇴🇪🇺⚡️- The Romanian Parliament voted a no confidence motion against Ilie Bolojan's pro-EU government.

A new Prime Minister will have to be named.

🇲🇱⚡️- Wassim Nasr, specialist on Jihad groups in Africa and the Middle-East, assesses the Malian junta's repression of various groups could broaden the JNIM's support within Mali.

🇲🇱⚡️- The FLA has begun compensating locals, forming new local institutions and conducting a census in newly acquired lands in Mali.

Videos published by FLA sources show FLA insurgents organizing reconstruction efforts with Kidal's inhabitants.

🇲🇱⚡️- Malian journalists have released an estimation of the junta-aligned forces that were in Kidal before fleeing the JNIM+FLA advance.

4000 FAMa members
700 Africa Corps mercenaries
200 Militiamen

🇸🇩🇦🇪🇪🇹⚡- An unknown UAV has entered Sudanese airspace from Ethiopia.

This follows yesterday's incident where Sudan's media claim Emirati drones took off from Ethiopian bases to launch attacks on Khartoum International Airport.

🇪🇹⚡- BREAKING: The TPLF Central Committee has elected Debretsion Gebremichael to lead the Tigray Interim Administration, northern Ethiopia.

Gebremichael is chief of TPLF-D, the main separatist faction that opposes the Pretoria Agreement.

🇪🇹⚡- Ethiopian jets circle above Mekele and Adigrat as the TPLF Central Committee voted for Debretsion Gebremichael.