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CYBER WARFARE/APT/MALWARE – Experts linked ransomware attacks to China-linked APT27 (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/113000/apt/apt27-ransomware-attacks.html

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC – Central African Republic President Touadera re-elected (Al Jazeera)

Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera has won a second term in office, according to provisional results announced by the electoral commission. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/5/central-african-republic-president-touadera-reelected

MALI/AL QAEDA – Al-Qaeda branch claims killings of French soldiers in Mali (Al Jazeera)

Al-Qaeda’s branch in North Africa has claimed responsibility for killing two French soldiers who died when their armoured vehicle was hit by an improvised...

ZIMBABWE – A teenager in Zimbabwe is using taekwondo to fight child marriage (Al Jazeera)

In Zimbabwe, where girls as young as 10 are forced to marry due to poverty or traditional and religious practices, a teenage taekwondo enthusiast...

GCC SUMMIT – Gulf states sign ‘solidarity and stability’ deal at GCC summit (Al Jazeera)

Gulf leaders have signed a “solidarity and stability” agreement towards ending the diplomatic rift with Qatar at a summit in Saudi Arabia, Saudi Crown...

SYRIA – Research about the Details of the Process of Forced Disappearance and the Fate of the Victims (Al Jazeera)

Families of individuals who were forcibly disappeared in Syria have paid more than $100m in bribes to find out information about them, according to...

IRAN – Iran rebukes European criticism of uranium enrichment (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

Iran has rejected European criticism of the country’s enrichment of uranium to 20 percent as China urged restraint and the United States slammed the...

SOUTH KOREA/IRAN – South Korea to send delegation to Tehran after Iran seizes tanker (Al Jazeera)

South Korea is sending a delegation to Iran to seek the release of a tanker seized in Gulf waters by Iranian forces, with a...

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY – What is behind Mahmoud Abbas’s diplomatic offensive? (Adnan Abu Amer, Al Jazeera)

Over the past two months, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been actively trying to pull the Palestinian Authority (PA) out of its political isolation....

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