🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Dan Caldwell, a recently ousted Pentagon adviser, says he was fired not for leaks, as the Department of Defense claims, but for opposing a strike on Iran and challenging establishment foreign policy views," - Politico.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- Wazalendo forces continue their counterattack in the Goma direction, eastern DR Congo, capturing the towns of Mihanga, Kitsule and Mukaka from the M23.

More importantly, Wazalendo have captured the large town of Gandjo, which lies on the RP1030 Highway. Fighting ongoing at Bibatama, which is just 4.5km north of the strategic town of Kingi.

Wazalendo are closing in on Goma, with less than 28km until they reach the city outskirts.

🇸🇸⚡- South Sudan's government shuts down the largest opposition outlet, Juba News Daily, all of their social medias have been deleted.

🇸🇸⚡- South Sudan's pro-government sources claim they have captured the White Army stronghold of Nasir City.

Nuer sources have not yet confirmed the report, however fighting has been ongoing in the Maiwut and Nasir regions since Easter.

🇹🇩🇦🇪 - On April 18, Chad's President Mahamat Idriss Deby met with UAE's Mohamed bin Zayed.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- BREAKING: M23 have withdrawn from a number of towns in the Bukavu direction, eastern DR Congo, including Lemera, Kasheke and Kabamba. There were clashes between the M23 and Wazalendo last week in the area.

It's unconfirmed if the M23 are rotating troops, or according to South Kivu outlet, Tazama, M23 are prioritizing the Bukavu-Kamaniola front instead. There is also no confirmation on whether Wazalendo have entered the area.

🇺🇸🇰🇪🇪🇹⚡- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio cancels his first African tour, where he was expected to visit Nairobi and then Addis Ababa.

🇺🇸🇻🇦⚡️- US President Donald Trump says he will attend the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday.

🇧🇫🇨🇮⚡- Burkina Faso claims to have foiled a massive coup plot, which, according to the Burkinabe authorities, originated from Abidjan, Cote d'Ivorie.

The plot allegedly involved using the terrorist group JNIM to attempt to destabilize the VDP Unit of the Burkina Faso Armed Forces.

🇧🇫⚡- Large-scale purge underway in Burkina Faso, as several dozen army officers arrested amid coup rumors.

🇧🇫⚡- "Supporters of the Burkina Faso junta speak of an attempted coup, pointing fingers at soldiers in exile," - Radio France International.

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡- Ansarullah have arrested 30 in Sana'a, Ansarullah-controlled Yemen, for filming the locations of US airstrikes last night, in particularly the area around Faewa Markets.

🇪🇹⚡- Getachew Reda has been replaced with Tadesse Werede as the new President of the Interim Tigray Administration. Werede, a former Tigray General, has reinstated generals who had been suspended by Reda.

#BREAKING | Syrian authorities detain Khaled Khaled, head of the Syrian branch of the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), along with Abu Ali Yasser, the head of the militia's organizing committee in Syria.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷🇾🇪⚡- "Iran didn’t abandon Houthis. It staged a withdrawal to feed Trump a 'win'. Behind the curtain? IRGC still entrenched, Russia stepping in & Tehran buying time for sanctions relief," - Fatima al-Asrar, Yemeni journalist for the Yemeni-based and UAE-funded 'Peace Track Initiative' Think Tank.

🇺🇸🇾🇪🇱🇧⚡- Al-Manar, Hezbollah's official outlet, uploads footage of the USS Harry Truman allegedly damaged / 'disciplined' by Ansarullah attacks.

The entire video is an outright lie, the photos and videos of the damages are from a collision the aircraft carrier suffered back in February in Egyptian water spaces.

🇨🇳🇰🇷⚡- "China built a massive fixed platform in the Yellow Sea, echoing South China Sea tactics and raising sovereignty concerns. China denied South Korea's request to inspect the steel structure," - Chosun Daily, South Korean outlet.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "Beijing warns nations not to cut US trade deals at China's expense.

China warned countries against striking deals with the US that could hurt Beijing’s interests, upping the ante in the trade war with Washington and showing how others risk getting caught in the middle," - Bangkok Post, Thai outlet.