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.
Andrew Lebovich
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My conversation with @andrewlebovich.bsky.social about Mali and #JNIM.
youtu.be/iRH90rafuEk
Bah gawd they’re playing Glenn Greenwald’s music!
ICYMI, I spoke at length recently with @MichaelShurkin on the Sahel’s insurgency, what JNIM actually wants, and where things may go from here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=iRH90r…
It’s really unfortunate to see what appears to be a legit AI scandal on a publication in my field, and no one wants to talk publicly about it because the interest from the publisher seems to just be to bury it, with no real investigation.
It is almost unfathomable to
me that not one dc politics reporter is well-sourced enough to get the story about what injections he’s getting.
One of the points here that is actually the most noteworthy is that Guinea is hesitant to support Mali too much for fear of attracting JNIM's ire: www.jeuneafrique.com/1761976/poli...
RFI asked me to discuss (en français) the recent developments as the US tries to reset relations with the AES states: www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/...
I know nothing matters, but I still invite you all to think for a moment about the apoplectic rage that would have existed among Republicans if Hunter Biden did anything even remotely approaching this. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...
It's a small point, but don't miss this Senegalese truck driver noting that JNIM lets drivers pass if they are Senegalese: www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/...
What seems fairly certain:
- attack by kamikaze drones on Niamey airbase with fighters on the ground, too. Some pics show dead bodies and a motorbikes w/ a jihadist flag
- authorities had been warned a week before
