Dr. Jason Warner

Perhaps appropriate that while on paternity leave, I can share news of a birth of a different type: Thrilled that today is the official release of "The Islamic State in Africa," which I've authored w help from the brilliant team of @ryanmofarrell, @MENASTREAM, @Pol_Sec_Analyst.

@VincentFoucher Your threads are one of the few reasons I occasionally return to Twitter (ahem, X.) You should charge us.

Reading a recent article on conflict in the Lake Chad region. I have issues with this piece. Brace yourselves for a mammoth thread, with bits on research methods, ecology & conflict, communal violence & jihad and comparisons with the Sahel tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@ProfSaunders Had him as a professor. What a guy.

@APerliger @AmiraJadoon @aysed_9 What a team! Congrats all!

Looking forward to working with the amazing @AmiraJadoon @aysed_9 and Bart Knijnenburg on our new NIJ grant to study networks of disinformation. nij.ojp.gov/funding/awards…

@thatdrwillis @APSAtweets INCREDIBLE, CHARMAINE!! Congratulations!!

@DiannaHEnglish @kahixo Absolute best.

@tweetsintheME @YGuichaoua Incredible, Andrew! Congrats!

I’m beyond pleased to announce that I have successfully defended my dissertation, “The Search for the Straight Path: Islamic Reform and Regional Change in Algeria, Senegal, and Mali in the Twentieth Century”!

Newest issue of FMSO's Operational Environment Watch newsletter on international perspectives of the OE is out now: community.apan.org/wg/tradoc-g2/f…

Incredible accomplishment by a superlative team.

@mervatim @wesleyan_u Incredible, Merve!

@YGuichaoua @KentBSIS I’m so sorry to hear this, Yvan.

@ToniHaastrup Phenomenal news! Congratulations!

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. @warnjason @UNC_AAAD 💙 #GiveUNC

📢 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. reuters.com/world/africa/b…

7: Global OE -Morocco sends mil equipment to Ukraine -Syrians fight for Russia in Ukraine -Tajikistan deepens security cooperation w Russia -Saudi deepens security cooperation w China -Russian interferes in Latin American elections - Venezuela’s dictatorship strengthens

6: Terrorism/TOC -Burkina Faso addresses terrorism w recruits and Russia -Somalia gov claims Al-Shabaab seeks negotiations -Nigeria wants renewed cooperation against jihadist groups

1: We @USArmy’s Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO), part of @TRADOC, are out w a new edition of “OE Watch,” a monthly update on foreign perspectives of the intl security environment based on readings of local news around the world: