Sudan's Army rejects Ethiopia's accusations of backing opposition groups as "baseless", counter-accuses Ethiopia of supporting RSF from its territory with "training, supplies, strategic drones and suicide drones."

Sudan said it "will not allow any infringement of its sovereignty" and called on Ethiopia to "exercise accuracy and responsibility and resort to dialogue."

Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir posted video of himself confronting handcuffed Hamas prisoner Hassan Salameh in his cell, telling him:

I want to kill you. I want to execute you.

Burkina Faso's leader Traoré warns spies face execution:

If we catch a spy again, the death penalty will be applied.

The accomplices too. We will not mess around with that.

This follows Burkina Faso's June 2026 diplomatic break with France.

Traoré said he has "a cartography of my enemies" and named Ukraine's ambassador as someone who admitted involvement against the country.

David Perdue, U.S. Ambassador to China:

Trump has made it very clear that any help that China would give Iran — whether it be intelligence or parts or direct military equipment — would be totally unacceptable.

Xi assured him that changes had been made, that they were looking into it.

David Perdue, U.S. Ambassador to China:

Xi Jinping agreed in May, and he reiterated it here, that they support no nuclear weapon in Iran. That’s huge.

Niger's Prime Minister Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman:

Our Sahel is at war. It is in a war of liberation against a conspiracy aimed at recolonizing it.

What is happening in the Sahel is not merely an armed rebellion or a war of religion. Nor is it the inevitable result of our own weaknesses.

What some call terrorism in our region is the cynical machinery of recolonization dressed in the trappings of extremism, but the real motivation lies elsewhere: in a covetousness for the significant resources that God has placed in our land.

Niger’s uranium, Mali and Burkina Faso’s gold, lithium, gas, oil and so many other riches still make the former colonial powers salivate.

David Perdue, U.S. Ambassador to China:

President Trump is as strong on Taiwan as I’ve ever seen anybody.

Trump has already sold 50% more arms to Taiwan than any other president since 1979.

David Perdue, U.S. Ambassador to China:

Trump continues to say, "Hey, we sell arms to other people around the world." He actually asked President Xi, "Would he like to buy some at one point?"

Russia released overhead footage of a Geran-5 drone striking a Kyiv business center on September 25, filmed in real-time by a second drone orbiting ~3 km away as a relay/camera platform.

The strike hit the Incom building (housing Datagroup infrastructure), killing four.

The filming drone — either a jet-powered Shahed or smaller Gerbera UAV — then left Kyiv and struck a McDonald's logistics warehouse in Brovary.

This was a coordinated two-drone operation: one strikes, the other provides live battle damage assessment.

David Perdue, U.S. Ambassador to China:

We are not going to live in a world where we have to go to China and kowtow to do business the way we want.

Niger's Prime Minister Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman:

They want to make us believe that we are incapable of governing ourselves, producing, thinking and defending ourselves.

They want to convince us that we lack the science, intelligence and sovereignty to build something precious by and for ourselves — and that we should accept the tutelage of Emmanuel Macron’s France and its allies.

For centuries they have instilled self-deprecation, fear and resignation. They continue to want to produce permanent conflict in communities which, since time immemorial, have been living in harmony.

This perfidious attempt to destabilize the central Sahel, conducted by France with the active complicity of Ukraine, is now documented.

This criminal enterprise has been unmasked now that the military, political and media elites that justify it have themselves removed their masks.

Niger's Prime Minister Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman:

As I speak to you, on our northeastern border there are proxies led by France, supported by Ukraine and two other countries. And you know which countries I mean.

These proxies are armed, guided and directed, and they are about to attack our military positions and our oil installations.

But, inshallah, they will get what they deserve if they do so.

Niger's Prime Minister Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman:

Our resources will now be managed by us and for us, and Niger intends to sell its uranium on the international market in full transparency and in strict compliance with its nuclear non-proliferation obligations.

You will have heard at some point in the past France say that Niger was intending to use this uranium. When they left our country, they sabotaged all of the material.

Niger has invested some 30 billion of our francs to continue that production, totally making use of Nigerien workers and experts. Not a single foreigner was involved in that.

The current stock belongs to our country. It does not belong to anyone, and we will sell it to all those who wish to buy, in total transparency.

Niger's Prime Minister Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman:

For more than half a century, uranium — this miraculous substance — Niger’s uranium has lit the cities of Europe while our cities have remained in darkness.

That injustice is now over. It is at an end.

Niger's Prime Minister Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman:

Togo, Türkiye, the Kingdom of Morocco, the Russian Federation, and the People’s Republic of China are among our friends. True friends.

On behalf of the President of the Republic, the head of state, I would like to express our full gratitude to them.

France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot:

The only way to carry weight in the world we have entered, faced with China and the U.S., is Europe. Europe is our power amplifier.

If we do not build partnerships and military cooperation with our European partners, we will return to a situation in which we become the vassals of China and the U.S.

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EU's Kaja Kallas:

We see in the intelligence that Russia is planning more sabotage acts and actually attacks against our democracy — to divide our society, to intimidate our societies from refraining to help Ukraine.

China's Foreign Ministry on Cuba:

No matter how the international landscape evolves, China will firmly support Cuba in exploring the socialist development path suited to its national conditions and firmly support Cuba in safeguarding national sovereignty and opposing external interference.

Kremlin:

Ukraine will have to pay the price for its actions in recent months — that is what is happening now.

The Russian army continues its “special military operation” and is consistently striking its targets.