🇫🇷🇸🇳⚡- "France had in the past contributed to destabilizing certain African countries such as Libya which had disastrous consequences for the region's security. France has neither the capacity nor the legitimacy to ensure Africa's security and sovereignty," - Ousmane Sonko, Prime Minister of Senegal.

🇫🇷⚡- "I think someone forgot to say thank you. But I say this for all the African heads of state who have not had the courage in the face of public opinion to hold that view. None of them would be a sovereign country today if the French army hadn't deployed in the region," - Emmanuel Macron, President of France.

🇫🇷🇸🇳⚡- "The reason for the French withdrawal stemmed from Senegal's sole will to be a free, independent and sovereign country," - Ousmane Sonko, Prime Minister of Senegal.

🇫🇷🇸🇳⚡- "Had African soldiers, sometimes forcibly mobilized, mistreated and ultimately betrayed, not been deployed during the Second World War to defend France, it would, perhaps still be German today," - Ousmane Sonko, Prime Minister of Senegal.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇾🇪⚡- US-UK airstrikes reported against Sana'a and Amran regions, Ansarullah-controlled Yemen.

🇲🇩🇺🇦🇬🇪⚡- "At the Chisinau airport, Moldova, a homemade explosive device, resembling a toy car, was found in one of the parcels sent from Ukraine to Georgia," - Moldovan Border Police.

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇬🇱⚡- "It is unthinkable for the European Union to allow any country to attack its sovereign borders," - Jean-Noel Barrot, French Foreign Minister, responding to Trump's possible use of force against Greenland.

🇬🇭⚡- John Mahama sworn in as President of Ghana.

🇬🇭🇧🇫⚡- Captain Ibrahim Traore, Head of Burkina Faso, attended Mahama's inauguration. This was Traore's first visit outside of Mali or Niger and also signifies Ghana's shift in its foreign policy.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡-The Turkish airstrikes earlier were against a civilian convoy of SDF supporters travelling in the Tishrin Dam region, Manbij direction.

Footage above shows the moment when one of the strikes hit an area near the road the civilian convoy was travelling along. Unfortunately, the civilian convoy was also directly struck, resulting in mass casualties. Media currently being circulated shows scenes of horror near the dam.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- Turkish media say the Turkish airstrikes were 'warning shots' to not enter the Tishrin Dam region.

🇬🇧⚡- BREAKING: Several bomb threats in central London.

🇬🇧⚡- Burlington Street and Regent Street have been closed off by the Westminster Police.

🇬🇧⚡- Reports of a 'suspicious vehicle' at Regent Street.

🇬🇧⚡- Scenes from Regent Street, London.

🇬🇧⚡- Westminster Police carried out controlled explosions.