This Monday 20 April at Noon at QUB
@qubhistory.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social #Angola #Africa #Governance #Authoritarianism #rural Afroluso
Talk by @bradsafarik.bsky.social

It's happening tomorrow and it will be streamed! Join:
teams.microsoft.com/meet/338724362243772

** Mozambique **
The national hero Josina Machel (née Muthemba) will be attributed an Honoris Causa next 14 April 2026 at the Save University #Mozambique #hero #women #honoriscausa

Next Wednsday 15 April 2026
Conference by Prof. Zachariah Mampilly (CUNY) on "Rebel taxation" at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social #rebel #conflict
AfricanJihad Afripolsky Conflictsky

Pilgrimage to power From John Paul II to Benedict XVI, papal visits to Cameroon have often come when Paul Biya’s government faced political turmoil.

Pope Leo XIV goes to Cameroon next month, the 4th time a Roman #Pontiff visits the central African country. This put #Cameroon as one of the African countries most visited by #Popes. Why? David Tonghou Ngong talks of Catholic #neocolonialism.... Read it here: africasacountry.com/2026/03/pilg...

Psss -- about #Africa spefically: "Seventy-five institutions hold 11,856 items of remains recorded as originating from Africa. Of these, 6,223 (52%) are held in the University of Cambridge’s Duckworth Laboratory."

Pss -- "There are also high numbers of UK excavated remains held by Armagh city, Banbridge and Craigavon borough council in Northern Ireland (6,400 items, representing only 10 individuals)"...

Ps -- from the title to the footnote: about half of the all items identified are in fact... from UK archaeological excavations !?!

Which human remains are held in UK museums – and where? Institutions including the Natural History Museum and Cambridge University hold more than 263,000 human remains, Guardian investigation finds

To conclude the dossier, The Guardian gives us a tool "Which human remains are held in UK museums – and where?" --> www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Descendants of Zimbabwe resistance heroes urge UK to locate looted skulls Relatives call on institutions to help them find remains of ancestors who led fight against British colonisers in 1890s

"Descendants of Zimbabwe resistance heroes urge UK to locate looted skulls" --> www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"Of the 28,914 items of human remains known to originate from outside Europe, 11,856 were identified as coming from Africa, 9,550 from Asia, 3,252 from Oceania, 2,276 from North America, and 1,980 from South America".

Vast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and experts Exclusive: Guardian study finds UK museums hold more than 260,000 items of remains, often in sacrilegious ways

Fruit of a campaign to return human remains to Africa and an FOI by @theguardian.com which uncovers "260,000 items of remains, often [held] in sacrilegious ways"
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Very generous review of my book in the Portugues journal "Analise Social" by Dr Sandra Araujo. Here: revistas.rcaap.pt/analisesocial/. Many thanks to the author who published the wonderful "Spying on Muslims in Colonial Mozambique, 1964-74" by Bloomsbury

Check out our new project with @yguichaoua.bsky.social @emorier.bsky.social and @vincentfoucher.bsky.social !

Cc @polscileiden.bsky.social

A semana em que a população de Moçambique enfrentou intempéries e cheias Abrimos o recapitulativo desta semana em África com Moçambique com as intempéries que provocaram mortíferas cheias essencialmente no sul do país. De acordo com o Instituto Nacional de Gestão e Redução do Risco de Desastres, para além de mais de uma dezena de mortos só nestes últimos dias e mais de 700 mil pessoas afectadas, o balanço muito provisório da época chuvosa é de pelo menos 123 mortos desde Outubro.

A semana em que a população de Moçambique enfrentou intempéries e cheias

Tomorrow President Chapo #Mozambique launches his auto-biography in Maputo

CONCLUSION? Aside the issue of the reliability of "data", trade between Mozambique and the United Arab Emirates has only increased threefold since 2018 🫤

Goind to the source (the United Nations Comtrade database), one finds that Mozambique exported $179 mio to UAE in in 2024 and that the data for UAE import from MZ is not available

The latter graph is from TRADING ECONOMICS which doesn't correspond to the former data -- $142 mio export vs $670 mio. To make it worse, Trading Economics says in one page that MZ exported to UAE $179.51 mio and in another page that UAE Imported $1.01 Billion from from MZ...

This is the summary of Mozambique's export to the UAE
up to 2024. 78% of the export in 2024 was "Mineral fuels, oils, distillation products"

Here is a summary of economic relations in $ (2023)

h/t Observatory of Economic Complexity

Pdt Chapo of #Mozambique is visiting the United Arab Emirates. Officially to attend the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, but in effect also to woo investors & foster inter-state relations. The UEA only opened diplomatic representation in Mz in 2015. Since 2018 economic exchanges have increased sixfold

** Mozambique **
Important Seminar online this Thursday about the #insurgency in #Mozambique, with @swahilistreet.bsky.social, Prof Emilio Zeca and Dr Tomas Queface.
Register and connect here: acleddata.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?...

People in need in northern #Mozambique
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#conflict #insurgency #Africa #ISIS AfricanJihad
From "Humanitarian Programme Cycle 2026", issues on 29 December 2025

Brigitte Bardot, trente ans de sympathie pour l’extrême droite Cinq fois condamnée pour des propos racistes, l’actrice, dont sa fondation a annoncé la mort dimanche 28 décembre, fut une compagne de route du clan lepéniste, la seule vedette à assumer ses idées d’e...

Do not forget...
#racism #extremism #art
www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...

The #Vatican just created the diocese of Caia in #Mozambique The latest diocese in the place of oldest Catholic presence in the country (C15th). Quite a symbol. The new Bishop is Comboni Dom António Manuel Bogaio Constantino 🔥🔥 ⛪⛪ #catholicism #church #Beira AfroLuso

Dr Feliciano Mata, director do Centro de Investigação e Estudos Económicos e Sociais de Cabo Delgado (CIEES) faleceu em Pemba #Mocambique dia 13.12.2025. Paz a sua alma 🙏

The journal "Monde(s)" organised a debate around my book "Catholicism and the mkaing of politics" with Profs Elizabeth A. Foster, Samuël Coghe, Markku Hokkanen and myself. Here: shs.cairn.info/revue-mondes...
#Mozambique #Africa #Catholic #History #Politics #Church #Diocese #Sociology

A religious war? Jihadist attacks on Christians in Mozambique Christians are being killed in northern Mozambique. A jihadi insurgency that began in 2017 conducts regular attacks against the state and its population. It has already killed thousands of Mozambicans...

My latest contribution about the conflict in northern #Mozambique AfricanJihad AfroLuso #Africa #jihad
www.hoover.org/research/rel...