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Lusotopie 2025 Superb special issue on the #Portuguese #Revolution, edited by Michel Cahen & @yleonard.bsky.social with articles on PREC, #Timor, #Angola, #memory, newspapers, etc. AfroLuso Free online here: journals.openedition.org/lusotopie/7912

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L'interview de Souleymane Sow, d'Amnesty International #Guinée, est d'une importance capitale. En près de 7 minutes, il résume parfaitement la détérioration de la situation 🇬🇳 www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nN-... « Aucun Guinéen ne se sent en sécurité »

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Ocalan asks for the PKK to be dissolved and disarmed, in move that could reshape the entire region. Another seismic shift we never expected to see in our lifetimes. #Turkey #PKK www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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1/x I have been researching #BokoHaram for years. The claim by US Senator Scott Perry that USAID funds Boko Haram is unsubstantiated, absurd and dangerous. Let me go over this... economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/interna...

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@vincentfoucher.bsky.social A la peine (sans surprise) sur le sujet, mais j'avance. Content de ne pas être seul humanglemedia.com/haunted-by-w...

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Surreal read of the day: a paper using USAID-funded and now terminated Demographic & Health Surveys to count the huge number of lives saved by the now frozen US PEPFAR program to fight HIV, co-authored by current US admin’s nominee to lead cuts in health research jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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La fine fleur de la gauche du centre, de la gauche de droite et de la gauche d'extrême-droite s'est dit qu'il était vraiment opportun de taper sur Wikipédia pour bien tout faire comme D. Trump et E. Musk - et ainsi préparer l'élection de leurs homologues en France : www.lepoint.fr/debats/halte...

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Cher Bernard Henri-Lévy - Boxing Day #21

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“Master planners” of ethnic cleansing “Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, said he and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, are discussing bringing together real-estate executives to come up with a plan to rebuild Gaza” www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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Great news, #BlueSkyStorians - There's a superb interview with @tgpeterson.bsky.social in afriqueXXI on his equally superb book, "Revolutionary Warfare": afriquexxi.info/The-astonish... Intrigued? You can find a superb copy at @cornellupress.bsky.social: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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Joli retour de l'excellent Romain Ducoulombier sur Emmanuel Todd en prophète... tempspresents.com/2025/02/25/e...

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Aujourd'hui, il pleut, et j'apprends la mort du chanteur bissau-guinéen Americo Gomes... www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf0g...

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Dimanche 23 février à 14h, je serai place de la République à Paris. Pas pour commémorer les trois ans de l'agression massive de la Russie contre l'Ukraine. Pour penser ensemble aux trois ans à venir. Il est temps de s'engager AVEC l'Ukraine. #allhandsforukraine allhandsforukraine.org#locations

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Intrigued by the rather strong moral stand of the US on the disappearance of a pro-democracy activist in #Guinea, which may seem in contradiction to Trump's realpolitik attitude in foreign policy.

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22 February 1924 | Polish Jewish woman, Felicja Wolf, was born in Lwów. She lived in Metz in France. In December 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

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Neville Chamberlain approves.

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Chadian soldiers have served in multinational forces across the Sahel and Central Africa--most often coordinated by international organizations. This is a bilateral request... www.reuters.com/world/africa...

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Fascinating how the #IslamicState #ISIS is now putting a lot of emphasis on the global circulation of fighters from one "province" to the next. After the #ISWAP video that showed Maghrebi or Mashreki militants, there is this www.counterextremism.com/blog/islamic...

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In the latest news on Thiaroye, PM Sonko announces plans to begin archaeological excavations.... www.jeuneafrique.com/1660472/poli...

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Si on cherchait une confirmation au virage trumpiste de la partie la plus visible de l'éditocratie française, la croisade des nullités du Point contre l'indispensable encyclopédie en ligne Wikipédia en livre un cas d'école aussi affligeant qu'édifiant. www.acrimed.org/Le-Point-et-...

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"Colleagues were in tears - and then had to return to teaching classes" | Carbon copy of what we've been through at Kent. I hear the screams from US academia being slaughtered by Trump. But note that anti-intellectualism and obnoxious managerialism are prospering in "liberal democracies", too

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Global gangsterism. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...

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"Au nom de la nature". 4 années d'enquêtes sur African Parks: un livre extrêmement bien documenté sur une ONG extrêmement difficile à connaître. Par Olivier Van Beemen @oli4vb.bsky.social

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Whether the Arab spring was enabled or not by Facebook and Twitter is a disputed matter but one thing is sure, the anti-fascist revolt won't rely on these platforms

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#Niger's national conference recommended that the #military authorities stay for a renewable period of 5 years with possibility for General Tchiani to present himself in future #elections. #AES juntas are there for the long term... www.rtbf.be/article/nige...

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I had a pretty maximalist view of how bad things were going to get, but even I did not expect "normalizing the seig heil" to be one of the bullet points.

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The best* book ever written on the Caucasus Emirate’s ideology is now available for pre-order. The Caucasus Emirate: Ideology, identity and insurgency in Russia’s North Caucasus (Manchester University Press) amzn.eu/d/6QrSQ3h * and only

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Le procédé retors du gouvernement pour que les Français paient leur santé plus cher Par Caroline Coq-Chodorge

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A huge loss. One thing I appreciated about Ferguson was his ability to change his mind. In the opening to Global Shadows (maybe my favorite text about globalization) he subtly guts the "anti-development" positioning of his own early work:

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Musique et politique en Côte d'Ivoire... Un article à lire et à écouter/regarder... #Team225

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🎤Être le pont entre la rue et le pouvoir : voilà l’ambition d’artistes ivoiriens d’Alpha Blondy à Magic System. Mais en #CotedIvoire, comment s’engager dans une industrie musicale qui se restructure au gré des crises politiques ? Lisez l’article de Léo Montaz 👉 shorturl.at/4SVbG

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Syrian Jews say held first group prayer in decades in Damascus synagogue www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

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One of Trumpism's internal contradictions is that there are people in his orbit who see Perón as a model and people in his orbit who see Milei as a model

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“Yassmin breaks down the situation for newcomers…and discusses how Sudan is connected to regional and global powers, and how countries including the UAE and Saudi Arabia are positioning themselves to benefit from the fallout of the war.”

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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Oh also remember when Israel was banning press networks too like Al Jazeera kinda like Trump is banning AP from covering the White House? Fascism kinda likes to keep the free press from doing its job.

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highly highly recommend this piece by @edebruin.bsky.social & @hsulli.bsky.social. really great breakdown and a thoughtful discussion on the dangers of civilian coup conspirators

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Dark Pence is back.

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One of the leading scholars of democracy is struggling to process what is happening just like everyone else: "Is democracy dying in the United States?"

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The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

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