<span class="vcard">Lesley Anne Warner</span>

Lesley Anne Warner

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Lesley Anne Warner, PhD (Bluesky – LinkedIn – Substack) is a visiting scholar with the Africa Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She was previously a senior U.S. government official who served at the U.S. Agency for International Development, the State Department and as a congressional staffer on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. She specializes in conflict, stabilization, and political transitions, and is the author of Military Integration during War-to-Peace Transitions: South Sudan’s Attempt to Manage Armed Groups, 2006-13 (Routledge, 2023).

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Three armed Ethiopian soldiers in camouflage uniforms, pants tucked into black boots, and wearing red berets, walk in front of sand-colored block walls, with the top of an airport terminal in the background and blue skies with puffy clouds overhead.
The charred remains of two vehicles sit by the side of a road and another in the distance appears to be in the road, as two children look on n the foreground, against a barren brown, hilly landscape.
A column of black smoke rises above buildings as traffic, mostly motorcycles, pass in the foreground.
An injured boy lays on his back in a van as two others attend to his wounds.
An M23 soldier watches over a group of around one hundred Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), Wazalendo and Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) fighters as they disembark a truck at the Stade de l'Unité, during their presentation by Colonel Willy Ngoma in Goma on May 10, 2025. These fighters were previously neutralised by the AFC/M23 security services. (Photo by JOSPIN MWISHA/AFP via Getty Images)

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