One reason why I cannot and will not be a neutral, unbiased researcher: the son of the kindest, sharpest and most welcoming man I spent hours interviewing during my last trip has been killed by a Malian drone strike, leaving three orphans behind

"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."

Please never forget that these guys trumpeted that they seized power by force from the civilians because the civilian rulers were unable to defeat jihadist insurgents. The truth is they're doing way worse on the security front than their civilian predecessors

#Niger An apparent military drone strike that killed 17 civilians and 3 lslamist fighters at a crowded market in the west violated laws-of-war prohibitions against indiscriminate attacks, might be a war crime, @hrw.org, @jbgallopin.bsky.social, Richard Weir, Léo Martine www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...

Multilateralism in 2026 | Faute de moyens, la Commission de la Cemac suspend provisoirement ses activités

Inscrivez-vous, les Bruxellois, ça va être bien

The second episode of The Sahel Untold is live! We hear the powerful stories of Zeinab and Fatima—women whose lives were changed forever by #BokoHaram. They open up about their escape, reintegration into their communities & their reflections & hopes for the future. Listen ➡️ https://shorturl.at/l7Sq7

Even uglier: all the properties of the political parties have been transferred to the state

#BurkinaFaso: Junta Pulls the Plug on Political Life No more political parties. Junta's "putting democratic institutions on trial using the pretext of terrorism...but counterterrorism efforts should not undermine civil liberties” A. Newton Barry told @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...

One of the points here that is actually the most noteworthy is that Guinea is hesitant to support Mali too much for fear of attracting JNIM's ire: www.jeuneafrique.com/1761976/poli...

La petite nouvelle tragi-comique du jour

Omer Bartov: Academic Silence, Gaza, and the Costs of Speaking

Human Rights Watch researchers resign after report on Palestinian right of return blocked

Great opportunity to engage further with the arguments @wlacher.bsky.social and I are developing in our latest piece in @dissentmag.bsky.social. Sign up!

Brilliantly spot on. The cruelty of all this is that these steps are sold to you by your own colleagues turned mid-level managers. Also, some steps may be framed poetically. At Kent-Brussels, we were asked to "prune our teaching portfolio" before being thrown under the bus for good

Brilliantly spot on. The cruelty of all this is that these steps are sold to you by your own colleagues turned mid-level managers. Also, some steps may be framed poetically. At Kent-Brussels, we were asked to "prune our teaching portfolio" before being thrown under the bus for good

The one truth about Germany that will kill all your preconceptions about this country

Not making the headlines anymore but the blockade of Bamako continues. And the drivers pay an heavy price. JNIM has executed 15 of them lately

Dit celui qui déjeune avec le milliardaire technofasciste Peter Thiel :

"War crimes rage out of control". Well this is just a delightful way to start the week. All that was built over decades, collapsing before our eyes. Who is to blame? States. Not the law. States. The problem is politics, it's not the law. #IHL #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw

Inside a multi-village settler-soldier pogrom in Masafer Yatta

C'est vrai du maintien de l'ordre, de la politique environnementale, de l'aide au développement ou, ici, de la santé publique - qu'est-ce que nos pays font de *qualitativement* différent de Trump?

Israel bombed tents in Gaza today, killed at least 30 people including children, and the death toll is likely to rise www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Funny that no one from the UoKent has been interviewed for this piece. Might have helped understand that Matt knows that he's lying

Good morning. These institutions, built over decades, are flawed, but we'll miss them when they're gone. Scary to think where we got to. #UN www.bbc.com/news/article...

US envoys to Israel blocked early warning of 'Apocalyptic Wasteland' in Gaza | Reuters

Grosse charge contre le Grand Continent, qu'en lecteur occasionnel pas spécialement attentif, je ne voyais pas sous ce jour très problématique

Yesterday, the Burkinabè authorities announced the dissolution of all political parties and the repeal of the legislative framework governing them, along with the transfer of their assets to the State. 📸 OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP

Here's a critique raised by our colleague Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta against the piece @wlacher.bsky.social and I have written for @dissentmag.bsky.social, which we try to address (under Mercy's text)

Anyone who paid attention knew that there was no doubt about the official number from the GHM being an undercount due to its historically conservative approach and due to inability to keep pace with the actual death rate. IDF now admits, like it did in 2021 and 2014, that it has an accurate record.

Hier, j'ai reposté ce super article qui explique comment l'IA générative ré-écrit littéralement l'histoire en fusionnant des sources réelles. Logique d'effacement du vrai terrifiante, applicable évidemment au présent puisque désormais chaque événement est représenté...

And this prompts the question of which military deliveries Russia&China had carried out since the 2023coup d'état (Russian anti-aerial system in 2024), but also what US forces had left behind at base 101.MANPADS+radars are still there, a few cannons, not enough to be dealing w many kamikaze drones

Hier, j'ai reposté ce super article qui explique comment l'IA générative ré-écrit littéralement l'histoire en fusionnant des sources réelles. Logique d'effacement du vrai terrifiante, applicable évidemment au présent puisque désormais chaque événement est représenté...

Something going on at Niamey airport rn

«What historians call the ‹perpetrator perspective,› evident in many Nazi photos and films, simply cannot be generated by AI. Instead, these images reveal the prompt behind them: visualizations of generic descriptions.» #GenericPastness www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...

Venez, les Bruxellois

« Je me suis trompé sur ce pays » reconnaît amèrement le chercheur qui avait expliqué « être tombé amoureux de la Russie il y a vingt ans ». Cet amour est mort dans l’hôpital pénitentiaire de Toula puis dans l’isolement de la cellule de Lefortovo. « J’avais une image romantique. C’était un mirage »

'En pleine salle d’audience, un juge assesseur aurait demandé à une mère accompagnée de son fils de 4 ans : « Qui est le père de l’enfant ? » Cette dernière se serait effondrée' Et ce n'est qu'un exemple dans un torrent d'abominations

"Despite its name, however, the Board of Peace is not intended to resolve conflict. Rather, it is a form of authoritarian conflict management, subduing war through repressive means." @danaelkurd.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/27/t...

Le géant chinois Zijin Mining rachète plusieurs mines d'or au Mali, en Côte d'Ivoire et en Éthiopie

Great paper, which resonates with many observations I made lately in Bassikounou, Mberra and the surrounding areas | Refugee camps: a persistent paradox https://rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/01/20/refugee-camps-a-persistent-paradox/

Amazing paper

Sure, let's ask the Trump regime's murderous masked thugs to come over to Europe and "help with security" - wtf?

Et il ne sera pas nécessaire de procéder à des recrutements spéciaux de nervis décérébrés ; on a déjà tout ce qu'il faut dans la boutique

Regardons les USA avec le fascisme à l'œuvre avec les horreurs de ICE entre déportations et meurtres. Noublions pas qu'en France le rapport d’autopsie confirme qu’El Hacen Diarra a été aussi assassiné par la police le 14 janvier dernier.

i feel for all the radical centrists out there now confronting the fact that their ideology was the one built in a bubble and formed by groupthink. with enough exposure to facts and logic they will, some day god willing, catch up to the left

Several thousand people protested in Paris Sunday over the death in custody of a Mauritanian immigrant worker, yelling slogans against "a police force that kills us", an AFP journalist saw. u.afp.com/SBLb

Bart De Wever citing Gramsci in Davos. 2026, baby

Niger: German radio correspondent Deutsche Welle jailed in Niamey