Newest issue of FMSO's Operational Environment Watch newsletter on international perspectives of the OE is out now:

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Incredible accomplishment by a superlative team.

Timber trafficking affects national security in Africa. Based on our programmatic work & research Africa Center, here are three ways that illegal logging affects national security and implications for current measures to counter it, at The Conversation Africa

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Splinter groups are often expected to be more violent than their parent organizations.

But is this empirically true?

In a new article in JCR, Iris Malone & I show that splinters are LESS violent.

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Avis d’appel d’offres pour le recrutement d’un Partenaire National d’Afrobarometer en Guinée pour la réalisation du Round 10 des enquêtes Afrobarometer : bit.ly/3JSyMar

#Guinee #Sondage

'Members of this department...have been foundational mentors and intellectual inspirations in my life.' - Dr. Jason Warner '06

Thank you for your gift to the African, African American and diaspora studies department, Dr. Warner.
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📢 New paper out on Al-Shabaab's transborder guerrilla warfare: from attrition to provocation, exploiting state overreactions in Kenya for strategic gains.

First 50 downloads free using this link: tandfonline.com/eprint/MCAZVY5…

#GuerrillaWarfare #TransborderViolence #MilitantGroups

Burkina Faso has now suspended France 24 following the interview w/the leader of AQIM. It banned RFI in December.

If security dynamics are prelude, it would be unsurprising to see Russian efforts to fill the media void in BF as RT launches in S Africa.

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On the politics of #Nostalgia . #Russia to restore the name of Patrice Lumumba University in a gesture to reviving close ties with #Africa

Kenya Receives 30,000 Tonnes of Wheat From Ukraine allafrica.com/stories/202303…

China's Speed in Selling Arms Prompts US Partners to Buy From Beijing, Say Officials

'More recently, between 2017 and 2020, Chinese arms exports to sub-Saharan Africa outpaced the United States by a ratio of nearly 3-to-1, the report said.'

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Slightly late in amplifying this, but if you haven't read about or listened to Wassim Nasr's interview with AQIM's leader, do yourself a favor and check it out.

An incredible get of an interview by one of the sharpest folks out there.

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This Islamic State mapping project from Aaron Y. Zelin is going to change the game for researchers of the group and its affiliates.

An incredible effort by one of the leaders of the field.