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Poland to station 10,000 troops on border with Belarus amid Wagner concern
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Poland to station 10,000 troops on border with Belarus amid Wagner concern

10 August 2023
Poland has announced on Thursday (10 August) that it will station some 10,000 troops on its eastern border with Belarus. The decision comes after the Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on 29 July that Wagner Group mercenaries could infiltrate Poland from Belarus, where they are currently stationed. The Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said that the 10,000 soldiers will be moved to the country's border with Belarus "to scare away the aggressor so that it does not dare attack us", adding "we have to be ready for various scenarios, we do not exclude anything".
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Heaviest fighting in Sudan since the start of civil war reported on Tuesday
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Heaviest fighting in Sudan since the start of civil war reported on Tuesday

9 August 2023
13 civilians have been killed on Tuesday (8 August) in what is being reported as the heaviest fighting in Sudan since the start of a civil war nearly four months ago. Arab News reports that the Sudanese army launched airstrikes and heavy artillery salvos to try to take a bridge across the Nile used by the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to bring reinforcements and weapons from Omdurman to Bahri and Khartoum, the other two cities that comprise the capital.
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Shovi landslide death toll reaches 20, Blinken offers condolences on behalf of U.S.
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Shovi landslide death toll reaches 20, Blinken offers condolences on behalf of U.S.

9 August 2023
At least 20 people are confirmed to have been killed by a landslide in Shovi, northern Georgia, on Thursday last week (3 August). The Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, gave the latest update on Wednesday morning (9 August). According to the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs, around a dozen people remain unaccounted for.
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U.S. holds "extremely frank" talks with Niger military leaders as airspace is closed
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U.S. holds "extremely frank" talks with Niger military leaders as airspace is closed

8 August 2023
Senior United States official, the Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, has held talks with the military leaders of Niger following a coup last month. Speaking to reporters from capital Niamey, Nuland said that, in talks lasting more than two hours, the U.S. had offered its help "if there is a desire on the part of the people who are responsible for this to return to the constitutional order". The U.S. was not "in any way taken up on that offer", she said.
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Saudi Arabia to host summit on peace in Ukraine on Saturday
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Saudi Arabia to host summit on peace in Ukraine on Saturday

5 August 2023
The Saudi Arabian port city of Jeddah is to host a global summit on reaching peace in Ukraine on Saturday (5 August). The summit will be attended by some 40 countries including many countries of the "Global South", as well as China. Russia was not invited to the talks, however, and Moscow has said that they will "monitor" the summit. The discussion and future implementation of Ukraine's Peace Formula, set out by President Volodymyr Zelensky during an address to the G20 in November, will be the subject of the summit in Jeddah.
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At least 11 killed in landslide in northern Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan offer assistance
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At least 11 killed in landslide in northern Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan offer assistance

5 August 2023
At least 11 people have been killed in a landslide in Shovi, northern Georgia, on Thursday afternoon (3 August). Immediately after the disaster struck around 70 people were moved to a safe area, and according to a statement from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, two border police helicopters and around 400 rescuers had been deployed in the first night of the rescue operation.