Nina Wilen
ninawilen.bsky.social
Nina Wilen
@ninawilen.bsky.social
Dir. Africa Program Egmont Institute, Assoc Prof Lund University, xEIC International Peacekeeping. Research on military, Sahel & Great Lakes, peacekeeping, gender, interventions
✨A nice start of the year with this great review of my book: ✨
"Securitizing the #Sahel" by Lawrence Kline

🌐 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#Niger #Mali #Burkina #Chad #France #MINUSMA #EUTM #Belgium #security #military #US
January 2, 2026 at 4:43 PM
#Russia ‘s draft budget for 2026 shows #Putin is budgeting $1.77 billion for state #media and #propaganda, an increase of 7 percent over 2025, and 28 percent over pre-#Ukraine invasion levels in 2021…

…That’s $34 million a week”

#Europe #EU

alexzfinley.substack.com/p/trump-russ...

#Europe #EU
Trump, Russia, and the coming collapse of the information space
Another uplifting Rant! Happy Friday!
alexzfinley.substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Excellent and deeply frightening interactive map of #Russia’s #sabotage campaign in #Europe since the full scale invasion of #Ukraine

Should make sure we remember who our #enemy is among disinformation and disturbing narratives from (former) allies…

apnews.com/projects/rus...
December 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“The new National #Security #Strategy.. is..the biggest self-own in foreign policy…
The NSS looks to end the Western security architecture…led by the US since the end of
WWII& that is largely responsible for the US’s unprecedented wealth and prosperity.”

alexzfinley.substack.com/p/trump-the-...
Trump, the Bus Driver
Heading straight toward a cliff
alexzfinley.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
❓ Why are 1200 Belgian troops, 180 vehicles & 2 A400M deployed to #Gabon for over a month?

✍ I am arguing that such a major deployment in the current #security environment is a welcome sign of renewed focus by Belgian #Defence on #Africa in my latest @egmontinstitute.bsky.social brief

#Belgium
December 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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📄𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 by @ninawilen.bsky.social
@egmontinstitute.bsky.social
"Belgian Defense Going Tropical: A Return in Focus to Africa"
#BelgianDefense #AfricaPolicy #SecurityAndDefense #EUForeignPolicy #AfricaSecurity #PeaceAndSecurity #TropicalStormExercise
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 👉 tinyurl.com/d43jau24
December 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
📢 What will happen to the thousands of militaries involved in the #war between #Russia & #Ukraine ? 🧵

We highlight 2 scenarios:

1️⃣ Integrating +/- 500,000 #battle-hardened soldiers with #trauma & #PTSD => #security risks & risks for #peace building 1)

www.egmontinstitute.be/when-the-war...
December 10, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Reposted by Nina Wilen
Russian soldiers returning from the war in Ukraine have killed or injured over 1,000 people, investigation finds

At least 551 people have been killed by returning veterans, more than half by former convicts, according to independent outlet Verstka.
Russian soldiers returning from the war in Ukraine have killed or injured over 1,000 people, investigation finds
Over nearly four years of war in Ukraine, Russian veterans of the so-called “special military operation” returning from the front have killed or injured more than 1,000 people, according to a joint in...
theins.press
December 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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📄𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 by @ninawilen.bsky.social & Sofie Rose
@egmontinstitute.bsky.social

"From the Donbas to Africa: How Returning Fighters Could Fuel a New Mercenary Wave"

#RussiaUkraineWar #DDR #SecurityPolicy #Mercenaries #PMC #WagnerGroup #AfricaSecurity

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 👉 tinyurl.com/4u26f84k
December 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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📖| Au Mali, la junte militaire est-elle en panne ?

Retrouvez l’analyse de Nina Wilén (@ninawilen.bsky.social), directrice du programme Afrique à l’Institut royal des relations internationales Egmont et professeure associée à l’université de Lund, sur #LeRubicon.
lerubicon.org/au-mali-la-j...
Au Mali, la junte militaire est-elle en panne ?
Après près de deux mois de blocus économique imposé par le Groupe de soutien à l’islam et aux musulmans (Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, JNIM), affilié à Al-Qaïda, le régime militaire malien est...
lerubicon.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
❗️#Coup attempt in #Benin this morning by elements from the Garde Nationale
➡️ For more on Benin’s security collaborations with foreign partners, my @EgmontInstitute brief from last year

⚠️Note that the #security situation has deteriorated since then..

www.egmontinstitute.be/whats-brewin...
What's Brewing in Benin? Security Collaboration in the Gulf of Guinea - Egmont Institute
The Gulf of Guinea has drawn attention from Western states in recent years due both to increasing spillover of violent extremism from the Sahel and because of Sahelian military juntas’ […]
www.egmontinstitute.be
December 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🎧 New Podcast !

👉🏼You can now listen to a discussion about my book:

“Securitizing the #Sahel: Analysing External #Interventions and their Consequences”

On the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

Thanks to @mirandamelcher.bsky.social for the discussion! 🙏🏼

newbooksnetwork.com/securitizing...
November 26, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Great to see @ninawilen.bsky.social's book is now out
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Great start to the week with an insightful discussion on the political and security realities in the Sahel, hosted by 🇩🇰 Presidency. Professor Nina Wilén presented some of the key ideas in her new book on Securitising the Sahel, excellent background for a good debate ahead of this week’s FAC.
November 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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📢We have kicked off todays online book talk with our Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group!

📚We are joined by @ninawilen.bsky.social to discuss her newly published book 'Securing the Sahel'

👉Take a look at the book: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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🚨 Upcoming event 🚨

Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights WG Book talk on the fantastic book Securing the Sahel 📚
'A 'security traffic jam' or networking missions in Mali?' with Nina Wilen 🎉

Held on 19 November sign up now 👉 https://ow.ly/IRhp50Xp9bs

Oxford University Press
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"We knew in 2011 when #Libya was collapsing that we needed to hurry up…they came with huge amounts of #arms: convoys of arms … It was like a huge supermarket of arms for free … The Secretary-General requested a draft #strategy"

#Sahel @oxunipress.bsky.social @egmontinstitute.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
❓ Is the #military regime in #Mali running out of gas?

✍ I'm analysing the current crisis in my latest for @egmontinstitute.bsky.social

- Fall of Bamako seems unlikely
- Negotiated settlement possible
- Social unrest likely

#Sahel #JNIM #jihadist
www.egmontinstitute.be/is-malis-mil...
Is Mali’s Military Regime Running out of Gas? - Egmont Institute
After almost two months of an economic blockade imposed by the Al-Qaida affiliated group JNIM, (Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin), the Malian military regime is under pressure to find solutions to...
www.egmontinstitute.be
November 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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📄𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 by @ninawilen.bsky.social
@egmontinstitute.bsky.social

"Is Mali’s military regime running out of gas?"

#Mali #Sahel #Security #Africa #Governance #JNIM #Geopolitics #EgmontInstitute

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 👉 tinyurl.com/yhc7rkm2
November 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
The..ideologies which #Russia..harness, like #Pan-Africanism, #sovereigntism & anti-neocolonialism, are not illegitimate...But..can be used against the..Russians, who, in the 21st century..seek personal enrichment from the plunder of..African nations"
#Africa #Sahel #Europe
ecfr.eu/publication/...
The bear and the bot farm: Countering Russian hybrid warfare in Africa
Russia has many quiet enemies in Africa. Working together, like-minded Africans and Europeans can roll back its troublesome influence.
ecfr.eu
October 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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📄𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 by @ninawilen.bsky.social
@egmontinstitute.bsky.social
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social

"Securitizing the Sahel: Analysing External Interventions and their Consequences"

#SecurityForceAssistance #Securitization #PeaceOperations #CivilMilitary

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 👉 tinyurl.com/bdfpf7cc
October 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
➡️Want to read my book "Securitizing the #Sahel"?

@oupacademic.bsky.social has made the introductory chapter available here until 10 November!

It outlines the main argument & structure of the book!

#Niger #Burkina #Mali #military #security #Barkhane #EUCAP #EUTM

academic.oup.com/book/61385/c...
Introduction: Security Force Assistance in the Sahel
Abstract. The introductory chapter situates security force assistance (SFA) in the Sahel within broader debates on military interventions, external securit
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October 23, 2025 at 8:08 AM
"The #military never wins the #war. We were incapable to do it with 6,000, but even if we had had 60,000 we could never have won the war, and we repeated it, repeated it, repeated it."

Interview #Barkhane officer

#Sahel #Mali #Niger #Burkina #France
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
October 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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INSO endure une situation épouvantable au Burkina depuis juillet, qui empire encore aujourd'hui. Soutien et courage à leurs équipes
Déclaration d’INSO concernant nos activités au Burkina Faso et la détention continue de notre personnel. | International NGO Safety Organisation (INSO)
ngosafety.org
October 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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This is a fantastic achievement. Congrats, Nina, for producing the most comprehensive book to date on the foreign intervention in the Sahel. What makes this work so precious, among other things, is the unique body of evidence it relies on, collected year after year in multiple Sahelian countries
👉 Look at that! 😊

Today the electronic version of my book:

⭐ "Securitizing the #Sahel. Analysing External #Interventions and their Consequences"⭐

is published on-line with @oxunipress.bsky.social!

#security #defense #military #Niger #Mali #Burkina #Chad #France #UN #EU #US
October 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM