Who’s going to tell them that building trade relations in Africa often requires the baseline of development… which USAID is the foundation for?

#womenpeacesecurity - or #WPS - is not about diversity hires. It’s about addressing the fact that women are critical to security, because women can also be contributors to insecurity. Cutting this program is simply ignorant, and a huge setback to better military readiness.

.Aneliese Bernard said the group has metastasized to such an extent that it now “directly impacts [U.S.] national security.” And, she added, “they are expanding undeterred into the countries we have long considered robust security partners.”

As our Director, Aneliese Bernard explains, JNIM continues to expand undeterred from the northern Sahel, where the group first emerged in the mid-2000s, now into more stable states in Coastal West Africa...

Women’s inclusion in the armed forces is not about gender and diversity. It’s about ensuring militaries are modernized, operationally ready to deal with insurgencies, and adaptive. Dismissing #WPS importance is really ignorant to how #women play critical roles in natsec

Sharing my recent research on fuel smuggling in West Africa

Our research on borderlands finally dropped. Check it out in the link

Proud to see our work in Benin featured in Africa Intelligence Through civil-military committees under Benin's Operation Mirador, SSA is helping the army build trust with communities, curb jihadist recruitment, & safeguard border stability with SOCAFRICA and Spirit of America

We've launched a blog! Read about how West Africa’s borderlands are dynamic spaces where trade, stability, and risk converge. Our inaugural blogpost explains why investors in frontier markets must pay attention to borderland trade, security and politics: stabilizationadvisors.com/blog/life-on-t…

We're kicking off something new Strategic Stabilization Advisors. Check out our blog for insights from the field and highlights on the SSA families' research, thoughts and experiences working in fragile spaces and frontier markets. stabilizationadvisors.com/blog

All we know so far is that the missiles - at approximately $1.3 million a pop - fell on farmland. USAID programs that addressed conflict and violent extremism typically received far less money to do significantly more long term work in rooting terrorism and its causes.

We’ve started a new blog series on Nigeria, looking at the drivers of conflict, the risk of regional spillover, and what growing U.S. security interest in the country could mean for policy in Africa based on the limited information we can gather in Washington🧵