🇲🇱Al Jazeera: Mali’s army says it has killed 203 combatants in an operation in the centre of the Sahel state, with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the country saying it has heard reports of civilian deaths, raising human rights concerns.
🇰🇪Garowe Online: France and UK issue terrorism alerts for Kenya as Ramadan kicks off
🇱🇾The Intercept: U.S. airstrike killed 11 Libyan civilians and allies, human rights groups say
🇷🇺🇺🇦ISW:
- Mariupol: Russia will likely make much of its final capture of the city for propaganda purposes but has not yet done so, which suggests that it has not yet completed the seizure
- Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts: Russian efforts to advance its offensive operations in eastern Ukraine made limited progress in the past 24 hours
- Kharkiv: Russian forces appear to be continuing efforts to concentrate forces to resume the offensive from Izyum toward the southeast but did not launch any large-scale operation in the past 24 hours
- Kyiv: The withdrawal of the main body of Russian forces along both banks of the Dnipro River is likely complete
- Kherson and Southern Advance: Russian forces continued limited offensive operations in the southern axis
- Mariupol: Russia will likely make much of its final capture of the city for propaganda purposes but has not yet done so, which suggests that it has not yet completed the seizure
- Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts: Russian efforts to advance its offensive operations in eastern Ukraine made limited progress in the past 24 hours
- Kharkiv: Russian forces appear to be continuing efforts to concentrate forces to resume the offensive from Izyum toward the southeast but did not launch any large-scale operation in the past 24 hours
- Kyiv: The withdrawal of the main body of Russian forces along both banks of the Dnipro River is likely complete
- Kherson and Southern Advance: Russian forces continued limited offensive operations in the southern axis
🇱🇰WSJ: Public anger is flaring in Sri Lanka over the government’s handling of an economic crisis that has led to rolling blackouts, hourslong waits for basic goods such as diesel fuel, and cooking gas and food inflation hitting 30.2% last month.
🇲🇱AFP: The US State Department said Sunday it was following “extremely disturbing” accounts of killings in central Mali, after the Sahel state's military said it killed over 200 militants in the volatile region. ...
However, the announcement followed social media reports this week alleging that large numbers of civilians had been killed in Moura
However, the announcement followed social media reports this week alleging that large numbers of civilians had been killed in Moura
🇳🇬Reuters: The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) cannot account for 168 people following an attack on a train last week in which eight people were killed and several wounded, the company has said.
Suspected bandits blew up the track on the Abuja-Kaduna route in the northwest of the country and then opened fire on the night train in the late March 28 attack.
Suspected bandits blew up the track on the Abuja-Kaduna route in the northwest of the country and then opened fire on the night train in the late March 28 attack.
🇲🇱AFP: France 'deeply concerned' by Mali killings involving army and 'Russian mercenaries' - foreign ministry
🇷🇺🇺🇦AFP: More than 4.2 million Ukrainian refugees have now fled the country since the Russian invasion, the United Nations said Monday, adding that the humanitarian situation was worsening
🇷🇺🇺🇦CNN: Ukrainian officials said around 90% of residential buildings have been damaged or destroyed in the strategic port city as a result of intense bombardment.