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Reporter Wall Street Journal Co-author of "Un Cartel Nommé Daech" ("A Cartel Named Daech"), Edi8, with @clementfayol
Joined November 2009
Khaled Qaddoumi, Hamas’s envoy in Tehran, told WSJ the group has beefed up its forces under Gaza’s Interior Ministry and is deploying them to restore order, crack down on criminals and looters, and punish people it believes have collaborated with Israel. “Hamas is realizing the
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Hamas is violently cracking down on rivals in Gaza. Firefights and public executions are raising concerns about a spiral of internecine violence. https://t.co/3usFNos9rv via @WSJ @suhamaayeh @AbeerAyyoub @benoitfaucon
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Firefights and public executions have spread fear and raised concerns about a spiral of internecine violence. “I could hear gunfire all around.”
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Khaled Al-Qaddoumi, Hamas’s representative in Tehran, said the group had endorsed Trump’s proposal because it guaranteed Palestinians wouldn’t be forced out of Gaza and paved the way for humanitarian aid and reconstruction. Qaddoumi said the group is now counting on Trump to
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Il a encore besoin de temps donc
Comme je vous l’ai déjà dit : « Aussi longtemps qu’un Camerounais ne mangera pas à sa faim, qu’il n’aura pas accès à l’éducation, qu’il ne recevra pas les soins de santé auxquels il a droit, notre tâche ne sera pas terminée.» https://t.co/nIJc1mMmFx
#Biya2025
#PaulBiya
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Russia, not long ago a rising military force in Africa, is now struggling to maintain its footprint on the continent latest w @benoitfaucon
https://t.co/ducVBJQgI0 via @WSJ
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Not long ago a rising military force in Africa, Russia is now struggling to maintain its footprint on the continent.
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The @WSJ’s @benoitfaucon & @Nicholasbariyo report that #Russia🇷🇺’s Africa Corps is “struggling to maintain its footprint on the continent” having “failed to replicate the financial success and political sway once held” by the #Wagner Group mercenaries. https://t.co/NgJRDCLTp6
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Not long ago a rising military force in Africa, Russia is now struggling to maintain its footprint on the continent.
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@dorfman_p @RyanRozbiani Was für Lebensraum... Mehr so Todesraum! Kein lebewesen kann da kaum mehr atmen... vergiss leben!
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🔴 العدو الصهيوني يشنّ غارات عنيفة على مدينة غزة https://t.co/WInGSwWZiM #قناة_النجباء_الفضائية
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Egypt has begun training hundreds of Palestinians to be part of a force of up to 10,000 to provide security for the Gaza Strip, as Arab countries rally around a vision of postwar Gaza without Hamas (via @summer_said @benoitfaucon)
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The effort will likely face pushback from Israel, which opposed a role for the Palestinian Authority in Gaza.
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After Trump was wounded in an assassination attempt during his campaign, Steve Witkoff, now the president’s Middle-East envoy, sought Erik Prince’s advice on improving Trump’s security. Prince suggested posting special forces on Trump’s trips.
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Prince has a new guns-for-hire firm to take overseas security jobs the White House doesn’t want to pay for.
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As Prince’s armored convoy drove along the bumpy roads of Haiti, his attention focused on the task at hand, launching his drones on local gangs terrorizing the island nation. “We’re going to put an end to that without apology,” he said.
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Amid rumors of a coup, Erik Prince is in talks with Congo about bringing Salvadoran mercenaries to secure Tsishekedi’s presidential palace in the capital of Kinshasa, according to people familiar with the matter. https://t.co/BJfi68F1hG w/@VeraMBergen
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Prince has a new guns-for-hire firm to take overseas security jobs the White House doesn’t want to pay for.
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Erik Prince's “drone operations stopped the bleeding,” Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé said. Previously, gang leaders bragged about their crimes on social media, he said. Now, they are in hiding, “You don’t see them walking the streets,” the prime minister said.
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Edwin Ajahuana, a mine owner from high in the Andes, spent 23 hours traveling by road to meet the mercenary he hoped could protect his workers and assets. “The dead keep turning up on roads, in dumps, in garbage bins,” Ajahuana told Erik Prince. “For us, the state almost doesn’t
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Blackwater’s Erik Prince has a new guns-for-hire firm to take overseas security jobs the Trump administration doesn’t want to pay for. His mercenaries are already working in Haiti and Congo. https://t.co/HiLKXQqrOP via @WSJ @benoitfaucon @VeraMBergen
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Prince has a new guns-for-hire firm to take overseas security jobs the White House doesn’t want to pay for.
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Erik Prince is back. The Blackwater founder's new firm is pitching foreign leaders from Peru to Ecuador, Haiti, and Congo, seeking to capitalize on the vacuum left abroad by Trump's America First policies (and touting his ties to Trumpworld) W/ @benoitfaucon
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A pro bono retreat by big law firms following Trump administration attacks has hit nonprofit advocacy groups hard, limiting their resources for researching legal arguments, preparing briefs, and pursuing litigation https://t.co/LGMUtoyAHI
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A pattern of high-value weapons seizures shows Iran is making new efforts to arm its militia allies across the Middle East https://t.co/1OO9f2rrQw via @WSJ @benoitfaucon @adamchams
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A pattern of high-value weapons seizures shows Tehran is making new efforts to replenish the stocks of its militia allies across the Middle East.
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