Joshua Meservey (@JMeservey) / X

Joshua Meservey

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Joshua Meservey

@JMeservey

Sr. Fellow @HudsonInstitute, Africa policy, Zambia RPCV, @FletcherSchool. Mainer. RTs, etc≠endorsement, views own.

Washington, DC

Joined January 2011

Joshua Meservey
@JMeservey
Aug 30, 2024
Egypt is joining the peacekeeping mission in Somalia because of its rivalry with Ethiopia, not because of a new-found desire to fight al-Shabaab. Such manipulation of a peacekeeping operation sets a bad precedent, and is surely not what the operation's international donors wish.
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Joshua Meservey
@JMeservey
Aug 14, 2025
It's been building for years, but the momentum toward US recognition of Somaliland is undoubtedly gaining steam
Senator Ted Cruz
@SenTedCruz
Aug 14, 2025
RELEASE: Sen. Cruz Calls for U.S. Recognition of Somaliland cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press…
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Joshua Meservey
@JMeservey
Jul 29, 2025
I've met with many of the delegations to Washington who are critical of the South African government. They all strongly opposed the tariffs & rescinding SA's AGOA access. They have more credibility in DC than the ANC or the SA government, so if SA avoids the tariffs they'll
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Joshua Meservey
@JMeservey
Nov 11, 2025
A South African think tank cheekily urges world leaders who will attend the G20 in Johannesburg to insist on being racially classified in the same way the South African government classifies its own citizens. Satire is a powerful tool for exposing absurdity and cruelty.
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Joshua Meservey
@JMeservey
Jan 29, 2024
Another reason to recognize Somaliland independence is that it would undermine the dangerous Greater Somalia irredentism that Ilhan Omar recently invoked. Were I Mogadishu, I'd suppress that talk because of its possible effect on Kenya's deliberations about the Ethiopia-SL MoU.
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Joshua Meservey
@JMeservey
Oct 6, 2020
Replying to @mukhtaryare and @IlhanMN
Does Liban have any proof he was offered a bribe? Otherwise, this seems like a desperate CYA attempt to distract from getting caught on video potentially committing a criminal act
Joshua Meservey
@JMeservey
Oct 5, 2022
Pleased to have hosted on Friday Gen. Tsadkan Gebretensae, member of the Government of Tigray (GoT) Central Command and, for decades, one of Ethiopia’s most influential military strategists. He is currently an architect of the Tigrayan Defence Forces’ campaigns.
Joshua Meservey
@JMeservey
Jan 2, 2024
Given the potentially historic significance of the Ethiopia-Somaliland MoU yesterday, it's worth remembering a few facts: 1) it is Somalilanders who have separated themselves from Somalia for 30 years, not a shadowy international conspiracy to dismember Somalia.
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Joshua Meservey
@JMeservey
Jul 24, 2025
Opponents of the @RonnyJacksonTX bill claim that the US should engage in diplomacy with South Africa rather than coercion. That presumes the US hasn't been trying diplomacy for 3 decades. In that time, SA grew bolder advertising and acting upon its preference for American
Rep. Jonathan L. Jackson
@rep_jackson
Jul 22, 2025
Today, I spoke before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to oppose H.R. 2633. This bill, driven by Extreme MAGA ideology, risks dismantling decades of diplomatic progress with #SouthAfrica. There is no #whitegenocide in South Africa: this false narrative must be rejected.
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Joshua Meservey
@JMeservey
Apr 15, 2025
Thanks for the opportunity to ask a few questions about how "South Africa will continue...to obtain the fair and equal application of international law to all": --Why did SA defy its own courts and refuse to arrest Omar al-Bashir, under ICC indictment for genocide, when he
Chrispin Phiri 🇿🇦
@Chrispin_JPhiri
Apr 13, 2025
The Hudson Institute seems to view the world through a lens that expects South Africa to conduct its affairs only in the interest of the US and while undermining its sovereignty and national interests. It’s not clear to me why Meservey & Co insist on conflating the party and the
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Joshua Meservey
@JMeservey
May 20, 2025
Great to host Somaliland's Minister of Foreign Affairs @min_abdirahman for his first working visit to DC. He was accompanied by the able @baruud & @AmbMohamedHagi who participated in the discussion focused on Somaliland's achievements & prospects for a closer relationship with
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Joshua Meservey
@JMeservey
Jan 8, 2024
"We will defend our country...by all means at our disposal." Imagine if Somalia's government had responded with as much determination and unanimity of purpose to the threat of al-Shabaab as it has to Somaliland signing an MoU with Ethiopia. Shabaab would be a shell of itself.
bhlub
@thebhlub
Jan 7, 2024
🚨BREAKING *SUBTITLED*: President of failed state Somalia @HassanSMohamud delivered a speech tonight in which he threatened the international community he'll: "knock on doors I dont want to knock on". Implication here is possibly Russia and/or China. Desperation is
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Joshua Meservey
@JMeservey
Jan 17, 2024
The idea that Ethiopia is infringing on Somalia's sovereignty by signing the MoU with Somaliland relies on a pure technicality & not on reality. Nothing would meaningfully change for Mogadishu if the MoU goes into force, because it has no practical sovereignty over SL anyway.
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Joshua Meservey
@JMeservey
Jan 6, 2025
I could write a book in response to the Somalia ambassador's oped about why the US should "support Somalia's territorial integrity," but here are a few points: 1) his argument, like many similar ones, claims that Somalia currently has territorial integrity, & that recognizing
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