Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
Israel recognized Somalia’s breakaway region, Somaliland, as an independent country. No other UN country has done so. Somaliland declared independence in 1991.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsmbBnHeVDk
The STC in Yemen has quickly conquered most of South Yemen after being in a stalemate for years. They are acting relatively competently and humanely, so the international community may eventually accept them as the rulers of South Yemen. The Houthis still control North Yemen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAOgc3IKBU4
Russia likes to heavily support breakaway regions to have influence in a country and to weaken and divide those who may oppose Russia’s power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgxVmB0rvCE
Nigeria’s violence involves herders fighting farmers. Herders have the military advantage so more often slaughter farmers than the other way around.
There’s a variety of violence and not all of it fits the herder VS farmer paradigm, and some of it is religiously motivated or facilitated.
A majority of people killed are Muslim. However, farmers tend to be Christian, and herders tend to be Muslim. The conflict is not a simple Muslims slaughtering Christians fight, but a lot of people are dying and the Nigerian government is too weak to stop it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkXUNGkEtVE
More people may have been killed over ten days in Sudan than in the past two years in Gaza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgT7AxO39sY
Massacres in Sudan are so extreme that the blood can be seen from satellite. Outside groups are supporting different sides. They are massacring unarmed civilians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N-vVluLGb4
“Al Qaeda militants are moving closer to seizing the capital of the West African nation of Mali, which, should the city fall, would become the first country in the world run by the U.S.-designated terrorist group.
The rapid advance of the jihadists in Africa comes after Islamist groups took power in both Afghanistan and Syria, but, if they take Bamako, it would be the first time militants with direct and current connections to al Qaeda achieve such a feat.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/al-qaeda-is-on-the-brink-of-taking-over-a-country/ar-AA1PvqNq?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6903d3e43ef64d89913dfe5a24d0a15f&ei=7
The Syrian Game of Thrones Gains Momentum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b0gW3io_iQ
In Syria, both Druze and Bedouins committed atrocities against civilians.
The Druze are not united. Some groups want increased autonomy from the Syrian government and are mostly anti that central government. Others want to work with the central government.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnMVZQu4orw
Israel struck Syria to defend the Druze who were under attack by other groups who were supported by the Syrian government. Druze civilians were being slaughtered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7ioOE0gZSY