'Nous appelons le Collège de France à revenir sur sa décision et à garantir la tenue de ce colloque dans le respect de la liberté intellectuelle. Nous appelons le ministère à honorer son devoir de protection de la recherche, non à en devenir le censeur' 🤔 Römer et Baptiste doivent surtout se barrer

Ce livre est adapté d'un mémoire de Master soutenu récemment à Bamako. C'est l’étude la plus pointue que je connaisse qui compare le JNIM et l'EI-S. Super boulot https://www.laboutiqueafricavivre.com/livres/312296-sahel-terrain-de-concurrence-entre-le-jnim-et-l-etat-islamique-9782336564524.html

Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell

Philippe Baptiste, de mec dont je n'avais jamais entendu parler il y a trois jours à top 3 de mon trombinoscope de l'abjection. Comment font-ils?

Over 11,000 Palestinians from Gaza, mostly women and children, have disappeared since October 7. Their relatives don’t know if they’re dead or alive, trapped under rubble or detained in Israeli prisons — but they’re desperate to find answers. www.972mag.com/search-gaza-...

La recherche basée sur la discussion méthodique appuyée sur les faits et le raisonnement, ne peut pas exercer sa mission d'intérêt général si elle est soumise à la validation politique a priori. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran... Les libertés publiques sont notre affaire à toutes et tous.

Impressive job. Also very sad that these ways of documenting past crimes don't exist in the countries where I work - lands where traumas remain private

Sahel. Penser l'histoire longue des enfermements

Super pleased to join @corinnajentzsch.com and her team in The Hague later this week

My conversation with @omerbartov.bsky.social is out now - watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of #Gaza civilians - “I feel like they’ve destroyed all my pride in being an Israeli – in being an #IDF officer,” Daniel says in the programme. “All that’s left is shame.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Le Mali bientôt sous contrôle djihadiste ? Analyse d’une rhétorique alarmiste

Né avant la honte. Quelle fatigue

Your essential morning read. It's sad we don't have a vaccine against Trumpian horseshit but @vincentfoucher.bsky.social who has been working on Nigeria for many years tries his best

Attacks continue in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza as Israeli forces expand military action beyond 'yellow line'.

Mali: un mois sans électricité à Mopti à cause de l'embargo jihadiste

As Landau sings the praises of Mali's junta, the reality keeps biting

Israel is using a 'no war, no peace' Lebanonisation model in Gaza, analysts say. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

This is hilarious

I wrote about Zohran’s victory. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Statement of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor on the situation in El-Fasher, North Darfur www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme...

Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik

UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China

#Trump menace le #Nigeria d’une intervention militaire pour protéger les chrétiens ? À (re)lire ce papier de Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos "les accusations et contre-accusations de génocide continuent de s’appuyer sur des assertions invérifiables"⤵️

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

The ceasefire continues according to virtually every media outlet. Israel is demolishing entire neighbourhoods in Gaza to make sure Palestinians never go back. The genocide is ongoing

Imagine the team advising Trump on this part of the world? *Checks notes* Oh yeah that tracks....

Genocide resumes, reads this weekend's cover of @thecontinent.org, as El Fasher falls to the Rapid Support Forces after a year long siege. Gruesome images of their killing spree that is estimated to have killed thousands, make the rounds. What Sudanese activists warned would happen is playing out.

Darfur genocide took place at peak early 2000s American primacy, current Sudan genocide being done by forces backed by top US ally UAE, but sure let’s blame it on “post-American world” SMDH

#Sudan: MSF fears large numbers of people remain trapped in grave danger in #ElFasher, blocked by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from reaching safer areas after they and their allies seized control of the city this week. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/sudan-msf-de...

When we look at this massacre and many more perpetrated by the RSF, let's be clear who funds, equips & sustains them. It's the UAE. Yes, the same UAE that might own your football club, fly you on your holidays, invests in our national infrastructure. If boycotts work, we should be boycotting now.

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

Total madness

I love the fact that @afriquexxi.bsky.social is publishing a piece about Sirāt... but I disagree with the critique of the film (which I'm not so fond of, but for other reasons)

Lynch Mobs, Arson, Slaughter of Herds: West Bank Faces Unprecedented Israeli Violence

The thing is, when incidents like this are investigated it almost always turns out that Israel was guilty and lying about it, and almost never turns out that Palestinians were lying about their abuse, and then it never seems to affect the next round of media coverage of competing claims.

Horrific www.npr.org/2025/10/30/n...

Les trois otages émiratis et iranien enlevés au #Mali le 23 septembre par le #JNIM ont été libérés aujourd'hui contre 50 millions d'euros et une livraison d'armes. Un jet privé attend en ce moment sur le tarmac de #Bamako pour les ramener à Dubaï. www.jeuneafrique.com/1736091/poli...

Part of the background to the fall of El Fasher and RSF atrocities there is the sustained airlift from the UAE to the RSF via Libya - sixty Il-76 flights during October alone. For the past six months, Haftar-controlled eastern Libya has supplanted Chad as the RSF's most important supply route.

The liberation of the Emirati national in Mali is the craziest deal ever recorded in the Sahel. Absolutely stunning

"Nathaniel Redmond, director of the Yale school of public health, said on Tuesday that the “horror, scale and velocity of killing” in El Fasher had left pools of blood visible from satellites" Pity the West simply does not have any tools to pressure UAE, which is the RSF's main funder and supplier

Israel continues to implement the Gaza ceasefire by killing 104 Palestinians www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...

There are no words for Sudan-- the "blood bath" conclusion marks the complete failure of the international community. This is a horrific situation & like so many other wars, I doubt there will be justice for these survivors & their families.

La rédaction du Monde réalise-t-elle le délire dystopique de cette formulation?

"Depuis octobre 2023, 10 enfants palestiniens perdent chaque jour une jambe."

"What is condemned as “violence” is not what kills or inflicts harm. It is what threatens oligarchic control or challenges national mythologies upon which established order depends."

🇳🇪 #Niger / 🇺🇸 #US Citizen Abduction – Corrected location of the phone's tracking in Dinki, just outside of Niamey, and not "56 miles" from the capital as initially reported. This is thanks to the (always excellent) MENASTREAM. More on what probably went wrong...🧵1/7

"It was clear that Gaza was crystallizing a new period in which the West, instead of merely avoiding the duty to prevent – as Samantha Power argued in her 2003 study of “America in the age of genocide” – actively participates in genocide" substack.com/home/post/p-...

“The ‘peace plan’ itself was already absurd in myriad ways. No accountability measures. No acknowledgment of Israel’s apartheid apparatus…” @premthakker.bsky.social writes about Trump’s refusal to hold Israel accountable in his ‘peace plan.’ Read the article: zeteo.com/p/trump-peac...

Palestine rights group seeks prosecution of UK citizens who fought for Israel, naming one individual and gathering evidence against more than ten others for breaching foreign enlistment laws — prosecute all the babies killers. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...