🇲🇱⚡️- 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.

🇫🇷🇪🇺⚡️- France carried out Orion 26, the largest exercise conducted by the French military since the Cold War. Around 12500 soldiers from 20 countries took part in the 11-weeks long exercise that ended today.

The scenario presented a situation where "Mercure", a hostile nation, is invading "Arnland", a country trying to join the European Union. The exercise featured tanks, helicopters, fighter jets and drones. It was centered on coordinating a multi-national force to help another foreign army.

🇫🇷🇪🇺⚡️- The final part of the exercise featured an all-out theoretical battle with high-intensity artillery fire and drone swarms, alongside the logistical challenges of supplying an inter-allied division of 25000 soldiers.

Officials have indicated to medias that drone warfare has been fully implemented in French-led exercises.