Geospatial analyst specialised on armed conflicts and political violence. #Sahel and more. Contact: julesduhamel@protonmail.com | Website: julesduhamel.com
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
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/
Verification Producer, CBS News Confirmed. Philadelphian/Londoner by way of Northern Ireland. I like to poke at things that don’t make sense. Big fan of big boats.
Postdoctoral researcher @SciencesPo Bordeaux (GOVJIHAD project)
PhD in PolSci from Ghent University (Conflict & Development department)
jihad, conflict, political economy, space and mobility in the Sahel
Particular focus on Sikasso region, southern Mali
Award-winning documentary filmmaker based in Senegal | Pulitzer grantee | Former BBC foreign news producer & VJ | 🗣️ 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇫🇷🇳🇱
www.sirathierij.com
Instagram: @Sirithiery
Covering West and Central Africa for @apnews.com.
Previously in Europe with The New York Times and The Financial Times
Journaliste au service international de @liberation.fr |📍Paris | EN & FR
Journalist | Now: @nytimes | Before: @60minutes @NBC @AP @WSJ | @pulitzercenter grantee
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
International correspondent with The New York Times covering Afghanistan and Pakistan.
@washingtonpost.com West Africa bureau chief, based in 🇸🇳
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rchasonwp
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.
Johannesburg-based correspondent for The Globe and Mail since 2009. Previously 15 years as a correspondent in Moscow and Beijing.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/geoffrey-york/
Senior Analyst, North Africa and Sahel Observatory @Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime
Researching illicit economies in the Sahel, with a focus on Niger and Chad
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.
Limbo | PhD in Government | Senior Research Officer @ Essex Law School | Conflict & terrorism | Strategies & behaviors of militant groups | Previously ETH & AUC
بين غربتك ف ديار أهلك… و غربتك ف بلاد الله
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https://sites.google.com/view/n-aboud
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/
Economic migrant l Toubab l
Words from West Africa for Bloomberg
Journaliste @lemonde.fr - Service Afrique @lemondeafrique.bsky.social
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 United Nations Video, UNHQ. News and media. Peacekeeping Mali Kosovo Haiti. FR/ENG. Media. Drone. Communication. New York. UN, Former Spox and NRJ Group. ENG/FR
Political Violence • Sahel Politics • Editorial Board of afriquexxi.info • Chronique Sahel dans Libé • Public appearances and interventions in media: https://bit.ly/2J4mT5I • FR & ENG
Journaliste freelance au Burkina Faso 🇧🇫@TV5Monde @afp @rtsinfo
Géopolitique : Moyen-Orient - Sahel - Terrorisme - Cyber Threat Intelligence.
#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
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.
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
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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
Researching South-South security cooperation and armed groups in Africa. #Mali #Niger #Nigeria #Mozambique #CAR.
Aviation, politics, terrorism, military stuff and OSINT from West Africa 🇧🇫 🇳🇪 🇲🇱 🇹🇩 🇧🇯 🇹🇬 🇨🇮
Find me on Twitter: https://x.com/fabsenbln
https://fabsenbln.substack.com/
professor of international relations | studies armed conflict and social change - Substack (IT): @francescostrazzari
Historienne
Directrice de recherche/Research professor CNRS-EHESS
Spécialiste du Sahara et du Sahel
19e-20e s.
PI ERC Langarchiv
https://langarchiv.hypotheses.org/
Dir. Africa Program Egmont Institute, Assoc Prof Lund University, xEIC International Peacekeeping. Research on military, Sahel & Great Lakes, peacekeeping, gender, interventions
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
Researcher, Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute, Freiburg & MIASA, Accra
Subjective security, conflict, qual comparison / Centrafrique, Lebanon, Somaliland, Haiti
Book: Security Arena in Africa
https://www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/staff/glawion-dr-tim
Books | Sahel coup watcher | Wagner Group stalker | Senior Analyst, Francophone Africa, Control Risks | occasional typos, usual disclaimers | so-called "Western puppet"
Dakar/Nairobi/Bookshelf
Anthropologist & migrant https://sebastienbachelet.com/crimes-of-solidarity
Writer, journalist, amateur linguist. DEATH IS OUR BUSINESS out with Bloomsbury March 2025. BEGINNER’S CHECHEN out with Hippocrene
https://www.johnlechnerauthor.com/
Advancing African security by expanding understanding, providing a trusted platform for dialogue, building partnerships, and catalyzing solutions
Economics professor, Santa Clara University. Political economy of Burkina Faso, Sudan, and Puerto Rico, university governance, and housing issues in San José, CA. Posts here are strictly personal opinion. Also, libraries and reading: www.favl.org
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
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
Africa Team Lead for @criticalthreats
Focus on security challenges in sub-Saharan Africa. Opinions are my own. Reposts, follows, and likes ≠ endorsements.
Journalist - Analyst Conflict zones, terrorism, and security
Bylines at @MiddleEastEye @AJStudies @ActaFabulae
Circassian
Researching security politics | Borders, migration, data, intl. interventions, Sahel & West Africa | prof @ University of Ottawa
Endlessly fascinated by things in the sky. Editor-in-chief of @theaircurrent.com, co-host of @theairshowpodcast.com and co-founder of @yawmanflight.com. CNN, WSJ & Flightglobal alum. Standby for news...
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment. Defense analysis with a focus on the Russian and Ukrainian militaries.
Ukraine correspondent. British-Lebanese conflict journalist & filmmaker. Director of The Battle For Kyiv. Interested in human rights. RTs ≠ endorsement.
https://ko-fi.com/ozkaterji
Defence Editor at The Economist.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
Visual Investigations at The New York Times
@pandamom.bsky.social's Fella, Kilkee Livin’ West of Ireland Hairy Dog Owner, Long Distance Walker, Birder, VERY Amateur Photographer, Former French Foreign Legion.
"Irish By Birth, Munster By The Grace Of God"
@conflictwatch.bsky.social
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Senior Researcher, Bellingcat. Previously at Scripps News.
Fast & reliable news provider || Covering geopolitical incidents as they happen 🌍 BNONews collaborator. Want to support the channel? ko-fi.com/faytuks
Slightly French Analyst | #OSINT #IMINT and monitoring | Mostly Africa and ex-USSR | RT ≠ endorsement
Independent Defense Analysis, Unconventional Naval Warfare, author, submarines, #OSINT, illustrations. Mostly typos
http://www.hisutton.com/
@auroraintel from Twitter.
One of the UK's largest independent defence and technology news websites.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk
BBC Verify senior journalist | verification, AI, disinformation, conspiracy theories, open source investigations | shayan.sardarizadeh@bbc.co.uk
OSINT, geolocations, air/sea data. Snarky AvGeek.
Cites: Мілітарний, Newsweek, The Aviationist, TWZ, A&SF Mag
"Sharp-eyed aviation buff & flight tracker" ~ Brian Williams
https://buymeacoffee.com/vcdgf555
She/her
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
Historian & Arabist
Independent analyst on Jihadism, History, Arabic & Islamic Studies
Publications available via https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6691-1988
Researcher/ Focus on Africa
https://open.substack.com/pub/hasretkargin?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4mz338
Sub-Saharan Africa report every week.
Professor of African History | Queen's University Belfast | Interested in Politics, Religion, Armed conflicts, jihad, peace, Africa, Mozambique, Portuguese-speaking world, Switzerland, missionaries. Webpage: https://qub.academia.edu/EricMorierGenoud
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
Ex-CIA, Ex-RAND, ex-historian. I post on things related to defense, national security, Africa (esp. the Sahel), and all things French military. Sometimes troll antisemites.
Director at African Defence Review (@africandefence)
Covering African conflicts with a specific focus on Southern Africa.
Email: dolivier@africandefence.net
Signal: darren.13
Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars.
I study terrorism, geopolitics, international security
Journalist and filmmaker. Anti-censorship.
Popular Front / Away Days / Gargoyle
www.jakehanrahan.com
@Nrg8000 on twitter. Will fill this out when twitter inevitably burns.
Advancing a balanced and realistic understanding of American interests in the Middle East. (Reposts & Follows do not constitute endorsement.)
Al Qaeda, Islamic State, Middle East, Africa. A lot on Yemen, US counterterrorism strategy, & Salafi-jihadi groups.
katherinezimmerman.substack.com
Non-state actors and conflicts / mostly East Africa & the Levant / geolocations / Ohioan / Defections Operations Coordinator at the Bridgeway Foundation / @SAISHopkins alum
West African politics maniac. Bissau-Conakry-Dakar-Banjul & all things Boko Haram. https://www.lam.sciencespobordeaux.fr/membre/vincent-foucher/
https://afriquexxi.info/
https://polaf.hypotheses.org/la-revue
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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
Mapping for @TaiwanMonitor | Ex-@DSG_GTTAC Lake Chad Analyst | US-Africa Policy
chrisdayton.substack.com
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
Mostly Islamism. North Africa & Sahel. Narratives and counternarratives. Senior Research Fellow at GWU Program on Extremism
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
Head of Investigations @ Deutsche Welle. Formerly correspondent in Kyiv, Beijing. Book: "Der Hightech-Gulag. Chinas Verbrechen gegen die Uiguren" Threema: 2S232APF
Digital flâneur | Open Source Researcher| GEOINT| Bellingcat GAP Project | Research 中国 & Central Africa | drinks wine & writes stuff |Views are my own |RSs ≠ endorsements
Geopolitical and security analyst, Views are my own.
Lecturer for European Politics and History at King's College London. Opinions my own. RT not always endorsement.
Also to be found at @APHClarkson
https://www.ullstein.de/werke/die-macht-der-diaspora/hardcover/978354910
Interested in Lebanon, Jihadi Movements and Security Affairs.
Security analyst and researcher. Focusing on VEOs in Sub-Saharan Africa, primarily Lake Chad.
Defections Program Lead for Uganda at Bridgeway Foundation. Kampala-based. Editor @LongWarJournal. Focused on jihadism and political violence in Africa.
Consultant, author. Former war reporter. Tracking terrorism, hate & disinformation. #FundamentalRights #InformationIntegrity #TwitterDelendaEst Posts FR & EN DM for Signal
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
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