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Terrorists in press vests: the @IDF just published an initial list of 170 Gazan terrorists who doubled as journalists during the war. Including stringers from @AlJazeera @Reuters @cnni @BBCWorld @AP @AFP and many others. https://t.co/cpPCdjXI0U https://t.co/2blHs9MUrw #Journalism #Terrorism #MiddleEast #IL #PS #QA #US #GB #FR

🇪🇺 I have just returned from ✝️ Saint Catherine’s Monastery in #Sinai, the oldest operating Christian monastery in the world and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, located in the Sinai Peninsula, in the heart of the desert and in a critical geopolitical region of the Middle East. https://t.co/PAmFX3nVrx #Sinai #UNESCO #ChristianMonastery #EG #EU

6 OCTOBER 1973 — YOM KIPPUR. Egypt and Syria launched a coordinated surprise attack against Israeli forces in the Sinai and Golan Heights. U.S. diplomatic records describe the attack as the opening of the October 1973 war. Israel was caught by surprise, suffered serious early https://t.co/5cenQX4duF #YomKippur #OctoberWar #MiddleEast #EG #SY #IL #US

AFRICA DAILY REPORT — 29 SEPTEMBER 2026 Major developments reported during the previous 24 hours. 1. ETHIOPIA — Renewed Tigray conflict intensifies around strategic Alamata Federal-aligned forces claimed the capture of Alamata, an important supply hub south of Mekelle, after a TPLF-led offensive widened fighting into Afar and Amhara. Diplomatic sources cited by Reuters said the town had fallen or federal-aligned forces had entered it, while communications remained disrupted across Tigray. The renewed conflict is raising serious concerns about the survival of the 2022 Pretoria peace settlement. Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ethiopian-pro-government-forces-claim-capture-strategic-tigray-town-2026-09-28/ 2. DR CONGO — Ebola outbreak passes 8,000 confirmed cases Importance: 10/10 — Critical Government data showed 8,067 confirmed Ebola cases and 3,901 deaths as of September 26. The Bundibugyo-virus outbreak is now the largest and deadliest Ebola epidemic recorded in the DRC and has spread across 63 health zones in seven provinces; shortages of health workers and weaknesses in contact tracing continue to impede containment. Source: https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/africa/2026-09-28-drc-ebola-infections-cross-8000-confirms-government/ 3. SOUTH AFRICA — Death toll from Wedela tavern shooting rises to 18 Importance: 9/10 — Very High Police said another victim died in hospital, raising the death toll from the weekend attack in Wedela, southwest of Johannesburg, to 18. Authorities are searching for the attackers and examining a possible connection to turf wars in illegal gold mining; a separate weekend shooting near Cape Town killed another 10 people. Source: https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/south-african-police-death-toll-062225459.html 4. ZAMBIA — Government targets average 7% economic growth Importance: 8/10 — High Zambia's finance ministry says the government aims to raise average economic growth to 7% over the next three years. The target follows progress in restructuring the country's external debt and represents an attempt to translate improving macroeconomic stability into stronger sustained growth. Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/zambia-aims-lift-economic-growth-7-over-next-three-years-2026-09-28/ 5. MALI — Barrick and unions reach agreement, averting gold-mine strike Importance: 8/10 — High Barrick Mining signed a new collective bargaining agreement with unions at the Loulo-Gounkoto gold complex, and planned strike action was withdrawn. The agreement reduces immediate operational risk at one of Mali's most important gold-producing assets following a prolonged period of tension involving the miner, workers and the Malian authorities. Source: https://www.brecorder.com/news/40441512/mali-gold-mine-barrick-mining-reaches-deal-with-unions 6. KENYA — Court of Appeal upholds Affordable Housing Levy Kenya's Court of Appeal dismissed challenges to the Affordable Housing Act and levy, upholding the legal framework underpinning one of President William Ruto's major domestic programmes. The judges also upheld the Kenya Revenue Authority Commissioner's role in collecting the levy, although they found that the Commission on Revenue Allocation should have been consulted before parliamentary debate. Source: https://allafrica.com/stories/202609280027.html 7. ETHIOPIA–SUDAN — Accusations over support for armed groups deepen regional tensions Ethiopia's army chief accused Eritrea, Sudan and Egypt of supporting forces fighting federal troops amid renewed warfare in northern Ethiopia. Sudan rejected the allegations as baseless and counter-accused Ethiopia of facilitating support for Sudan's paramilitary RSF, adding another interstate dimension to the conflicts destabilising the Horn of Africa. Source: https://apnews.com/article/6b3208122a4221f3c2e8dcbe21630016 8. UGANDA — Police confirm detention of activist Praise Aloikin Ugandan police confirmed that activist Praise Aloikin Opoloje is in custody after activists and associates had reported her missing. Police said she had been arrested and would be brought before a court; Aloikin participated in the 2024 anti-corruption protests and has publicly criticised political and security figures. Source: https://allafrica.com/stories/202609280365.html 9. SOUTH AFRICA — Rand weakens as high oil prices increase economic pressure Importance: 7.5/10 — High The rand weakened about 0.5% against the dollar in early Monday trade as Middle East tensions pushed Brent crude above $107 per barrel. Because South Africa imports most of its fuel, sustained high oil prices pose risks through higher import costs and inflationary pressure. Source: https://www.channelafrica.co.za/channelafrica/news/rand-slips-as-us-iran-stalemate-pushes-oil-prices-higher/ 10. AFRICA — AFCON 2027 qualification moves into Matchday 2 Importance: 6/10 — Moderate The latest qualifying round opened with Burkina Faso beating Central African Republic 1–0, Equatorial Guinea defeating Sierra Leone 1–0, DR Congo beating Zimbabwe 2–1 and Tunisia drawing 2–2 with Botswana. September 29 brings a large slate including Ethiopia–Senegal, South Sudan–Egypt, Ghana–Gambia, Guinea-Bissau–Nigeria and Zambia–Togo. Source: https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/6/577635/Sports/Africa-Cup-of-Nations-qualifiers-results-amp%3B-fixt.aspx #Africa #AfricaNews #TopNewsOfAfrica #SouthAfrica #Wedela #Johannesburg #TavernShooting #MassShooting #ViolentCrime #IllegalMining #PublicSafety #Zambia #ZambianEconomy #EconomicGrowth #GDPGrowth #DebtRestructuring #Macroeconomics #AfricanEconomy #Ethiopia #Tigray #Alamata #TigrayConflict #PretoriaPeaceAgreement #HornOfAfrica #ArmedConflict #RegionalSecurity #AfricanSecurity #Geopolitics #AfricaToday #wrldorg

HEROES HANG WHEN TRAITORS TRIUMPH. Mike Walsh. FORBIDDEN HISTORY: A legendary Briton who shaped the Middle East. A Norwegian knighted for helping to save the lives of millions of Ukrainians. A gifted Irish-American pacifist, a Nobel Prize-winning writer. A student who led his nation in an anti-Communist conflict: The Allies murdered them. https://barnesreview.org/product/heroes-hang-when-traitors-triumph-martyrs-of-world-war-ii/

HEROES HANG WHEN TRAITORS TRIUMPH. Mike Walsh. FORBIDDEN HISTORY: A legendary Briton who shaped the Middle East. A Norwegian knighted for helping to save the lives of millions of Ukrainians. A gifted Irish-American pacifist, a Nobel Prize-winning writer. A student who led his nation in an anti-Communist conflict: The Allies murdered them. https://barnesreview.org/product/heroes-hang-when-traitors-triumph-martyrs-of-world-war-ii/

1.1 million barrels per day of diesel lost from Middle East and Russia. Brutal. 3-5% if we count recent Russian losses. That is just diesel itself. It doesn’t count the losses of crude that provide feedstock for diesel production in the West. 🛢️📈 #Diesel #OilMarket #Russia #ME #RU

“The Abolition of Slavery — and Its Unfinished History Slavery is far older than the transatlantic slave trade. It existed for thousands of years in societies across the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the Americas. It was therefore not invented by Europeans or white people. But another part of the history deserves recognition. In the late 18th and 19th centuries, predominantly European and Western abolitionist movements developed sustained political campaigns against the slave trade and slavery. Britain is a major example. British abolitionists such as William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp, together with Black activists and formerly enslaved people such as Olaudah Equiano, campaigned for abolition. Parliament abolished Britain’s slave trade in 1807, and slavery throughout most of the British Empire through the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, with emancipation beginning in 1834. Britain then used its navy and diplomacy to suppress the international slave trade. Between 1808 and 1870, British naval forces seized roughly 1,400 slave ships and liberated around 160,000 enslaved people. This does not erase Britain’s earlier role in the slave trade. Nor was abolition exclusively a white achievement. Black activists, former slaves, religious groups and others were important to the movement. Nevertheless, Western societies became leading forces in creating political, legal, diplomatic and military mechanisms to suppress the Atlantic slave trade and abolish slavery. And slavery has not disappeared. The latest global estimates, based on 2021 data, put the number living in modern slavery at 49.6 million: 27.6 million in forced labour and 22 million in forced marriage. About 29.3 million were in Asia and the Pacific, 7.0 million in Africa, 6.4 million in Europe and Central Asia, 1.7 million in the Arab States and 5.1 million in the Americas. Slavery is ancient and global; Europeans became major participants in the transatlantic system and later major forces in its abolition. Yet an estimated 49.6 million people were still living in modern slavery in 2021” - ChatGPT

Thank you for the good exchange, @badralbusaidi! 🇦🇹🤝🇴🇲 We discussed the current situation in the Middle East, freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, and our joint efforts towards de-escalation and stability. Especially in times of heightened tensions, we need to keep #MiddleEast #Diplomacy #DeEscalation #AT #OM

The Middle East crisis is driving up food, fuel and debt costs for families across the region and the developing world. Today I sat down with @UN DSG @AminaJMohammed and Member States on our development response. The countries hit hardest cannot be left to absorb the shock https://t.co/wvWnkbMn2J #MiddleEastCrisis #GlobalChallenge #DevelopmentResponse #ME #DE

During #UNGA week, I spoke with @JaredCohen, President of Global Affairs and Co-Head of the Goldman Sachs Global Institute at @GoldmanSachs, about global security challenges, the importance of continued support for Ukraine, and the impact of instability in the Middle East on https://t.co/Buxz7Jzsqr #GlobalSecurity #SupportUkraine #MiddleEastInstability #UA #IL