I wish I didn't already have something going on! This will be a great talk. I hope it is recorded.

This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ

No Samaritans in SLC, apparently. Not on that day.

Governance through Graft. That is at the centre of the US regime.

#JNIM explicitly banned the transport company "Diarra Transport". Yesterday, the jihadist group announced strict conditions for the company to restart business. The company must ensure that women riding on its buses are veiled, and that it and its clients do not collaborate with the military. 1/2

Or - just don't go. Don't take the risk. Don't support the US economy.

[Média] "Mali : 2025, année de la culture, mais quelle culture ?" Une chronique de Bokar Sangaré, Chercheur à SciencePo ULB (REPI Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale) à Libération. www.liberation.fr/internationa...

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

Come to Europe!

at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition

The attack has really hit home. Thanks to all of those that reached out to me personally. God bless you.

100% correct.

I study political violence. I knew this day would sometime come. Even though I have never attended sacrament service at this building, I feel like members of my family were killed. God be with you til we meet again, brothers and sisters.

Now this asshole is securitizing sofas and loveseats.

Someone anti-ICE shot the people ICE was detaining and happened to drop bullets with the words "anti-ice" written in pen. Got it.

Done.

Depuis le 3 septembre, les jihadistes imposent un blocus sur les routes de l'ouest du #Mali. Une opération inédite et révélatrice de la nouvelle stratégie du #JNIM : asphyxier les poumons économiques du pays et contraindre les forces armées à se disperser. www.jeuneafrique.com/1721333/poli...

It is amazing how much worthless research there is published on JNIM's politics and practices in the #Sahel. So few are based on fieldwork. So few interviews conducted. Few article engage with the literature in French. Honestly.... it's depressing.

Take note, @isanet.bsky.social.

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Slightly diminish a band: Hubbub at the Disco.

Really nice explanation in this video.

To the 205 other applicants to a recent job in the UK in conflict & security that got rejection letters today: I feel you! Something will stick. The academic job market blows. Just remember - keep at it!

Go live and work in Bordeaux with a great team!

Our 3rd workshop for young peace and conflict researchers, held last week at Augsburg. Once again – a great opportunity for discussing PhD research, getting feedback, and meeting peers! Thanks to the #BMFTR for the financial support.

In Burkina Faso, on the other hand, the military government passed a law to formalise the role of vigilante groups in order to bolster their fight against the Sahelian jihadist insurgency. @pmfrowd.bsky.social has written lucidly about this: academic.oup.com/afraf/articl...

What do healing crystals in Sweden have to do with the Taliban in Afghanistan? Our co-coordinator Prof. Dr. Florian Kühn answers this question on Swedish television. Find out more 👇 conflicts-meanings-transitions.de/en/growing-t...

I'm on Team "How". Team "the ways in which" can suck it.

Put it on your reading lists, folks!

I wonder how long it will take for #JNIM to capture these vehicles...

I'm just a boring ol' Political Scientist. I do not have degrees from MIT in "nuclear, chemical, and math".

Riina Turtio's article, "Soviet Military Assistance to Mali and Guinea, 1958–1980" in the Journal of West African History is a MUST READ. @glasmanjo.bsky.social may have been at least a bit right about Historians doing better work than Political Scientists! muse.jhu.edu/pub/26/artic...

Even if you assume the legitimacy of ICE operations, the idea that a fucking truck-mounted machine gun is necessary to carry them out is insane. This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.

Have you ever attended a talk or event that is fully-hybrid that has ACTUALLY worked ? Honestly.... sometimes these are rough.

Il faut le lire pour le croire. Le Gouvernement allemand cherche un accord avec les talibans (!) pour expulser des afghans. Les talibans qui tuent, torturent & maltraitent massivement. Les talibans que les allemands eux-mêmes ont combattu par les armes durant 20 ans. Quelle déliquescence morale.

So much for the Kenyan-led, US/Canada/France/EU-supported security intervention launched last year....

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

I'm honored to contribute to the "Wagner Symposium" organized by the Armed Groups and International Law Blog, with a piece focused on accountability for Wagner Group crimes in Mali. www.armedgroups-internationallaw.org/2025/06/27/a...

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By the person who bombed every single hospital in Gaza.

Is anyone else out there getting a bunch of article reviewer requests at the moment?

Remember when they told us women were too emotional for politics?

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

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

This past three to seven days, and continuing today, Sahelian military forces have suffered staggering defeats (Ekinewane; Falmey; Dioura; Boulikessi; Koumbri; and today an attack on the base in Timbuktu). JNIM perpetrated all these attacks except for Ekinewane. Really difficult times in the #Sahel.

Honestly... see you in Brighton. @isanet.bsky.social - don't put people at risk because of lost money.

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Binta Sidibé Gascon's testimony is essential. Watch it and forget the viral AI-generated Captain Africa horseshit that saturates the online space about IB Traore's Burkina

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