The ruined stone towns of medieval Somaliland and the empire of Adal (ca. 1415–1577) www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-ruined...

Good (apparently ungated) Africa Confidential overview of the Traore regime in Burkina Faso. A bit exaggerated (police recently returned to commissariat in Bereba, 100 km from Bobo-Dioulasso) and gov't firmly controls Houndé, etc) but still good overview. www.africa-confidential.com/article/id/1...

Very happy to share with you all that Toni Sastere Bel and I have published a paper today on the regional dimension of the conflict in #Sudan: Gravitating Toward the Middle East. doi.org/10.7274/2893...

In this new article 📖 ✍️, @adamkochanski.bsky.social, Jennifer Welsh, and I talk ALL about localization, and kick off the Localization in World Politics Special Forum! Dive in open access @gsqjournal.bsky.social #OxfordUniversityPress @isanet.bsky.social 1/ doi.org/10.1093/isag...

My latest article is out in ISQ, and explores the pacification of violent pasts in Rwanda, Burundi and Kenya through the lens of everyday security: academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

My latest for @foreignpolicy.com A metastasizing threat will only remain localized for so long. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/17/i...

Transforming Addis: Confronting urban challenges by tackling housing, transport, and green space deficits head-on #AddisStandard #Ethiopia

🇳🇬 HumAngle consistently producing quality journalism on the terror reigning in northern Nigeria at the hands of bandits and, in the story below, violent extremist group ISWAP. “Over the years, ISWAP had shifted from mindless destruction to calculated economic exploitation. Kaka knew this well.”

Sudan army plans new government as it advances in capital #BBC #Sudan #Soudan

Excited to publish on intervention and peace in the fantastic @theconversation.com theconversation.com/central-afri... Based on my recent article in Int. PK journal: doi.org/10.1080/1353... @abi-freiburg.bsky.social @udadisi.bsky.social @allardduursma.bsky.social @ninawilen.bsky.social

France and Algeria remain locked in a cycle of reconciliation and rupture as the wounds of colonization continue to shape their uneasy relationship. @mahermezahi.bsky.social explains recent happenings. africasacountry.com/2025/02/alge...

What USA’s suspension of USAID could mean for Afghanistan p.dw.com/p/4q46x

Looking to better understand the crisis in the #EasternCongo? Centre Fellow @kvlassen.bsky.social and co-author Judith Verweijen, break down the key dynamics shaping the conflict — beyond the usual focus on minerals. www.egmontinstitute.be/congo-crisis...

"a disservice to #history & #justice" In Koko, #Nigeria, a small #museum remembers an oft-forgotten 1894 #British invasion. Compared to the Museum of West African #Art in #Benin it is underfunded & under-preserved. What challenges are there for #restitution? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

JUST IN: Celebrated author and scholar Bethwell Ogot dies

“If education and innovation are key to the United States’ ability to project power, then the country’s prospects are on shaky ground,” writes @amyzegart.bsky.social. “American K–12 education is in crisis.”

South Africa and Rwanda go head-to-head over DR Congo war

Be part of the @leverhulme.bsky.social Climate Vulnerability team 🚀 I’m looking for a 2-year postdoc to join my group at @politicsoxford.bsky.social. Apply if you’re an empirically minded junior researcher who just finished or abt to finish a PhD! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ634/p... ⏰ midday Feb 26 ⏰

🎧 NEW EPISODE | The Horn This week, Nazanine Moshiri is joined by @lieslvaudran.bsky.social to discuss what’s at stake in the upcoming African Union Commission Chairperson elections. www.crisisgroup.org/africa/afric...

🆕 The country’s 2024 presidential contest was a big surprise, as voters elected a new party for the first time. Despite decades of dominant-party rule, a strong democratic culture has long been ingrained in Botswana. www.journalofdemocra...

Read our latest News Brief on the Sahel here: us19.campaign-archive.com?u=6553b94ce3...

We ignore Sudan at our peril. This campaign of mass murder and rape will have global consequences | Nesrine Malik

South Sudan National Police Service (SSNPS) has confirmed the death of three people and wounding of seven others during protests in different residential areas in Juba and Aweil in Northern Bahr el Ghazal on Thursday night. www.facebook.com/share/p/1B2F...

SSPDF Spokesperson Maj. Gen. Lul Ruai Koang holds a press conference at army headquaters Bilpham www.facebook.com/share/v/1XZv...

Worrying developments in #Juba. Can be quickly defused or set off the political powder keg. www.radiotamazuj.org/en/news/arti...

Iranian parliamentary delegation arrives in Addis Ababa #Fanabc #Ethiopia

So 😁 to have 🆕 article in fav journal International Peacekeeping 🆓 access: doi.org/10.1080/1353... In face of growing criticism, we have to tie intervention back to what matters most: people’s expectations. Case study CAR with some comp to South Sudan and Haiti. #Conflictsky #Polisky #Afripolsky

💥Call for paper proposals 💥 The CERTIZENS Research Project invites submissions for a workshop in Accra, Ghana, from 7-9 April 2025. Abstracts must be submitted by midnight on Monday 27 January. #IDs #identification #ECOWAS #mobility #migration #Ghana teol.ku.dk/english/dept...

sometimes a book you were looking for happens to be the book that a friend just published. Mezzadra and Neilson on today’s wars not just as a matter of great powers rivalry, but as key to the transformations of contemporary capitalism

The practical implications of hyperinflation in #SouthSudan is reflected in everyday incumberances. It was in Hargeisha I last time experienced that a lunch costed a "brick" of money, which no one bothers to count.

A stimulating meeting with Mading Ngor and crew at Terab Radio on my first day back in Juba after a long absence. Learned about an impressive initiative to interview war veterans at the intersection of journalism, conservation and oral history!

Greenland in the news means a chance to remember the time we crashed four nukes into a fjord after one of our bomber crews set their plane on fire midair www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

New tenure-track job in African American history! #AcademicSky #skystorians www.jobs.virginia.gov/jobs/assista...

Join us in Zadar for the summer school on nationalism (deadline 31 January):

1 PhD post in historical sociology/war studies at the University of Liege, France: www.uliege.be/upload/docs/...

Is this the opposite of an exiting president's pardon? Interesting that it also includes UAE companies.

Among the good editorial news for this year is this great forthcoming volume on #GuineaBissau, a poorly understood country... a wonderful line-up of authors in there... www.routledge.com/Political-In...

This week Historians At The Movies kicks off the new year talking about environmental history, time travel, and the McConnaissance. Join us on Netflix at 8pm eastern this Sunday, January 5 for INTERSTELLAR. Keep #HATM alright alright alright by sharing and we’ll see you soon!

These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of Jan. 5, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Any look at the Algeria-Morocco rivalries in the Sahel really needs to focus more on Mauritania, and also a bit more on how these debates will play out between the three AES countries: www.jeuneafrique.com/1640493/poli...

I’v been tracking my work hours for 3 years now. Great tool to limit overwork - doesn’t change the work load though.

We are hiring: 4-year post doc position at our department, open to all topics in political science. 75% research and 25% teaching, good salary, great department and colleagues, and a beautiful city. Deadline: February 15 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

US Libya policy is largely limited to courting Haftar to compete with his Russian backers. But the US will never be able to give Haftar what he gets from Russia. As @emadbadi.bsky.social argues, it is futile to play catch-up in a game already lost. www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menaso...

Burkina Faso Prime Minister Ouédraogo has stated that 70.59% of the national territory is under the control of the State. Heavy fighting has taken place over the past month in the Boucle de Mahoun & Koulpélogo areas in the past month & terrorism incidents are frequent in other parts of the country.

I'm trying to get over the slow demise of Twitter, but it is so liberating to be out from under Musk's shadow. Hope my network will follow me here and that I find new exciting contacts. In my first post I want to share a recent publication I wrote with Antoni Sastre Bel: www.prio.org/publications...