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Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

In Exmouth, reporting on North Africa and Gulf politics

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey is a journalist and researcher focusing on geopolitics, conflict and humanitarian issues in the Middle East and North Africa. On Twitter: @jfentonharvey

A Russian Steregushchiy class corvette arrives at the port of the Sudanese city of Port Sudan, on March 18, 2021.

Analysis

Following Syria losses, Russia seeks to double down on Africa presence

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

In Exmouth, reporting on North Africa and Gulf politics

President-elect Donald Trump attends the America First Policy Institute Gala held at Mar-a-Lago on Nov. 14, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida.

Analysis

From Sudan to Ethiopia, Trump’s 'America First' priorities could shift Horn of Africa policy

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

In Exmouth, reporting on North Africa and Gulf politics

Forces opposed to Libya's unity government ride a truck in the Zueitina oil terminal, Sept. 14, 2016.

Analysis

After Libya's Central Bank turmoil, can its oil sector recover?

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

In Exmouth, reporting on North Africa and Gulf politics

Paratroopers jump off an Egyptian C-130 Hercules military plane during the "Guardians of the Nile" joint military drill between Egypt and Sudan in the Um Sayyala area, northwest of Khartoum, on May 31, 2021.

Analysis

Ethiopia’s naval ambitions, Egypt-Somalia alliance shake Horn of Africa balance

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

In Exmouth, reporting on North Africa and Gulf politics

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receives Kuwait’s Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on June 11, 2024. (Source: KSAmofaEN/Twitter/X)

Kuwait doubles down on Saudi ties driven by economics, counter-Islamism

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

In Exmouth, reporting on North Africa and Gulf politics

Libya's interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah (R) welcomes Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as she arrives for a meeting in Tripoli on May 7, 2024.

What's behind Italy's growing Libya engagement as Russia influence expands?

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

In Exmouth, reporting on North Africa and Gulf politics

The last French soldiers board a French military plane to leave Niger for good, at the French base which was handed over to the Nigerien army, in Niamey on December 22, 2023. The last French troops withdrew from Niger on December 22, 2023, marking an end to more than a decade of French anti-jihadist operations in west Africa's Sahel region, AFP saw and Niger's military announced. The French exit from Niger leaves hundreds of US military personnel, and a number of Italian and German troops, remaining in the

What Niger-US rupture says about Russia and West's shaky future in Sahel

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

In Exmouth, reporting on North Africa and Gulf politics

RED SEA - MAY 10: In this handout photo provided by the U.S. Navy, Logistics Specialist 1st Class Ousseinou Kaba (left), from Silver Spring, Md., and Logistics Specialist Seaman Abigail Marshke, from Flint, Mich., attach cargo to an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter from the "Nightdippers" of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 5 from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) May 10, 2019 in the Red Sea. The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group has been deployed to U.S. Cen

How Russia seeks to capitalize on US strikes in Yemen, Red Sea tensions

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

In Exmouth, reporting on North Africa and Gulf politics

his combination of pictures created on April 18, 2023 shows Sudan's army chief, Lieutenant-General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (L), in Juba on October, 14, 2019 and Mohamed Hamdan Daglo (R) known as Hemedti, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), addressing the media upon his return from Russia at Khartoum airport on March 2, 2022. - AKUOT CHOL,ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP via Getty Images

How Sudan could become an Iran-UAE proxy war

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

In Exmouth, reporting on North Africa and Gulf politics

Rafale fighter jets are seen with Qatar's colors during a ceremony for the delivery to Qatar of the first of 36 Rafale multipurpose fighter jets from French manufacturer Dassault, Merignac, France, Feb. 6, 2019.

France, UK jostle for defense influence with Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

In Exmouth, reporting on North Africa and Gulf politics

Italian Government Presidency of the Council of Ministers

Italy and UAE push reset button, boost strategic partnership under Meloni

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

In Exmouth, reporting on North Africa and Gulf politics

French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani at the Elysee Presidential Palace, Paris, France, Jan. 26, 2023.

In Iraq, Macron seeks bigger sphere of influence for France

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

In Exmouth, reporting on North Africa and Gulf politics