📄𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 by @kristoftiteca.bsky.social @egmontinstitute.bsky.social "Why Sudan’s conflict is escalating — and becoming harder to stop" #Sudan #HornOfAfrica #ConflictAnalysis #Geopolitics #Peacebuilding 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 👉 tinyurl.com/cj6kwpu9

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

De situatie in Oost-Congo – hoorzitting in comm #BuitenlandseBetrekkingen met Marc Pecsteen @belgiummfa.bsky.social, Koen Vlassenroot #ugent, Erik Kennes @egmontinstitute.bsky.social, @kristoftiteca.bsky.social #UAntwerpen, Tshibangu Kalala #Unikin > tinyurl.com/y665sr66 > Live: tinyurl.com/a9v99d3d

"Doha's discreet military support for Sudanese Armed Forces" www.africaintelligence.com/eastern-afri...

A good day at the office for IB Traoré's masked secret police. All these people were rounded up earlier today in different parts of Ouagadougou, Burkina

I have a new article out. TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee. academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Joseph Figueira Martin, humanitaire et chercheur, est détenu à Bangui depuis 500 jours sans procès. Menacé par Wagner et victime de désinformation russe, son état est critique. Avec Olivier Vandecasteele et beaucoup d’autres, nous alertons dans @lemonde.fr www.lemonde.fr/afrique/arti...

Looking forward to read! #DRC

Today it has been 500 days since researcher/humanitarian Joseph Figuera Martin has been unjustly imprisoned in the Centr. Afr. Republic. We call for his immediate release: www.demorgen.be/meningen/hum... And we must talk about researcher safety! @kristoftiteca.bsky.social @abi-freiburg.bsky.social

This is a fantastic achievement. Congrats, Nina, for producing the most comprehensive book to date on the foreign intervention in the Sahel. What makes this work so precious, among other things, is the unique body of evidence it relies on, collected year after year in multiple Sahelian countries

We at GDI are immensely disheartened to hear that @iobua.bsky.social has been informed by the Flemish government that their core funding will not be renewed. If you would like to show your support and take action, you can sign this petition: bit.ly/46uCzYj

Ik deel zelden petities, maar de beslissing van de Vlaamse regering om het @iobua.bsky.social stop te zetten is niet alleen kortzichtig, het ondermijnt één van Vlaanderens belangrijkste centra rond internationale samenwerking en goed bestuur... Tekenen jullie ook? #SaveIOB chng.it/wNxkkfLCBd

Stand with our member and conference partner @iobua.bsky.social!

A few of our alumni started a petition to save the IOB. Please sign/share! www.change.org/p/save-our-s...

If there is one institute at the @uantwerpen.be truly committed to collaborating with partners from the Global South, it is the @iobua.bsky.social. In times of geopolitical change, we need an institute like this more than ever, but the Flemish government does not seem to understand that. #saveIOB

We're still very much in shock here at the @iobua.bsky.social: the Flemish government decided to cut all of our our core-funding, with only 3 months of financing left (and after a particularly positive evaluation of our institute) #saveIOB blog.uantwerpen.be/iob/iob-unde...

“a national security threat that has been an instrument for lawfare” - #US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, on the #ICC The Court has allegedly paid salaries until the end of 2025 in advance, as it braces for institution-wide #sanctions from the #Trump government www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Please sign this petition for the release of Joseph Figueira Martin, a humanitarian who's been arbitrarily detained (for close to 1,5 years..) and tortured in the Central African Republic. petitions.protecthumanitarians.org/en/petitions...

Reminder: next Tuesday there's Mich Thill's book presentation on the Congolese police - online, so feel free to join!

C'est pas pour faire nos intéressants mais @afriquexxi.bsky.social raconte des histoires qu'on ne lit pas ailleurs. Passionnant papier de @lowcausse34.bsky.social // À Johannesburg, la vie brutaliste de Ponte City

Ik schreef voor de @volkskrant.nl over waarom het cynisch is dat het WK wielrennen in Rwanda plaatsvindt, en waarom het sportswashing is: www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

Proud supervisor here!

I wrote for @foreignpolicy.com as to why, on why, after nearly 40 years of rebellion, and 20 years of #ICC arrest warrants, the #LRA's Joseph #Kony still has not been caught: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/16/j...

🚴‍♂️ #Rwanda hosts the 2025 #UCIRoadWorldChampionships. But with its army’s role in the Congo war & ongoing rights abuses — should Belgium boycott? @kristoftiteca.bsky.social explains on De Universiteit van Vlaanderen (NL podcast). 🎧 https://loom.ly/r9uMUaI#Rwanda

Please join us for the presentation of Mich Thill's excellent book on the Congolese police 👇

🌍Proud to share our new article in Land Use Policy: “Everyday Property-Making: Negotiating Land Rights, Precarity and Public Authority in Urban Congo” 📎 doi.org/10.1016/j.la... #Property #Land #DRCongo #PublicAuthority #Precarity @crg-ugent.bsky.social @roskildeuni.bsky.social @ucph.bsky.social

I've written about the difficulties challenges in the various #DRC peace initiatives, and the bleak outlook.

#RDC: « près de 95 % des ressources théoriquement affectées aux investissements publics servent en réalité à couvrir les dépassements budgétaires des institutions politiques et administratives » 7sur7.cd/2025/08/29/r...

Je viens de parler sur @rfi.fr's Le grand invité Afrique sur les prochaines élections en Ouganda: www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/...

What would happen if Abrego Garcia is deported to Uganda under the US-Uganda asylum deal? I spoke to @npr.org about it: www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...

Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war

EU ambassador boasting about meeting with EU-sanctioned individual..

#refugeerentierism "#Uganda has agreed to take in nationals from third countries who may not get asylum in the United States but do not wish to return to their countries of origin, Kampala’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said." www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

I've published a new piece on the #DRC conflict, and the ongoing peace negotiations with #Rwanda and #M23 (and my concerns) for Responsible Statecraft. Title not my choice; original title: "The Day After the Deal: Prospecting, Not Peacebuilding" responsiblestatecraft.org/congo-rwanda...

Join us next year in Antwerp for the @eadi.bsky.social conference!

Truly excellent piece on Dutch drug kingpin's 'Bolle Jos' activities in Sierra Leone; and how he basically managed to buy his way into politics & society 👇

Reopening the call for a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship on jihad in Subsaharan Africa, with a later start date (January 2026) - French a plus but not a requirement... drive.google.com/file/d/1oLPb...

Since the coup, Niger's security strategy hasn't been clear. Niger hasn't invited large numbers of foreign mercenaries (Mali) and hasn't opted for militarizing the whole society (Burkina). It now seems to be drifting toward the (disastrous) Burkinabè solution relying on militias

Een nieuwe opinie in @knack.be (in reactie op editorial van Bert Bultinck): over Sudan en onze aandachtskaders voor conflicten, en hoe die verschoven zijn over de jaren: www.knack.be/nieuws/belgi...

Great report on Uganda’s economic and political interests in Eastern DRC—its competition with Rwanda, tactics to secure its influence, and ties with Nande elites. Very informative!

M'n opinie in De Standaard over de Congo-Rwanda vredesdeal: "Vrede is geen vastgoeddeal, ook niet in Congo": www.standaard.be/opinies/vred...

New article out today! I interviewed Prof. Derek Peterson about A Popular History of Idi Amin's Uganda - a new book that explores why so many young nationalists chose to lend their talents to a violent dictatorship. www.geeska.com/en/derek-pet...

Happy to have this report out on Uganda's role in DRC, with Giovanni Salvaggio - in which we document Uganda's ambiguous role, and the role of infrastructure, roads and trade

Nouvel article par cher collègue @denissamnick.bsky.social "Cameroun. Éduquer et punir les mineurs, héritage d’une « colonialité pénale" @iobua.bsky.social afriquexxi.info/Cameroun-Edu...

A few quotes for NZZ on the impact of Western religious actors on the anti-LGBTQ movement in Africa: "Titeca attributes the success of American evangelicals in the region to their combination of homophobic rhetoric with an anti-Western stance." www.nzz.ch/english/west...

..from the last issue from the @thecontinent.org - more relevant than ever:

"“The M23’s brutal control over Goma has created a climate of fear among those perceived to be allied to the Congolese government (...) The mass killings don’t seem to be actions by rogue fighters, but rather the M23 leadership’s efforts to solidify their control by whatever means necessary.”

Excellent piece by Minna Salami on the 'populist trap' in Africa - and on Traoré: www.theideasletter.org/essay/africa...

Après un an de détention en RCA, le chercheur Joseph Figueira Martin n'a toujours pas été jugé 👇 www.hrw.org/fr/news/2025...