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#Somalia govt forces last week captured #ElBur, last district center in central #Galmudug region controlled by #AlShabaab, though they later retreated from other key towns in the area.
https://www.voanews.com/a/somali-army-captures-elbur-district-a-major-al-shabab-base/7241788.html https://www.voanews.com/a/7245333.html
Though Somalia govt victories in Galmudug region are a big deal, Al Shabaab's core stronghold area in the south remains largely untouched.
#OSINT #conflictracking #geography #geopolitics #HornOfAfrica #Africa #military @geography @geopolitics
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#Somalia govt forces last week captured #ElBur, last district center in central #Galmudug region controlled by #AlShabaab, though they later retreated from other key towns in the area.
https://www.voanews.com/a/somali-army-captures-elbur-district-a-major-al-shabab-base/7241788.html https://www.voanews.com/a/7245333.html
Though Somalia govt victories in Galmudug region are a big deal, Al Shabaab's core stronghold area in the south remains largely untouched.
#OSINT #conflictracking #geography #geopolitics #HornOfAfrica #Africa #military @geography @geopolitics
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Interesting #Arctic reporting as always from Mia Bennett of Cryopolitics, this time on the temporary Israeli base that was built in US state of #Alaska to test defensive space missiles now being used in the #MiddleEast.
https://www.cryopolitics.com/2024/04/29/kodiak-pacific-spaceport-complex-israel/
#Israel #Kodiak #spacewarfare #IDF #geography #military #outerspace #geopolitics #IsraelHamasWar @geography @geopolitics
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Excellent, serious reporting from journalist Peter Beaumont on #Gaza casualty numbers and what they do and don't mean. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/13/gaza-ministry-revises-figures-for-women-and-children-killed
#GazaWar #Israel #Palestine #IsraelPalestineWar #geopolitics #MiddleEast #OSINT #conflictracking #Mediterranean @geopolitics
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#Nicaragua has promised to comply with #WorldCourt's ruling that #Colombia's right to economic rights at sea out to 200-miles (where not within 200 miles of any other country) override Nicaraguan claims to extra seabed (#continentalshelf).
#maritimejurisdiction #geopolitics #LatinAmerica #internationallaw #LawOfTheSea
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UN's International Court of Justice (#ICJ) ruled this week that #Nicaragua can't claim economic rights to the seabed (#continentalshelf) in zone where rights to ocean resources normally would default to #Colombia.
https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/154/154-20230713-pre-01-00-en.pdf
#seaborders #geography #Caribbean #maritimejurisdiction #maritime #internationallaw @geography @PIL @geopolitics
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A big part of #TulareLake, largest lake in western #USA lakes until it dried up in the 1800s, has returned amid #California flooding, and will likely stay for about 2 years. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/us/california-storms-tulare-lake.html
#geography #geographyteacher #hydrology #Tulare #CentralValley @geography #physicalgeography
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In interesting show of restraint, #USA president's order to change "#GulfOfMexico" to "#GulfOfAmerica" on govt maps seems to specify that only the part under US jurisdiction is being renamed.
(Order also renames "#Denali" back to "#MountMcKinley")
#toponymy #geography #mapping #hydrology #UNCLOS #maritime #names #policy #geography #GIS #placenames #Alaska #GulfCoast #nautical #hydrology #GNIS @geography @geopolitics
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BIG political #geography news from yesterday: #UK says it will give #ChagosIslands to #Mauritius, which has claimed them for decades and recently had vindication from intl courts and UN. No date yet - pending treaty. https://bbc.com/news/articles/c98ynejg4l5o
#disputedterritory #IndianOcean #Chagossians #islands #sovereignty #Africa #colonialism
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Just a shoutout to AllSanaag.com, local news outlet in the area contested between #Somalia and self-proclaimed #Somaliland, for having the most epic OG web design I've seen in awhile.
#localnews #HornOfAfrica #webdesign #Puntland #Sanaag #journalism #Africa #RedSea
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#China diplomat appears to say countries that declared independence from #SovietUnion in early 1990s (such as #Ukraine) aren't fully established as independent by international law. (This goes entirely against any interpretation I've ever heard.) https://news.yahoo.com/chinas-ambassador-france-says-former-082707929.html
#geopolitics #diplomacy #diplomaticrecognition #statehood #internationallaw @PIL @geopolitics @geography
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#SouthChinaSea: After deal with #China to end standoff over #SecondThomasShoal, #Philippines has been asserting increasing dominance over nearby #SabinaShoal (both in #SpratlyIslands area)
#EscodaShoal #Xianbinjiao #disputedterritory #geography #islands #maritime @geography @geopolitics
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Internal debate in #UK govt over whether to give #ChagosIslands, which intl. court ruled 2 years ago were under "unlawful occupation", to legal owner #Mauritius. Islands' people were infamously expelled to build military base also used by #USA. https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2023/12/07/uk-drops-plans-to-hand-chagos-islands-back-to-mauritius/
#geography #disputedterritory #IndianOcean #islands #geopolitics #occupation
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Internal debate in #UK govt over whether to give #ChagosIslands, which intl. court ruled 2 years ago were under "unlawful occupation", to legal owner #Mauritius. Islands' people were infamously expelled to build military base also used by #USA. https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2023/12/07/uk-drops-plans-to-hand-chagos-islands-back-to-mauritius/
#geography #disputedterritory #IndianOcean #islands #geopolitics #occupation @geopolitics @geography
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#Philippines this week removed floating barrier placed by #China to complete its control over interior lagoon of disputed #ScarboroughShoal in #SouthChinaSea. https://apnews.com/article/china-philippines-south-sea-barrier-scarborough-68163cbe8c5b3ad7844dfecad71bce9c
#disputedterritory #disputedterritories #SCS #geography #geopolitics #maritime #maritimejurisdiction #LawOfTheSea #internationallaw @geography @geopolitics
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#GulfOfMexico or #GulfOfAmerica? Competitive renaming of seawater is actually already a thing in #geopolitics: See Arabian / #PersianGulf, #SeaOfJapan / #EastSea, #SouthChinaSea / #WestPhilippineSea. But it implies the country doing the renaming feels threatened by equal or more powerful neighbor.
#geography #hydrology #maritime #nautical #ocean #toponymy #placenames #naming @geography @geopolitics
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A very interesting case...
#Albania's (non-Muslim) prime minister plans to recognize #independence of "Sovereign State of the #Bektashi Order", liberal Muslim headquarters in Albanian capital, to be modeled after #VaticanCity. Unclear whether it could get recognition from other countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/world/europe/albania-tirana-muslim-state-bektashi.html
#geography #secession #micronations #microstates #geographyteacher #sovereignty #Europe #Balkans #Islam #Muslims #diplomacy #Bektashism @geography @geopolitics @religion
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A very interesting case...
#Albania's (non-Muslim) prime minister plans to recognize #independence of "Sovereign State of the #Bektashi Order", liberal Muslim headquarters in Albanian capital, to be modeled after #VaticanCity. Unclear whether it could get recognition from other countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/world/europe/albania-tirana-muslim-state-bektashi.html
#geography #secession #micronations #microstates #geographyteacher #sovereignty #Europe #Balkans #Islam #Muslims #diplomacy #Bektashism @geography @geopolitics @religion
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A very interesting case...
#Albania's (non-Muslim) prime minister plans to recognize #independence of "Sovereign State of the #Bektashi Order", liberal Muslim headquarters in Albanian capital, to be modeled after #VaticanCity. Unclear whether it could get recognition from other countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/world/europe/albania-tirana-muslim-state-bektashi.html
#geography #secession #micronations #microstates #geographyteacher #sovereignty #Europe #Balkans #Islam #Muslims #diplomacy #Bektashism @geography @geopolitics @religion
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A very interesting case...
#Albania's (non-Muslim) prime minister plans to recognize #independence of "Sovereign State of the #Bektashi Order", liberal Muslim headquarters in Albanian capital, to be modeled after #VaticanCity. Unclear whether it could get recognition from other countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/world/europe/albania-tirana-muslim-state-bektashi.html
#geography #secession #micronations #microstates #geographyteacher #sovereignty #Europe #Balkans #Islam #Muslims #diplomacy #Bektashism @geography @geopolitics @religion
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#USA state of #Minnesota approves completely new #flag, planned to replace current flag in May of next year https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67778942
#flags #vexillology #geography #admin1 #vexillography #NorthAmerica
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#USA state of #Minnesota approves completely new #flag, planned to replace current flag in May of next year https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67778942
#flags #vexillology #geography #admin1 #vexillography #NorthAmerica
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#USA state of #Minnesota approves completely new #flag, planned to replace current flag in May of next year https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67778942
#flags #vexillology #geography #admin1 #vexillography #NorthAmerica
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#USA state of #Minnesota approves completely new #flag, planned to replace current flag in May of next year https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67778942
#flags #vexillology #geography #admin1 #vexillography #NorthAmerica
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#USA state of #Minnesota approves completely new #flag, planned to replace current flag in May of next year https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67778942
#flags #vexillology #geography #admin1 #vexillography #NorthAmerica @geography
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#USA state of #Minnesota approves completely new #flag, planned to replace current flag in May of next year https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67778942
#flags #vexillology #geography #admin1 #vexillography #NorthAmerica @geography
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#USA state of #Minnesota approves completely new #flag, planned to replace current flag in May of next year https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67778942
#flags #vexillology #geography #admin1 #vexillography #NorthAmerica @geography
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#USA state of #Minnesota approves completely new #flag, planned to replace current flag in May of next year https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67778942
#flags #vexillology #geography #admin1 #vexillography #NorthAmerica @geography
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#UnitedNations "adopts" #HighSeasTreaty, officially finalizing text of agreement to extend unprecedented environmental protection measures to international waters. Still needs domestic approval ("ratification") from 60 countries before it can take effect.
#maritimejurisdiction #maritime #geography @geography @geopolitics #internationalaw #internationalrelations
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#Brazil has newly recognized 8 different #indigenous territories (promising their pre-colonial residents permanent ownership-like rights to the land) since president #Lula returned to power, including 2 just this week. https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-lula-legalizes-more-indigenous-reservations-amazon-2023-09-05/
#politicalgeography #SouthAmerica #geography #LatinAmerica #Amazon