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1 year

Europeans migrating to Africa to take high-paying jobs stopping Africans from migrating to Europe to take low-paying jobs…

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Hilary appeared so often decapitated that it prompted Mary Beard to write this marvelous piece on men and medusas

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Worth mentioning that there were similar decapitation images of H Clinton put out by Trump supporters! @BBCr4today

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Women writers are being aggressively herded in this direction. It undercuts our expertise and presents us as narrowly self-obsessed instead of windows onto worlds.

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I'm still fascinated by how little a woman needs to mention herself in nonfiction writing for it to get classified as "memoir" or "personal essay."

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I loved researching and writing this #longread about sheep combat in Algeria, and am thrilled it features Krache's superb photos

The brutal world of sheep fighting: the illegal sport beloved by Algeria’s 'lost generation'

The long read: Algeria’s ‘lost generation’ has been shaped by years of conflict, unemployment and state repression. Sheep fighting offers an arena where young men can escape the constant supervision...

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Does trafficking necessarily fuel conflict in the Sahel? Our new @crisisgroup report on Niger challenges the assumption that trafficking is inherently destabilizing. A thread!

Managing Trafficking in Northern Niger | Crisis Group

Trafficking – a catch-all term for illicit movement of goods and people – has long sustained livelihoods in northern Niger. But conflicts are emerging due to heightened competition and European...

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President Bazoum's administration was in fact making the only meaningful security gains in the Sahel region, forging a delicate balance between security operations, dialogue and outreach with jihadists, and partnering with US & Fr forces

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Rappelons que l'un des arguments des putschistes pour leur coup d'état est le mauvais résultat sécuritaire du Président Bazoum, un argument démenti par les faits

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My profile of Mariam Hamada, the Polisario's "Iron Lady" and governor of a Western Sahara refugee camp, is now up @TheAmScho here

Western Sahara: A Fragile Peace - The American Scholar

As an unofficial state, Western Sahara doesn’t really exist—and being tiny and well behaved, it is easy to ignore.

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Hannah Rae Armstrong

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7 years

I am tremendously pleased to announce that I'm joining @CrisisGroup 's West Africa project as Sahel analyst. Much to be inspired by in the brilliance of colleagues and their subtle, profound work.

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Last year, while heavily pregnant, I began researching this longread, which casts a mostly critical eye on technosolutionist efforts to save Sahelian herders from the myriad crises they face. When my son was 3 months old, I took him to a herders' heaven -

The tech that helps these herders navigate drought, war, and extremists

Shiny, high-tech solutions often miss the mark. Can a simpler data-distribution project be the answer?

www.technologyreview.com

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Important context fo protest in Niamey: French troops fired on protesters 20 months ago in Tera, killing 3 and wounding 17 more, mostly students, with no consequences; protests have been banned and penalized under flimsy pretexts for years under Issoufou & Bazoum, repressing rage

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3 years

Entire nation heading towards the airport to welcome the players

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Eight years into a French-led Sahel stabilisation effort that has cost billions of euros and drawn on security, development, and political initiatives from a powerful array of well-meaning external actors, violence is only getting worse. New report out!

A Course Correction for the Sahel Stabilisation Strategy | Crisis Group

Since 2013, when it sent troops to Mali, France has led international efforts to root out Islamist militancy from the Sahel. Yet the jihadist threat has grown. Paris and its partners should reorient...

www.crisisgroup.org

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2 years

The Biden administration has resisted walking back Trump's proclamation of US recognition of Moroccan sovereignty claims over Western Sahara. In my new piece for @ForeignAffairs , I argue that this flouts international law and sets a dangerous precedent

North Africa’s Frozen Conflict

How the Biden administration can resolve the dispute over Western Sahara.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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3 years

As some mourn the death of "the force" that was Idris Deby, thinking of the moment two months ago when his security forces stormed the home of an opponent, murdering his mother.

Tchad : au moins deux morts chez l'opposant Yaya Dillo

La mère de l'opposant est morte suite à l'assaut des forces de l'ordre devant le domicile de Yaya Dillo. Le gouvernement parle de "riposte".

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5 years

Inates emerged as a focal point of my recent research for an upcoming @crisisgroup report on North Tillabery. I discuss the context of Tuesday’s attack in our just-posted Q & A here

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I call on all those directly or indirectly advocating for a military intervention in #Niger to share insights into what a possible favorable outcome might look like. Please explain how an intervention force will be useful in dealing with mass protests, a dissenting military,

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4 years

A few anecdotal observations on the rationality of the destruction committed during countrywide protests in Senegal. In the capital, protesters did not target foreign businesses, as is sometimes reported, but specifically French ones, particularly supermarket chains and

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Some - as they say - *personal news*! At the end of this month, after 4 years with the Sahel project, and 3 on the Maghreb before that, I'll be taking my leave from the great ICG. It's been an absolute pleasure to work with such brilliant colleagues to produce some of the most

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Thanks to BBC World News for having me on Focus on Africa to speak about the G5 Sahel and the ripple effects of Afghanistan

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We welcomed a baby boy into our lives last week @JCourtright08 Will be posting from joyful, sleepless maternity leave nights! With deep gratitude to ancestors, family, friends, and Senegal, which has welcomed us so wonderfully into its worlds.

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The U.S. needs a strategy in the Sahel. In this new policy piece, I argue the era of American CT-led engagement in the Sahara is over, and that this is something to be celebrated, not mourned.

Counter-terror turned the Sahel into a coup-belt. U.S. policy in the region should move on. - CIP

The U.S. currently faces a conundrum in the central Sahel, where a decade of counter-terror-led engagement backfired, worsening insecurity while empowering intransigent military leaders who went on...

internationalpolicy.org

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I poked my head out of maternity leave yesterday to speak about the Niger coup. Thanks to @HumAngle_ for the invitation

How Is Mediation Going In Niger Amid The Coup?

How Does The Niger Coup Affect Neighboring Countri | RSS.com Listen On: Apple | Spotify | RSS Since the coup in Niger, a number of things have happened. In this episode of The Crisis Room, we hear...

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4 years

Last June, I wrote about the fragility of the Western Saharan peace, focusing on Mariam, a Sahraoui governor who dreamed of leading a new war. Sahraouis believed they had become victims of their own good behavior. They may be ready to change tack.

Western Sahara: A Fragile Peace - The American Scholar

As an unofficial state, Western Sahara doesn’t really exist—and being tiny and well behaved, it is easy to ignore.

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1 year

Incredible sight. France should remove its ambassador and stop looking for a fight.

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6 years

I’m quoted in this excellent and comprehensive @PerneInAGyre piece out on the Western Sahara conflict at @NewYorker

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Islamic State militants killed 53 Malian soldiers and 1 civilian in an attack on a Malian army base near the Mali-Niger border this weekend. The attack highlights several worrying trends. A thread.

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Congrats to my incredible colleagues at @CrisisGroup Sahel Project on the release of "Speaking with the 'Bad Guys': Toward Dialogue with Central Mali's Jihadists", which breaks taboos and brings to light neglected and surprising observations from the field

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6 years

Our @CrisisGroup report on the politics of economic reform in Algeria has just been released. It analyses how redistributionist oil dependency, once stabilising, has entered a new phase of vulnerability.

Breaking Algeria’s Economic Paralysis | Crisis Group

Political paralysis in oil-dependent Algeria has blocked much-needed economic reform. To avoid a new era of instability, the government should increase transparency and accountability within state...

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1 year

My new piece on how the U.S. should approach the #Niger crisis is now up @ForeignAffairs :

Foreign Affairs

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“The crisis in Niger should not have come as a surprise. Over the past decade, efforts aimed at stabilizing the Sahel—led by France and backed by the United States—have steadily weakened the region’s civil institutions and failed to deliver security.”

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I wrote about efforts to use data to help steady Sahelian herders, for @techreview :

The tech that helps these herders navigate drought, war, and extremists

Shiny, high-tech solutions often miss the mark. Can a simpler data-distribution project be the answer?

www.technologyreview.com

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4 years

Withering piece on West Africa’s democratic facade // The coup in Mali is an ominous sign for Francophone west Africa | Mali | The Guardian

The coup in Mali is an ominous sign for Francophone west Africa | Rahmane Idrissa

Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta’s ousting further destabilises an already volatile region, says Rahmane Idrissa, a political scientist and historian

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A few things to look out for now: Moroccan domestic response to normalization of relations with Israel. Polisario’s response to an extremely provocative escalation from a US that has strived until now to appear impartial.

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6 years

I spoke with a Tuareg official today who had a midlife crisis and went to the American desert to find himself

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Sahel baby!

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This floss thing looks like Zaha Hadid building

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Sicilian fish couscous @wild_gat

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A friend ordered frogs off a menu in a Brazzaville restaurant and was expecting cuisses but got this

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3 years

Full moonrise over Bamako

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After Nagorno Karabakh, Western Sahara becomes the latest frozen conflict to thaw. Conditions have been overripe for dealing a fatal blow to the brittle ceasefire for years.

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4 years

Today I ran 5k in solidarity with my colleague #MichaelKovrig , unjustly detained in #China for two years. Roughly the number of steps he takes daily to stay fit and hang on. #freeMichaeKovrig

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Thrilled to have words up alongside Philippe Dudouit’s extraordinary photos over at @africaarguments

The "independent entrepreneurs" of the Sahel | African Arguments

Through photos taken over a decade, The Dynamics of Dust provides a rare look into the lives of people in the Sahel and their dreamy desert landscapes. The contours of the Sahel crisis seem to grow...

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2 years

A thread on escalating violence in Mali’s Menaka, situated along the Mali-Niger border zone that is the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara’s stronghold. ISGS in the past 2 years has gone from waging sophisticated attacks on security posts to massacring civilians in villages.

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How to campaign in the Sahel

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5 years

Nauseating

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4 years

Meanwhile Senegal is rolling out at-will tests with results back in 24 hours

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With a 1-2 week lag in testing results coming back, we have no idea what the state of COVID-19 infections are in the United States right now. That's a huge problem

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I wrote about Mali's troubling turn towards authoritarianism :

Mali’s Violent, Authoritarian Turn

Malian soldiers and Putin-linked mercenaries massacred hundreds of people in the village of Moura.

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8 years

17th century Ramadan miniature

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7 years

My new #longread just went up on @CatapultStory . It's about Niger. It is not about terrorism or migration. #Sahel

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3 years

A few thoughts on the arrest of the Mayor of Fachi, caught with 200 kilos of cocaine in his official Toyota. Drawing from research and analysis featured in the 2018 report, Managing Trafficking in northern #Niger

Managing Trafficking in Northern Niger | Crisis Group

Trafficking – a catch-all term for illicit movement of goods and people – has long sustained livelihoods in northern Niger. But conflicts are emerging due to heightened competition and European...

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This is a quite profound depiction of why walking anywhere in Algiers is a nightmare if you're a woman

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Crisis Group is recruiting a senior analyst for Ethiopia - what a dream job and what an incredibly fun time to do profound work on a country in the throes of an exhilarating transition

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An African company got financing from an African bank to acquire Vlisco! This is major

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Made In Africa Inc. Gets $190 Million from Afriexim Bank to Acquire Vlisco Group. Netherlands-based Vlisco is a leading producer and distributor of fashion fabrics, especially of the African wax print style (Had missed this).

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Gotta love that after every journalist and his mother said northern Mali looked like Mars, we can now say that Mars looks like northern Mali

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Our @CrisisGroup report "Sidelining the Islamic State in Niger's Tillabery" is now live, in both English and French

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Only just learned that the vernacular for speed bump in Bamako is “gendarme couché”

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Sadistic, ignorant or both? Dangerous sentiments

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Macron has just claimed that Islam around the world is ‘in crisis’ Upcoming legislation crafted to "protect" the Republic & French values promises to be deeply divisive, with French Muslims fearing it will unfairly single them out

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It’s become cliche to say that there is no military solution to the Sahel crisis. What requires reflection and articulation are alternatives - especially, strategies for addressing the local drivers of a conflict that is increasingly rural and community-based. 🧵

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6 years

I have a new commentary up for Crisis Group looking at the young generation and the risks of status quo complacency

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6 years

How great is it that Niger organised a Miss Intellect pageant???

Birdson Mahamane Dansounsou Zoubair

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#MissIntellectNiger Lorsque l’intelligence d’une femme est = ou > à sa beauté, elle peut résoudre ttes les équations de la vie. X ou Y ne seront ni un problème, ni inconnus pr elle. @FirstLadyNiger @falher3 @LatifaYari @sherifa @OPE_NIGER , Proud of you. 8 Mars PalaisDesCongres💪🏾

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“Punishing poor African governments, like those of CAR or Mali, for their Russian connections by reducing U.S. and European aid will not alter their behavior or protect civilians. It will only amplify Russian influence and erase U.S. leverage,

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My analysis of Turkey’s role and ambitions in the Sahel, just up below, centres on rumours vs realities. Gulf and European anxieties over Turkish expansion there risk becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. Partners should focus instead on what Turkey does well, and work together to

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"Les incursions de la Turquie au Sahel se sont jusqu'à présent limitées à projeter sa "puissance douce" (soft power)." Lisez la nouvelle publication de notre analyste @brkinibeachriot sur l'engagement turc au Sahel 👇

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Merry Christmas from the Sine Saloum where ⁦ @JCourtright08 ⁩ ⁦and @Tom_Courtright ⁩ just gifted each other @hofrench ’s Born in Blackness #Senegal ⁦

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I will be leaving to pursue writing and consulting projects, continuing what has somehow become a 15-year field-based focus on the Maghreb and Sahel, from my sweet perch in Dakar. Happy to discuss new projects and collaborations, please see e-mail in bio.☮️

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Via Facebook. So so beautiful #Ouarglatramway

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Thanks to @RaniaKhalek for inviting me to discuss the Sahel

BreakThrough News

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Africa’s Sahel region has been an arena of French colonialism, liberation struggles, imperialist interventions, the war on terror & coups d’etat. WATCH advisor and researcher @brkinibeachriot discuss on Dispatches w/ @RaniaKhalek :

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Malian man becomes first to set foot on Mars 😂😂

YATTASSAYE 

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Ce #Camara vient de fouler #Mars . Le #Mali peut être fier. Les #kagolos sont en liesse

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“How do you say brexit in Arabic?” “برخروج"

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Tebboune is MIA, the Moroccans have gone a giant step further than they did during a similar Guerguerat standoff in 2017, and the Sahraoui people have lost all faith in the political process after decades of false starts and broken promises. Vast potential for escalation.

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So damn backwards

Markets Insider

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Gun stocks are soaring after the deadliest mass shooting in US history

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It's high time to revive tourism to the stunning desert landscapes of northern Niger. Security there has improved dramatically and tourism in Agadez once accounted for as much as 10% of Niger's GDP. Nice piece by @MawliDayak for @WATHI_ThinkTank #Sahel

Niger : investir dans le tourisme pour protéger l’avenir

Tity Agbahey et Mawli DayakUne journée et demi que nous roulions. Nous sommes à Abalak, à plus de 700 km de Niamey. Plus que 250 km avant la légendaire ville d’Agadez, notre destination. U

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For the past five years or so, I have made a point of (and greatly enjoyed) researching and writing about various crisis factors in the Sahel and Algeria - political contestation; economic vulnerability; regional neglect - that were around long before and will long outlast jihad.

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Algeria is a young, secure, rich country with excellent ideals that finds itself supremely united. Here’s to new growth and an unleashing of the giant potential everyone who knows it comes to love 🥂

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Dressed like a Dakarois when the temperature drops below 80

Oumar Bâ

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Bernie à Dakar

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Pussygate backlash - God help us all - was oddly prefigured by this @shreedaisy painting of a pussy grabbing and puncturing Trump

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Thrilled, honored, and deeply grateful to have made the shortlist 🐑 🥊 #combattaakbach #tahiadjazair

The Guardian Long Read

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. @brkinibeachriot has been nominated for Sports Story of the Year by @FPALondon for this piece:

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My oped on the risk of renewed conflict in #WesternSahara is now up at @nytimes

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“In this country of 16 million known for its peaceful democracy and sense of community, Senegal's response to the coronavirus is notable not only for its humanity but for its thoroughness.” Probing piece by ⁦ @ricci_sh ⁩

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Northern Niger's fragile formal economy takes a big hit with the closure of the French Cominak uranium mine. 600 salaried employees and 800 subcontractors have just been laid off. The environment has suffered untold damage due to improper disposal of radioactive waste

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I’ve been worried about him since seeing these town halls where he routinely listens deeply to and absorbs the traumas of Americans scarred by health care failures, school shootings, etc

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One time I followed Bernie around for like four days and felt like I needed a heart procedure. He absolutely hustles

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They’re just children and they’re so brave

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Earlier today as protestors breached the permiter around the park outside the White House. One for the history books.

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WHO CARES Warren is fighting the opioid crisis in W Virginia

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Ouch! Mayor @Pete Buttigieg responds to ⁦ @realDonaldTrump ⁩ slam that he is “Alfred E Neuman” —“I had to Google that..I guess it’s a generational thing.”

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@sovietvisuals @alexvtunzelmann I am overwhelmed with affection for this

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@lionheart1759 Visit the sleeping camel for a good evening off!

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Speaking of books, delighted to finally have hands on this one by @CamiLefebvre

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Since one month after his divorce, the King of Morocco has surrounded himself with a trio of ex-con German-Moroccan MMA fighters, trashing royal protocol and blowing off people like US Secretary of State Pompeo to hang out with them

Les frères Azaitar, la nouvelle famille du roi Mohamed VI

Depuis plus d’un an, trois boxeurs germano-marocains sont devenus les intimes du roi du Maroc. Histoire d’une irrésistible ascension. Les frères Abou (…)

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#ifafricawasabar Mauritania would park its camel outside http://t.co/GeGGQT1Qfw

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Comment expliquer l'accalmie au nord Tillabery du #Niger , qui a connu une réduction d'environ 80 % de la violence contre les civils en 2022? Dans cette brief publiée par @KAS_Sahel , j’analyse les premiers signes de reprise 🧵 #Sahel

Note d’information préparée pour : Programme Sahel de la Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

Comprendre l’accalmie : une reprise en main du Nord-Tillabéri au Niger

www.kas.de

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Hannah Rae Armstrong

@HannahRaeArms

4 years

Doctor is such a great answer to the extremely annoying and common, “C’est Madame ou bien mademoiselle?”

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Hannah Rae Armstrong

@HannahRaeArms

4 years

Painting entire countries red is at this point beyond metaphor

La France au Mali

@FranceauMali

4 years

Tout projet de déplacement dans Les zones classées en rouge est à exclure. Les déplacements professionnels en zone orange restent possibles, sous réserve d’être en conformité avec l’ensemble des consignes détaillées par @francediplo et @FranceauMali .

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Hannah Rae Armstrong

@HannahRaeArms

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"For the whole duration of the pandemic, Covid-positive results in #Niger averaged 4.5% for a total of about 125,000 swabs, compared with countries with similar testing levels per capita, Afghanistan and Madagascar with 16% and 30%."

Niger Is the Land That Covid-19 Forgot

The West African country is among a small group of nations on the southern edge of the Sahara that so far has mostly escaped the coronavirus scourge.

www.wsj.com

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Hannah Rae Armstrong

@HannahRaeArms

6 years

We’re hiring a Sahel researcher for @CrisisGroup ’s Dakar office

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Hannah Rae Armstrong

@HannahRaeArms

3 years

Excellent piece depicting the subtle irony in how French colonial techniques of forest management created the perfect conditions - rural resentment, shelter from aerial surveillance - for jihadi repose

Sahel. L'héritage colonial des eaux et forêts, une arme aux mains des djihadistes

Deux Espagnols et un Irlandais ont été tués le 26 avril dans l’est du Burkina Faso par des hommes armés qui pourraient appartenir à un groupe djihadiste. (…)

orientxxi.info

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Hannah Rae Armstrong

@HannahRaeArms

6 years

Today was the first time I encountered casual anti-camel rhetoric. "They come into your fields with their big feet and eat all your mangos!"

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Hannah Rae Armstrong

@HannahRaeArms

3 years

“Only in economics is endless expansion seen as virtue. In biology it is called cancer.”

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Hannah Rae Armstrong

@HannahRaeArms

1 year

I spoke with the @AP on #Niger coup: “For ECOWAS and Western countries, this coup was seen as one too many. So far, however, the hard-line response seems to be having the opposite effect, and further entrenching the military regime.”

Sam Mednick

@sammednick

1 year

A rights group says it can’t get access to detained officials in #Niger .

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Hannah Rae Armstrong

@HannahRaeArms

5 years

It's far simpler to view the Sahel as overrun by irrational radical men than to engage with more meaningful roots of instability, and does a grave disservice to the region by bringing attention only to where it is most helpless and aggrieved.

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Hannah Rae Armstrong

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4 years

Today’s vibes, Russell Crowe in a Nouakchott cafe rocking a Mauritanian fit, via @weddady

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Hannah Rae Armstrong

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4 years

How did they get this much swag

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Hannah Rae Armstrong

@HannahRaeArms

3 years

All that money and the greatest thing you can think of doing is sending a phallus into space… the lack of vision is astounding

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Hannah Rae Armstrong

@HannahRaeArms

5 years

"I'm sure he's a jihadist," a French soldier guarding him later whispered. "He's making fun of us." // Polite Reuters embed with Barkhane featuring harassment of civilians and a 5 km drive that took 9 hours #Tartufferie

French troops in Mali campaign face storms, mud, mistrust by Benoit Tessier

The French soldiers seeking out jihadists in central Mali's savannahs were prepared for the sandstorms, the thunderstorms, the lack of anything resembling a road and the need to tow vehicles whose...

widerimage.reuters.com

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