Franklin Nossiter
@FranklinNossit2
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Sahel Analyst at International Crisis Group New Orleans-Dakar-Paris Retweets are my own
Dakar, Senegal
Joined November 2021
Our latest Analyst’s Notebooks are out. 🇬🇳 @FranklinNossit2 on Guinea’s political divisions. 🇭🇹 @FortiD on @UN vote to create a Gang Suppression Force in Haiti. 🇲🇩 @MMucznik on Moldova’s pro-European integration party. Read the latest insights here: https://t.co/pNU3Eqez82
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A big thank you to everyone in Guinea and outside who spoke with me and helped me write this paper: https://t.co/xMXKulpavB
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Crisis Group expert Franklin Nossiter analyses General Doumbouya’s designs on securing victory in presidential polls despite an earlier promise not to seek an electoral mandate
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🗒️NEW ANALYST’S NOTEBOOK | Guinea’s Call to Elections Exposes Military Bid to Cling to Power @FranklinNossit2 analyses General Doumbouya’s designs on securing victory in presidential polls despite an earlier promise not to seek an electoral mandate. https://t.co/dMyTnvcUV5
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Crisis Group expert Franklin Nossiter analyses General Doumbouya’s designs on securing victory in presidential polls despite an earlier promise not to seek an electoral mandate
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Charlemagne weeps. Europe’s humiliation know no ends. Even the sacred ego of the President of France isn’t off limits.
French President Macron phoned US President Trump after being stopped at a New York street blocked off for his US counterpart's motorcade during the United Nations General Assembly
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Nous avons eu le plaisir d'accueillir cette semaine dans nos bureaux de Dakar Mme Pauline Bax, directrice adjointe pour l'Afrique de @CrisisGroup !
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In June, we discussed warming ties between Trump and the Alliance of Sahelian States (#AES), writing that it is unclear whether this "would help stabilise the region, or instead assist increasingly brutal Sahelian regimes in consolidating their power". https://t.co/J3gqdf4WX2
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Crisis Group experts Franklin Nossiter and Sarah Harrison on the Trump administration’s flurry of diplomatic engagement with Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger
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#Mali-Sénégal-France/ Mémoires de l'ex Président du Sénégal Abdou Diouf. Une pépite : Le jour où l'ancien Président malien Alpha Oumar Konaré a refusé de se rendre à Dakar pour répondre à une "convocation" du Président français Jacques Chirac. ( Source : Journal 26 Mars)
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On talk of a Trump/Sahel rapprochement, our analyst @FranklinNossit2 notes in @washingtonpost that “It’s still not clear whether the Trump administration is really serious about engaging here...or how open Mali’s government is to it.” https://t.co/jdOyiyFn5g
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America has ramped up intelligence sharing with Mali’s repressive military junta, current and former U.S. officials said, as extremists gain ground in West Africa.
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.@jhjezequel at the 4th Annual Retreat of REC Special Envoys and High Representatives, organized by @Int_IDEA: "African regional institutions should affirm their view of regional dynamics and avoid unrelated geopolitical tensions, often exported by international partners."
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Thread : Abdou Diouf, « L’homme qui n’a jamais payé de loyer ». Aujourd’hui, le deuxième président de la République du Sénégal, Abdou Diouf, fête ses 90 ans. Abdou Diouf est né à Louga le 7 septembre 1935. Fils de Coumba Dème et de Ndiaye Diouf, Abdou grandit entre Mbacké et
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okay if this accelerates do I move back home to get in on the ground floor of the New California Republic foreign ministry or do I just show up in Tehran and then email Sacramento or wherever and go "yeah I'm the ambassador to Iran just send a budget and subordinates"
Wow. California, Oregon and Washington have joined forces to create their own health alliance saying that the CDC has become “a political tool that increasingly peddles ideology instead of science.”
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Listen to our analyst @FranklinNossit2 discussing conflict in the Sahel on @CrookedMedia's Pod Save the World with @TVietor08 (Sahel talk starts at 1:12:23): https://t.co/hyLGebnK3N
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Europeans getting the “Africa Summit” treatment, and not liking it.
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Sunday, May 31, 1959 — U.S. Senator Russell Long delivers a surprise address to a joint session of the Legislature and announces that his uncle, Governor Earl Long, has been taken out of the state by the family to receive psychiatric treatment at a hospital in Galveston, Texas.
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Yep. Democratic leaders have a choice: they can build the party by embracing left populists like Mamdani who are confronting these problems, or keep fighting them and watch as young people flock to right populists who are confronting these problems.
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I spent a wonderful evening with the vibrant Guinean community in Co-op City yesterday. So grateful for the hospitality, delicious food and productive conversations about the future of the Bronx and our city.
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