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📹Footage from the Iranian Supreme Court, where the judges were assassinated.

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18 Jan, 13:32

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#sputnikviral | 🇧🇷🐊 A surprise pool guest! Heavy rains in southern Brazil drive an alligator to private premises in the city of Florianopolis

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18 Jan, 13:10

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📹UK and France treat Ukrainians as second-class citizens – PoW

"I traveled around and observed the UK and France, how people there treat us – it’s as if we’re aborigines, some sort of lower class," captured Ukrainian border guard Alexander Bychko told Sputnik.

NATO instructors at the Warcop base and in La Courtine, while training Ukrainian military personnel, rely on outdated methods that do not align with the realities of modern military conflicts – particularly when it comes to the use of drones.

Europeans don’t understand how to operate under the new conditions, he explained.

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18 Jan, 13:07

🇮🇷🇪🇹 Iran and Ethiopia are committed to boosting parliamentary cooperation between the two nations

Ethiopian and Iranian parliamentary chairmen, Tagesse Chafo and Mohammed Baqer Qalibaf, agreed to enhance cooperation between their legislative bodies.

The Iranian parliament speaker arrived in Addis Ababa today for an official visit, where he was welcomed by Tagesse Chafo and other Ethiopian officials. The agenda of Qalibaf's visit includes touring development projects and meetings with government leaders to discuss bilateral and multilateral cooperation.

Tagesse noted the delegation's visit would strengthen ties, building on existing diplomatic and cultural links, while Qalibaf affirmed his dedication to furthering cooperation between Ethiopia and Iran.

The two sides also pledged to enhance parliamentary cooperation, supplementing strong ties in trade, investment, tourism and technology transfer.

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18 Jan, 12:42

🇸🇩🇸🇸 South Sudan imposes nationwide curfew after deadly riots over alleged killing of nationals in Sudan

🗣 "The police will not tolerate any violations," police chief Abraham Peter Manyuat said in a televised address announcing the curfew, which will be in effect from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily.

The riots primarily targeted Sudanese-owned businesses in the capital, Juba, and resulted in at least three deaths and seven injuries, according to local authorities. Violence also spread to Aweil, near the Sudanese border, where three houses were burned. Security forces are now working to relocate Sudanese residents to safety.

The unrest follows accusations that the Sudanese military and allied groups killed South Sudanese nationals in Wad Madani, Sudan, during the city's recent liberation from the rebel Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Meanwhile, the Sudanese army condemned these "individual violations," including ethnically targeted attacks against civilians suspected of supporting the RSF, which have been engaged in a nearly two-year conflict with the Sudanese military.

🗣 "It is crucial that we do not allow anger to cloud our judgment or turn against Sudanese traders and refugees currently residing in our country," South Sudan's President Salva Kiir said after summoning Sudan's ambassador.

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18 Jan, 12:21

❗️In response to enemy ATACMS shelling of civilian infrastructure in the Belgorod region, the Russian Armed Forces launched a group strike on Ukrainian military-industrial complex facilities this morning, the Russian defense ministry reports

The targets included the Luch design bureau, which produces Neptune long-range guided missiles and rockets for the Olkha systems.

The strike targets were achieved, all designated objects were hit, the ministry added.

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18 Jan, 12:19

❗️ Russian forces liberated the settlements of Petropavlovka and Vremevka in the DPR, the country's defense ministry reports

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18 Jan, 12:17

🇧🇼📈 Botswana's economy poised for 2025 rebound driven by global diamond market recovery

🗣 "The domestic economy is anticipated to rebound in 2025 to a growth of 3-4%, reflecting a combination of base effects, the global recovery in the major diamond export markets and continued growth in the non-mining sector," director of macroeconomic policy in the finance ministry, Walter Matekane, said at a budget workshop.

While the economy contracted by 3.3% in the first three quarters of 2024, exceeding the December forecast of a 1.7% contraction, officials are optimistic about the coming year.

The country's heavy reliance on diamond exports led to reduced government spending as diamond sales weakened throughout 2024. Debswana, a joint venture between the Botswanan government and De Beers, also lowered its 2024 production guidance.

Looking ahead, the government expects recovering mineral revenues to shrink the budget deficit from a projected 6.75% of GDP in 2024/25 to 3.6% in 2025/26. The official 2025/26 national budget will be presented by Finance Minister Ndaba Gaolathe in February.

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18 Jan, 11:52

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⚡️An armed attack targeting three judges of Iran's Supreme Court took place in Tehran, according to local media.

Two of the judges were killed, while the third judge sustained injuries and is receiving medical treatment.

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18 Jan, 11:28

🇲🇿 Mozambique's President Chapo appoints two officials to manage the country's energy and financial sectors

Mozambique's President Daniel Chapo named Carla Louveira as finance minister and Estevão Pale to lead the ministry of mineral resources and energy on Friday.

Louveira previously served as deputy minister of economy and finance from 2020 and held a director position at the Bank of Mozambique. The economy and finance ministries have now been separated, according to the president.

Pale, who previously served as chairman of Mozambique's national oil company ENH in 2020 and national director of mines, is expected to play a key role in restarting major gas projects with companies like TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil.

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18 Jan, 11:03

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#sputnikviral | ☀️ The Sun's close up: Three years of its life captured by Solar Orbiter

Scientists created an audiovisual project showing solar flares (blue circles) and the Sun's atmosphere (yellow), which lead to magnetic storms. The loudest sounds in the video coincide with the Sun's peak activity in its 11-year cycle.

The data was collected by a European Space Agency satellite in an elliptical orbit reaching 42 million km from the Sun.

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18 Jan, 10:38

❗️ The ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will begin at 8:30 am local time (06:30 GMT) on Sunday, Qatar's Foreign Ministry says

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18 Jan, 10:34

🇳🇬 Nigeria becomes the ninth country to join BRICS as a partner state

🗣 "As part of its temporary BRICS presidency, the Brazilian government announces on January 17 the formal admission of Nigeria to the group as a partner country. The Brazilian government welcomes the decision of the Nigerian government," Brazil's foreign ministry said in a statement.

Thus, Nigeria is becoming the ninth BRICS partner country following Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Thailand, Uganda and Uzbekistan, it said.

BRICS is an interstate association created in 2006 by Russia, China, India and Brazil. South Africa joined in 2011. Since the beginning of 2024, a number of other countries have joined BRICS.

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18 Jan, 10:10

🇫🇷🇸🇳 France plans to close its permanent military bases in Senegal by the summer of 2025, media reports

🗣 "Today we are in a phase of dialogue for the implementation of the withdrawal of French forces from Senegal. What I can say is that there will no longer be a permanent French military base in Senegal in the summer of 2025," a French military source said, as quoted by Senegalese media.

In late December, Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye confirmed that the country intends to get rid of the foreign military presence as early as 2025.

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17 Jan, 22:04

Lumumba's Legacy in Russian Namesake University — AfroVerdict

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🇨🇩🕊 On January 17, the world commemorates the early death of Patrice Lumumba, one of Africa's strongest actors who fought for a united Democratic Republic of the Congo free from colonization. AfroVerdict host joins the president of the association of African students at a Russian university named in honor of the Congolese hero.

🎙 "[A lesson] would definitely be standing up for what you believe in because he stood for what he believed in until the very end, he died for it", Thomas Edwin Williams, President of the Association of African Students of the Patrice Lumumba People's Friendship University of Russia, says.

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17 Jan, 21:39

📹 #sputnikviral | Streets of several cities in southern Brazil are flooded due to heavy rainfall

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🌍 Patrice Lumumba's ideals "are still relevant' 64 years after his assassination, a historian says

Lumumba advocated for true independence and sovereignty for the Congo, convinced that it was the basis for building African unity, Amzat Boukari-Yabara, a pan-Africanist historian of Beninese origin, told Sputnik Africa.

Patrice Lumumba criticized neo-colonialism and in particular multinationals "that participate in the direct plundering of the Congo and the African continent," Boukari-Yabara noted.

Former prime minister of the DRC also stressed the importance of "decolonizing international bodies, particularly the United Nations Security Council, so that there is true sovereignty and true multipolarity at the level of international bodies."

🗣 "If we really want to elevate Lumumba to the rank of national hero, this work on justice must be carried through to the end so that we can consider that his soul rests in peace," Boukari-Yabara stated.

Lumumba is "a symbol of the anti-colonialist struggle," the historian pointed out, stressing that "he was incorruptible and deeply attached to the idea of the liberation of the African continent."

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17 Jan, 20:48

🇷🇺🇰🇪 A hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church visits Nairobi

The Patriarchal Exarch of Africa, Metropolitan Konstantin of Zaraisk, arrived in the Kenyan capital on January 14.

The next day, he had a meeting with representatives of local dioceses around the issues of cure and the establishment of parishes. At the end of the meeting, the metropolitan presented the clergy with icons and religious objects.

The exarch also met with the Russian ambassadors of Kenya and Burundi to discuss parish life and the projects of the Patriarchal Exarchate of Africa in those two countries.

Metropolitan Konstantin of Zaraisk also visited the primary school in honor of the Great Martyr Panteleimon, supported by the Russian Orthodox Church.

The hierarch met with the school's management and donated food and sweets to the students.

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17 Jan, 20:24

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🌍 African countries need "to build their own continental common security architecture and to determine with whom they want to deal on security issues," a historian says

African countries cannot take sovereign decisions on their military cooperation when they still have bases of the former colonial power on their soil, Amzat Boukari-Yabara, a pan-Africanist historian of Beninese origin, told Sputnik Africa.

The departure of the French army is extremely important if African nations want to really assume their sovereignty and redefine their security policy, the expert said.

🗣 "There is a desire on the part of African states to assume, at least visibly, their sovereignty by simply removing any foreign army from their soil," Boukari-Yabara said.

In addition, he stated that "there is a mobilization of young people who believe that we must put an end to the last marks of colonialism and that the issue of military bases obviously refers to a whole presence of domination, of control of African interests from outside."

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🇨🇩 Lumumba was killed because "the colonizer did not want to let the Democratic Republic of the Congo flourish," a politician says

Lumumba's approach emphasized Pan-Africanism and empowering Africans to take responsibility, write their own history, and build their own countries, which led to his assassination by colonialists, Laddy Yangotikala Senga, National Member of Parliament of the DRC, told Sputnik Africa.

According to the lawmaker, many Africans perceive Russia as a true friend, based on their belief in its support for global development and African independence. He contrasted this with Western colonial powers like the US and Europe, which Senga accused of exploiting Africa for resources and disregarding its people, pointing to the Lumumba situation as evidence.

The politician noted that Russia understands and respects Lumumba's legacy, and expressed the possibility of a trip to Moscow in July to celebrate his centennial.

On January 17, 1961, Lumumba and his comrades were shot by Katangese soldiers under the command of Belgian officers and buried at the scene of the execution.

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