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🏴 ❌️ 🇳🇪 ISWAP shows a large attack on the Nigerien army positions in Lada, Diffa (near the Nigerian-Nigerien border). The quantity of attacks on Nigerien army by both West African and Greater Sahara provinces of the Islamic State keeps rising amid looming American withdrawal. 📎 Paweł Wójcik

🏴 ❌️ 🇸🇴 IS claimed that its Somali affiliate expanded control over areas in northern Somalia, which would strengthen the regional IS office’s ability to support the IS global network, including funding attack plots in Asia & the West through IS Khorasan Province (ISKP). 🔶️ IS central media published two updates in its weekly newsletter in February & April saying that IS Somalia Province (ISS) had regained control over most of the ‘Al Miskaad Mountains throughout 2023 and killed hundreds of al Qaeda–affiliated al Shabaab militants in the area. 🔶️ ISS hosts the regional East Africa IS office, al Karrar, which oversees financing, directives, and other support between the group’s network in East and South Africa and the global IS network. The group has used financiers in South Africa to transfer money to ISKP. 🔶️ Growing havens would likely attract foreign fighters, which would increase the group’s external attack risk. Swedish police reported in March that they have seen an uptick in attempts to join IS affiliates in Africa, and the group already has many Ethiopian fighters. 🔶️ The al Karrar office also supports the Islamic State Central Africa Province in the DRC and IS Mozambique Province. It has coordinated sending trainers and funds to both groups, which CTP has previously assessed contributed to the IS Mozambique Province’s resurgence in 2024. 🔶️ ISS could face increased pressure from al Shabaab as al Shabaab recovers from unrelated setbacks it faced in central Somalia in 2022 & 2023. Read this week's Africa File, which also discusses the implications of Togo's recent constitutional changes: https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/africa-file-april-25-2024-is-somalia-expansion-benefits-is-global-network-togo-constitutional-changes#Somalia

🇮🇪🇬🇧🇷🇼 Rwanda plan: Irish government wants to send asylum seekers back to UK The Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Simon Harris has asked Ireland's justice minister to bring legislation to cabinet to enable asylum seekers to be sent back to the UK. Helen McEntee has revealed that 80% of recent arrivals to the Republic came from the UK across the Irish border. Tánaiste (deputy prime minister) Micheál Martin said the UK's Rwanda policy was already impacting Ireland. 🔗 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-68914399

🇷🇺 🇿🇦 🛩 Russian cargo planes in SA to ferry military equipment to DRC https://www.news24.com/citypress/news/russian-cargo-planes-in-sa-to-ferry-military-equipment-to-drc-20240427

🇬🇧🇷🇼 Migrants at risk of fleeing the UK to neighbouring countries will be detained preemptively by British cops The Home Office will launch a major operation to detain asylum seekers across the UK on Monday, weeks earlier than expected, in preparation for their deportation to Rwanda, the Guardian can reveal. Officials plan to hold refugees who turn up for routine meetings at immigration service offices or bail appointments and will also pick people up nationwide in a surprise two-week exercise. Lawyers and campaigners said the detentions risked provoking protracted legal battles, community protests and clashes with police – with officers in Scotland put on high alert. Detainees will be immediately transferred to detention centres, which have already been prepared for the operation, and held until they are put on planes to Rwanda. Some will be put on the first flight due to take off this summer. 🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/28/home-office-to-detain-asylum-seekers-across-uk-in-shock-rwanda-operation

🌪 🇺🇸 🏘 A tornado hit Marietta, Oklahoma. Destroying the Family Dollar Distribution center. It also hit a Dollar store, hospital and flipped cars and semis on I-35. 📎 WxChasing

🏘 🇺🇸 💵 Nearly all of us have lived through 75y of real estate prices going up. We have accepted it as a fact of life. It isn't. It was due to extraordinary circumstances that are now disappearing. 🔶️ But as you know this huge growth is reverting. Many developed economies are now shrinking, and that will accelerate. Fewer ppl, less demand. Who's going to inhabit all the houses that Baby Boomers will leave behind? 🏙 The urbaniztion trend that pushed demand up in cities has now ended 🔶️ So the 4 biggest sources of housing demand used to be huge, and are now slowing down or reverting: 1. Population shrinks 2. Urbanization stops 3. Household sizes stabilize 4. The growth in house sizes slows down And supply is going in the opposite direction! https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/why-i-dont-invest-in-real-estate 📎 Thomas Pueyo

✝️ 🇺🇸 🐣 As many have noted, conservatives have a strong evolutionary advantage over liberals because they are simply reproducing more. 🔶️ According to the General Social survey, conservatives have a fertility advantage of 41% over liberals. 📎 Forrest

🧱 🇺🇸 🏫 Over 120 high school and college students competed in Masonry 1 & 2 contests in Greensboro, NC. 📎 ncmasonry

🇵🇸 🇮🇱 IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi approves plans for Rafah op. 🔶️ Halevi approved plans for the continuation of the war in a meeting on Sunday with Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman and the other division and brigade commanders of the Southern Command. 🔶️ Halevi's approval of the Rafah plans also comes as the International Criminal Court reportedly considers issuing arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Halevi, a decision that could be affected by Israel's actions in southern Gaza. 🔶️ Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman and 99th Division commander Maj. Gen. Barak Hiram held a situation assessment in the field on Friday, the IDF said, adding that new operational plans for continued fighting were approved. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-798994