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Morten Hagen

@hagenmo.bsky.social
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In self-imposed exile from Twitter via Mastodon and Threads. Not sure what my final destination will be. Interested in world affairs, especially relating to the EU and Africa.

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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Over the last nine months, I’ve travelled across America to speak about the ideas in my book, Autocrats vs. Democrats. These stops have also given me the chance to meet and hear from people in different parts of our great country. My takeaways: michaelmcfaul.substack.com/p/what-i-lea...
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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 18/03/2026
While President Tinubu may secure UK investment during his visit, more focus is needed on tackling Nigeria's long-term structural challenges – especially in electricity, education and health.
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Tinubu’s UK state visit: diplomacy alone won’t fix Nigeria’s problems
The Nigerian president’s visit is his latest high-profile foreign policy moment on the world stage. But his diplomatic engagements have not produced concrete benefits for most ordinary Nigerians.
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Shaun Walker @shaunwalker7.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I've been working on this for ages in various countries: the story of the intelligence buildup to Putin's 2022 invasion. How did the US and Britain find out so much, and why were Europe and Ukraine sceptical. It's a long one: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them
Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...
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Morten Hagen @hagenmo.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I think this is a step in the right direction. But action would need to follow the inspiring words. It will be hard, but as Mao Zedong famously said: "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"...
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Catio Miles @catiomiles.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Mario Draghi clearly lays out the state of the play today and for the next 25 years. Similar to what Carney has said as Davis, just 10 times more powerful. Europe should become a federation to face the future. Hope the small men in No10 take note. youtu.be/t1iMjvsr7T0?...
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Mario Draghi | KU Leuven eredoctores 2026
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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Har vært gjest i Trygdekontoret for å diskutere min nye bok "USA: En nekrolog?" med Thomas Seltzer, og fikk til og med en del setninger inn i samtalen! Det er derfor Thomas ser så trist ut. radio.nrk.no/podkast/tryg...
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R.I.P. USA - Trygdekontoret - NRK Radio
Har tiden kommet for å erklære det amerikanske liberale demokratiets død? Ja, mener statsviter og USA-ekspert Hilde Restad, som har skrevet boka "USA - en nekrolog?"
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Anna McShane @annacmcshane.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Wrote this last week @matthewholehouse.bsky.social labourlist.org/2026/01/brit...
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'Britain isn’t talking honestly about how geopolitics is driving the cost-of-living crisis' - LabourList
War, energy disruption and global instability are pushing up household bills. Yet British politics still avoids an honest conversation about the geopolitical roots of the cost-of-living crisis.
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Trump’s Greenland idea isn’t just absurd, it’s dangerous. It risks destroying NATO, empowers China and Russia, and drags the U.S. back toward 19th-century imperial thinking. We have to stop this, as I told @stephruhle.bsky.social
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Prof. Carl LeVan @democracyprofdc.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Military #coup thwarted in #Benin! The #ECOWAS intervention, led by #Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Cote d'Ivoire is notable in an age of authoritarian cooperation in regional orgs, notably the autocrats who formed the Alliance of Sahel States. Civil society voice needed now www.premiumtimesng.com.
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Premium Times
Nigeria's leading newspaper for fast, reliable breaking news and deep investigative reports about Nigeria
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Jan Arild Snoen @snoen.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Jeg skriver her om noe helt annet enn jeg pleier (amerikansk og norsk politikk). Kan Afrika bli det nye Syden? Potensialet for økt turisme er stort i mange fattigere land, og næringen trues ikke av handelskrig eller AI. www.panoramanyheter.no/afrika-jan-a...
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Kan Afrika bli det nye «Syden»?
Varmere somre i Europa kan gi land sør for ekvator et konkurransefortrinn som reisemål. Kanskje bør Afrika hoppe over industrialiseringsfasen, og satse på tjenester og turisme?
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Le Nouvel Obs @nouvelobs.com · 13/08/2025
Macron reconnaît la « guerre » de la France au Cameroun pendant la décolonisation, un tournant mémoriel entre les deux pays
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Macron reconnaît la « guerre » de la France au Cameroun pendant la décolonisation, un tournant mémoriel entre les deux pays
Un rapport d’historiens remis en janvier au président français soulignait le glissement de la répression des autorités coloniales françaises vers une véritable « guerre » entre 1956 et 1961, qui a sans doute fait « des dizaines de milliers de victimes ».
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 12/08/2025
⚡ The United States has deployed three B-1B Lancer bombers to Norway for joint training with European allies.
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America Deploys B-1B Bombers Near Russia Days Before Putin-Trump Meeting
The US has sent B-1B Lancer bombers to Norway for joint training, enhancing NATO interoperability ahead of Russia's strategic exercises.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Pentagon: U.S. Counterterrorism Efforts Have Failed Africans A new Pentagon report offers the grimmest assessment yet of the results of the last 10 years of U.S. military efforts on the continent. Full story @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/08/05/p...
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Pentagon: U.S. Counterterrorism Efforts Have Failed Africans
A new Pentagon report sheds light on AFRICOM’s disastrous counterterrorism campaigns.
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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Hard to overstate how much the Congo-Rwanda peace deal appears to be driven by magical thinking. The FDLR will be disarmed! Trust will be restored! In 90 days! What a joke.
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Peace Agreement Between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Rwanda - United States Department of State
[French Version] PEACE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO AND THE REPUBLIC OF RWANDA PREAMBLE The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (“DRC”) and the Government of t...
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Clément Boursin @cboursin.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
#Togo «Une gouvernance sans limite, ni légale ni temporelle» : deux intellectuels togolais alertent www.lepoint.fr/afrique/une-... "L’arrestation fin mai du rappeur Aamron a réveillé une colère longtemps contenue au Togo"
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« Une gouvernance sans limite, ni légale ni temporelle » : deux intellectuels togolais alertent
ENTRETIEN CROISÉ. L’arrestation fin mai du rappeur Aamron a réveillé une colère longtemps contenue au Togo. Dans une interview croisée avec Le Point Afrique, l’écrivain Radjoul Mouhamadou et le penseu...
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
If we continue to bully and berate our allies and partners, they will eventually find other friends The Limits of Coercive Power open.substack.com/pub/michaelm...
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The Limits of Coercive Power
If we continue to bully and berate our allies and partners, they will eventually find other friends
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Magnus Heunicke @heunicke.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Stærkt at se netop de fire her spise sammen i aften i København ♥️💪 🇩🇰🇸🇪🇳🇴🇫🇮
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Ashoka Mukpo @shokes.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
The companion piece to any news out of eastern DRC right now is this: Rwanda is the primary security provider in northern Mozambique, which has $50b of gas deposits that Total and Exxon want to extract. This is why Kagame will be able to do whatever he wants to Goma. issafrica.org/iss-today/ar...
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Are Rwandan troops becoming Cabo Delgado’s main security provider? | ISS Africa
In three years, the Rwandan contingent in Mozambique has grown dramatically and expanded its operations across five districts.
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Tiago Dias @tiagodf.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Not sure people are aware enough of what's happening in the DRC
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Rwandan army ‘ready to invade DRC’ and help rebels seize city
Intelligence sources suggest battle for Congolese regional capital Goma is imminent before UN crisis talks on Monday
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Shoo away! What you're doing IS fascism @sahrataylor.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
This looks fascinating! "In this surprising history, Max Siollun uncovers a society that was not part of a backward 'dark continent', but one rich with lore to rival those of ancient Greece and Rome" Note: I don't think it's 'surprising'... but ok...
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The Forgotten Era
'Siollun's books are gripping' - Financial Times Much is known about what the Europeans did in Nigeria, yet very little is known about the country before ...
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Morten Hagen @hagenmo.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
This sounds about right
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After the Bell: The Economist’s long-overdue epiphany on Africa
Generalising about Africa means The Economist magazine often gets it wrong. However, this time it might well be right.
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Prof John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
One of the most remarkable pieces of reporting from eastern Congo, by Mark Townsend, a searing account of the brutal hellhole the M23 group has turned the region into. Women and kids face terror and rape everywhere. Rwanda is deeply implicated in the violence. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Children executed and women raped in front of their families as M23 militia unleashes fresh terror on DRC
First-hand accounts from victims of unthinkable violence paint a gruesome picture of the brutality sweeping the central African country. How long is the West prepared to look away?
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Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
#BBCNews - West African bloc pins hopes on ambitious superhighway from Ivory Coast to Nigeria www.bbc.com/news/article... By @paulmelly.bsky.social
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West African highway linking Nigeria to Ivory Coast could help reinvigorate Ecowas
The road could breathe new life into West Africa's regional bloc, Ecowas.
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Michael Kofman @michaelkofman.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Russian operations in Libya, Africa, and further afield heavily depend on its its ability to maintain a logistical route via Syria, bot for maritime presence, and airlift via Khmeimim. John has a good post on this: behindthefront.substack.com/p/the-role-o... 10/
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The Role of Syria in Russia's Africa Operations
By John Lechner
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Excellent column. Unfortunately, there is no easy way back. But both sides should at least consider a customs union, and coordinate closely on security and defence. Most importantly, we need a sense of urgency. Some countries have it. Germany and the U.K. are both too complacent, in different ways.
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Torr (I moved to Threads) @torrleonard.bsky.social · 09/06/2024
“U.S. Confronts Failures as Terrorism Spreads in West Africa - American and French forces have been ordered out of several countries after a series of coups.” www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/u...
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U.S. Confronts Failures as Terrorism Spreads in West Africa
American and French forces have been ordered out of several countries after a series of coups.
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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 19/11/2023
G20-led summit for Africa to highligh interest in fast-growing continent
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G20-led summit for Africa to highligh interest in fast-growing continent
Leaders from more than a dozen African countries are heading to Germany for the G20 Compact with Africa conference, which aims to help bolster private investment in the world's poorest, but fast-growing, continent.
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Morten Hagen @hagenmo.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Economic hardship on the increase in Nigeria 🇳🇬
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Nigeria's food crisis demands sustainable aid solutions - Africa Practice
In September 2023, Nigeria experienced an alarming 30.64% surge in food inflation, marking the highest increase in 18 years. This dramatic spike is not an isolated incident but a culmination of factor...
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Medias 🇨🇦 @mediasca.skyfleet.blue · 06/11/2023
Nigeria : une explosion au haut-commissariat du Canada fait deux morts et deux blessés
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Nigeria : une explosion au haut-commissariat du Canada fait deux morts et deux blessés
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 02/11/2023
Equatorial Guinea claims to use a luxury yacht for military operations, but why? New Bellingcat researcher @oldpete45.bsky.social investigates the use and movement of this extravagant vessel: www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/11...
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Public Holidays: Equatorial Guinea’s Vice President Insists Superyacht in Italian Vacation Hotspot...
The 'defence ministry' yacht was seen moored off Capri, Sardinia and a number of touristic hotspots in the Mediterranean.
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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 22/10/2023
Thank you Poland, for showing faith in EU values under threat from the authoritarian right | Will Hutton
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Thank you Poland, for showing faith in EU values under threat from the authoritarian right | Will Hutton
At least one good thing came out of the disaster of Brexit – it is serving as a bulwark against populism in Europe
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Tiago Dias @tiagodf.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
“Instead of talking about the discovery of Brazil, we need to talk about the genocide of millions of people … They weren’t clapping us when we arrived. But if you look at the drawing in the books, people are smiling. We need to tell people everything about what we did; about how many people died”
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‘We need to tell people everything’: Portugal grapples with legacy of colonial past
European country with longest involvement in the slave trade is coming under pressure to give ‘a real sorry’ for its role
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Morten Hagen @hagenmo.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/0...
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers redux
The author of the 20th century’s most influential history book anticipates the coming world order.
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Morten Hagen @hagenmo.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Who wants to rule the world? I will, says Joe. No, it’ll be me, says Xi | Simon Tisdall
The US and China are building rival global coalitions as the UN stumbles. Tackling collective challenges will be harder in a fragmented world
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Please Follow the Official AP News Account @apnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
Musk’s X is the biggest purveyor of disinformation, EU official says
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Musk’s X is the biggest purveyor of disinformation, EU official says
A top European Union official says the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, is the biggest source of fake news and urged owner Elon Musk to comply with the bloc’s laws aimed at combating disinformation.
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Morten Hagen @hagenmo.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Interesting interview with Borrell on Europe. www.theguardian.com/world/2023/s...
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Migration could be ‘dissolving force for EU’, says bloc’s top diplomat
Exclusive: Josep Borrell calls for European unity in face of Ukraine war, US-China competition and rise of global south
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Morten Hagen @hagenmo.bsky.social · 17/09/2023
We shed crocodile tears over our high streets then click online and finish them off, by Barbara Ellen www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We shed crocodile tears over our high streets then click online and finish them off | Barbara Ellen
Brexit, Covid and rising costs all contributed to closures like Wilko, but we lazy, hypocritical shoppers played a part
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News Feed @news-feed.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
@Jerusalem_Post: The #Kurdistan Region of #Iraq is facing a new and potentially unprecedented crisis as it faces off against pressure from Baghdad, #Iran, and #Turkey. - analysis By: @sfrantzman t.co/npf9BKnFKB
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 14/09/2023
In Finland, society is arranged according to a more meaningful type of freedom than what we have in the U.S. — making sure that people have the resources necessary to make meaningful choices over their lives. From @ryanlcooper.com:
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The Nordic Way of Freedom
Liberty isn’t when every jerk gets to inconvenience everyone else.
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