South Bloc Reports

🇮🇳🇰🇵 Sanjeev Jain named the next Ambassador of India to North Korea ✍️Sanjeev Jain an IFS officer from the 2008 batch, has been serving as India's Ambassador to the Republic of Cabo Verde. 🇰🇵 India is one of the very few countries that maintains a functioning, permanent embassy compound in Pyongyang located in the Munsu-dong diplomatic district. Follow: @SouthBlocReports

🇮🇳🛤️🇮🇷🇦🇫 India plans improve the pace of work for the 700 km Chabahar–Zahedan rail link and invest around $400–500 million to expand Chabahar Port and support the corridor. Follow: @Southblocreports

🇦🇫🪖 Standoff in Badakhshan ?? 🤔 What's Happening? ✍️Taliban’s Defense Minister, Mullah Yaqub, rushed to the mountainous Badakhshan Province to stop a massive mutiny. A highly influential local Taliban commander named Juma Khan Fateh has gone rogue. He refused a transfer order from the central leadership and is now holding his ground with up to 10,000 armed local men. ⛰️ Badakhshan is covered in high, rugged mountains. If Juma Khan's men choose to fight, this geography makes it incredibly easy for them to launch a hit and run guerrilla war. 💰This region contains rich gold mines. Juma Khan's men currently control them. ⚔️ Mullah Yaqub is moving troops and cutting off local supply lines to crush or negotiate this rebellion before it turns into a full scale civil war. Follow: @Southblocreports

🇮🇳🇧🇭 EAM Jaishankar Held Talks With Bahrain Counterpart ✍️ EAM Jaishankar expressed deep appreciation for ensuring the well-being of the Indian community. 👨‍💻They also discussed deepening bilateral cooperation and also exchanged views on ongoing developments in the region. Follow: @SouthBlocReports

✍️🇲🇱🇷🇺 In 2020 and 2021, the military staged back to back coups, and Colonel Assimi Goïta took power as the head of a military junta. 🇫🇷🇺🇳 The junta kicked out the French military and UN peacekeepers, accusing them of failing to fix the security crisis. 🇷🇺🪖In their place, Mali hired Russia's Wagner Group now rebranded and restructured as the state-controlled Africa Corps to help them ruthlessly fight the rebels. 🇲🇱🇷🇺 While the Malian army and Russian mercenaries initially made gains, the rebels have pushed back hard. Follow: @Southblocreports 2/2

👨‍💻 Update: 🇲🇱✍️ To understand Mali - we have to look at it like a two front war where a military government is trying to hold a country together against two completely different enemies who occasionally team up. The current war started back in 2012, driven by two separate issues: ✍️The Tuareg Separatists (The North): The Tuaregs are an ethnic group living in Mali's northern desert region, which they call Azawad. For decades, they felt ignored by the central government in the south. In 2012, they launched a massive rebellion to break away and form their own independent country. 👳‍♂️The Jihadists (The Al-Qaeda/IS Factions): While the Tuaregs wanted an independent state, Islamist militant groups chiefly JNIM, an Al-Qaeda affiliate hijack the chaos. They don't care about a separate country, they want to impose strict Islamic law across the entire region. Follow: @southblocreports 1/2

🇵🇸 Hamas officially announcing the dissolution of its " Gaza Government Emergency Committee" ✍️ Here's what happened 🇵🇸 Hamas announced it dissolved the committee that has essentially run day-to-day government operations in Gaza to clear a path for the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG). 🇺🇸🇮🇱 But The Board of Peace [BoP] is essentially saying, "We see the announcement, but we'll believe it when we see it." 🇵🇸 The BoP is demanding that the NCAG (which has been operating out of Cairo, Egypt) be allowed to enter Gaza and exercise genuine, independent administrative power without underground interference or from armed factions of Hamas. Follow: @Southblocreports

🇨🇳🪧 Hundreds of Tibetans from across North America gathered at the Chinese Consulate in New York and have been openly protesting against the Chinese Oppression Against Tibet and Tibetans Follow: @SouthBlocReports

🇦🇫🪧🇩🇪 Afghans protest against the bombardments and humanitarian crimes of the Pakistani military regime in Germany. Follow: @SouthBlocReports

🇵🇰⛔🇮🇷 Dreams Will Always Be Dreams 1. Pakistan has failed to construct 785 kilometer pipeline segment with Iran and Pakistan are vulnerable to $18 billion penalty for its failure to construct. 2. The proposed route runs directly along the Makran Coast and deep through Balochistan. This is the operational heartland of the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). 3. Building the multi-billion dollar "Ammonia and Petrochemical Hubs" mentioned in the clip requires massive capital which ofcourse the Pakistani do not have. 4. With Pakistan's economy on an IMF lifeline and heavily dependent on existing Qatari LNG import terminals, the cash to build out a parallel Iranian network simply does not exist. Follow: @Southblocreports

🇨🇳🚀 China’s latest ballistic missile test tracking— ✍️ Red squares show the full flight path from East Asia deep into the ocean, with multiple vessels positioned for telemetry and re-entry data. Follow: @southblocreports

🇨🇳🚀 China is preparing to test-fire a nuclear capable long range missile with a dummy warhead into the South Pacific within the next 24 hours. 🇯🇵 The Launch Area Includes Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone. 🇨🇳 The notification was recieved in a very short duration in the early morning hours of 11.30 am Follow: @Southblocreports

🇨🇳🛥️ China imports most of its oil through this narrow strait. To protect its ships, China sends warships and submarines into the Indian Ocean. By putting sensors and patrol planes at Sabang and Nicobar, India and Indonesia can spot and track Chinese naval vessels the second they try to slip through. 🇮🇳📡 If an Indian warship patrols this area and runs low on fuel, it has to turn around and sail all the way back to mainland India. With this project, Indian ships can simply pull into Indonesia’s Sabang port, gas up and get right back to patrolling. Follow: @southblocreports 2/2

🇮🇳🇮🇩 The Sabang-Nicobar Project: 140 Kilometer Defensive Corridor. ✍️ In 2018, Prime Minister Modi visited Jakarta and he and the Indonesian leadership hatched a plan to build a and military wall right at the strait. This became the Sabang-Nicobar Project. 🇮🇩 Indonesia invited India to help develop Sabang into a deep sea port. Because Sabang has a natural deep harbor, it is perfect for hosting large naval warships and submarines. 🇮🇳📡🇮🇩 Any surface vessel or submarine trying to enter the Indian Ocean from the South China Sea must pass through this direct sensor gate. Follow: @southblocreports. 1/2

🇮🇳🇮🇩 PM Modi Set To Visit Indonesia 🤔 What's the Agenda ? ✍️ Finalizing Indonesia's purchase of the BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile System. ✍️Reviving the long delayed Sabang-Nicobar Corridor project. The goal is to link India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands with Indonesia’s Sabang Port. ✍️Securing raw materials. Indonesia holds massive global nickel reserves. ✍️Launching a joint archaeological conservation initiative at the historic Prambanan Temple complex in Yogyakarta. Follow: @southblocreports

🇧🇩📡 Bangladesh Clears Starlink to Bypass Borders ✍️Starlink gets approval to export unfiltered internet bandwidth from Bangladesh to neighboring countries - Bhutan and Nepal. 📡 The data moving across the border will remain completely unfiltered (no firewalls, no inspection), but it is strictly barred from entering the domestic Bangladeshi market. Follow: @southblocreports

🇹🇷🇻🇪 APPROXIMATELY 800 DEAD, 600 MISSING IN BUILDINGS CONSTRUCTED BY TURKISH COMPANY!!! ✍️ Venezuelans have applied to Turkey - "Help us with infrastructure and damage assessment. If they were earthquake resistant, why didn't they hold up?" Video Credits: 📌 Mustafa Özdemir, La Guaira/ Venezuela Follow: @southblocreports

Drop a 👍, if you guys need a basic guide on the civil war in Mali 🇲🇱.

🇷🇺🇲🇱 Russian Africa Corps/Wagner Forces Convoy was completely ambused multiple times by Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) and JNIM ✍️ Russian Africa Corps/Wagner forces deployed a heavily armored relief convoy from their primary base at Gao. Its task was to break through to reinforce the besieged military camp at Anefis, where rebel fighters had already breached the perimeter. Follow: @southblocreports