Marte Beldé

The geography of a storm Hurricane Melissa made clear what COP30 obscures: the climate crisis still follows the lines of empire.

My brilliant colleague Amina Adebisi Odofin pointing out how climate crises still follow the lines of empire. Pertinent too for the many Malian farmers I interviewed who deal with irregular rainfall and increasing heatwaves africasacountry.com/2025/11/the-...

23.09 #Mali
JNIM ambushed a Security Forces patrol between Sikasso and Bougouni.
Casualties are as yet unknown but other videos posted by the group show at least 01 soldier dead.

Manifestation nationale contre le génocide en cours à Gaza Retrouvez le groupe Amnesty International en face de la tour Luminus au 7 Boulevard Albert II 1210 Saint-Josse. ❌ Manifestation carton rouge ! (…)

7 Sep, Brussels

Manifestation nationale contre le génocide en cours à Gaza - Amnesty International Belgique

‘UAntwerpen toont dat hypocrisie niet alleen een optie is, maar een kunstvorm’ – MO* Ondanks een negatief advies van zijn eigen ethische commissie blijft UAntwerpen samenwerken met Tel Aviv University.

De Universiteit Antwerpen legt opnieuw zijn morele armoede bloot, vindt professor Gert Van Hecken. Ondanks een negatief advies van zijn eigen ethische commissie blijft de universiteit samenwerken met Tel Aviv University. www.mo.be/opinie/UAntw...

Job Alert! We're still looking for a **Post-Doctoral researcher for our Governing Jihad in Africa Project**, with a focus on violence and counter-violence:

- 3 years
- based in Paris/Bordeaux
- starting date: Jan 2026
- deadline: 15 Sept 2025

Vacancy (English): drive.google.com/file/d/1oLPb...

@marte-belde.bsky.social

Global Movement to Gaza Belgium **LES BELGES PARTICIPENT À LA FLOTTE INTERNATIONALE POUR GAZA**

Donate for a Thousand Madleens to Gaza chuffed.org/project/glob...

Israel's version of "if a tree falls in a forest, but there's no one around to hear it" seems to be "if we commit genocide but kill all the journalists who can report on it... is there really a genocide?" And the answer is always YES!

Or Paris 😁 Little birdy told me living in Bordeaux isn't mandatory

Reopening the call for a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship on jihad in Subsaharan Africa, with a later start date (January 2026) - French a plus but not a requirement... drive.google.com/file/d/1oLPb...

How much of Gaza is left standing? Analysis by independent researchers reveals the scale of the destruction

“The studies imply estimated [Gaza] life expectancy has fallen by more than 35 years, to ~ half the pre-war figure. In percentage terms…bigger than…during China’s Great Leap Forward; in absolute terms it is similar to the one in the Rwanda genocide” www.economist.com/interactive/...

I've got the audio version in the meantime, thanks anyway for the effort 🙏

Thanks!

Thanks! I think/hope the audio might be a perfect way to conclude my contextual chapter on Sikasso, bringing things "full circle" from the very first incursions in 2015, then already called the Katiba Khalid ibn Walid.

Thanks for sharing this. Do you have the audio? Curious to hear what the message says!

New images from JNIM in Sikasso

Thousand Madleens to Gaza Belgique Participer au succès de la délégation belge.Organiser une flottille d’une telle ampleur est un vrai défi, et nous avons besoin de vous. Que vous souhaitiez naviguer ou participer depuis la terre, il y...

The IOF can stop one boat bringing lifesaving food and formula to Gaza easily, and beat up the activists on board… but they can’t stop a 1000 boats! Donate to Thousand Madleens to Gaza Belgique chuffed.org/project/1424...

Opinion | The Death of Gaza in Slow Motion

This is not a genocide that can still be prevented. That threshold has already been crossed. What remains is a long trajectory of harm — one that will unfold long after Israeli military attacks are over and even if humanitarian and medical aid begins to flow freely.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

Research in the Sahel has become extremely difficult. This doesn't stop excellent scholarship and reports from being published, authored by super bright people. Here's a flurry of recent, fascinating stuff 👇

Who defines danger, how, and why? I dive into how media, diplomats, NGOs, academics (yes, us too!) co-produce narratives of danger, all in the name of 'safety' but in fact perpetrating epistemic violence.

It is also a deeply personal reflection on my own positionality.

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🚨 New article alert — 3 years in the making! 🚨

Excited to share this work based on my own experiences with ethnographic research on #jihad in #Mali. I explore how 'dangerous imaginaries' are constructed & how they shape what we can know about 'dangerous fields'

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

They were released and turned up in the Netherlands. So the Belgian NGO that is tracking their social media also filed a complaint in the Netherlands (they probably went there due to the Netherlands´ stronger support for the genocide)

Please consider applying!

Implementation Guidelines for the EASA Motion Concerning Collaborations with Israeli Academic Institutions The EASA Executive Committee announces the publication of Implementation Guidelines for the EASA Motion Concerning Collaborations with Israeli Academic Institutions. This document provides implementat...

Clear guidelines for a meaningful Academic boycott! easaonline.org/implementati...

This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read:

“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”

According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.

The documentary that the BBC refused to air showing the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza by Israeli authorities was broadcast by Channel 4 last night.

Amnesty International researcher, Budour Hassan, explains the use of secret sites by the Israeli authorities.

UK MPs vote to proscribe Palestine Action as terrorist group Minister argues move will not impinge on people’s right to protest but critics call it ‘grave abuse of state power’

Keep going down this path, and the label "terrorism" will lose its meaning, as has already happened in many parts of the world. You don't need terrorism legislation to punish crimes like the RAF base break-in

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

On Monday of this week, Hamas' Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip published an updated list of those killed in the war, a 1,227-page chart, arranged from youngest to oldest. The Arabic-language document includes the deceased person's full name, the names of the father and grandfather, date of birth and ID number. Unlike previous lists, this compilation notes the precise age of children who were under the age of one year when they were killed. Mahmoud al-Maranakh and seven more children died on the same day they were born. Four more children were killed on the day after they entered the world, five others lived to the age of two days. Not until page 11, following 486 names, does the name appear of the first child who was more than six months old when he was killed.

The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000

The list is 1,227 pages long.

The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.

The first 381 pages are all children.

archive.is/2025.06.28-0...

Blog post: Rethinking the Field: A Reflection on Spring School 17/06/2025, By Duha CeylanIntroduction

One of the participants of our Spring School wrote a blog post about it, reminding us all of the value of safe and welcoming spaces in academia. Grateful to those who have the will and energy to critique the system and find ways to survive and thrive! brispo.research.vub.be/en/blog-post...

15.06 #Mali
Two attacks in the Sikasso sector.
A Security Forces vehicle was ambushed while patrolling near Mafeya (10kms south of Sikasso)

JNIM also claimed responsibility for an IED attack in the Hermankono sector close to the Burkina border.