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December 11, 2025
By Matt Friedman and Madison Fernandez
12/10/2025 02:22 PM EST
Sen. Andy Kim is declaring war on New Jersey’s Democratic bosses, announcing in a video Wednesday that he plans to recruit challengers to elected officials who protect “machine politics.”
Kim, a Democrat whose renegade 2024 Senate campaign destroyed the “county line” ballot structure that helped power brokers from both parties concentrate power, plans to start with Democratic state Sen. Jim Beach. He chaired a committee last week that forced Kim to wait hours to testify against a bill stripping power from the Office of the State Comptroller, which has aggressively investigated people and companies with ties to some of New Jersey’s most powerful Democrats.
snip*
The video is the latest volley in the internal battle that has gripped New Jersey’s Democratic Party for years, pitting power brokers against its progressive base. Progressives had long struggled, but broke through with then-Rep. Kim’s 2024 primary victory over the Democratic establishment-backed first lady Tammy Murphy to replace disgraced Sen. Bob Menendez, who had become emblematic of the Democratic machine system. Murphy, who was counting heavily on the county line, dropped out of the race just days before a Kim campaign lawsuit overturned it for that year’s Democratic primary.
Kim also notched a victory Tuesday when state Senate President Nick Scutari ended his lame duck push for the bill to strip power from the Comptroller’s Office.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/10/kim-seeks-to-topple-the-democratic-machines-in-2027-00685007
Kim will lead effort to oust Jim Beach; fires warning shot at some Democratic legislators
U.S. Senator preparing to oppose re-election of Democrats who oppose anti-corruption laws: ‘I’m going to be stepping up’
By David Wildstein, December 10 2025 11:50 am
In a bold declaration that he’s prepared to take on feckless state lawmakers who follow the orders of party bosses, U.S. Senator Andy Kim will support a challenge to State Sen. Jim Beach (D-Voorhees) in the Democratic primary in 2027 and will help recruit primary opponents to run against other incumbent lawmakers he views as impediments to anti-corruption measures.
“I’m going to be stepping up to get involved across this state and make sure we’re taking on elected officials who have been standing up and protecting the machine politics — standing against what we’re trying to do to fight corruption, and that needs to end,” Kim said in a video he released this morning.
https://newjerseyglobe.com/legislature/kim-will-lead-effort-to-oust-jim-beach-fires-warning-shot-at-some-democratic-legislators/
On edit:
Brad Lander will run for Congress, setting up progressive clash with Dan Goldman
By Elizabeth Kim
Published Dec 10, 2025
Brad Lander, the outgoing New York City comptroller and a major player in progressive politics, announced Wednesday he would run for Congress, challenging moderate pro-Israel Democrat Dan Goldman for a district that includes Lower Manhattan and northwest Brooklyn.
Progressives are hoping to build on the momentum of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s stunning victory in the mayoral election across several races in 2026. It remains to be seen if Mamdani’s win portends a more significant swing to the left for Democrats.
“Our mayor can have an ally in Washington instead of an adversary in his own backyard,” Lander said in a video, which referred to Goldman’s pro-Israel position as well as his wealth. “While the oligarchy drives the affordability crisis, they shouldn’t be able to buy a seat in Congress.”
https://gothamist.com/news/brad-lander-will-run-for-congress-setting-up-progressive-clash-with-dan-goldman
Happy Holidays!
Andy Kim seeks to take down the Democratic machines in 2027
The New Jersey senator said he will be "stepping up" to take on elected officials who "fuel corrupt machine politics."By Matt Friedman and Madison Fernandez
12/10/2025 02:22 PM EST
Sen. Andy Kim is declaring war on New Jersey’s Democratic bosses, announcing in a video Wednesday that he plans to recruit challengers to elected officials who protect “machine politics.”
Kim, a Democrat whose renegade 2024 Senate campaign destroyed the “county line” ballot structure that helped power brokers from both parties concentrate power, plans to start with Democratic state Sen. Jim Beach. He chaired a committee last week that forced Kim to wait hours to testify against a bill stripping power from the Office of the State Comptroller, which has aggressively investigated people and companies with ties to some of New Jersey’s most powerful Democrats.
snip*
The video is the latest volley in the internal battle that has gripped New Jersey’s Democratic Party for years, pitting power brokers against its progressive base. Progressives had long struggled, but broke through with then-Rep. Kim’s 2024 primary victory over the Democratic establishment-backed first lady Tammy Murphy to replace disgraced Sen. Bob Menendez, who had become emblematic of the Democratic machine system. Murphy, who was counting heavily on the county line, dropped out of the race just days before a Kim campaign lawsuit overturned it for that year’s Democratic primary.
Kim also notched a victory Tuesday when state Senate President Nick Scutari ended his lame duck push for the bill to strip power from the Comptroller’s Office.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/10/kim-seeks-to-topple-the-democratic-machines-in-2027-00685007
Kim will lead effort to oust Jim Beach; fires warning shot at some Democratic legislators
U.S. Senator preparing to oppose re-election of Democrats who oppose anti-corruption laws: ‘I’m going to be stepping up’
By David Wildstein, December 10 2025 11:50 am
In a bold declaration that he’s prepared to take on feckless state lawmakers who follow the orders of party bosses, U.S. Senator Andy Kim will support a challenge to State Sen. Jim Beach (D-Voorhees) in the Democratic primary in 2027 and will help recruit primary opponents to run against other incumbent lawmakers he views as impediments to anti-corruption measures.
“I’m going to be stepping up to get involved across this state and make sure we’re taking on elected officials who have been standing up and protecting the machine politics — standing against what we’re trying to do to fight corruption, and that needs to end,” Kim said in a video he released this morning.
https://newjerseyglobe.com/legislature/kim-will-lead-effort-to-oust-jim-beach-fires-warning-shot-at-some-democratic-legislators/
On edit:
Brad Lander will run for Congress, setting up progressive clash with Dan Goldman
By Elizabeth Kim
Published Dec 10, 2025
Brad Lander, the outgoing New York City comptroller and a major player in progressive politics, announced Wednesday he would run for Congress, challenging moderate pro-Israel Democrat Dan Goldman for a district that includes Lower Manhattan and northwest Brooklyn.
Progressives are hoping to build on the momentum of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s stunning victory in the mayoral election across several races in 2026. It remains to be seen if Mamdani’s win portends a more significant swing to the left for Democrats.
“Our mayor can have an ally in Washington instead of an adversary in his own backyard,” Lander said in a video, which referred to Goldman’s pro-Israel position as well as his wealth. “While the oligarchy drives the affordability crisis, they shouldn’t be able to buy a seat in Congress.”
https://gothamist.com/news/brad-lander-will-run-for-congress-setting-up-progressive-clash-with-dan-goldman
Happy Holidays!
December 10, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: We uncovered a secret corporate scheme to raise grocery prices.
We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.
The scary part? It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @ConsumerReports and @Groundwork found it could cost families $1200/year.
https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1998377726432907537
Lina Khan
https://x.com/linamkhan/status/1998401769206927707
More Perfect Union w/ Lina Khan
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUSEXCLUSIVE: We uncovered a secret corporate scheme to raise grocery prices.
We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.
The scary part? It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @ConsumerReports and @Groundwork found it could cost families $1200/year.
https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1998377726432907537
Lina Khan
https://x.com/linamkhan/status/1998401769206927707
December 9, 2025
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press
December 9, 2025, 4:31 AM
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Judges at the International Criminal Court sentenced a leader of the feared Sudanese Janjaweed militia to 20 years imprisonment Tuesday for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the catastrophic conflict in Darfur more than two decades ago.
At a hearing last month, prosecutors sought a life sentence for Ali Muhammad Ali Abd–Al-Rahman who was was convicted in October of 27 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity that included ordering mass executions and bludgeoning two prisoners to death with an ax in 2003-2004.
“He committed these crimes knowingly, willfully, and with, the evidence shows, enthusiasm and vigor,” prosecutor Julian Nicholls told judges at the sentencing hearing in November.
Abd-Al-Rahman, 76, stood and listened, but showed no reaction as Presiding Judge Joanna Korner passed the sentence. He was handed sentences ranging from eight years to 20 years for each of the counts for which he was convicted before the court imposed the overarching joint sentence of 20 years.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/international-court-sentences-sudanese-militia-leader-20-years-128233211
International court sentences Sudanese militia leader to 20 years in prison for Darfur atrocities
Judges at the International Criminal Court have sentenced a leader of the feared Sudanese Janjaweed militia to 20 years imprisonment for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the catastrophic conflict in Darfur more than 20 years agoBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press
December 9, 2025, 4:31 AM
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Judges at the International Criminal Court sentenced a leader of the feared Sudanese Janjaweed militia to 20 years imprisonment Tuesday for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the catastrophic conflict in Darfur more than two decades ago.
At a hearing last month, prosecutors sought a life sentence for Ali Muhammad Ali Abd–Al-Rahman who was was convicted in October of 27 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity that included ordering mass executions and bludgeoning two prisoners to death with an ax in 2003-2004.
“He committed these crimes knowingly, willfully, and with, the evidence shows, enthusiasm and vigor,” prosecutor Julian Nicholls told judges at the sentencing hearing in November.
Abd-Al-Rahman, 76, stood and listened, but showed no reaction as Presiding Judge Joanna Korner passed the sentence. He was handed sentences ranging from eight years to 20 years for each of the counts for which he was convicted before the court imposed the overarching joint sentence of 20 years.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/international-court-sentences-sudanese-militia-leader-20-years-128233211
December 9, 2025
by Robert Kuttner
December 9, 2025
The stock market has made gains at rates that are several multiples more than the growth of the real economy for three years running. Investor euphoria is always a sign of danger ahead, but this time there are other special factors signaling a pending crash. And of course, they all interact. Once investors head for the exits, others start bailing.
I. Deregulation of Increasing Risk. Trump’s bank regulators are systematically dismantling the safeguards that were put in place after the financial collapse of 2008. That crash was caused by opaque financial instruments such as credit derivatives that allowed almost infinite amounts of leverage. When they turned out to be worthless, the collapse was also nearly infinite.
In the aftermath, Congress and the regulators limited the risks that banks could take. In classic Wall Street form, the wise guys responded by creating non-banks that could do most of what banks do.
SNIP*
Given what we know about the crashes of 2008 and 1929, the right policy would be to bring the upstarts under the regulatory umbrella. But instead, last Friday the agencies agreed to the bankers’ demands to help competition by deregulating the banks and getting rid of the 2013 leverage limits. Now, dealmakers can play banks off against private credit entities for the best (most risky) terms. And banks can go beyond funding non-banks and set up their own non-bank affiliates. When the inevitable crash comes, government will bail out the insiders, leaving regular people to suffer the aftermath.
https://prospect.org/2025/12/09/pick-your-financial-crash/
Economic Policy/ Pick Your Financial Crash
What are the risks of a financial crash in the coming year? Let us count the ways.by Robert Kuttner
December 9, 2025
The stock market has made gains at rates that are several multiples more than the growth of the real economy for three years running. Investor euphoria is always a sign of danger ahead, but this time there are other special factors signaling a pending crash. And of course, they all interact. Once investors head for the exits, others start bailing.
I. Deregulation of Increasing Risk. Trump’s bank regulators are systematically dismantling the safeguards that were put in place after the financial collapse of 2008. That crash was caused by opaque financial instruments such as credit derivatives that allowed almost infinite amounts of leverage. When they turned out to be worthless, the collapse was also nearly infinite.
In the aftermath, Congress and the regulators limited the risks that banks could take. In classic Wall Street form, the wise guys responded by creating non-banks that could do most of what banks do.
SNIP*
Given what we know about the crashes of 2008 and 1929, the right policy would be to bring the upstarts under the regulatory umbrella. But instead, last Friday the agencies agreed to the bankers’ demands to help competition by deregulating the banks and getting rid of the 2013 leverage limits. Now, dealmakers can play banks off against private credit entities for the best (most risky) terms. And banks can go beyond funding non-banks and set up their own non-bank affiliates. When the inevitable crash comes, government will bail out the insiders, leaving regular people to suffer the aftermath.
https://prospect.org/2025/12/09/pick-your-financial-crash/
December 8, 2025
Trump Now Slams Paramount-Skydance Deal After Marjorie Taylor Greene Bashes Him On '60 Minutes'
ByAlison Durkee ,Forbes Staff. Alison is a senior news reporter covering US politics and legal news.
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Dec 08, 2025, 10:31am ESTDec 08, 2025, 10:32am EST
Key Facts
Trump complained on Truth Social about Greene’s “60 Minutes” interview, in which the Republican congresswoman repeatedly lashed out against Trump when discussing her decision to resign in January.
Trump has been a longtime critic of “60 Minutes,” and previously received a settlement of $16 million from CBS owner Paramount over his criticisms of the program’s interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris.
The president likened Greene to a “rotten apple” on Truth Social and said she “went BAD” because “she was JILTED by the President of the United States,” but went on to say his “real problem” with the “60 Minutes” interview was “that the new ownership of 60 Minutes, Paramount, would allow a show like this to air.”
snip*The president changed his tune on the deal on Monday, however, writing the company’s new parent company is “NO BETTER THAN THE OLD OWNERSHIP.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/12/08/trump-now-slams-paramount-skydance-deal-after-marjorie-taylor-greene-bashes-him-on-60-minutes/
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
December 8, 2025
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1998045655009288526
Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut.
Chris Murphy 🟧@ChrisMurphyCT: I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump
is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1998045655009288526
Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut.
December 8, 2025
by Whitney Curry Wimbish
December 5, 2025
Cole William Schmidtknecht was about to turn 23 last year, when he went to Walgreens on a cold January day in Appleton, Wisconsin, to pick up some medicine. He expected his Advair Diskus inhaler to cost what it always had under his prescription drug plan, between $35 and $66.86. But when he got to the counter that day, the pharmacist told him insurance no longer covered it and that there was no alternative, though the lawsuit his parents brought showed a generic version should have been covered. His options were to pay $539.19, a 700 percent increase, or leave. So he left.
For the next 120 hours, Cole suffered slow, constant torture. He repeatedly struggled to draw breath. He tried to use an outdated “rescue” inhaler. It didn’t work. He texted his dad Bil, a fellow asthmatic, saying he couldn’t breathe. He began to asphyxiate. By the time his roommate drove him to the emergency room, Cole was “unconscious, pulseless, and appeared blue.” Medical staff gave him two rounds of adrenaline and performed two rounds of CPR, a four-minute race against time to wake him up. They lost.
Cole remained unconscious, his throat so constricted that workers strained to intubate him, his brain starved of oxygen. For six days, he lingered on a ventilator in the intensive care unit “until doctors finally informed his parents … that he was beyond help.” Cole was pronounced dead 11 days after his trip to Walgreens. The immediate cause of death: asthma.
“Cole was forced to choose between his medication and his rent. He chose to pay his rent,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) told Congress almost a year later.
https://prospect.org/2025/12/05/meet-the-connectors-middlemen/
Who forced him is deeply shameful.
Economic Policy Meet the Connectors
Middlemen, our economy’s most shadowy characters, sit in between buyers and sellers and get rich in the process. It can even be a matter of life or death.by Whitney Curry Wimbish
December 5, 2025
Cole William Schmidtknecht was about to turn 23 last year, when he went to Walgreens on a cold January day in Appleton, Wisconsin, to pick up some medicine. He expected his Advair Diskus inhaler to cost what it always had under his prescription drug plan, between $35 and $66.86. But when he got to the counter that day, the pharmacist told him insurance no longer covered it and that there was no alternative, though the lawsuit his parents brought showed a generic version should have been covered. His options were to pay $539.19, a 700 percent increase, or leave. So he left.
For the next 120 hours, Cole suffered slow, constant torture. He repeatedly struggled to draw breath. He tried to use an outdated “rescue” inhaler. It didn’t work. He texted his dad Bil, a fellow asthmatic, saying he couldn’t breathe. He began to asphyxiate. By the time his roommate drove him to the emergency room, Cole was “unconscious, pulseless, and appeared blue.” Medical staff gave him two rounds of adrenaline and performed two rounds of CPR, a four-minute race against time to wake him up. They lost.
Cole remained unconscious, his throat so constricted that workers strained to intubate him, his brain starved of oxygen. For six days, he lingered on a ventilator in the intensive care unit “until doctors finally informed his parents … that he was beyond help.” Cole was pronounced dead 11 days after his trip to Walgreens. The immediate cause of death: asthma.
“Cole was forced to choose between his medication and his rent. He chose to pay his rent,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) told Congress almost a year later.
https://prospect.org/2025/12/05/meet-the-connectors-middlemen/
Who forced him is deeply shameful.
December 8, 2025
by Harold Meyerson
December 8, 2025
The National Security Strategy document that the Trump administration released on Friday was only secondarily American—that is, rooted in our nation’s foundational creed (however imperfectly followed) of human equality. It was primarily a document rooted in white Christian nationalism.
The primacy of this deeply anti-American set of beliefs was made particularly clear in the document’s section on Europe. It was already plain to see in Trump’s refugee policy, which now welcomes almost exclusively white South Africans, and in Vice President Vance’s claims of the superior American legitimacy of the descendants of the immigrants from Northwest Europe who came before 1880. But the administration’s strategic goals for Europe plunge us even deeper into the muck of white Christian nationalism.
Europe, the document proclaims, faces “the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure. The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence. Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less … We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation.”
In other words, the European Union regulates U.S. corporations in ways that sometimes favor European workers and consumers over our corporations. In other words, migration from Asia and Africa is diluting the white, Christian essence of traditional European civilization. To forestall this dilution, “American diplomacy should continue to stand up for genuine democracy, freedom of expression, and unapologetic celebrations of European nations’ individual character and history. America encourages its political allies in Europe to promote this revival of spirit, and the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism.”
https://prospect.org/2025/12/08/trumps-white-christian-foreign-policy/
Trump's White Christian Foreign Policy
According to our new official National Security Strategy, we have to support Europe’s neo-Nazi right in its fight to keep Europe white.by Harold Meyerson
December 8, 2025
The National Security Strategy document that the Trump administration released on Friday was only secondarily American—that is, rooted in our nation’s foundational creed (however imperfectly followed) of human equality. It was primarily a document rooted in white Christian nationalism.
The primacy of this deeply anti-American set of beliefs was made particularly clear in the document’s section on Europe. It was already plain to see in Trump’s refugee policy, which now welcomes almost exclusively white South Africans, and in Vice President Vance’s claims of the superior American legitimacy of the descendants of the immigrants from Northwest Europe who came before 1880. But the administration’s strategic goals for Europe plunge us even deeper into the muck of white Christian nationalism.
Europe, the document proclaims, faces “the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure. The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence. Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less … We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation.”
In other words, the European Union regulates U.S. corporations in ways that sometimes favor European workers and consumers over our corporations. In other words, migration from Asia and Africa is diluting the white, Christian essence of traditional European civilization. To forestall this dilution, “American diplomacy should continue to stand up for genuine democracy, freedom of expression, and unapologetic celebrations of European nations’ individual character and history. America encourages its political allies in Europe to promote this revival of spirit, and the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism.”
https://prospect.org/2025/12/08/trumps-white-christian-foreign-policy/
December 8, 2025
Berk Kutay Gokmen |
08.12.2025 - Update : 08.12.2025
ISTANBUL
China has urged Germany to abide by the one-China principle as German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul began a two-day visit to Beijing, his first since taking office, Chinese officials said Monday.
Chinese Vice President Han Zheng met Wadephul and said China and Germany are important economic and trading partners that can achieve “win-win results” through mutually beneficial cooperation, according to Xinhua News.
Han said Beijing is ready to enhance communication and dialogue with Berlin and work to bring the China-Germany all-round strategic partnership to a higher level.
He added that the Taiwan question is at the center of China's core interests, and urged Germany to abide by the one-China principle. Han also called on Berlin to play an active role in supporting the healthy development of China-EU relations.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/beijing-urges-germany-to-abide-one-china-principle-as-top-diplomat-begins-2-day-trip/3765265
Beijing urges Germany to abide one-China principle as top diplomat begins 2-day trip
Chinese vice president Han Zheng hosts German foreign minister Johann Wadephul in BeijingBerk Kutay Gokmen |
08.12.2025 - Update : 08.12.2025
ISTANBUL
China has urged Germany to abide by the one-China principle as German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul began a two-day visit to Beijing, his first since taking office, Chinese officials said Monday.
Chinese Vice President Han Zheng met Wadephul and said China and Germany are important economic and trading partners that can achieve “win-win results” through mutually beneficial cooperation, according to Xinhua News.
Han said Beijing is ready to enhance communication and dialogue with Berlin and work to bring the China-Germany all-round strategic partnership to a higher level.
He added that the Taiwan question is at the center of China's core interests, and urged Germany to abide by the one-China principle. Han also called on Berlin to play an active role in supporting the healthy development of China-EU relations.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/beijing-urges-germany-to-abide-one-china-principle-as-top-diplomat-begins-2-day-trip/3765265
December 8, 2025
8 Dec 2025
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) says it has seized control of the strategic Heglig oilfield in Sudan’s South Kordofan province.
The claim early on Monday was supported later by a statement issued by the military government’s Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) saying it had withdrawn from the area. The takeover comes as the RSF, embroiled in a two-and-a-half-year conflict with the SAF, pushes to expand eastwards and southwards from the western Darfur region, over which it took full control last month.
Youssef Alian, the head of the RSF-affiliated “civil administration” in the where the oilfield is situated, asserted in a statement that the takeover happened under his coordination.
He said that he had helped “prepare a special, qualified and trained force … to secure the Heglig field and protect oil installations from any acts of sabotage or threats that may affect their safety”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/8/rsf-claims-seizure-of-key-heglig-oil-field-in-sudan
RSF seizes key Heglig oilfield as it pushes to expand control in Sudan
Heglig is Sudan’s largest oil field and also the main processing facility for neighbouring South Sudan’s oil exports.8 Dec 2025
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) says it has seized control of the strategic Heglig oilfield in Sudan’s South Kordofan province.
The claim early on Monday was supported later by a statement issued by the military government’s Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) saying it had withdrawn from the area. The takeover comes as the RSF, embroiled in a two-and-a-half-year conflict with the SAF, pushes to expand eastwards and southwards from the western Darfur region, over which it took full control last month.
Youssef Alian, the head of the RSF-affiliated “civil administration” in the where the oilfield is situated, asserted in a statement that the takeover happened under his coordination.
He said that he had helped “prepare a special, qualified and trained force … to secure the Heglig field and protect oil installations from any acts of sabotage or threats that may affect their safety”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/8/rsf-claims-seizure-of-key-heglig-oil-field-in-sudan
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