Dilitas Weekly International Security Brief
Christopher Cully
Managing Director at Dilitas Ltd. Strategic Intelligence & Corporate Security Company
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The threat to the UK from International Terrorism is?SUBSTANTIAL
The threat to Great Britain from Irish Republican Terrorism is?SUBSTANTIAL
Threat levels are designed to give a broad indication of the likelihood of a terrorist attack.
LOW means an attack is unlikely
MODERATE means an attack is possible, but not likely
SUBSTANTIAL means an attack is a strong possibility
SEVERE means an attack is highly likely
CRITICAL means an attack is expected imminently
AFRICA
Nigeria’s secret police have warned of possible bomb attacks during celebrations for Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Tigrayan forces have completely withdrawn from the neighboring Ethiopian Afar region, Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF)
At least 130 people, mostly civilians, have been killed by landmines and other explosives left after heavy fighting in 2020 around the Libyan capital Tripoli, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said.
Mosques and churches were reportedly set ablaze by mobs in multiple places in northern and southern Ethiopia on Thursday.
Violence erupted after at least 20 Muslims were killed and hundreds more injured while attending a funeral of a local religious figure on Tuesday in Gondar city in Amhara region.
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni says Uganda may deploy a large force to help fight Islamic militants in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province.
The Nigerian senate has passed a bill imposing jail terms of at least 15 years on anyone paying a ransom to free someone who has been kidnapped. Kidnappers will face the death penalty
There are reports that fighting has resumed in the city of Geneina in the Sudanese region of Darfur where at least 200 people died [last] weekend.
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to lay down their weapons and work with government "in nurturing peace and stability".
Cases of police brutality and enforced disappearances are on a steady increase in Kenya, according to a joint report by Amnesty International Kenya and 16 local NGOs.
Algeria has threatened to cut off its gas supply to Spain if any of it ends up in another country that is not specified in the contract.
More than 10 million children are among those facing severe drought in the Horn of Africa.
ASIA
An ex-general in the Afghan army says he and many other former soldiers and politicians are preparing to launch a new war against the Taliban.
State media in North Korea have broadcast footage from a military parade, which showcased banned intercontinental ballistic missiles. The country's leader, Kim Jong-un, made a speech at the parade, vowing to ramp up the country's nuclear arsenal.
领英推荐
Three Chinese tutors and a Pakistani driver were killed in a suicide bombing near Karachi University's Confucius Institute on Tuesday.
A court in military-ruled Myanmar has found former leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of corruption, the latest verdict in a series of secret trials.
India's weather department has issued a severe heatwave warning as temperatures soar, throwing millions of lives and livelihoods out of gear.
EUROPE
Rockets hit Kyiv during the UN Secretary General's visit to the city, in which he criticised his own organisation's Security Council.
The Russian rouble will be used in Kherson from Sunday, according to Russia-backed forces that have taken control of the southern Ukrainian city.
A group of about 20 civilians has left the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, the final part of the southern city still in the hands of Ukrainian troops.
Mysterious explosions in Transnistria, a breakaway Russian-controlled territory in Moldova bordering on Ukraine, have raised fears that the Ukraine conflict may be spreading.
Mali has accused the French army of "spying" after it used a drone to film footage, which purported to show soldiers burying bodies near a military base that was recently returned by France.
Swedish authorities have extradited a Rwandan man to Kigali over genocide charges which he is accused to have committed when he was a university student. The Rwanda prosecution said it received Jean Paul Micomyiza on Wednesday and commended Sweden for its contribution “to fight impunity”.
MIDDLE EAST
A Palestinian was killed Tuesday when Israeli forces stormed a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank in what the army called a "counter-terrorism" operation that sparked violent riots.
THE AMERICAS
Ecuador's president has declared a state of emergency in three western provinces because of rising crime.
El Salvador's defence minister has praised the extension by Congress of emergency measures which he says are having a "positive" effect in the battle against rampant gang violence. René Merino said that more than 17,000 suspected gang members had been arrested since the state of emergency was declared a month ago.
UK & EIRE
The leader of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has been arrested for alleged drug smuggling and money laundering in the US. Premier Andrew Fahie was detained in Miami by US agents posing as cocaine traffickers from a Mexican drug cartel.
An 18-year-old man was arrested at an address in west London Wednesday, 27 April on suspicion of encouraging terrorism (contrary to section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2006).
An Islamic State group militant from the UK has been jailed for life by a US court for his involvement with a notorious hostage-taking terror cell.
Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism officer Detective Constable Francois Olwage has been jailed at Winchester Crown Court for five and a half years for arranging to meet a 13-year-old girl for sex. He found guilty of three child sex offences, after he arranged to a meet a 13-year-old girl for sex when he was “on duty working from home”.
CYBER/CRYPTO/HACKING
The U.S. Department of State has announced that it is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information that leads to the "identification or location" of six Russian GRU hackers. The six named individuals, all officers within the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU), are sought for their alleged involvement in malicious cyber activity affecting U.S. critical infrastructure.
A group of Russian-linked hackers claimed to have hacked Coca-Cola and put rucks of data up for sale. Stormous said it stole 161 gigabytes of financial data, passwords and accounts before putting the information on the market for $640,000 or 16 million Bitcoin.
The Romanian government says it has experienced cyberattacks from a Russian source Friday 29 April.
Police in South Korea have arrested two people suspected of leaking military secrets to a person believed to be a North Korean agent.
The world's largest commercial drone-maker DJI has suspended all business activities in Russia and Ukraine. Since the start of the war, Ukraine has urged the company to take steps to stop its drones being used by Russia. The Chinese firm said the decision was not a statement about any country, and its drones are not for military use.
On Monday morning, the Bored Ape Yacht Club’s official Instagram account was hacked and four of the NFTs, as well as other NFTs created by Yuga Labs, were stolen.
T-Mobile has had the source code for various projects stolen in various breaches by the Lapsus$ hacking group last month, reports Krebs on Security.