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Mathias Gjesdal Hammer

@gjesdalhammer

Reporting on foreign policy @Semafor. Alum @TIME @Politics_Oxford, @Dept_of_POLIS đź“§ mhammer (at) semafor dot com

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🚨HUMAN SECURITY EMERGENCY🚨 Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at YSPH now confirms Zamzam is fully under control of RSF & being burned to the ground. Many civilians were too weak from starvation to flee or flee far. Team now monitoring for indicators of mass killings of civilians by RSF forces. CODE RED ‼️

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Alexei Arbatov discusses ways New START can be replaced or extended, warning that "without that treaty and the numerous preceding treaties and agreements, we would now find ourselves back in the nightmare days of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis...

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Update to this story -- in an exchange with the AP, Ullyot said the Pentagon's characterization of his departure was “flat-out false and laughable," and shared his resignation letter.

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US seeks to make "commercial diplomacy" the core focus of US diplomacy to the continent, and ambassadors in Africa will be evaluated based on "the number of deals they facilitate."

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A State Department liaison office is instructing employees to restrict the use of identity- and gender-related terms, including common abbreviations like LGBT, via Mathias Gjesdal Hammer semafor.com/article/05/15/…

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A State Department liaison office is instructing employees to restrict the use of identity- and gender-related terms, including common abbreviations like LGBT. buff.ly/QIEQlXi

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The former US ambassador to Ukraine says she resigned due to Trump's efforts to put pressure on Ukraine, not Russia, to end the war: freep.com/story/opinion/…

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Scoop: A new State Department internal style guide restricts the use of identity- and gender-related terms, including common abbreviations like LGBT.

Scoop: A new State Department internal style guide restricts the use of identity- and gender-related terms, including common abbreviations like LGBT.
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Have heard US officials are telling European counterparts that "there will be no surprises" when it comes to potential US withdrawals from Europe in the run-up to the NATO summit.

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"While affirming an openness to a negotiated settlement, Russia has remained largely steadfast in its demands for post-conflict Ukrainian neutrality, authority over the size of Ukraine’s armed forces, and a further partitioning of [Ukraine]," per DIA armedservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…

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Worth noting US appears open to this model — NATO Amb. Whitaker said the spending pledge will incorporate spending on "mobility, necessary infrastructure, cybersecurity" — and that 3.5% on mil matches spending seen as needed to meet regional plans state.gov/digital-press-…

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🟡 SCOOP with Yinka Adegoke: US President Donald Trump’s top Africa diplomat, Troy Fitrell, has told colleagues he will leave the State Department in mid-July, three people familiar with the matter told Semafor. semafor.com/article/06/12/…

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🟡 SCOOP: Trump’s top Africa diplomat, Troy Fitrell, has told colleagues he will leave the State Department in mid-July, Mathias Gjesdal Hammer and Yinka Adegoke report. buff.ly/lYEtoKs

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#US President Donald Trump’s top #Africa diplomat, Troy Fitrell, has told colleagues he will leave the State Department in mid-July, three people familiar with the matter told Semafor. Fitrell, a 30-year career diplomat who has worked across the African continent, is temporarily

#US President Donald Trump’s top #Africa diplomat, Troy Fitrell, has told colleagues he will leave the State Department in mid-July, three people familiar with the matter told Semafor.

Fitrell, a 30-year career diplomat who has worked across the African continent, is temporarily
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🚨Christopher Landau Chris Landau posted and then deleted this reply to U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker, criticizing him for praising NATO and criticizing NATO. “He obviously didn’t get the memo our (sic) of our Deputies Committee meeting on this very issue. NATO is still a solution in

🚨<a href="/DeputySecState/">Christopher Landau</a> Chris Landau posted and then deleted this reply to <a href="/USAmbNATO/">U.S. Ambassador to NATO</a> Matthew Whitaker, criticizing him for praising NATO and criticizing NATO.

“He obviously didn’t get the memo our (sic) of our Deputies Committee meeting on this very issue. NATO is still a solution in