🇮🇱🇱🇧🇱🇧 - Intense clashes ongoing between the IDF and Hezbollah in Ramyeh, southern Lebanon.

The IDF is currently trying to enter the area.

🇲🇬📍🏝Madagascar wants its islands in the Mozambique Channel back

📣Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has announced his intention to defend his country's sovereignty and demand that France return the islands in the Mozambique Channel, Sputnik Afrique reports.

"We want the restitution of the 'scattered islands', but within the framework of cooperation. We must carefully consider the means and methods for this," Rajoelina said, citing the UK's recent recognition of Mauritius' sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago as an example.

🔖Recall that the 'scattered islands' are islands in the Indian Ocean that are part of the French Southern and Antarctic Territories. They are located in the Mozambique Channel between Africa and Madagascar.  Since Madagascar's independence in 1960, Paris has stubbornly refused to give them up, although the UN General Assembly confirmed Madagascar's right to them in 1979.

🇫🇷🔫The islands are considered uninhabited, but according to some reports, France maintains a military garrison of about 14 troops on each of the islands.

🇫🇷Macron! Pack your bags and get out!

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