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An overnight attack by suspected Boko Haram jihadists on a Chadian military base has killed at least 24 people, a military official and regional administrator told AFP on Tuesday. The Barka Tolorom base is on the shores of Lake Chad, which straddles Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria and whose islands provide a refuge for jihadists from Boko Haram and other radical Islamist groups. The raid late on Monday “left 25 dead and 46 wounded on the Chadian army side”, the army source told AFP. The administrative official gave a toll of “24 dead and several wounded”. Both attributed the attack to Boko Haram, with the administrator insisting that “the situation is under control”. “Once again, the nebulous Boko Haram terrorist group carried out a cowardly attack last night on our military base at Barka Tolorom,” Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno said on Tuesday in a Facebook post. “We will continue the fight wit...

The Sudanese government accused Ethiopia of being behind recent drone attacks on sites  including Khartoum airport  and recalled its ambassador on Tuesday. A military spokesperson in Sudan said the government has evidence that four drone strikes that have happened since March 1 came from Ethiopia’s Bahir Dar airport. It also accused the United Arab Emirates of supplying the drones. The Sudanese military has been at war with a paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces since April 2023, when the RSF stormed the capital. The battles have now shifted towards more drone warfare concentrating in the Kordofan and Blue Nile states. Sudan has long accused the UAE of supporting the RSF, and U.N. experts and rights groups have also accused the it or providing arms to the group. The UAE has rejected the accusation. The most recent attack came on Monday and targeted the airport in Sudan’s capital Khartoum. The previous attacks were launched towards the Sudanese ...

 Russian troops are inching toward the city of Kostiantynivka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, trying to establish a foothold close to a heavily defended area, ‌Ukraine’s top army official said on Saturday. Kostiantynivka, along with other cities, forms a so-called fortress ‌belt in the country’s east – an area well fortified by the Ukrainian military. “We are repelling the Russian occupiers’ persistent attempts ​to gain a foothold in the outskirts of Kostiantynivka using infiltration tactics. Counter-sabotage measures are going on in the city,” Oleksandr Syrskyi, Ukraine’s army chief, said on the Telegram app. A Ukrainian battlefield mapping project called DeepState shows that Russian troops control an area around only one kilometre (0.6 mile) from the city’s southern outskirts. Small chunks ‌of Kostiantynivka, in southeast Ukraine, are ⁠marked as a grey zone, meaning neither Ukraine nor Russia has full con...

Russia has test launched its new Soyuz-5 rocket ‌for the first time, the country’s ‌space agency said late on Thursday, saying it had ​lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan without any issues. The Soyuz-5, which Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, describes as a ‌launch vehicle equipped ⁠with the world’s most powerful liquid-fuelled engine, lifted off successfully at ⁠2100 Moscow time (1800 GMT) on April 30, it said in a statement. The new ​rocket is ​capable of carrying ​payloads of up to ‌17 metric tonnes, will significantly reduce launch costs, and is more effective than its predecessors at placing objects like satellites in near earth orbit, the agency said. Dmitry ‌Bakanov, the head of ​Roskosmos, said the rocket – ​which he ​hailed as a “new step in space ‌exploration” – would create new ​jobs in ​Russia and Kazakhstan. SOURCE: REUTERS AND AGENCIES from The Times Of Earth https://ift.tt/kJlXIjQ

Kosovo is heading for its third parliamentary election in over a year after lawmakers repeatedly failed to elect a new president, pushing the young Balkan nation into renewed political uncertainty. Parliament, which is tasked with choosing the president, on Tuesday faced a midnight deadline to choose a successor to Vjosa Osmani, whose term expired earlier this month. When it failed to do so, the legislature was automatically dissolved. The early election must be held within the next 45 days, but a date was not immediately announced. Political analyst Ilir Deda predicted that the election is likely to be held in June. The vote, Deda added, will test “whether people are willing to hold politicians accountable.” The small Balkan country of 2 million people has faced political turmoil since an election in February 2025 ended inconclusively. A new government of Prime Minister Albin Kurti was formed after an early vote on Dec. 28 but another crisis emerged over who should succeed Osmani...

Mali’s military leader on Tuesday insisted the situation in his country was “under control” as he made his first public address since unprecedented large-scale attacks at the weekend destabilised his ruling junta. Jihadists and Tuareg separatists are still positioned in the vast Sahelian country’s north, three days after launching a stunning wave of attacks, in what junta chief Assimi Goita acknowledged was a situation “of extreme gravity”. Goita had made no public appearance or statement for three days, fuelling doubts about his ability to cling to power, but on Tuesday evening — hours after jihadists threatened to blockade the capital Bamako — he made a speech to the nation on state TV. “As I am speaking to you, security arrangements have been reinforced. The situation is under control and clearing operations, search efforts, intelligence gathering and security measures are continuing,” he said. He urged the population to “stand up against division and national fracture”, saying ...