“could take hours to arrive”

Launching drones that fly at <200km/h from ~1,000km away is about the most telegraphed attack you could conceive of (though one assumes there might be missiles fired later as well)

Eid Mubarak everyone! Ramazan Bayramımız mübarek olsun🌙💫

Now officially President of #Senegal . Bassirou #Diomaye Faye takes oath of office. At 44, he is Senegal’s youngest president ever, and the country’s fifth since independence in 1960.

Knesset passes Netanyahu-backed law allowing 'immediate' shutdown of Al Jazeera in Israel
haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Senegal's presidential vote not only ended the 12-year rule of the BBY coalition but also swept out an entire group of mainstream opposition figures. Their failure to challenge Sall's strongmen tendencies and offer clear plans to tackle economic issues brought their dramatic fall

UN Security Council passes resolution calling for 'immediate ceasefire' in Gaza, as US shifts position by abstaining from vote bbc.in/3xbHY7l

And that's a wrap. The ruling coalition candidate Amadou Ba conceded defeat and congratulated the opposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye for his victory in the first lego of the presidential election. #SenegalVote

🇸🇳Officiel Amadou Ba a appelé Bassirou Diomaye Faye pour le féliciter de sa victoire (porte parole du gouvernement)

#Senegal opposition candidate #DiomayeFaye leads initial presidential election tallies, sparking celebrations. #Senegal vote reuters.com/world/africa/s…

Footage filmed near the al Shifa hospital in Gaza shows people in distress following a raid by Israel.

Palestinian authorities described the raid as a 'war crime' and said it had resulted in multiple casualties.

Latest: trib.al/p1Pk6ig

“Nigeria has apologised to Saudi Arabia after 200 tonnes of dates the kingdom sent as a Ramadan gift were sold in local markets.

The dates were intended for people displaced by Boko Haram.” bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…

I told Reuters the political crisis will likely hinder the bid of ruling BBY's candidate Ba in #Senegal
The opposition PASTEF 'will utilise the crisis to convince voters that their criticism of the state of democracy and the ruling elite is substantiated'. reuters.com/world/africa/s…

French envoy expresses 'admiration' for Déby just a week after the assassination of the most prominent opposition leader and promises to keep French forces in Chad. And they wonder why no one takes their anti-junta grandstanding seriously. lemonde.fr/afrique/articl…

Deeply disturbed

Ghana's ECG cuts electricity to parliament over $1.8m debt bbc.in/3wBKGmb

The National Dialogue has called for the 2nd of June 2024 as the new date for presidential elections in Senegal. I want to make it categorically clear that I will step down from office on the 2nd of April, as I have previously made clear. My departure date is absolutely firm.

Nothing says 'we're taking this seriously' like talking about a war that has killed ~30,000 people with an ice-cream cone halfway to your mouth