Rapid Support Forces
Chad Sudan

Sudan civil war spills over into neighboring Chad

Pursuing armed groups affiliated to the army into Chad, Sudan’s paramilitary attacked a Chadian military garrison, killing seven soldiers and prompting the government to issue a “final warning.”

Pavan Kulkarni
January 20, 2026
UAE loses bases in Somalia over dealings with pro-Israel separatist group
Somalia United Arab Emirates

UAE loses bases in Somalia over dealings with pro-Israel separatist group

Somalia’s federal government has banned UAE’s military and cargo aircraft and cancelled all agreements with the Gulf power to protect “the nation’s unity, territorial integrity, and constitutional order.”

Pavan Kulkarni
January 19, 2026
South Africans picket US Embassy in solidarity with Venezuela
South Africa

“Rogue State”: South Africans protest outside US embassy, denounce abduction of Maduro

Waving the Venezuelan colors alongside the red hammer-and-sickle flags, hundreds marched to the US embassy in Pretoria, protesting US aggression on Venezuela.

Pavan Kulkarni
January 12, 2026
President Burkina Faso, Captain Ibrahim TRAORÉ salutes at the opening ceremony of the 2nd session of the College of Heads of State of the Confederate, at the Centre international Bamako Conference (CICB).
Burkina Faso

Assassination plot against President Ibrahim Traore foiled in Burkina Faso

A plot to kill Burkina Faso’s president, Ibrahim Traoré, and disable a drone base, ahead of a planned foreign military intervention, was thwarted by security forces, while Burkinabes took to the streets sloganeering in support of Traoré.

Pavan Kulkarni
January 9, 2026
Kordofan RSF takeover Sudan
Sudan

65,000 displaced as fighting intensifies in Sudan’s Kordofan region

The paramilitary RSF continues its eastward advance after consolidating control over Darfur, closing in South Kordofan’s state’s capital Kadugli and its second largest city Dilling, whose supplies it has cut off with a siege, starving its population of food and medicines.

Pavan Kulkarni
January 7, 2026
Global outcry against Israel’s recognition of Somaliland
Israel Somalia

Global outcry against Israel’s recognition of Somaliland

By recognizing as a sovereign entity the separatist enclave in northern Somalia along the Red Sea coast, Israel seeks a forward base against Yemen, while fears also abound that Palestinians forcibly displaced from Gaza might be relocated to this territory.

Pavan Kulkarni
January 2, 2026
RSF Patrol
Sudan

The war in Sudan is “between two wings of a comprador parasitic capitalist class”

The war in Sudan is not simply “between two generals, but between two wings of a comprador parasitic capitalist class,” fighting each other against the backdrop of a regional and global contest over Sudan’s land, resources, and geostrategic location on the Red Sea, argues Sidgi Kaballo of the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP).

Pavan Kulkarni
December 29, 2025
Evidence of burning and new presence of white objects collected by satellite imagery in early November.
Sudan

RSF has burnt and buried tens of thousands of corpses in El Fasher, says Yale report

Analyzing satellite images showing “clusters of objects consistent with human remains”, “reddish discoloration consistent with blood”, charred earth and dug up ground consistent with the burning and burial of corpses, Yale HRL assesses that RSF has killed and disposed of people “likely in the tens of thousands”.

Pavan Kulkarni
December 19, 2025