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Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy just walked out of the White House after a heated face-off with Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office. At one point, Trump put the Ukrainian president in his place, calling Zelenskyy “disrespectful” and telling him he should be thanking the U.S. for its support. “You don’t have the cards,” Trump snapped. And he didn’t stop there. Looking straight at the Ukrainian president, Trump bluntly told him, “Your country is in big trouble. You're not winning … You have a damn good chance of coming out okay because of us.”

Lake Chad Basin counter-terrorism and insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama, has disclosed that Niger Republic military junta leader, General Abdourahamane Tiani, alleged that France has been offering Nigeria funds to destabilize the country and its neighbours. Makama disclosed this in a post on his X (formerly Twitter) handle on Wednesday. Continuing, he said Gen. Tiani believes the plan is to establish a French military base in Borno state, a state in far Northern Nigeria contiguous to Niger Republic. Aside that, another French action, he stated,is the recruitment and funding of terrorists from the Islamic State of West Africa (ISWAP) bloc to…