Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social Advancing African security by expanding understanding, providing a trusted platform for dialogue, building partnerships, and catalyzing solutions
Oisín Mcilroy @o-mcilroy.bsky.social Journalist w/ BBC News and @the-independent.com | prev: New Arab/FT/Mirror | firing up a substack: Western Peripheries | it's pronounced uh-sheen
Tomi Oladipo @tomioladipo.bsky.social Journo. Analyst. | Media, International Politics, Security | #lufc
Shaya شايا @shayalaughlin.bsky.social Research Director at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project - occrp.org
Passionate about the Middle East and North Africa region.
Signal: @shayalaughlin.67
Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social National & financial security. Former UK civil servant and financial intelligence professional. Senior Associate Fellow @rusi.bsky.social CFS. Loves ideas, cult fiction, anomalous stuff, landscapes and sanity.
Views own.
Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social Policy and analysis correspondent, BBC Verify.
https://www.benchu.co.uk/
Author of "Exile Economics: What Happens if Globalisation Fails", published May 2025
https://linktr.ee/exileeconomics
Çağatay Cebe @cagataycebe.bsky.social Interested in Lebanon, Jihadi Movements and Security Affairs.
Levent Kemal @leventkemal.bsky.social Journalist - Analyst Conflict zones, terrorism, and security
Bylines at @MiddleEastEye @AJStudies @ActaFabulae
Circassian
Daniele Garofalo @danielegarofalo.bsky.social Intelligence, Security Consultant, Analyst, Lecturer: Terrorist & Insurgent Armed Groups.
https://www.danielegarofalomonitoring.com
Conflict Research @conflictwatch.bsky.social Irish 🇮🇪 Remote Operations Security Advisor.
Based in Africa, monitoring conflict principally in North Africa & the Sahel Region. (Remote_Ops on X but mostly for research purposes)
https://www.instagram.com/conflict_watch68
Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/god-guns-and-sedition-far-right-terrorism-in-america/20097522?ean=9780231211222&next=t
Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social BBC cog; Russia, FSU, E.Europe, Syria opp watcher. Views own, some humour 🤨 migrant, chatty. Oversharing news. Masto: @fulelo@journa.host prior X @fulelo
Work: #TheGlobalJigsaw http://tinyurl.com/4t2vh3e2
BBCNews starter pack https://go.bsky.app/8gWbLmD
Haid Haid @haidhaid22.bsky.social Senior Fellow: Arab Reform Intiative, Chatham House, and ME Council on Global Affairs. | PhD from @warstudies | a Syrian who writes about Syria among other things. RT ≠ endorsements.
George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social Not an island 😎 Editorial assistant at New Statesman. Peaceable Land out every Sunday morning peaceableland.substack.com
Megan Gibson @meganjgibson.bsky.social Why not…
Editing at New Statesman. London and elsewhere.
Richard Irvine-Brown @richib.bsky.social Portfolio: https://www.clippings.me/users/richardirvinebrown
Journo. BBC Verify.
Digital investigative journalism since 2014, cars/money data before, BBC Sport 2007-2011.
James Waterhouse @jameswaterhouse.bsky.social BBC Paris Correspondent | was Ukraine |used to play rugby | UAL honorary fellow
Karin A. Wenger @wengerkarin.bsky.social freelance journalist | trying to grasp the complexity of the Middle East
most active on Instagram: https://instagram.com/wengerkarin
Work & more: www.karinwenger.com
Chatham House Africa @africaprog.bsky.social @chathamhouse.org’s Africa Programme is a world-leading centre for independent policy research on African politics.
Website🔗: chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-departments/africa-programme
Podcast🎙️: soundcloud.com/chathamhouse/sets/africa-aware
Linda Yueh @lindayueh.bsky.social Economist at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford & London Business School
Author of The #GreatCrashes & #GreatEconomists
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/024198808X/
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lindayueh
IG: instagram.com/lindayueh
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Joyce Hakmeh @joycehakmeh.bsky.social Deputy Director, International Security, Chatham House
Co-Editor, Journal of Cyber Policy
Laurence Broers @laurencebroers.bsky.social Researcher and practitioner, contemporary South Caucasus | associate fellow, Chatham House | co-editor-in-chief, Caucasus Survey
Marion Messmer @mgmessmer.bsky.social Programme Director for International Security at Chatham House
Former BASIC, King's College London
Leslie Vinjamuri @leslievinjamuri.bsky.social President and CEO
Chicago Council on Global Affairs;
also Professor of Practice @SOAS University of London
Ruth Townend @ruthtownend.bsky.social Politically feasable pathways to 'adequate' public climate action with @cast-centre.bsky.social. Formerly @chathamhouse.org host of The Climate Briefing podcast. Research nerd, climate geek, parent to two glorious little women. All views my own.
Elham Fakhro @elhamfakhro.bsky.social Academic and author of a recent book on the Abraham Accords. Interested in the Gulf states, conflict diplomacy, progressive ideas.
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-abraham-accords/9780231212380/
John Pollock @johnpollock.bsky.social Communications for Chatham House (@chathamhouse.org) | Writer @theworldtoday.org | Think tanks and higher education | Posts on international affairs/security | China | Views my own.
Armida van Rij @armida.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social & Senior Nonresident Fellow @global-affairs.bsky.social. Ex-Chatham House & King's College London. European security, foreign policy & politics.
🔗 https://www.cer.eu/personnel/armida-van-rij
Alex Krasodomski @alexkj.bsky.social Tech, AI, Digital Public Infrastructure and old border foils at @Chatham House. Fellow @ ISD, Demos, Public AI network
Mike Higgins @lycidas.bsky.social Editor, The World Today, the magazine of Chatham House. www.theworldtoday.org. 
Paul Melly @paulmelly.bsky.social Reporter/researcher; Chatham House Consulting Fellow. Sahel-W. Africa, rural dev, Madagascar, French & EU Africa policy. Tweets own views; RTs not endorsements
Chatham House @chathamhouse.org The Royal Institute of International Affairs - Chatham House. Independent thinking since 1920.
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social BBC Verify senior journalist | verification, AI, disinformation, conspiracy theories, open source investigations | shayan.sardarizadeh@bbc.co.uk
Daniele Palumbo @danict89.bsky.social Senior Intelligence Analyst 🔎
Freelance Investigative Data Journalist 📰 | BBC
News, OS/GEO/HUM/SOC/-INT techs & Computer-Assisted Reporting💻
'The News Desk' feed https://bsky.app/profile/danict89.bsky.social/feed/aaab7pjshw7j6
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social Europe editor of The Economist. Don’t let them kill me https://youtu.be/WnE15v4Gets
Simone Tholens @simonetholens.bsky.social Associate prof International Relations John Cabot University & part-time prof European University Institute & adjunct prof Johns Hopkins SAIS. Working on war, violence, interventions and peace practice 
The Intercept @theintercept.com Fearless, adversarial journalism. Join our newsletter to get our best investigative reporting delivered to you: https://theintercept.com/newsletter/
FT Visual & Data Journalism @data.ft.com The FT’s team of reporters, statisticians, illustrators, cartographers, designers, and developers work with colleagues across our newsrooms, using graphics and data to find, investigate and explain stories.
https://www.ft.com/visual-and-data-journalism
Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social Dad, writer, cyclist, citizen, cereal dilettante. Advocate for freedom of information, open governance, & democracy. Lover of the Oxford Comma, hater of hubris. Recovering journalist. Trying to move carefully, & fix things. https://civic-texts.ghost.io
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)- Y Hicham Yezza @yezza.bsky.social An experienced multidisciplinary researcher, editor and analyst with more than two decades working at the intersection of technology, policy and journalism.
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/hicham-yezza
Kalyan Dutia @kdutia.bsky.social founding/senior data scientist at Climate Policy Radar working on ML for better climate decision-making from documents
kalyan.link / climatepolicyradar.org
Erin Clare Brown @erinclarebrown.bsky.social Reporter. Powder skier. Quilt maker. North Africa Editor at New Lines Magazine. Creator of Revolution One podcast. ex: NYT, WSJ. IWMF grantee. Generally tired. Pitch me: ebrown@newlinesmag.com
New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social An award-winning magazine for the best writing from around the world. Longform essays and informative analysis run daily.
http://lnk.bio/newlinesmag
Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social Editor @insidereng, host @foreignoffpod, https://substack.com/@macspaunday, ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror: http://goo.gl/Jb6uEA. Next book on the GRU for @vikingbooks. macspaunday@protonmail.com
Hassan Hassan @hhassan.bsky.social Founder and Editor in Chief, @newlinesmag.bsky.social. New York Times Bestselling Author https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1682450201/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1699110557&sr=8-1. Father of two boys
Beverly Ochieng @beverlyochieng.bsky.social Obnoxious literary fiction reader | Sahel coups watcher | Russian paramilitaries stalker | Associate Director, Francophone Africa, Control Risks | occasional typos, usual disclaimers | so-called "Western puppet"
Dakar/Nairobi/Bookshelf
Charlie Lawrie @charlielawrie.bsky.social Wanted to be a poet, ended up a technocrat. PhD student at Sussex where I research energy politics, shadow economies and state-cartel relations. 
Aaron Y. Zelin @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
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