Today I join Crisis Group as Central Africa Project Director 🌍 I am grateful to Comfort Ero for this amazing opportunity, and absolutely thrilled to work with a great team on #Cameroon #CARcrisis and #Tchad 🇨🇲🇨🇫🇹🇩

“You will be fine" the fortune teller says. There may be decisions to make and surprises in store. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that!"    - Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

Looking back, I’m starting to see a trend. I regret the things I didn’t do more than I did do, and even if it was a total disaster, following my heart doesn’t cause me to lament. #SaturdayMorning #SaturdayThoughts

Couldn’t the setting up of the Disinformation Governance Board be illegal under the US Constitution? The Supreme Court may have to make a call on this.

Not sure which is more frustrating to a population: the government genuinely being unable to fix a national crisis, or a government simply unwilling to fix a national crisis.

Ah, yes. The classic “it is what it is until it isn’t”.

Anyone surprised by the Italian election result hasn’t been paying attention to Italia for the last, say, 2,000 years. #Italy #ItalianGP #italyelection #Italien

Move over coffee. This is a job for alcohol. #wednesdaythought

After 8 years of only flying Delta I have put my money where my mouth is (after being ignored by Delta complaint department for a remarkably bad experience with a disability), and booked my upcoming trip with United Airlines

My new running theory is that both parties are correct: independent voters are the ones deciding the elections. But both parties seem surprised and annoyed that independents are ticket splitting instead of block voting for one party. #wednesdaythought #Election2022

Some lessons have to be experienced before they can be understood. ---Michael Batnick

If we are being honest, the Palestinian- Israeli conflict is the easiest conflict happening in the world to understand. And if we continue being honest, in the current state (not any whataboutery or ‘shouldn’t haves”) it is the hardest conflict to resolve.

My letter in the Irish Times today on the Israel-Palestine conflict, and Hannah Arendt on violence. The Labour Party Ireland

Dear Mexico - I hear many are still confused about what happened in the election the other day. I will help make this simple: People will not vote for systems that are not working for them. You’re welcome. #mexico #EleccionesMéxico2024 #ElecciónPresidencial

Don’t burn the emergency food from USAID! Send the kits to Americans like the COVID tests we can order from the government! We paid for that food. If you want to get rid of it, send it to us! Donald J. Trump The White House JD Vance Marco Rubio