🇷🇺🇲🇱🇧🇫🇳🇪 Russia to sell satellites to West African military governments

Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso have announced a deal with Russia which will see them acquire telecoms and surveillance satellites.

The three West African countries, run by military juntas, have been struggling to defeat Islamist insurgencies for years and have turned to Russia for military support.

The technology will boost border surveillance and national security in all three countries, says Mali’s Finance Minister, Alousséni Sanou, adding that it would enable secure communications.

Sanou also said the satellites would help them to monitor and respond to floods, droughts, fires and other emergencies.

Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso last year formed the Alliance of Sahel States - it was originally to boost military co-operation, but has since broadened.

They have hailed the remote-sensing satellite project as crucial for their security strategy, just days after Islamist militants attacked an airport in Bamako - far from the areas where the jihadists normally launch their assaults.

Ministers say the telecoms satellite will facilitate the broadcast of television and radio signals across their three countries.

It is also expected to provide internet and telephone services in inaccessible and underdeveloped areas within the Sahel.

🔗 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2k0p6w034o

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Milei at the United Nations:

“Argentina will abandon the position of historical neutrality that characterized us and will be at the forefront of the fight in defense of freedom.”

📎 : Luis Petri

🇪🇨❌🇻🇪🇻🇪 — The National Assembly of Ecuador has approved a resolution urging Daniel Noboa's government to request an arrest warrant for Nicolás Maduro from the International Criminal Court.

🇦🇷💬🇺🇳 — In a forceful and scathing speech before the 79th UN General Assembly, Argentine libertarian president Javier Milei lashed out against the organization's "socialist" agenda, accusing it of becoming a "Leviathan with multiple tentacles" that violates the sovereignty of nation-states.

💥 Milei condemned the inclusion of dictatorships like Cuba and Venezuela in the Human Rights Council and criticized the lack of action against countries that oppress women.

🇱🇧❌🇮🇱 — Israeli channels claims that Cruise missiles were fired against Tel Aviv!

🇨🇳⚡️🚀 China's PLA conducts rare public test launch of intercontinental ballistic missile

China said on Wednesday that it successfully conducted a rare launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean, a move likely to raise international concerns about the country's nuclear build-up.

The ICBM, carrying a dummy warhead, was launched by the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force at 8:44 a.m. Beijing time (0044 GMT) on Wednesday and "fell into expected sea areas," the Chinese defence ministry said in a statement, adding that it was a "routine arrangement in our annual training plan" and not directed at any country or target.

China "informed the countries concerned in advance," according to a separate Xinhua report, which did not clarify the path of the missile or where in the "high seas of the Pacific Ocean" it fell.

The launch "effectively tested the performance of weapons and equipment and the training level of the troops, and achieved the expected goal," Xinhua reported.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-pla-launches-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-into-pacific-ocean-2024-09-25/

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🇨🇳The type of the product that the Chinese military launched this morning from the cosmodrome on Hainan Island has become known.

This is the latest DF-41 intercontinental ballistic missile with a launch range of up to 12,000 km and capable of delivering 10 nuclear warheads to their targets at a speed of Mach 25.

🇸🇻 Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, at the U.N. General Assembly in New York City:

"In El Salvador we prioritised the security of our honest citizens over the comfort of criminals some have said that we've put thousands in prison but the reality is that we have set millions free. The good people now walk freely, without fear and with full respect for their freedoms and human rights!".

🔗 Nayib Bukele

🇷🇺🛡🇧🇾 Russian president Vladimir Putin said Russia will use nuclear weapons if Belarus comes under attack!

🔗 https://fxtwitter.com/anadoluagency/status/1838985864585560512

🇺🇸🕊🇱🇧🇮🇱 — The Biden-Harris White House, aiming to prevent an all-out war between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah released a Joint Statement earlier tonight calling for a 21-Day Ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, to allow for Negotiations on Hezbollah’s Compliance of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, as well as the continuation of Ceasefire Negotiations in relation to the Gaza Strip.

Alongside them:

🇦🇺 Australia
🇨🇦 Canada
🇪🇺 European Union
🇫🇷 France
🇩🇪 Germany
🇮🇹 Italy
🇯🇵 Japan
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
🇬🇧 United Kingdom of Great Britain
🇶🇦 Qatar; c,

🇪🇸❗️🇺🇳🇻🇪🇻🇪 — The socialist president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, broke the ice at the UN General Assembly by demanding "respect for the will of the Venezuelan people."