Almost at the end of the month, I haven't included ISWAP related incidents in Nigeria and Cameroon, and I've definitely missed some but there's been over 100 security related incidents across Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and Benin in the past 27 days with the majority occurring in Burkina.

The Islamic State's weekly an-Naba' magazine counts merely 8 pages. Almost completely focuses on operations in African provinces. In total there were 24 operations, 22 of them in Africa. 124 killed or wounded in Somalia, 27 in Nigeria, 4 in Mozambique, 4 in Congo and 2 in Syria.

You can't out-Reform Reform. You can't out-Farage Farage. Any attempt to do so simply makes them stronger every time. Why do we have to go through this every time? It's not even a matter of dispute any more.

Big LOL at my university HR department for holding this workshop on Just a Accepting Your Shitty Little Work Life, You Drone

Was great panel - was speaking to students about the book just this week as well!

Delighted to be one of the lucky researchers selected to receive support from @folkefba.bsky.social in the coming year. This project is very dear to me. It will be hosted by @bicc-bonn.bsky.social fba.se/en/newspress...

1/x I have been researching #BokoHaram for years. The claim by US Senator Scott Perry that USAID funds Boko Haram is unsubstantiated, absurd and dangerous. Let me go over this... economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/interna...