@jesperbjarnesen.bsky.social
Senior researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute working on labour mobilities, displacement, urban informalities, street protests in Sahel, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Burundi. Also interested in AU, EU and Nordic migration policies and politics.
@maggiedwyer.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh; Research on military and politics in Africa, peacekeeping, conflict, interventions.
@drherbert.bsky.social
Head of Research for North Africa and the Sahel @ The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
@kalidousy.bsky.social
Journaliste/ Réalisateur 🇫🇷🇸🇳 Entre France 24 et TV5 Monde pour suivre l’actualité africaine. Ex correspondant au Sahel (2016-2022) #FuckCancer
@sjzimmerman.bsky.social
Historian, gender, West Africa, French imperialism, militarization, Author of Militarizing Marriage (Ohio UP 2020). Past-présidente of French Colonial Historical Society, BCDSS alum, recovering Oakland As Fan, PNW hiking/backpacking
@lyestagziria.bsky.social
Senior Analyst at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC). Researcher of illicit economies and instability in West Africa & the Sahel. Lover of data, graphs and excels.
@yvesvenedey.de
Freier Autor & Journalist, vorher u.a. Presseprecher und Campaigner Newsletter gratis abonnieren: Zukunftsfragen: https://steadyhq.com/de/klima-demokratie/newsletter/sign_up Bluesky-Briefing: https://steadyhq.com/de/bsky-briefing/newsletter/sign_up
@afriquexxi.bsky.social
L'Afrique au long cours: http://afriquexxi.info Our (fast-growing) English section: https://afriquexxi.info/en Le starter pack des auteurs et autrices: https://go.bsky.app/MoLFQbW Soutenez-nous / Donate: http://afriquexxi.info/Faire-un-don
@pmfrowd.bsky.social
Researching security politics | Borders, migration, data, intl. interventions, Sahel & West Africa | prof @ University of Ottawa
@crisisgroup.org
We're an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict.
@azelin.bsky.social
Senior Fellow @ Washington Institute for Near East Policy | Visiting Research Scholar in Dept of Politics @ Brandeis | Founder of Jihadology | Author of “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” jihadology.net jihadologyplus.com
@casusbelli.bsky.social
Slightly French Analyst | #OSINT #IMINT and monitoring | Mostly Africa and ex-USSR | RT ≠ endorsement
@wlacher.bsky.social
Political scientist with a longstanding interest in violent conflict, Libya and the Sahel. Author, Libya's Fragmentation (2020); co-editor, Violence and Social Transformation in Libya (2023). https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/researcher/wolfram-lacher
@natkpowell.bsky.social
Historian--France, Africa, etc. Honorary Researcher Lancaster University CWD, West Africa Analyst, Oxford Analytica. Author of "France's Wars in Chad" https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/frances-wars-in-chad/6B7D8F9C8A81E0A83028C24EA0CF8D28
@simnasr.bsky.social
Journaliste spécialiste des mouvements jihadistes FRANCE24 Senior Research Fellow Soufan Center Auteur de « État islamique, le fait accompli » (Plon) الناسُ صِنْفانِ: مَوتَى في حَياتِـهِمُ/ وآخَرونَ بِبَطْن الأرضِ أحْـيـاءُ
@africacenter.bsky.social
Advancing African security by expanding understanding, providing a trusted platform for dialogue, building partnerships, and catalyzing solutions
@mkevane.com
Economics professor, Santa Clara University. Interested in political economy of Burkina Faso, Sudan, and Puerto Rico, and housing issues in San José, CA. I like engaging in university governance, too. Also, libraries and reading: www.favl.org
@aeowinpact.bsky.social
Cyber and analytical investigations Investigations with Impact. All Eyes On Wagner: Project on #Wagner mercenaries & GRU upcoming ops in Africa |Tips: [email protected] | Media: [email protected]
@johnalechner.bsky.social
Writer, journalist, amateur linguist. DEATH IS OUR BUSINESS out with Bloomsbury March 2025. BEGINNER’S CHECHEN out with Hippocrene https://www.johnlechnerauthor.com/
@sebbachelet.bsky.social
Anthropologist & migrant https://sebastienbachelet.com/crimes-of-solidarity
@timglawion.bsky.social
Senior researcher, Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute, Freiburg Subjective security, conflict, development / Centrafrique, Lebanon, Somaliland, Haiti Book: Security Arena in Africa https://www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/staff/glawion-dr-tim
@beverlyochieng.bsky.social
Books | Sahel coup watcher | Wagner Group stalker | Senior Analyst, Francophone Africa, Control Risks | Senior Associate, CSIS Africa | occasional typos, usual disclaimers Dakar/Nairobi/Bookshelf
@nomade-sahelien.bsky.social
Géographe un peu fou mais sympa, révolté mais optimiste | Veille sécuritaire Afrique de l'Ouest | @WAAT_Band & @MATA_osint Chaîne WhatsApp : https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va8tOQO1Xqub9cODDw2Q Twitter/X : https://x.com/Nomade_Sahelien
@camillelefebvre.bsky.social
Historienne Directrice de recherche/research professor CNRS-EHESS Spécialiste du Sahara et du Sahel 19e-20e s.
@debos.bsky.social
Prof. of Political Science. University of Paris Nanterre @uparisnanterre.bsky.social - ISP Writing on war, tech, gender, postcolonialism Completing a book on biometrics in Africa She/her https://www.marielledebos.com/en/about/
@zaz.bsky.social
professor of international relations | studies armed conflict and social change
@altuna.bsky.social
Mostly Islamism. North Africa & Sahel. Narratives and counternarratives. Senior Research Fellow at GWU Program on Extremism
@arnaudcontreras.bsky.social
Auteur de livres, photographe, producteur de documentaires et reportages @ France Culture et RFI /// www.arnaudcontreras.com
@denistull.bsky.social
Researcher I Conflict I Intervention I Politics I Sahel @swp-mea.bsky.social I @megatrends-afrika.de https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/researcher/denis-m-tull Views strictly my own
@ilyssa.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in PoliSci @TempleUniv | borders, violence & (in-)security, identity | Currently @USIP @DoDMinerva Peace Scholar & @XCEPT_Research | Sahel & North Africa
@vincentfoucher.bsky.social
West African politics maniac. Bissau-Conakry-Dakar-Banjul & all things Boko Haram. https://www.lam.sciencespobordeaux.fr/membre/vincent-foucher/ https://afriquexxi.info/ https://polaf.hypotheses.org/la-revue .
@catherinelkelly.bsky.social
Associate Prof/Associate Dean at Africa Center for Strategic Studies. CFR Term Member, ex ABA ROLI, Harvard, WashU. Justice/rule of law, democracy/security sector governance, organized crime. Personal account.
@calebweiss.bsky.social
Defections Program Lead for Uganda at Bridgeway Foundation. Kampala-based. Editor @LongWarJournal. Focused on jihadism and political violence in Africa.
@adamsandor.bsky.social
Researching South-South security cooperation and armed groups in Africa. #Mali #Niger #Nigeria #Mozambique #CAR.
@acleddata.bsky.social
The highest quality and most widely used real-time data source on political violence and protest. Bringing clarity to crisis. acleddata.com
@joeguiffard.bsky.social
🇨🇵 in 🇺🇸 (GWU) Researching strategic competition on 1. 🇺🇸 Cyber & SIGINT 2. 🌾W-African rivalries 🔬PhD'ing in Geopolitics @ GEODE (IFG/Paris 8 Uni.) ✍️ Policy'ing @ Institut Montaigne (think-tank) 🪔 Teaching @ Sciences Po Paris (intel&cyber) 🏖 Fmr 🇨🇵 gov
@andreipopoviciu.bsky.social
Freelance journalist. Work in Lighthouse Reports, Al Jazeera, Le Monde, Washington Post, The Guardian, New Lines Magazine, The Telegraph, Foreign Policy, Associated Press, Der Spiegel, The New Humanitarian etc. www.andreipopoviciu.com
@ethuin.bsky.social
Researcher, writer, scholar and investigator. Recovering academic and UN expert. Hiphop and cooking aficionado. Kujenga amani lazima kuelewa vita.
@factspacewa.bsky.social
Fact-checking organisation fighting bad information, guided by IFCN code of principles.
@ejschmidt.bsky.social
2024-25 ACLS Fellow . ethnomusicologist at Babson College . researching music economies in NW Africa (Sahel/Sahara) . Californian survivor of the New England & North Texas taco dystopiae
@caseymcneill.bsky.social
International relations prof. Critical security studies, political geography, historical IR, Sahel. NYC. She/her
@marinegueguin.bsky.social
Lecturer in Security Studies and IR at Leeds Beckett Uni | PhD in Security Studies at Uni of Leeds | Research Interests: Terrorism, Counterterrorism & Decolonial CT, France, Sahel | Co-host and co-creator of Insecure: A Security Podcast