Programme for our annual conference, co-hosted with CAS Edinburgh studies is available!

Very excited to be welcoming so many fantastic scholars to Edinburgh next week for our CAS Edinburgh CeSeR conference ‘Security in Africa: Actors, logics and futures.’ Full programme here: sps.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/…

Why does a university, hiring a *student intern* send out a reference form that ONLY asks you to assess the applicant as an ‘employee’ with no options for assessing them as a student? Or answer N/A to questions like “would you re-employ the applicant”?

Sudan's war has metastasised into a nationwide conflagration so vast and anarchic its tremors may be felt through the Horn, the Red Sea and the Sahel.

My piece with Zeinab M. Salih, bravely reporting still from inside Sudan, to mark one-year anniversary:

economist.com/middle-east-an…

One of many AFRIGOS project research outputs. Thanks again to all contributors & project members for their invaluable insight & effort! Paul Nugent Jose-Maria Munoz Hugh Lamarque Elisa Gambino Tim Zajontz Isabella Ziad Hamoui Sergio Oliete Josa Bruce Byiers Abdoul Mohamadou Olivier J Walther et al.

At the Paris conference, the UK pairs its announcement of new humanitarian aid for #Sudan with more sanctions; like 🇨🇦's (also announced today), the sanctions are carefully balanced. gov.uk/government/new…

#Sudan , after a year of war:

Looks like a valuable article (haven’t read it yet).

My piece in the Guardian about denouement of Rwanda Bill this week: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Lineke de Visser uses new evidence from archives & interviews in Namibia to investigate the disappearance in 1970 of ANC members Flag Boshielo, Castro Dolo, Victor Ndaba & Bob Zulu who were returning from exile in Zambia: apparently ambushed by SA Police.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

It would be good to see more VCs displaying leadership and exercising some political muscle rather than sharing ideas about how to make cuts.

#Sudan : '... the war is far from over and is in fact likely to get worse.. Impending battles over Wad Madani and El Fasher are likely to unleash substantial new civilian casualties, perhaps the worst of the war so far.'

Benin and Togo have closed their borders to pastoralists from the Sahel. This study from Lasdel Labo describes the consequences of this policy of forced sedentarization carried out officially to combat terrorism lasdel.net/rapports-sipri…

Are you a member of academic teaching staff at a university where arts/culture courses are being cut? Would like to hear from you. Drop me an email summarising what's being cut, impact & a contact number & will try to get back to you. Drop me a line at: [email protected]
thx

One year on, the outlook in #Sudan is grim indeed. Mediation efforts remain fragmented, while 'With more and more groups entangled in the turmoil, both Burhan and Hemedti may find it increasingly difficult to maintain control of affiliated militias.'

Three-year postdoc at Edinburgh on 'Global Socio-Economic Rights, Local Contexts: Work in East Africa and Western Europe, 1880 to the Present'

East African focus is on Kenya/Tanzania

jobs.ac.uk/job/DGZ833/pos…

This compelling book about 15 Colonial Thefts : A guide to Looted African Heritage in Museums is now available for pre-orders. I have a co_authored chapter together with some amazing colleagues:

plutobooks.com/9780745349534/…

Anyone interested in my take on the future prospects of Chad and the French presence there, listen to my long chat with Michael Nwankpa on the Centre for African Conflict & Development's podcast.

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Amazing story.