Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social Southern Africa Correspondent at The Guardian. Brit abroad.
Joost Bastmeijer @joostbastmeijer.bsky.social Herstellend Afrika-correspondent, integrerend Parijzenaar
Josef Mühlbauer @josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
@niagalebagayoko.bsky.social @niagalebagayoko.bsky.social 
David Lewis @dglewis.bsky.social Reuters Africa Special correspondent. Focused on deeper reporting and investigations. Previously based in Dakar, Abidjan, Kinshasa + Dar. All views my own.
Judd Devermont @jdevermont.bsky.social Operating Partner, Kupanda Capital | Board Member, Fraym | Non-Resident Scholar, Carnegie Africa Program | Former NSC Senior Director for African Affairs | Former National Intelligence Officer for Africa | Personal Account
Nora Barrows-Friedman @norabf.bsky.social Journalist, broadcaster, editor at @intifada.bsky.social http://electronicintifada.net
Ali Abunimah @aliabunimah.bsky.social Director of http://electronicintifada.net. Author of “One Country”and “The Battle for Justice in Palestine.”
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social Virologist. PI working at but not speaking for USask. Co-EiC of Vaccine. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. Emerging viruses, pathogenesis, zoonosis, host responses, dogs, football, off-color language, transcriptomic chaos. Opinions my own.
Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social Surgeon, Writer ("Being Mortal," "Checklist Manifesto"), and formerly led Global Health @USAID.
Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social Uncrewed, autonomous, robotic systems and Artificial Intelligence. Russian and Ukrainian weapons development. CNA, CNAS and CSIS. Opinions my own.
Paul Sonne @paulsonne.bsky.social New York Times reporter focusing on Russia/Ukraine.
Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social I report and run projects on the Visual Investigations team at The New York Times where we collect and analyze audio-visual evidence. Ireland and New York. nytimes.com/visual-investigations
Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com Managing Editor at Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org
Signal - tylermcbrien.97
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Julian Rademeyer @julianrademeyer.bsky.social Writer, researcher on organised crime. Previously at Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, TRAFFIC and Africa Check. Author of 'Killing for Profit’. Views my own.
Avery Schmitz @averyschmitz.bsky.social Open-source reporting @cnn.com
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Stephanie Hays @stephaniehays.bsky.social Designer at The Washington Post 🗞️
Paul Lorgerie @plorger.bsky.social Journaliste · Corres' RDCongo 🇨🇩 (2022-2024) /Mali 🇲🇱 (2019-2022), RCA 🇨🇫 (2018)
paul.lorgerie@gmail.com
Richard Assheton @richardassheton.bsky.social Travelling features writer and photographer. Usually the Sunday Times. Also the Guardian, the Times etc. Formerly Lagos. Now Marseille.
Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social White House correspondent, @reuters.com. Ex-Washington Post. Bad golfer. Signal: jacobbogage.87. The newsletter: jacobbogage.com.
@laurenbindc.bsky.social @laurenbindc.bsky.social 
Evan Procknow @eprocknow.bsky.social French colonial history; all things Algeria and the Sahel. Also tweets about policy, defense, and sports in that order. 
ALI BRELAND @alibreland.bsky.social writer, reporter at the atlantic
alibreland.com
Pranshu Verma @pranshuverma.bsky.social Incoming New Delhi Bureau Chief at The Washington Post | Signal open for tips: @pverma.50
Christoph N. Vogel @ethuin.bsky.social Researcher, advisor, scholar and investigator. Hiphop and cooking aficionado. Kujenga amani lazima kuelewa vita.
menastream @menastream.bsky.social 
Pieter Van Ostaeyen @p-vanostaeyen.bsky.social Historian & Arabist
Independent analyst on Jihadism, History, Arabic & Islamic Studies
Publications available via https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6691-1988
Kennedy Wandera @kennedywandera.bsky.social
International Broadcaster. Board Chair, The Foreign Press Association, Africa.
Postgraduate, University of Leeds, UK🇬🇧
https://www.voanews.com/author/kennedy-wandera/jtjvt
Joyce Sohyun Lee @joyceshlee.bsky.social Senior Visual Forensics reporter, The Washington Post
Evan Hill @evanhill.bsky.social Washington Post investigations reporter
Co-host of Schlock and Awe: https://schlockandawe.substack.com/
Executive Council, Washington-Baltimore News Guild
Nilo Tabrizy @ntabrizy.bsky.social Visual Forensics at The Washington Post | Writing a book on Iran for Pantheon Books (US) & Atlantic Books (UK) | یاشاسین تبریز
Samuel Oakford (WaPo) @samueloakford.bsky.social @washingtonpost visual forensics | samuel.oakford@washpost.com | signal: 771-200-7508
Jarrett Ley (WashPost) @osviz-jarrett.bsky.social Visual Forensics reporter at The Washington Post using open-source evidence and spatial analysis tools
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Imogen Piper @imogenpiper.bsky.social Visual Forensics Reporter, The Washington Post 
Jonathan Baran @jonathanbaran.bsky.social Visual forensics reporter previously @ The Washington Post. Proud dad, humble spouse and decrepit US Army vet.
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Sarah Cahlan @sarahcahlan.bsky.social Visual Investigations Editor at Reuters
Former: Visual Forensics at The Washington Post
Brian J. Peterson @brianjapeterson.bsky.social Historian of Africa, Prof at Union College (NY). Author: Thomas Sankara https://iupress.org/9780253053763/thomas-sankara/ Interested in Sahel and francophone Africa: French colonialism, revolutions, Cold War, environmental history
Ence Morse @ence.bsky.social data & politics @washingtonpost.com
texan in dc 🕯️
Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social Editor-at-large, World Politics Review. Spent more than a year in Provence. Used to be an American in Paris. Currently bringing coal to Newcastle.
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/
@wpr.bsky.social
francesco strazzari @zaz.bsky.social professor of international relations | studies armed conflict and social change - Substack (IT): @francescostrazzari
Clingendael Institute @clingendael.bsky.social Independent think tank and academy on international affairs to contribute to a secure, sustainable and just world. 40+ years of top knowledge & training.
James Barnett @james-barnett.bsky.social Researcher and PhD candidate studying conflict and political transitions in Africa (Nigeria and the Horn). Fieldwork fanatic, interdisciplinary inclinations
Various affiliations, but all views my own.
Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff. Reachable via email or on Signal @lpolgreen.39
Ellen Barry @ellenbarry.bsky.social mental health reporter, former Moscow, Delhi, London, now at home in New England. reach out w ideas: ebarry@nytimes.com
Stephanie Nolen @stephanienolen.bsky.social Global health reporter, The New York Times. Former correspondent in South Asia, Africa, Latin America and the MidEast. Author, 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa; Promised the Moon. Baker. Canoe tripper. Disease nerd. Lover of a fat novel and Earl Grey tea.
Franklin Nossiter @franklinnoss.bsky.social Sahel Researcher @ International Crisis Group
Dakar, Senegal
Wolfram Lacher @wlacher.bsky.social Political scientist with a longstanding interest in violent conflict, Libya and the Sahel. Author, Libya's Fragmentation; co-editor, Violence and Social Transformation in Libya. Views my own.
https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/researcher/wolfram-lacher
R. S. DIENG @drlandislife.bsky.social Award-winning academic, educator & author researching #politics, #feminism, #artivism, #land, #food and #labour in #Senegal, Francophone #Africa & #WesternEurope | Personal Account
Casus Belli @casusbelli.bsky.social Slightly French Analyst | #OSINT #IMINT and monitoring | Mostly Africa and ex-USSR | RT ≠ endorsement
Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and MS NOW analyst. Proud husband of @sbg1.bsky.social and equally proud father of @tab-delete.bsky.social. Co-author of "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021."
Jess Moody @jessmoody89.bsky.social Author of Life After War (forthcoming) @Bloomsburybooks; Research Consultant - political risk and peacebuilding, #WestAfrica. PhD from @warstudies on #CIV225
Ulf Laessing @ulflaessing.bsky.social Head of Sahel Programme at Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation in Bamako; previously 13 years for Reuters in Mideast/Africa; Author of Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi; personal account
Tom Phillips @tomphillips.bsky.social Latin America correspondent for the @guardian based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 🇧🇷 via London 🇬🇧, Beijing 🇨🇳 and Mexico City 🇲🇽 Say hello: tom.phillips@theguardian.com
Sira Thierij @sirathierij.bsky.social Award-winning documentary filmmaker based in Senegal | Pulitzer grantee | Former BBC foreign news producer & VJ | 🗣️ 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇫🇷🇳🇱
www.sirathierij.com
Instagram: @Sirithiery
Monika Pronczuk @monikapronczuk.bsky.social Covering West and Central Africa for @apnews.com.
Previously in Europe with The New York Times and The Financial Times
Declan Walsh @declanwalsh.bsky.social Chief Africa correspondent, The New York Times
@fatjonamejdini.bsky.social @fatjonamejdini.bsky.social Journalist and researcher (not always in the same order) focused on the Western Balkans. Personal account.
Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social Reporter @ms.now 📰 | Email: julianne.mcshane@versantmedia.com | Signal: jmcshane.19 | https://www.ms.now/author/julianne-mcshane
Marielle Debos @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/
Ken Opalo @kopalo.bsky.social Associate Professor at Georgetown University.
Washington, DC.
More here: https://www.africanistperspective.com/
Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social Author of the newly released, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, and previously of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World. See: https://about.me/howardwfrench.com
Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social Ex Journalist Bloomberg/FEER/CSM. Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, then Iraq/Egypt with a smattering of everywhere else. Same handle over at Mos Eisley Spaceport. Made wine for a few years. Now training a blue heeler in the CA foothills.
Liz Sly @lizsly.bsky.social Journalist. Ex-Washington Post Mideast bureau chief. Also based in China, Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, India, Italy, US.
Emma Beals @ejbeals.bsky.social Constructive disrupter. Working on: the crisis in peace/conflict, disrupting aid, democracy/human rights, systems change and the mess we’re in. Former: Syria. Do: research, analysis, policy, piloting. Affiliations: EIP, MEI. Opinions my own. EmmaBeals.com
Meg Kelly @megkelly.bsky.social senior visual forensics reporter
@washingtonpost
tips/ ideas: meg.kelly@washpost.com
usual caveats, dm for whatsapp, signal 
Ryan Musser @ryanmusser.bsky.social Posts about current events/politics/development in Africa, building better cities, local Washington DC issues, and how biking is the best form of transportation. Live in Ward 8/EOTR. Lover of front porches and #bikeDC.
Check out my Africa starter packs.
Cate Brown @catebrown.bsky.social political investigations at @TheGuardian. formerly @WashingtonPost. power over/power to
tips: cate.brown@theguardian.com
Martin Untersinger @untersin.gr Cyber / disinformation / privacy / Big Tech / scams @ Le Monde
Contact: familyname @lemonde.fr
Auteur d'"Espionner, mentir, détruire : comment le cyberespace est devenu un champ de bataille", éditions Grasset : cyber.untersin.gr
Pierre Romera Zhang @pirhoo.com I’m CTO at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (@icij.org) where I build interactive stories, data driven investigations and tools.
#PandoraPapers #UberFiles #FinCENFiles #LuandaLeaks and many more.
Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social Reporter @washingtonpost.com covering politics, demographics & immigration. Argentino neoyorquino 🇦🇷🗽. Signal: teoarmus.27. Se habla español.
washingtonpost.com/people/teo-armus
Kim Bellware @bellwak.bsky.social Chronically tardy yet somehow…Breaking news + bummer beats, formerly @washingtonpost
Why are you booing me? I’m right.
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Milan Vaishnav @milanv.bsky.social Senior Fellow + Director, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and host of the "Grand Tamasha" podcast (grandtamasha.com).
https://milanvaishnav.substack.com/
Allison Grossman @allisong.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tulane | politics of development & humanitarianism in the Sahel and West Africa | bilingue
Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social Columnist and features writer - The Guardian. Georgetown Fellow.
Tom Gardner @tomgardner18.bsky.social Africa correspondent @TheEconomist
Author, "The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia”
Retweet ≠ endorsement / views my own
Still on X (for now) @tomgardner18
Ore Ogunbiyi @oreogunb.bsky.social Africa Correspondent @ The Economist. Lagos 
Emily Davies @emilydavies.bsky.social reporter, @washingtonpost
@schmidtsam.bsky.social @schmidtsam.bsky.social 
Afrique XXI @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
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Elian Peltier @elianpeltier.bsky.social Pakistan and Afghanistan bureau chief - The New York Times
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social Professor of Practice at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University
Nicolas Réméné @nikosp23.bsky.social 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/
MaggieDwyer.bsky.social @maggiedwyer.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh; Research on military and politics in Africa, peacekeeping, conflict, interventions.
Benjamin Roger @benjaminroger.bsky.social Journaliste @lemonde.fr - Service Afrique @lemondeafrique.bsky.social
Fanny Noaro-Kabré @fannynokab.bsky.social Journaliste freelance au Burkina Faso 🇧🇫@TV5Monde @afp @rtsinfo
Christian Klatt @christianklatt.bsky.social Working for Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung around the globe, previous #Mali, now #Cameroon
Anna Schmauder @annateesch.bsky.social #Sahel Researcher & analyst working on armed groups + hybrid orders in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger - currently adviser at http://stabilisation-platform.de/en / Non-Resident Fellow GPPi https://gppi.net/team/anna-schmauder/ thru-hiker 22/23
Ousmane A. Diallo @usmaanaali.bsky.social I hope this is a better place than Twitter
Adam Sandor @adamsandor.bsky.social Researching South-South security cooperation and armed groups in Africa. #Mali #Niger #Nigeria #Mozambique #CAR.
Caleb Weiss @calebweiss.bsky.social Defections Program Lead for Uganda at Bridgeway Foundation. Kampala-based. Editor @LongWarJournal. Focused on jihadism and political violence in Africa.
Catherine Lena Kelly @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.
Fabian @fabsenbln.bsky.social Aviation, politics, terrorism, military stuff and OSINT from West Africa 🇧🇫 🇳🇪 🇲🇱 🇹🇩 🇧🇯 🇹🇬 🇨🇮
Find me on Twitter: https://x.com/fabsenbln
https://fabsenbln.substack.com/
Nomade Sahélien @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
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
Nathaniel Powell @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
Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social 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
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
Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social Professor, African Military Historian, Co-Editor of the Journal of African Military History. Opinions expressed are solely mine. My book, Ujamaa’s Army, is available now!! https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780821425596/ujamaas-army
Jonathan Guiffard @joeguiffard.bsky.social 🇨🇵 in 🇬🇧
Researching strategic competition on
1. 🇺🇸 Cyber & SIGINT
2. 🌾W-African rivalries
🔬PhD in Geopolitics @ GEODE (IFG/Paris 8 Uni.)
🪔 Teaching @ Sciences Po Paris (intel&cyber)
🏖 Fmr 🇨🇵 gov
Rick Noack @ricknoack.bsky.social @washingtonpost Kabul Bureau Chief covering Afghanistan and Pakistan