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Jason Mosley
@jasonmosley.bsky.social
Migrant.
Northeast Africa & Red Sea. Frontiers & state visions, regional political economy & security.
Works at @rvinews.bsky.social
Views my own.
Please do join us today! Full details 👇
Please join the Northeast Africa Forum on 25 Nov, 4pm UK time. We're hosting a book launch & discussion for:
'Historical Dictionary of South Sudan'
With Douglas Johnson, Nicki Kindersley & Scopas Poggo.

*Hybrid event* Full details & webinar registration: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3b5...
November 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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New XCEPT report by Hilina Berhanu Degefa on women’s participation in Ethiopia’s ethnonational armed groups.

Completed through the Women Researchers Fellowship in the X-Border Local Research Network, where RVI is a core partner.

Read here: tinyurl.com/w8dupaah
"We fought as fighters, not as women": women's participation in ethnonational armed groups in Ethiopia - XCEPT
Ethnonational mobilisations — characterised by a strong sense of national and political identification, whether organised along ethnic, religious, or regional political identifications — tend to flatt...
tinyurl.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
The Transitional Justice Policy of Ethiopia and its Relevance for Peacebuilding
Yohannes Haile Getahun
www.accord.org.za/ajcr-issues/...
The Transitional Justice Policy of Ethiopia and its Relevance for Peacebuilding – ACCORD
This article deals with the peacebuilding impact of the Transitional Justice Policy of Ethiopia (TJPE).
www.accord.org.za
November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Please join the Northeast Africa Forum on 25 Nov, 4pm UK time. We're hosting a book launch & discussion for:
'Historical Dictionary of South Sudan'
With Douglas Johnson, Nicki Kindersley & Scopas Poggo.

*Hybrid event* Full details & webinar registration: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3b5...
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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New article in World Development Perspectives by @carlosoya.bsky.social, Fekadu Nigussie Deresse and Christian Samen Otchia explores the paradox of job switching in a wage cartel.

Read here: shorturl.at/woaYi
@soasuni.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Please join the Northeast Africa Forum on 25 Nov, 4pm UK time. We're hosting a book launch & discussion for:
'Historical Dictionary of South Sudan'
With Douglas Johnson, Nicki Kindersley & Scopas Poggo.

*Hybrid event* Full details & webinar registration: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3b5...
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Why is Sudan—rich in land, livestock, and gold—facing mass hunger?
Join @nisrinelamin.bsky.social at LSE to unpack the extractive politics behind famine.
🗓️ 3 Dec | 6.30pm
📍Hong Kong Theatre & Online
#LSEEvents #Sudan
The politics of hunger in Sudan | Nisrin Elamin
6.30pm Weds 3 Dec | Nisrin Elamin | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
lse.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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One to bookmark for when Labour collapse in London next May
November 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
For those in/near Oxford, please do join this event today (4pm UK time). Full details in the post 👇
On 18 Nov, the Northeast Africa Forum will be co-hosting a book launch & discussion at Maison Française d'Oxford (4pm UK time).

Catherine Dom will be discussing 'Mekelle Stories: Life in Time of War'

Full details & venue address:
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3aa...
November 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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On 18 Nov, the Northeast Africa Forum will be co-hosting a book launch & discussion at Maison Française d'Oxford (4pm UK time).

Catherine Dom will be discussing 'Mekelle Stories: Life in Time of War'

Full details & venue address:
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3aa...
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Happy publication day to "Putting Women in their Place: Gender, Power, and World Politics!" The book is now available for purchase: www.amazon.com/Putting-Wome... and I am available for interviews, guest lectures, and unplatformed feminist rants!
Putting Women in their Place: Gender, Power, and World Politics (Women, Peace and Security)
Amazon.com: Putting Women in their Place: Gender, Power, and World Politics (Women, Peace and Security): 9783111659480: Matfess, Hilary: Books
www.amazon.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Clear and crisp weather. Politics going to hell. Dog has the right idea.
November 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Because I wanted to write about something a bit more positive for a while, I wrote about a new book I read and loved recently and what it tells us about Labour's policy and promises on immigration in today's newsletter:
Why the small boats won’t stop
Risky journeys across the Channel are the result of tough border control, not its failure
www.ft.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Reminder that @ukandeu.bsky.social have, of course, published an assessment of the potential pitfalls of attempting to mimic the 'Danish approach' to immigration by @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social ukandeu.ac.uk/denmarks-mig...
Denmark’s migration policy – an example to follow? - UK in a changing Europe
Kristina Bakkær Simonsen explains why countries feel they have something to learn from Denmark's strict migration policy, but argues that there are many key pitfalls.
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Nigel Farage is actually quoted as saying that the Home Secretary ‘sounds like a Reform supporter’ with these horrible policies. She probably thinks that’s a good thing - most right minded people think it’s a disgrace.
Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.

How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Hundreds of Oxford residents marched across Oxford to demonstrate against racism and in solidarity with migrants in an ‘Oxford Unity March and Rally’. Chants included ‘this is what community looks like’ and calls to ‘fight back’ against racism.
November 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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The next Makerere History Seminar will be on Tuesday 18 Nov at 2:30pm (Kampala time). Simon Werner @eui-eu.bsky.social will present "Social science between Busoga and Chicago: Lloyd Fallers, the East African Institute of Social Research, and the colonial networks of Cold War knowledge". See poster
November 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Terrific, thought-provoking piece by @chrisdillow.bsky.social:
On incompetence
Much of our political culture is fundamentally incompetent.
chrisdillow.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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My column in today’s FT: a government with no real vision is reverting to its comfort zone of launching campaigns and drawing dividing lines - against Wes Streeting, on tax. Meanwhile in the real world its position keeps getting worse:
Brain-dead Labour retreats to its comfort zone: campaigning
Downing Street’s bizarre war on itself is a symptom of a government whose ideas dissolve on contact with reality
www.ft.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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As gold prices skyrocket, Chinese and western companies are working side by side to exploit a region ravaged by civil war

Welcome to the illegal gold rush tearing Ethiopia apart

📸 Erberto Zani via Alamy
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Are Oxford‘s poorest areas sharing in its prosperity? As billionaires pour more money into the city’s AI and biotech industries, we take a deep dive into gentrification in Oxford and the city’s housing crisis. (With maps and data!) oxfordclarion.uk/gentrifying-...
Gentrifying Oxford vs the left-behinds
Oxford’s poorest areas are not sharing equally in the city’s increased prosperity, new figures suggest. Parts of Minchery Farm, Rose Hill, and Wood Farm are now suffering more deprivation compared to...
oxfordclarion.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Why has Sudan descended into mass slaughter? The answer goes far beyond simple ethnic conflict
Justin Willis & Willow Berridge in The Conversation
theconversation.com/why-has-suda...
Why has Sudan descended into mass slaughter? The answer goes far beyond simple ethnic conflict
The civil war is often described as an ethnic or tribal conflict. But it’s more complicated than that.
theconversation.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Letter: A call to arms to protect peer review from the threat of AI
"It’s time for the “publish more” mentality to perish."
on.ft.com/47CreWB
Letter: A call to arms to protect peer review from the threat of AI
From Mandy Hill, Managing Director, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
on.ft.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM