Mark N. Katz @marknkatz.bsky.social Professor Emeritus, George Mason U. Schar School of Policy and Government; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council. Russian foreign policy; great power competition.
AGF 🎧 poemproducer @poemproducer.bsky.social audio sculptress 🔊 poetess
AGF: poemproducer.com
music: https://agf-poemproducer.bandcamp.com
haltung: https://rec-on.org
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curation #hailuotoorganum
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Tobias Denskus @aidnography.de Associate Professor in Development Studies at Malmö University, Sweden. Global development. Humanitarianism. Communication & Social Change. Chief Blogger at www.aidnography.de since 2010.
More: https://linktr.ee/tobiasdenskus
Leonor Oliveira Toscano @leoatoscano.bsky.social 🇵🇹 in 🇳🇴 | PhD Research Fellow @UniOslo | Gender, Conflict and Local Peacebuilding | Kenya | She/Her
Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net 🇪🇺💙💛 Consultant, author | Former war reporter | #InformationIntegrity #ProtectDemocracy #TwitterDelendaEst | Posts FR & EN | DM for Signal/Tchap | Hosted by Eurosky
Zeyyat Bandeoğlu @zeyyatbandeoglu.bsky.social Academic in Security Studies | PhD in National and International Security Strategies (Turkish War Colleges) | MA in European Studies (UBC) | BA in Public Administration (Istanbul University, Turkey) | Diyarbakır native & Galatasaray Fan.
Meera Shah @meera-shah.bsky.social Environmentalist, climate activist. Africa. Agriculture and food systems transformation and policy, adaptation, climate security. Wildlife. Rhinos. Bollywood. Books. Indian-Kenyan-British.
Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com Political scientist and author of How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive. Hosting The Next Best, a politics podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@DrMarcelDirsus
Zac Crellin @zacrellin.bsky.social Journo and editor at DW News
Creator of @opennewswire.org
Photo credit: Car.argh via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0
Ahmed Aboulenein @aaboulenein.bsky.social Covering U.S. health & pharma policy in DC for @Reuters.com. Previously based in Iraq, Egypt. He/him. #COYS. Tips: ahmed.aboulenein@tr.com http://SeeDisclaimer.com
Chris Kay @christopherkay.ft.com Mumbai bureau chief at the Financial Times.
Previously with Bloomberg in India, Pakistan, Nigeria and the UK.
https://chriskay.co.uk/
https://www.ft.com/chris-kay
Gabriella Korling @djamilak.bsky.social Anthropologist interested in infrastructure and politics in Niger. Currently researcher/analyst focusing on security in the Sahel @FOIresearch.
Nico Zillekens @nicozillekens.bsky.social Political Scientist and Ruhrgebiet-Expat, interested in International Relations, the EU‘s external action, climate foreign policy and water cooperation.
Kai Küstner @kuestnerk.bsky.social Journalist with focus on Foreign and Security Policy. Currently living in Dakar, Senegal. Ex-Berlin, Ex-Brussels, Ex-India/Pakistan/Afghanistan-Correspondent for ARD. Views my own.
Ahlam Chemlali @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social Co-Director & Postdoctoral Fellow | Migration, violence and confinement between North Africa and the Mediterranean borderlands
Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof.bsky.social Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal. 📕Author of No Country for Love, Our Enemies Will Vanish, Siege of Mecca and Faith at War 📕 Yarotrof.com
Oscar Rothstein @oscarrothstein.bsky.social Afrika-journalist @ Danwatch. Forfatter til 'Det lysende hjerte'. mail@oscarrothstein.dk/or@danwatch.dk, +4520722035.
Amalia Dragani @amaliadragani.bsky.social Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Politique (CNRS-EHESS). Antropologist working on the Sahara-Sahel
Phelim Kelly, London @phelimkellycom.bsky.social 😍: 🇪🇺 HowToEnjoy.eu
✈️ ✍️ 📷 TRAVEL writer linktr.ee/PhelimKellyCom
📚💻🎬 PUBLICIST-producer-actor imdb.com/name/nm5117722/
💂♀️ LONDON's Bluesky PACK (90+) bsky.app/starter-pack/phelimkellycom.bsky.social/3lr44hozfo225
cumbria, ealing, faroe, gib, hungary, spain
Guillaume Daniel @gdanielpdj.bsky.social Histoires Militaires et Études de Défense, Université Paul Valéry.
Guerre d'Algérie : L'OAS et sa propagande, l'OAS après la l'indépendance algérienne.
Petit projet : https://t.co/LEph8v4wyB
Stephanie Burchard @smburchard.bsky.social Covered in toddlers at the moment (probably), otherwise occupied by questions about elections, violence, security, WPS, and Africa. Adjunct prof at GWU.
Fabian Scheuermann @scheuermannf.bsky.social Journalist | bei der Frankfurter Rundschau | Menschenrechte | Migration | (West)afrika | Fahrrad | will Städte für alle | Rhein-Main | (Bild: C. Boeckheler)
Robbie Corey-Boulet @rcoreyb.bsky.social West and Central Africa bureau chief, Reuters. Author of Love Falls On Us: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/love-falls-on-us-9781786995179/. Robbie.corey-boulet@thomsonreuters.com. Ex-AFP, WPR. Previously in Riyadh, Addis, Abidjan, elsewhere. 5x marathoner
Lars Wienand @larswienand.bsky.social Leitender Redakteur Recherche bei t-online. Verifaction & OSINT. Berlin und gern im Westerwald. –
Signal: LarsWienand.99
Threema: https://threema.id/RVSUW5VS
Umberto Profazio @profazio.bsky.social Part Time Analyst / Full Time Dad - Personal views on Libya, Maghreb, NorthAfrica and surroundings - Bylines @ IISS + NDCF 🇬🇧 🇮🇹
Lisa Tschörner @ltschoerner.bsky.social Researcher & analyst, peace & conflict studies, interventions & gender, Sahel & Great Lakes
Mona Saleh @monasaleh.bsky.social Research Fellow @INEFDuisburg | PhD@CDCLeuphana
@GIGA_Institute | Prev. @GVAGrad | Focus: Overlap & complexity, African organizations, agency, legitimacy.
Bertus Wennink @bertusw.bsky.social International Co-operation; Literature, fiction & non fiction; Music; Netherlands, Canada (QC) & West & Central Africa. RT doesn't mean endorsement.
Tarek Megrisi @tmegrisi.bsky.social By day a mild mannered policy fellow @ecfr covering north Africa, migration and the geopolitics of the Mediterranean
Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social Prof of Middle East Politics at NYU Abu Dhabi. Tunisia, Turkey, Gulf. PhD St Antony's College, Oxford. Rhodes, Fulbright, Harvard WCFIA.
Religion & democracy. Tango & bizarre travel enthusiast. Perpetually craving Istanbul. Words in NYT, WaPo, TIME & more
Mirjam Tjassing @mirtjas.bsky.social 
Beno Franceschini @benofranceschini.bsky.social Geopolitical Analyst | Lecturer at SSML Pisa | Vice President at Il Caffè Geopolitico | Research and analysis on Africa, EU, Italian politics and Political Communication
Dara Massicot @massdara.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Russia and Eurasia Program. I cover military issues in Russia and Eurasia. 
Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social Diplomatic Correspondent for The New York Times
Krishnan Guru-Murthy @krishgm.bsky.social Channel 4 News, Unreported World, Ways to Change the World, The Fourcast, Class of 2023 on Strictly
Also Chairman of Duchenne UK
Pedro Seabra @pseabra.bsky.social Deputy Director at @cei-iscte.bsky.social • Assistant Professor at Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon • Rising powers, international security, Africa & the Atlantic
Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social Author @Rowohlt, freelance journalist, senior correspondent Religion Dispatches, writes about Christian Nationalism & Right-Wing Extremism in the Europe & the US 1/2 of @femshelfcontrol.bsky.social
Agent: Landwehr & Cie
Events: Paula Döring, Kulturagentur
Mira Demirdirek @mirademirdirek.bsky.social Research fellow @Giga-hamburg.de |
PhD candidate @unituebingen.bsky.social |
mainly working on Turkey-Africa relations
@anne-hamilton.bsky.social @anne-hamilton.bsky.social Freie Journalistin| USA | Zentralasien | Ukraine-Krieg | Nahost | Autorin der Buchreihe „Ich rette die Welt - aber erst mal eine rauchen“
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
grace ellis @grace-ellis.bsky.social researching governance & security in West Africa @Clingendael | previously advisor @HiiL | views my own
CSIS | Center for Strategic & International Studies @csis.org A bipartisan research institution, CSIS is recognized as the top defense and national security think tank in the world.
https://www.csis.org 
WELT Investigativ @investigativ.wsocial.eu Hier erfahren Sie alles über die Recherchen des Ressorts Investigation & Reportage von WELT & WELT AM SONNTAG.
Transaidency e.V. @transaidency.bsky.social 
John Lechner @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/
Michael Dwyer @michaeldwyer.bsky.social Publisher/editor with the great www.hurstpublishers.com
team, biryani (mutton), Herzog and Madeira wine aficionado, gardener, Irish citizen, NUFC. History, politics, colonialism, war, intelligence/cyber, religions. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
Jędrzej Czerep @jedrzejczerep.bsky.social Head of Middle East and Africa Programme, Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM). African politics, society, culture.
Egmont Institute @egmontinstitute.bsky.social EGMONT – Belgian Royal Institute for International Relations provides a platform for interdisciplinary research & debate on European & international affairs.
https://www.egmontinstitute.be/
Dino Mahtani @dinomahtani.bsky.social Independent researcher and writer, focused mainly on African affairs. Formerly CrisisGroup, UN, FT, Reuters, Guardian. PhD candidate at LSE.
Eri Yamasumi @eriyamasumi.bsky.social Policy Specialist - Climate & Security Risk @UNDP | climate, peace & security | #PeoplesClimateVote #ClimatePromise #ClimateSecurityMechanism. Tweets are my own.
Gerrit Kurtz @gerritkurtz.bsky.social Researcher at German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP Berlin). Focus on conflict prevention, peacebuilding and diplomacy in the Horn of Africa (Sudan and Ethiopia). Own views. Retweets not endorsement.
https://gerritkurtz.net
Dr. Matt Herbert @drherbert.bsky.social Global Thematic Lead on Human Smuggling and Head of Research for North Africa and the Sahel at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
Elian Peltier @elianpeltier.bsky.social Pakistan and Afghanistan bureau chief - The New York Times
Matthieu Millecamps @matthieumillecamps.bsky.social Journaliste. Rédacteur en chef adjoint @jeuneafrique (vidéo et dataviz).
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
Fabian Reinbold @fabreinbold.bsky.social Twittern, was ist.
Journalist
Politik @zeit.de
Philip Kreißel 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @pkreissel.eurosky.social Data, data, data, I cannot make bricks without clay.
Hen_Floe @henfloet.bsky.social Journalist, Podcast Editor
Studies at DCU and Uni Marburg
Miriam Hollstein @miriamhollstein.bsky.social Rasende Reporterin. 
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
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
Alessandro Accorsi @aleaccorsi.bsky.social Researcher Technology and Conflict | Previously @crisisgroup.org Stratcom EEAS, Middle Eastern and investigative journalist | @cityjournalism alumni
Jerome Drevon @jeromed.bsky.social Associate at Graduate Institute Geneva. Interested in armed groups. Books on Jihad in Egypt and Syria (openaccess). Last book on HTS's rise to power in Syria, Transformed by the People
Christian Klatt @christianklatt.bsky.social Working for Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung around the globe, previous #Mali, now #Cameroon
Charlie Werb @charliewerb.bsky.social Sub-Saharan Africa (mostly Sahel) | Terrorism | Conflict | Opinions are my own
Andrei Popoviciu @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
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.
Hanan Salah @hanansalah.bsky.social Associate Middle East and North Africa Director, Human Rights Watch
"Turn the Volume Up."
Natasha Hall @natashahall.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Former mediator, humanitarian, government official
All views my own
#Conflict #Regimesurvival #Environment #Governance
Nicole Ris @nicoleris.bsky.social Correspondent in Spain
Previously in Latin America
Journalist | Explorer | Nature Lover
Madrid | Berlin
Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com 21st-century media and the 19th-c American South. Founded and ran @niemanlab.org at @harvard.edu for 12 yrs; now the senior writer there. Cajun, dad of two, husband of one. Journalist with a history problem. Also: @theatlantic.com, @washingtonpost.com, etc
Sune Engel Rasmussen @suneengel.bsky.social Security correspondent for WSJ and author of "Twenty Years: Hope, War and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation". Eyes on war, the Arctic, organized crime and terror. He/him.
Raheela Mahomed @raheemahomed.bsky.social TV Journalist and News Finder 🌍📝🎥 | Alumna of BBC🇬🇧, DW News🇩🇪, Al Jazeera🇶🇦 and CNN🇺🇸 | 🇮🇳Roots🇬🇧Born🇿🇼Raised | 
Jonathan Crane @jonathancrane5.bsky.social Reporter and editor. Based in Berlin, working for Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany's international broadcaster. Forever European.
Nina Wilen @ninawilen.bsky.social Dir. Africa Program Egmont Institute, Assoc Prof Lund University, xEIC International Peacekeeping. Research on military, Sahel & Great Lakes, peacekeeping, gender, interventions
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
Wassim NASR @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
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
Frédérick Madore @fmadore.bsky.social Historian | Digital Humanities & AI | Data Curator, University of Bayreuth
https://www.frederickmadore.com/
https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica
Jerome Mellon @jeromemellon.bsky.social UN Political Affairs & Peacekeeping Specialist @unpeacebuilding.bsky.social @unpeacekeeping.bsky.social @undppa.bsky.social United Nations, tweeting on peace, security & governance; views are my own
Christina Peters @crystallising.bsky.social west africa correspondent @dpa / prvsly foreign politics editor / storytelling & international relations nerd / de & en
Aneliese Bernard @anelieseb.bsky.social Director of Strategic Stabilization Advisors. At one point worked at State Dept., now a pen for hire. Thoughts on politics are my own, posts on West African terrorism, policy, and security are sometimes informed.
Matteo Maillard @matteomaillard.bsky.social Journaliste Sahel @jeuneafrique.com. Le cœur au Mali, le ventre en Italie et le dimanche dans @heidi-news.bsky.social. Passé par @liberation.fr @lemonde.fr
Eric J. Schmidt @ejschmidt.bsky.social ethnomusicologist at Babson College . researching music economies in NW Africa (Sahel/Sahara) . Californian survivor of the New England & North Texas taco dystopiae
Federico Tadei @federicotadei.bsky.social Associate Professor at University of Barcelona. Economic History | Development | Africa | Colonization | Trade | Inequality
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/federicotadei/home
Bokar Sangaré @bokarsangare.bsky.social PhD candidate, SciencePo ULB.
Sahel/Mali politics. Editorial board Afriquexxi.info & Benbere.org. Chroniqueur Sahel pour @Liberation.fr.
Mail : bokarsang@protonmail.com
Andrew Lebovich @andrewlebovich.bsky.social 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.
Bruno Charbonneau @charbonneaub.bsky.social 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
Aurélien Tobie @aurelientobie.bsky.social Peacebuilding issues in the Sahel and beyond - Fragility and stabilisation, conflict sensitivity, armed groups, gender. All personal views.
Julien Antouly @julien-antouly.bsky.social Researcher in International humanitarian law, mostly focusing on humanitarianism, counterterrorism and the Sahel region
Katarina Höije @katarinah.bsky.social Economic migrant l Toubab l
Words from West Africa for Bloomberg
Claudia Gazzini @claudiagazzini.bsky.social Senior Libya Analyst, International Crisis Group @crisisgroup. Traveller Foodie Mum.
Fanny Noaro-Kabré @fannynokab.bsky.social Journaliste freelance au Burkina Faso 🇧🇫@TV5Monde @afp @rtsinfo
Hervé Doumbia @almouslime.bsky.social Géopolitique : Moyen-Orient - Sahel - Terrorisme - Cyber Threat Intelligence.
Sophie Douce @sophiedouce.bsky.social Journaliste indépendante @radiofrance.fr @la-croix.com @ouest-france.fr @letemps.ch / Ex-correspondante au Sahel et en Afrique de l'Ouest
Portfolio: https://sophiedouce.wixsite.com/portfolio
https://soundcloud.com/sophie-douce-861835270
Giuseppe Famà @famanelmondo.bsky.social EU diplomat @eudiplomacy.bsky.social, helping our Deputy SecGen shape the #EU peace, security and defence agenda. Also @Unibo.
Previous episodes: @CrisisGroup.org; 🇪🇺 missions 🇲🇱🇱🇾🇹🇳; 🇮🇹 representation in 🇪🇺.
Arnaud Contreras @arnaudcontreras.bsky.social Auteur, reporter et producteur / France Culture et RFI, photographe /// ⚓️ & 🐪
www.arnaudcontreras.com