🚨🇸🇩⚔🇸🇩: The Sudanese Armed Forces have taken control of the Tebessa area after capturing the Qardoud Nama area from RSF

This was part of a joint operation involving the 38th Infantry Brigade Command in Abu Kershola, the Abbasia Military Region, and the National Intelligence and Security Services.

White House states that Trump has "nothing burgers" on the table to address the situation in Venezuela

https://elpublicotv.com/casa-blanca-afirma-que-trump-tiene-muchas-opciones-sobre-la-mesa-para-abordar-la-situacion-en-venezuela/

Northern #Ireland 🇮🇪: A new Armed Group “New Republican Movement” (#NRM) has emerged and threatened Local Representatives and Migrants.

Members of the new group are seemingly armed with a Sawn-off (chopped) double-barrel shotgun and two Beretta 92FS pattern pistols.

https://x.com/war_noir/status/1995856743427920045

🇷🇺🤝🇸🇩 Military government of Sudan accepts Russian offer to build port/base at Port Sudan in exhange of arms to fight the rogue RSF militia.

The agreement would see the establishment of a Russian naval base in the Red Sea's Port Sudan, or another facility, that would house 300 personnel and dock up to four naval vessels, including nuclear-powered ones, according to Sudanese officials speaking to The Wall Street Journal.

From Port Sudan, Moscow would be well-placed to monitor maritime traffic to and from the Suez Canal. In exchange, the Sudanese officials said the country’s beleaguered military regime would get advanced Russian antiaircraft systems and other weaponry.

🇷🇺🇮🇱🇺🇸 Russian President Vladimir Putin & company meets Trump's son-in-law and advisor Jared Kushner and United States Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff to discuss Ukraine.

The meeting reportedly went for 4+ hours.

🇿🇦❗️ Madlanga Commission witness Marius van der Merwe gunned down outside his Brakpan home less than three weeks after his testimony laid a murder cover-up plot which implicated disgraced Ekurhuleni police chief Julius Mkhwanazi.

Madlanga Commission is a public inquiry commission announced in July 2025 by President Cyril Ramaphosa and headed by retired judge Mbuyiseli Madlanga to investigate allegations made by KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi of collusion and corruption between politicians, senior police, prosecutors, intelligence operatives and elements of the judiciary, in South Africa.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251205-witness-in-south-africa-justice-system-crimes-probe-shot-dead

🇮🇶 The Central Bank of Iraq still lists Hezbollah and Ansarullah as terrorists. The publication of the list in the official gazette has made it legally binding, and all Iraqi financial and judicial institutions are obliged to implement it.

Analyst Ali Reza Majidi says the Central Bank of Iraq’s decision to list Hezbollah and Ansarullah as terrorist groups is still legally in effect. Despite officials calling it a “mistake” and forming a fact-finding committee, no formal amendment has been issued—so the listing remains valid.

🇧🇯❗️Ongoing coup d'état reported in Benin this morning, President Patrice Talon has been deposed, soldiers led by Lieutenant Colonel Pascal Tigri have announced the full takeover of the country on the state TV.

Inset: The reading of the press release from the Military Committee for Refoundation is in progress on the BTV.

🇧🇯❗️Gunshots were reported at Camp Guézo, near the home of President Talon, according to the French embassy in Benin.

The Benin National Guard responds to the attempted coup, according to several Sputnik Africa sources

The force will try to dislodge the mutineers holed up in the national television building; said the repondant.

🇧🇯❗️⚡️Coup de'état in Benin: what we know so far, based on report by Sputnik Africa.

• Early in the morning, a group of soldiers announced on public television that they had “dismissed” Mr. Talon.

• This group of soldiers called themselves the Military Committee for Refoundation (CMR). They are led by Lieutenant-Colonel Pascal Tigri, who introduced himself as the new leader.

• “On this day, we, the defense and security forces, after careful reflection to give our country a benchmark, have decided to take our responsibilities in the face of the multiple excesses of the government of Patrice Talon”, according to their public declaration.

• Gunshots were reported this December 7 in Cotonou, in Camp Guézo, near the home of President Patrice Talon.

• The national guard responds to the mutineers in the national television building.

🇧🇷⚡️Jailed Brazilian strongman Jair Bolsonaro's eldest son to run for presidency next year.

Flavio Bolsonaro has been chosen by his father, former president Jair Bolsonaro, to lead Brazil's conservative movement ahead of the 2026 election.

Jair, currently imprisoned and appealing a 27-year sentence, is not expected to run due to health issues and legal challenges.

🇧🇯❗️⚡️🇫🇷 French supported reports suggest the coup has reportedly failed.

🇧🇯❗️If successful, this will be the fifth West African country and ECOWAS member to undergo a coup in last few years post-covid.

🇧🇯⚡️ Patrice Talon, who has ruled the country for over a decade beginning in 2016 was/iss due to step down next year when his mandate expires.