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Bertrand de Seissan

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Philip Obaji Jr. @philipobaji.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Russia has recruited over 28,000 foreigners to join its military. Among them are foreign students at Russian universities. Sadly, many of these students are Africans pushed to fight in the war in Ukraine. One of the victims in this video was recruited by force from medical school
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Philip Obaji Jr. @philipobaji.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Wagner’s Bloody Legacy in Mali: Torture, Executions, and a Trail of Fear united24media.com/latest-news/...
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Wagner’s Bloody Legacy in Mali: Torture, Executions, and a Trail of Fear
Russian mercenaries in Mali face allegations of extrajudicial killings and torture, raising concerns about human rights violations during operations.
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Philip Obaji Jr. @philipobaji.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Wagner mercenaries are turning West Africa’s gold fields into killing grounds. From Sudan to the Central African Republic (CAR), Russian-backed forces loot, murder, and smuggle gold and other resources to bankroll Moscow’s war in Ukraine. united24media.com/world/how-mu...
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How Much Gold Is Russia Bleeding from Africa to Fund Its War?
Russian-backed forces are turning West Africa’s gold mines into killing grounds. They loot, murder, and smuggle gold to bankroll Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Anyone tut-tutting about “Church teaching on the right of nations to defend their borders” is going to be remembered in the end as morally equivalent to the anti-abolitionist Catholic bishops who obsessed over “Church teaching on slavery” completely apathetic to the reality of slavery
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sbmintelligence.bsky.social @sbmintelligence.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
🇨🇦#Canada PM, Mark Carney's speech @weforum.org #Davos confirms #Africa's long-held view of a fractured global order. The continent must build pragmatic sovereignty through regional resilience. sbmintelligence.substack.com/p/canadas-ne...
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Canada’s new reckoning: Navigating geopolitical rupture and African agency
Canada PM's speech at Davos confirms Africa's long-held view of a fractured global order. The continent must build pragmatic sovereignty through regional resilience.
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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Russian actors have played a leading role in seeding and amplifying false narratives around Burkina Faso’s military junta. The junta, in turn, has been among the most vocal supporters of Moscow’s growing security presence in Africa.
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A Growing Divergence of Security Narratives in Burkina Faso – Africa Center
Since seizing power in a military coup in September 2022, Burkina Faso’s ruling junta under Captain Ibrahim Traoré has prioritized controlling the narrativ
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Institute for Strategic Dialogue @isdglobal.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger’s departure from the Economic Community of West African States marked a significant pivot away from the West & toward Russia ⬇️ www.isdglobal.org/digital_disp...
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Investigation | Pro-Kremlin influencers targeting audiences in the Alliance of Sahel States (AES)
After Mali, Burkina Faso & Niger quit ECOWAS under military regimes, it seems they may have pivoted toward Russia with local influencers playing into their geopolitical agenda.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 24/06/2025
"Le jeune homme est allongé, nu, sur le sable, en plein désert. Du scotch serré autour du cou. Il bouge à peine, mains ligotées dans le dos. Certains de ses doigts ont été sectionnés. Son oreille gauche, elle aussi tranchée, git à côté de sa tête, dont l’œil gauche est crevé.
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 12/06/2025
It calls itself the African Initiative. But it’s run by Russian intelligence and linked to Wagner's #disinfo legacy. Joint findings by Viginum, FCDO and EEAS expose it as a Kremlin FIMI tool, not a news agency. #DontBeDeceived euvsdisinfo.eu/african-init...
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VIGINUM @viginum.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
#VIGINUM publie avec les contributions de partenaires internationaux, un rapport sur African Initiative, une agence de presse russe, pensée comme l'un des principaux vecteurs de la réarticulation du dispositif d’influence de la Russie en Afrique post-Prigojine ➡️ www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/publications...
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 12/06/2025
French agency @viginum.bsky.social releases a report, including contributions from the FCDO 🇬🇧 and the EEAS 🇪🇺, on African Initiative, a Russian 'news agency' considered to be one of the main vehicles for the rearticulation of Russia's influence in post-Prigozhin Africa.
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Philip Obaji Jr. @philipobaji.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Witnesses in the Central African Republic told me some time ago that Russian paramilitaries carried out a series of gruesome killings that involved slaughtering several women and removing their stomach and intestines. www.thedailybeast.com/wagner-group...
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Putin’s Private Army Accused of Most Heinous Massacre Yet
Witnesses are pointing a finger at the Wagner Group over a series of gruesome killings that allegedly involved disemboweling several women.
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Bertrand de Seissan @bdeseissan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
To, ba damuwa. Lokacin da muka sake magana, za mu yi magana a harshen Hausa. 🤞🏻
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 19/03/2025
REVEALED: Russia's use of non-existing journalists/experts in francophone Africa as part of an influence campaign. In 'Africa's Ghost Reporters', we reveal a campaign that has impacted over a dozen francophone countries, with more than 200 articles published in local media. 🧵
An image showing the text 'Africa's Ghost Reporters'.
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VIGINUM @viginum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
VIGINUM publie ce jour un nouveau rapport sur les « Défis et opportunités de l’intelligence artificielle dans la lutte contre les manipulations de l’information ». A retrouver ici ➡️ www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/publications...
Logo du Sommet pour l'action sur l'IA | Logo de VIGINUM 
Titre du rapport "Défis et opportunités de l'intelligence artificielle dans la lutte contre les manipulations de l'information"
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Bertrand de Seissan @bdeseissan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Le bonheur c'est d'avoir trouvé l'endroit qui sert le miyan taushe parfait, avec un équilibre irréprochable entre épinard, courge et arachide, pimenté juste ce qu'il faut. ❤️
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Astropierre @astropierre.com · 03/02/2025
Après analyse (et contrairement à ce qui avait été titré à l'époque) l'infime radioactivité au Césium 137 détectée dans le sable saharien qui s'était déposé en métropole suite à un épisode atmosphérique en mars 2022, ne provient pas des essais nucléaires français en Algérie dans les années 60. 1/2
Concentrations (en mgr/m²) d'aérosols (sable) dans l’air prévues le 15 mars 2022 au-dessus du Nord de l'Afrique et de l'Europe.
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Bertrand de Seissan @bdeseissan.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Découverte du jour : la différence entre maniyyaci/mahajjaci (pl. maniyyata/mahajjata), personne qui a l'intention (= niyya) d'effectuer le hajj, et alhaji (f. hajiya, pl. alhazai), personne qui l'a effectué. #haoussa
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Bertrand de Seissan @bdeseissan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Le très joli idéophone "din-din-din" qui sonne comme les ricochets d'un caillou sur l'eau et évoque la permanence, l'éternité. #haoussadujour (Membres permanents : "masu kujerun din-din-din".)
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Jean-Noël Barrot @jnbarrot.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Retour sur ma mission à Damas, avec @abaerbock.diplo.de. Voici ce que j’ai vu. Voici ce que j’ai dit. 1/8
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/12/2024
Exposure of a Russian project in Africa www.state.gov/the-kremlins...
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The Kremlin’s Efforts to Spread Deadly Disinformation in Africa - United States Department of State
Today, the U.S. Department of State’s Global Engagement Center is exposing Russia’s intelligence services for providing material support and guidance to “African Initiative,” a new information agency ...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/12/2024
Thanks to the Republican Congress, and a tsunami of lies from Musk and others, the only US agency dedicated to tracking and exposing Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world ceases to exist www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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US agency focused on foreign disinformation shuts down
A leading US government agency that tracks foreign disinformation has terminated its operations, the State Department said Tuesday, after Congress failed to extend its funding following years of Repub...
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Bertrand de Seissan @bdeseissan.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Tiens, quelqu'un s'est donné la peine de commencer à traduire sur Wikipédia en haoussa un long article consacré à Françoise Hardy ! 🥰 ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3...
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Françoise Hardy - Wikipedia
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
There's something deeply ironic about how the Westerners who espouse slogans like "power to the people" are the most likely to believe that the only agency that exists outside of the United States of America is the Central Intelligence Agency
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Bertrand de Seissan @bdeseissan.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
The simple evocative beauty of the Hausa word "ɗis" (ɗ being a voiced alveolar implosive), = "drip/drips" in English. 🥰
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Bertrand de Seissan @bdeseissan.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Masar Bauchi: A taste of northern goodness (Daily Trust) ❤️ dailytrust.com/masar-bauchi...
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Masar Bauchi: A taste of northern goodness - Daily Trust
Masa is a local delicacy in northern Nigeria that is staple in many households with recipes varying across communities. In Bauchi State, this food has transcended local kitchens, finding its way onto ...
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Bertrand de Seissan @bdeseissan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The latest issue of The Republic on "Reimagining Nigerian heritage" looks incredible! 🤩
The Republic

Reimagining Nigerian Heritage
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Bertrand de Seissan @bdeseissan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Akwai masu jin Hausa a can?
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