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29 August 2026 19:58

🇳🇪🇷🇺⚡️- Wassim Nasr reports that the Africa Corps is still passive in the ongoing coup attempt in Niamey.

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29 August 2026 19:08

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Saudi artillery shelling of Ansarullah positions in Qatabir, Sa'ada region of Ansarullah-controlled northern Yemen.

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29 August 2026 18:39

🇳🇪🇷🇺⚡- Russia's reliability as a strategic partner is once again being called into question.

Sources on the ground in Niamey claim that Russia's Africa Corps have taken no visible action to support its junta allies during the ongoing attempted coup and may have even opened negotiations with elements involved in the current uprising.

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29 August 2026 17:08

🇳🇪⚡️- "A group of soldiers in breach of the military regulation has undertaken to seize some of their comrades in the barracks of base 101 in Niamey and to shoot at some sensitive sites in the city of Niamey. The prompt reaction of the forces of defense and security allowed us to circumscribe this movement of humor and gradually take over the control of these sites." - General Salifou Mody.

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29 August 2026 16:57

🇳🇪⚡️- Elements belonging to the anti-junta coup in Niamey have reportedly seized an air base as well as the Parachutist Bataillon's barracks near the capital.

The Parachutist Bataillon's barracks are located nearby the Air Base 101, a stronghold of the Africa Corps in Niger.

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29 August 2026 16:24

🇳🇪⚡- The junta authorities are carrying out large-scale political arrests in Niamey, Niger. The arrests include everyone, from civilians to security personnel.

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29 August 2026 14:46

🇷🇺🇬🇪⚡- A record 113,000 Russians fled to Georgia in just one week, last week, amid the rumors of a possible Russian mobilization

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29 August 2026 14:29

🇸🇩🇮🇱⚡- Hamdan 'Hemedti' Dagalo, Sudan's warlord and Commander-in-Chief of the Rapid Support Forces, has maintained high-level contact with Israel throughout the Sudanese civil war, as per Africa Intelligence.

Hemedti's brothers, Abdul Rahim and Algoney, visited Israel from May 2025 - February 2026, meeting senior Israeli foreign ministry and intelligence officials.

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29 August 2026 13:50

🇳🇪⚡- Gunfire has erupted for the third time in Niamey, Niger.

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29 August 2026 12:58

🇳🇪⚡- Niger's defense ministry confirms an attempted coup attempt and clashes at Air Base 101 in Niamey International Airport, but report the situation has returned to calm.

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29 August 2026 12:55

🇳🇪 - Jeune Afrique confirms the clashes in Niamey, Niger, as a coup attempt launched by military personnel from Tillaberi, Tera, and Dosso.

All three regions lie within areas heavily affected by the Islamic State of the Sahel activity and influence.

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29 August 2026 11:42

🇳🇪⚡- Niger's junta has cut power to certain district of the country's capital, Niamey.

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29 August 2026 10:46

🇺🇸⚡- War Secretary Pete Hegseth has privately considered running for the 2028 presidential campaign, but has publicly denied the reports, NBC News reports.

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29 August 2026 01:43

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- BREAKING: President Trump announced a major agreement with Venezuela that secures the U.S. over 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil.

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28 August 2026 23:55

🇸🇩⚡- In the past hour, the Bukuri area has fallen to the Rapid Support Forces, fighting is reported on the outskirts of the town of Atmoor - Ad Damazin direction, Blue Nile region, southeast Sudan.

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29 August 2026 19:20

🇸🇩🇳🇪 - This video being circulated allegedly showing a captured mutineer by the junta authorities in Niamey, Niger, is false.

The language spoken is Sudanese Arabic, and the uniform belongs to the Sudanese Armed Forces.

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29 August 2026 18:53

🇳🇪⚡- BREAKING: Initial reports of the Chief of the National Gendarmerie Kimba Tahirou joining the mutineers against the junta in Niamey, Niger.

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29 August 2026 18:23

🇳🇪⚡️- Despite Salifou Mody's statement, the situation in Niamey is not resolved according to local reports.

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29 August 2026 17:01

🇳🇪⚡️- Niger's Gendarmerie Nationale is seemingly helping with certain arrests in Niamey but has not taken part in the firefights. It is unclear whether they are loyal to the regime as of now. There are still no proofs of the Africa Corps taking a stance in the ongoing coup attempt.

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29 August 2026 16:37

🇳🇪🇩🇿⚡- Algeria, ironically, becomes the first country to condemn the ongoing coup attempt in Niamey, Niger.

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29 August 2026 15:02

🇸🇩🇪🇹🇸🇦⚡- Hamdan Dagalo's visit to Addis Ababa yesterday is part of an effort to withdraw the 5,000 Rapid Support Forces from the Saudi Arabia - Ansarullah border.

Dagalo's visit follows a recent UN Security Council meeting on Sudan regarding a possible no-fly zone, which was opposed by Khartoum. During the UNSC, Saudi Arabia voiced strong criticism of the RSF, to which Dagalo has allegedly decided to respond. Saudi Arabia's border security with Yemen's Ansarullah depends almost entirely on the Rapid Support Forces, of which there are approximately 5,000 members.

RSF are demanding an official apology from Riyadh, or risk losing RSF's security against the al-Houthi forces.

Source: Darfur24.

Note, the Rapid Support Forces were introduced into the Yemeni civil war by the UAE, who fought alongside the Southern Transitional Council's Security Belt Forces.

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29 August 2026 14:44

🇳🇪⚡- Niger's counter terrorism forces from a fourth region, Tillaberi, have arrived in Niamey.

It's currently unknown if they are in Niamey to join the ongoing coup attempt, or to protect the junta from falling.

Note, Tillaberi, west Niger, is yet another Islamic State dominant region.

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29 August 2026 14:19

🇳🇪 - Footage from Niamey, Niger, amid the ongoing coup attempt.

Videos are time stamped to 07:00am earlier this morning. Video shows the junta-loyal Presidential Guard patrolling the streets.

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29 August 2026 13:18

🇳🇪⚡- While initial reports suggest the coup attempt has likely failed, its consequences will undoubtedly have far-reaching implications for the junta in Niamey.

Reports indicate that elements of Niger's main counterterrorism forces in Tillaberi, Tera, and Dosso abandoned their posts and joined the uprising, citing Niamey's poor strategic war planning and mounting casualties.

All three regions are major hubs of activity of the Islamic State and its branches. The withdrawal of junta forces from these areas will create significant security gaps, allowing militant groups to expand their influence and operations.

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29 August 2026 12:56

🇳🇪⚡- Initial reports of negotiations between Niger's junta and the attempted coup leaders.

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29 August 2026 12:45

🇳🇪⚡- BREAKING: Gunfire has resumed around Niamey International Airport after a few hours of calm.

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29 August 2026 11:16

🇳🇪 - Overnight, heavy fighting erupted between an unknown armed group and the junta's Presidential Guard in the capital of Niamey.

Clashes initially erupted near Niamey International Airport. The unknown group attempted to breach the Presidential Palace grounds, but failed.

Fighting lasted two - three hours, before calm was restored. No group has yet claimed responsibility, with reports circulating of a possible internal coup attempt.

Junta's military remains on high alert and continues to patrol the streets of the capital. The authorities have placed the entire city under lockdown, with all residents urged to stay at home temporarily.

The main scene of the fighting, Base 101 in Niamey International Airport, has been cut off. Junta personnel have closed all roads and bridges leading to the airport.

In the past hour, Niger's state television has gone offline.

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29 August 2026 03:27

🇺🇸🇪🇨🌎⚡️- Under the direction of SOUTHCOM commander General Francis L. Donovan and the Government of Ecuador, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere “interdicted a vessel operating as a floating refueling station in support of illicit at-sea drug trafficking operations in international waters of the Eastern Pacific.”

U.S. Sailors and Marines interdicted, boarded, and searched the vessel, and escorted the individuals aboard back to Ecuador without incident. Once cleared, U.S. forces obliterated the vessel.

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28 August 2026 23:58

🇸🇾⚡- The Israeli-funded Druze mercenaries in As Suwaida, southern Syria, have begun fighting each other. Casualties reported.

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28 August 2026 23:29

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- Another wave of projectile launches from the south coast of Iran towards the Strait of Hormuz.