
Mathias Gjesdal Hammer
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Reporting on foreign policy @Semafor. Alum @TIME @Politics_Oxford, @Dept_of_POLIS đź“§ mhammer (at) semafor dot com
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23-04-2019 11:15:42
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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 ‼️






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/…





"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/…

Behind the scenes, South Africa presses Trump, US on renewing AGOA trade pact semafor.com/article/05/23/… via Semafor Africa


🟡 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/…

🟡 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


🚨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
