🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Oil futures continue to rise, with Brent crude up over $126 per barrel and WTI over $110.

🛢⚡️- Despite oil prices skyrocketing since the war in Iran, TotalEnergies recorded a 50% increase in benefits in Q1 2026 thanks to repeated accurate speculations on the oil market.

🇫🇷🛢- France's Prime Minister asked the French-based oil company to redistribute this wealth, all while refusing to lower state taxes on gas prices, which amount to 60% of the cost of gas in France.

🇲🇱⚡️- Bamako's blockade has been confirmed to be in effect in numerous access points around the capital.

Per the map released by Le Monde, nearly half the capital's entry national roads are blocked.

In green, the roads with no reported blockades.
In red, the roads with reported and confirmed blockades by the JNIM.

🇲🇱⚡️- Per RFI Afrique, one blockade on the Bamako-Kéniéba axis already has nearly 1000 vehicles stopped, and no vehicles have been allowed to pass in hours.

Only vehicles exiting Bamako are allowed through by the JNIM. Only a few vehicles have found bypasses.

🇬🇧⚡️- The Starmer Government has announced an extra £25 million increase in security funding for jewish communities in the country in response to the Golders Green stabbing.

🇪🇺⚡️- Eurozone inflation reached 3% in April and Q1 growth is at 0.1%. This means the Eurozone has officially re-entered a stagflation situation for the first time since 2023.

🇩🇪⚡️- Germany's unemployment rate reached 6.4%, the highest since the Covid-19 peak, which also was at 6.4%.

🇷🇺🇲🇱⚡️- Russia has refused the JNIM+FLA demand to have their military presence entirely removed from Mali.

🇲🇱⚡️- JNIM forces have reportedly seized the police and gendarme stations of Fana, a city 120km east of Bamako.

🇲🇱⚡️- JNIM+FLA forces seized a Malian military base in Hombori, Mopti region.

🇷🇺🇲🇱⚡️- The Africa Corps and Malian forces repelled a JNIM+FLA attack in Sebabougou.

🇲🇱🇧🇫⚡️- Yesterday, the JNIM carried out an attack in the Passoré province, Bagaré region, western Burkina Faso, and seized a local militia's outpost.

Local Burkinabé forces assess the JNIM may extend their offensive to Burkina Faso.

🇮🇷⚡️- Mojtaba Khamenei will publish a message shortly, per Iranian medias.

A Lockheed C-130 of the Nigeren Air Force landed in Bamako earlier today

Besides the obvious answer that it was likely transporting supplies it more likely transported the Nigeren delegation including Minister of Defense Celestine Simpore who was present and spoke at the funeral of the killed defense minister Sadio Camara

🇦🇪⚡- "The UAE is also considering withdrawing from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation," - Ajel, Saudi outlet.

🇲🇱⚡️- Assalim Ag Abanassa, local Imghad (Touareg) leader in Kidal announces he and his followers are joining the FLA+JNIM axis. He asks the other Touareg factions in Mali to join the insurgent coalition.

🇫🇷⚡️- The French State Council has confirmed the dissolution of the Young Guard, France's largest antifa movement.

🇺🇸🇩🇪⚡- "The Chancellor of Germany should spend more time on ending the war with Russia/Ukraine (Where he has been totally ineffective!), and fixing his broken Country, especially Immigration and Energy, and less time on interfering with those that are getting rid of the Iran Nuclear threat, thereby making the World, including Germany, a safer place!" - President Trump on Truth Social.