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www.ilyassaliba.com
Deputy Director at @cei-iscte.bsky.social • Assistant Professor at Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon • Rising powers, international security, Africa & the Atlantic
Center for International Peace Operations
Experts for missions. On a mission for peace.
Deutsches Kompetenzzentrum für intl. Friedenseinsätze + zivile Expert:innen
https://www.zif-berlin.org/impressum
Social scientist working on democracy, promotion and activism of democracy, and its interplay with cultural change @idos-research.bsky.social.
👉 dnowack.github.io
Democracy, social cohesion & scenarios ⚪️Head of research program "Transformation of political (dis-)order" @IDOS_research (new name, same quality research & policy advice)
English-language edition of @monde-diplomatique.fr.
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EU trade and geoeconomics @ Bertelsmann Stiftung | Grassroots thinktanking and young perspectives on foreign policy @ Polis180 e. V.
Views are my own.
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
Researcher.
Polish voice on terror, conflicts, crime networks, Islamic State, al-Qaeda.
Now, also following Islamic State's plans in Africa. Politics in the Sahel.
Writing for hire. DM.
@saladinaldronni on X/Twitter
https://ko-fi.com/saladinaldronni
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
Cyber and analytical investigations
Investigations with Impact.
All Eyes On Wagner: Project on #Wagner mercenaries & GRU upcoming ops in Africa |Tips: tips.aeow@proton.me | Media: contact@investig-impact.org
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
professor of international relations | studies armed conflict and social change - Substack (IT): @francescostrazzari
Mostly Islamism. North Africa & Sahel. Narratives and counternarratives. Senior Research Fellow at GWU Program on Extremism
Auteur de livres, photographe, producteur de documentaires et reportages France Culture et RFI /// ⚓️ & 🐪
www.arnaudcontreras.com
Assistant Professor, The American University of Paris | PhD, Temple University | smuggling, borders, violence & (in-)security, identity | Former @USIP @DoDMinerva Peace Scholar & @XCEPT_Research | Sahel & North Africa
Defections Program Lead for Uganda at Bridgeway Foundation. Kampala-based. Editor @LongWarJournal. Focused on jihadism and political violence in Africa.
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🇨🇵 in 🇬🇧
Researching strategic competition on
1. 🇺🇸 Cyber & SIGINT
2. 🌾W-African rivalries
🔬PhD in Geopolitics @ GEODE (IFG/Paris 8 Uni.)
✍️ Policy @ Institut Montaigne (think-tank)
🪔 Teaching @ Sciences Po Paris (intel&cyber)
🏖 Fmr 🇨🇵 gov
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
anthropologist and Prof für ganz Wichtiges
https://nojoke.net/
ethnomusicologist at Babson College . researching music economies in NW Africa (Sahel/Sahara) . Californian survivor of the New England & North Texas taco dystopiae
International relations prof. Critical security studies, political geography, historical IR, Sahel. NYC. She/her
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
I hope this is a better place than Twitter
Still finding my way into bsky | Currently PhDing @UvA_AISSR | West Africa/Senegal - EU, b/orders, colonial continuities | She/her | Somewhere between Brx, Brln, Dkr - mostly in a library |🍉.
Historian | Digital Humanities & AI | Data Curator, University of Bayreuth
https://www.frederickmadore.com/
https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica
Blueskies (and darkskies) on militarisation in the Sahel. PhD candidate at the London School of Economics. Research Associate at ODI Global.
aoifemccullough.com
https://www.lse.ac.uk/international-development/people/research-students/Aoife-McCullough
Economic migrant l Toubab l
Words from West Africa for Bloomberg
Research Fellow, Clingendael Institute. Post-doc with with the Danish Institute for International Studies. PhD in African History from Columbia University. Learning and writing about the Sahel, North Africa, and France.
Sub-Saharan Africa (mostly Sahel) | Terrorism | Conflict | Opinions are my own
Historienne, CNRS, Institut des mondes africains, corédac chef de la revue Politique africaine.
Working for Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung around the globe, previous #Mali, now #Cameroon
West African history enthusiast, socialist, football fan. Independent scholar, author, recovering academic. Reading history of Niger, Mali, & Glasgow Celtic.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cwncv7cLB7I/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D
PhD candidate at LSE. Associate Fellow, Centre for European Reform. I study European interventionism, meaning making, the Sahel, EU in Africa.
PhD candidate, SciencePo ULB.
Sahel/Mali politics. Editorial board Afriquexxi.info & Benbere.org. Chroniqueur Sahel pour @Liberation.fr.
Mail : bokarsang@protonmail.com
Universitaire nomade. Professeur adjoint à l’École de politique appliquée à l'UdeS. Directeur du Laboratoire interdisciplinaire sur les risques et les crises (LIRIC). Expertise: Nomades,Touaregs, Sahara, Sahel, conflits, identités, risques, crises
Peacebuilding issues in the Sahel and beyond - Fragility and stabilisation, conflict sensitivity, armed groups, gender. All personal views.
Journaliste freelance au Burkina Faso 🇧🇫@TV5Monde @afp @rtsinfo
Géopolitique : Moyen-Orient - Sahel - Terrorisme - Cyber Threat Intelligence.
"Un jour des fous vous gouverneront et vous les applaudirez".
Fulbert YOULOU (1er président du Congo Brazzaville )
Professor of International Studies, President founder Climate Security Association of Canada https://www.csac-acsc.org/
@ccascoe.bsky.social
Working on climate change, security, and defence; West Africa; NATO
Plays hockey and video games
The Sahel Research Group at the University of Florida. We study politics, religion, security, trade, literature and languages in the West African Sahel https://sahelresearch.africa.ufl.edu/
Anarchist, aid worker, altermondialiste. Rooting for: agro-ecology, self-determination, and enough food for everybody. The Sahel and the Sonoran.
Journaliste fact checker | Analyste Désinformation au #Sahel | Géopolitique du cyberespace | Engagé #TheAfricaWeWant🌍
Sahel Researcher @ International Crisis Group
Dakar, Senegal
Historian of West Africa based at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social #Nigeria #DigitalHumanities www.vincenthiribarren.com
مسلم ، من البدو ، ابن الصحراء تينيري
musulman,nomade, fils du Sahara Activiste Azawadien
🏜️📷 #Sahara #Désert #FreeAzawad #FreePalestine
Le silence est l'ami qui ne trahit pas.
Journaliste @lemonde.fr - Service Afrique @lemondeafrique.bsky.social
PhD. Polical Science / Docteur en Science Politique - Social dynamics of violence in Burkina Faso and Mali. Postdoc - Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique (CESSP) - Université Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne. Private security in Africa.
Coordinateur des rédactions de l'Agence de de presse africaine (APA- Apanews.net)
Ancien de Dakaractu - Leral - Carrapide
Je travaille essentiellement sur les mouvements jihadistes en Afrique de l'ouest
Political Scientist and development/conflict specialist, religion+politics in Nigeria (📚=Muslims Talking Politics and Boko Haram: A Short History). Grumpy about higher ed and CVE policy, enthusiastic about alt country and the Green Bay Packers.
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.
Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh; Research on military and politics in Africa, peacekeeping, conflict, interventions.
Global Thematic Lead on Human Smuggling and Head of Research for North Africa and the Sahel at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
Journaliste/ Réalisateur 🇫🇷🇸🇳
Entre France 24 et TV5 Monde pour suivre l’actualité africaine.
Ex correspondant au Sahel (2016-2022)
#FuckCancer
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.
Head of Middle East and Africa Programme, Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM). African politics, society, culture.
Documentary photographer currently based in Dakar (SN). Covering the Sahel and West Africa for some fifteen years. https://bit.ly/4g3NtWS
https://www.nicolasremene.com - https://www.instagram.com/nicolas_remene/
Peace entrepreneur & mediator, stabilisation & security specialist, environment advocate, currently @Berghof Foundation and @College of Europe, based in Niger
Germany’s man in Niger; uncorrectable believer in humanity; tries hard to overcome seriousness of life. Loves also pasta & his dog.
Historian & Arabist
Independent analyst on Jihadism, History, Arabic & Islamic Studies
Publications available via https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6691-1988
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tulane | politics of development & humanitarianism in the Sahel and West Africa | bilingue
Dir. Sahel and West Africa programme SIPRI, Mali and Niger, security and governance.
Researcher/ Focus on Africa
https://open.substack.com/pub/hasretkargin?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4mz338
Sub-Saharan Africa report every week.
Anthropologist, Mali, Sénégal, France. Popular culture, languages, media esp. radio.
🚑 Humanitarian operations manager for Médecins Sans Frontières (#MSF)
BellevilleZoo, Gaillac City ...
🏃🏻♂️(Ultra) running ✒️ Gribouillages 🎤Rap
Independant Researcher / Sahel Crisis / West Africa / Geopolitics / Military & Security - Ocean & Jazz are my countries
Member of Afrique-Europe-Interact. Tweets mainly about the Sahel. Book: Brennpunkt Westafrika. Die Fluchtursachen und was Europa tun sollte (2022).
Antropòleg treballant en Salut Pública i Acció Humanitària / Social anthropologist working in #PublicHealth #WASH #humanitarian.
SOAS ex BBC WS. Recovering anthropologist. Writing & reporting on Europe, Africa, the world - militarisation, conflict, energy transitions & The Threat Business
www.digitaldjeli.com
Journaliste
En photo, une œuvre du peintre sénégalais Ndoye Dout’s à ses débuts (1999)
Researching South-South security cooperation and armed groups in Africa. #Mali #Niger #Nigeria #Mozambique #CAR.
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/
Dir. Africa Program Egmont Institute, Assoc Prof Lund University, xEIC International Peacekeeping. Research on military, Sahel & Great Lakes, peacekeeping, gender, interventions
Anthropologist & migrant https://sebastienbachelet.com/crimes-of-solidarity
Researching security politics | Borders, migration, data, intl. interventions, Sahel & West Africa | prof @ University of Ottawa
Außenminister der Bundesrepublik Deutschland | Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany
Practitioner & Researcher. Focus on #Libya.
https://carnegieendowment.org/videos/2024/09/internal-shadows-the-unseen-plights-of-libyas-idps?lang
Interdisciplinary research initiative of ABI Freiburg, University of Bayreuth, University of Erfurt & ZFK Marburg
🔗 https://www.postcolonial-hierarchies.net/
YouTube: http://shorturl.at/bmqY6
Pop. Podolski. Politik. Editor @Int_Politik & @IPQuarterly, published by @dgapev. Buch: „Fosse Ardeatine und Marzabotto. Deutsche Kriegsverbrechen und Resistenza“, Schöningh 2002 / Il Mulino 2007.
Forschungsgruppe Sicherheitspolitik | Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik @swp-berlin.org
International Security Division | German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Researcher at @swp-berlin.org. Forced Displacement & Migration; Development Cooperation | Views are my own
Political Scientist | South Africa and Southern Africa, Geopolitics and Mineral Supply Chains | Deputy Head @swp-mea.bsky.social | teaches @hertieschool.bsky.social & FU Berlin
Editor-in-chief of the magazine "Internationale Politik" | Leadership team DGAP | Before: Washington DC with newswire dpa
Political Scientist @GIGA Hamburg working on authoritarianism, repression and legitimation, mainly in Middle East & North Africa
MECAM Publication Manager
She/her
No Covid. Mom. Cyclist. For future