🇨🇩🇷🇼🇧🇮⚡- Convoys continue to pour into eastern DR Congo from Rwanda, backing the M23 in its offensive south of Kamaniola, Uvira direction.

After capturing Katogota, M23 claims to have captured neighbouring town Lubarika, Reuters reports.

DRC sources report heavy Rwandan drone presence along the DRC-Burundi border.

🇾🇪🇦🇪⚡️- "The [Saudi-backed] Hadhramaut Tribal Alliance holds the United Arab Emirates fully responsible for the killings, atrocities, looting, treachery, and other inhumane and immoral acts perpetrated by the militias and groups affiliated with the Southern Transitional Council in the Hadhramaut highlands," - Hadhramaut Tribal Alliance.

🇻🇪 - Maduro learns to play the glockenspiel.

🇺🇸🇹🇷🇷🇺⚡- Turkey is close to "giving up" the Russian-made S-400 missile defense system, as the country "does not even use it," Bloomberg reports, citing the US Envoy Tom Barrack.

In return, Turkey is keen to return to the F-35 jet program.

🇺🇸🕋⚡️- The countries that President Trump has frozen immigration from since the National Guard shooting only represents around 15% of the intake from the Islamic world over the last decade.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- Border clashes between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Reuters reports.

Members of the nationalist women’s organization Collectif Némèsis unfurl a banner in front of the Strasbourg Christmas market with the text:

“6428 rapes and attempted rapes by foreigners in 2024. Dear Santa, remigrate the rapists!”

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🇪🇸🇪🇭🇲🇦⚡- Spain recognizes Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara.

🇲🇱⚡- JNIM ambushed yet another convoy of fuel tankers near Bougouni, southern Mali.

🇺🇸🇹🇷🇻🇪⚡- Turkey's Erdogan called Venezuela's Maduro, urging Caracas to keep communication lines with the White House open.

🇩🇪🇮🇱⚡- German Chancellor Merz arrives in Israel.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Saudi and Saudi-backed Yemeni officials have withdrawn from all headquarters in Aden, UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council controlled Yemen.

🇨🇩🇷🇼🇧🇮⚡- DR Congo journalist Stanis Tshiamala says the battle for the major town of Luvungi has begun - South Kivu, eastern DR Congo.

The report therefore confirms the fall of all of the Lubarika heights to the M23. Over the past 24 hours, Congo has been airstriking Kamaniola and the N5 route nonstop, amid a major build-up of Burundian armed forces as reinforcements to the area.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Saudi forces have been asked to withdraw from all Southern Transitional Council controlled Yemeni territory, including the Mayun Island.