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Rift Valley Institute @rvinews.bsky.social · 1d

The October edition of the RVI Newsletter is out now!

Catch up on the latest from across the region: bit.ly/4pZQ2Ps

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Megatrends Afrika @megatrends-afrika.de · 19h

📢 New study alert!

Leverage and Limits: What African Actors Make of the New #Multipolarity explores how #Africa navigates a new world order.

18 authors, 8 chapters, and 1 deep dive into security, democracy, trade, infrastructure, minerals, digital policy and urban development. 🧵

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Norman Aselmeyer @aselmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s the term card for the Northeast Africa Forum in Oxford, a research seminar focused on the broader East Africa region. We meet on Tuesdays at 4 p.m., and most sessions are also held in hybrid format. @jasonmosley.bsky.social @mwangimwaura.bsky.social @terrefebiruk.bsky.social

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 1d

Oxford Bus Co has announced more frequent bus services from November to coincide with the congestion charge coming into effect. The improvements mean Blackbird Leys and Cowley will have services to the city centre every 10 minutes, while Iffley Road gets a new night bus.

Oxford Bus Company 300 stops off for a quick half at the Wetherspoons

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Rift Valley Institute @rvinews.bsky.social · 2d

NEW REPORT | IDDIR IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH IN ETHIOPIA

The latest EWNET seminar explored how iddir can inform policy, civic engagement and theory-making grounded in local experience.

Read the report: bit.ly/42uGG4a

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Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 3d

I'm quite appreciative of the FT's journalism, which is well worth the subscription costs, but this use of 'hard left' is joining 'wealth creator' in my business journalist jargon pet peeve bin.

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Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 3d

Some good points in this essay, but why echo and normalise the Maga-ish framing of 'hard left' for what is acknowledged in the essay as 'middle of the road'? America is not Europe, obviously, but this seems self-contradictory.

The rise of America’s hard left - on.ft.com/4h4lwjq

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Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 3d

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Ruth Hall @ruthhallplaas.bsky.social · 4d

What's driving land grabbing in the world today?

Our hot-off-the-press open access paper shows land grabbing is now shaped by:
1. geopolitics
2. financialization
3. climate policies

We set out why it matters, how people respond, and what's to be done @plaasuwc.bsky.social @tninstitute.bsky.social

The ‘return’ of land grabbing?

This introductory paper to the Special Forum on ‘The Return of Land Grabbing’ examines the evolving dynamics of land grabbing. We argue that land grabbing never disappeared but has persisted and tr...

www.tandfonline.com

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Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 4d

Really been a pleasure to see the Ethiopian Women Researchers Network (EWNET) take off this year, and to be working on these publications for RVI. Keep up with EWENT's reports here:
riftvalley.net/publication/...

Publications – Rift Valley Institute

RVI publishes books, research reports, research papers, briefings and meeting reports in a range of formats. Publications cover policy, research, arts, culture and local knowledge in the countries of…

riftvalley.net

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 5d

⚫️ 12 years ago, 368 people lost their lives in a tragic shipwreck off the coast of Lampedusa.

Preventable deaths at sea have not stopped. 25,470 people have gone missing in the central Mediterranean since 2014.

We must not forget.

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Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 6d

Like so many, I did not know Jane Goodall.

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Rift Valley Institute @rvinews.bsky.social · 6d

XCEPT's September newsletter spotlights RVI’s six-year contribution.

Research across Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Eritrea shows how borderland life is shaped by wider political and economic forces.

Read here: bit.ly/3WgPjLZ

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Rift Valley Institute @rvinews.bsky.social · 7d

Join EWNET Seminar III: Thinking the Contemporary Through the Urban Nexus Between Academic and Policy Research on Friday, 3 Oct 2025 at 2:30–5:00 PM EAT at IPSS Addis Ababa University.

RSVP here: forms.gle/kALZaKtKN7gy...

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Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 8d

Judge Reinstates Over 500 Voice of America Journalists and Staff
The reversal of firings is the latest defeat that the Trump administration has incurred in its effort to close down the federal news organization.

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

Judge Reinstates Over 500 Voice of America Journalists and Staff

www.nytimes.com

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Rift Valley Institute @rvinews.bsky.social · 8d

NEW REPORT | THE ROLE OF CULTURE IN CONFLICT AND PEACEBUILDING AMONG THE BALANDA AND JURCHOL COMMUNITIES IN WESTERN BAHR EL GHAZAL

Madelina John Juma on how cultural expressions influence conflict and peacebuilding in South Sudan—specifically song, dance and beadwork.

Full report: bit.ly/4gM5KcJ

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Ahmed Al Omran @alomran.me · 10d

🚨 My latest: How the Saudi crown prince irreversibly changed the relationship between the state and the kingdom’s religious establishment.

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Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 10d

Not exactly what you're talking about, but put me in mind of Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The Buried Giant'.

Source: The Guardian share.google/ppz8KSe3utXT...

The Buried Giant review – Kazuo Ishiguro ventures into Tolkien territory

The Booker-winner’s excursion through Britain’s mythical past is a rumination on memory, love and war worthy of a place among the greats

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Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 10d

This in particular. I'm not sure if Klein takes the meaning as I believe it's intended. But the exchange is illuminating.

Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 10d

This was a helpful conversation to read.

Opinion | The Ezra Klein Show

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines

www.nytimes.com

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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 11d

I can't remember who I was chatting to about this but the St Vincent BBC Prom was apparently on BBC4 last night and will be available on iPlayer for 11 months www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

BBC Proms - 2025: St. Vincent at the Proms

The multi-Grammy-winning singer joins an orchestra for this one-off gig at the Royal Albert Hall, with incredible new arrangements of some of her most-loved songs.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12d

There are half a dozen candidates for most absurd sentence or claim in this essay. It is especially weird on race

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12d

Come for the really good essay by Patrick Maguire, stay for the really bad one being shared (approvingly!!) by some Labour MPs: www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

There’s a void at the heart of Labour: it needs a battle of ideas

A withering analysis shared among Keir Starmer’s MPs says his vague incrementalism and absence of critical thinking is steering the party to disaster

www.thetimes.com

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Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 12d

Well made points on national ID.

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 12d

Some args I see against universal ID:

1. “I don’t like the way the govt is arguing for it, making it all about immigration”. I’m not keen on a lot of this govt’s comms but the route to a majority on this issue runs through more authoritarian voters so it makes sense to go big on framing like this

Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 15d

And then instrumentalised for electoral mobilisation. doi.org/10.1080/1753...

Electing the ‘alliance of the accused’: the success of the Jubilee Alliance in Kenya's Rift Valley

Against a history of a divided Kalenjin/Kikuyu vote and election-related violence, and a contemporary context of high levels of inter-communal mistrust and intervention by the International Crimina...

doi.org

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Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 16d

Sudan Is What Happens When You Recognize a Junta
By Suliman Baldo and Mai Hassan
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

Opinion | Sudan Is What Happens When You Recognize a Junta

www.nytimes.com

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