Alger et Bamako ont annoncé plusieurs mesures visant à relancer leurs relations bilatérales, qui s’étaient fortement détériorées depuis 2023. Les deux voisins devraient consolider cette détente pour r...

Washington cannot afford to neglect the lessons of past counterinsurgency efforts as it contemplates a partnership with Mali’s military.

Washington cannot afford to neglect the lessons of past counterinsurgency efforts as it contemplates a partnership with Mali’s military.

Dear network, The outbreak of a highly virulent strain of Ebola in the Eastern Democratic Republic has brought home many predictable lessons. Health experts caught the disease late because surveillanc...

Germany pledged a further 20 million euros ($23.6 million) to Sudan this year, the development ministry said on Wednesday, ‌ahead of an international aid conference hosted in Berlin that is aiming to ...

Africa is beset by trouble at home while grasping for options in dealing with today’s jumbled global order. The challenges to peace and security are many. This briefing identifies seven that should to...

Le directeur des Grands Lacs de l’International Crisis Group revient ici sur les conséquences d’une implantation durable du M23, soutenu par le Rwanda. Prise entre les menaces du groupe armé et (…)

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Uganda’s octogenarian president will likely retain power in forthcoming polls. But all eyes are on the succession race to come in a country that is pivotal to stability in its neighbourhood. In this Q...

Parallel peace talks between the Congolese government and Rwanda and the M23 rebels, respectively, have yielded welcome agreements. But as these negotiations have proceeded, the battles in the eastern...

Crisis Group expert Nnamdi Obasi reflects on the winners and losers coming out of the 7 December coup attempt in Benin

Campaigners in Tanzania are planning peaceful protests on 9 December, weeks after police killed hundreds in a brutal post-election crackdown. Authorities must desist from yet more wanton violence. Loo...

A fuel blockade imposed by al-Qaeda-aligned militants has paralyzed the capital of Mali and roiled its repressive military government.

This week on Hold Your Fire!, Richard talks with Crisis Group experts Shewit Woldemichael, Alan Boswell and Yasmine Farouk about recent shifts in Sudan’s war and whether a joint statement by the U.S. ...

The following is adapted from a report from Crisis Group’s President and CEO Comfort Ero to the organisation’s Trustees in mid-May 2025. She and Executive Vice President Richard Atwood look at the sec...

Dix ans de crise ont exacerbé les conflits liés à la transhumance en République centrafricaine. Mais l'amélioration relative de la situation sécuritaire et un récent rapprochement avec le Tchad offren...

After coups in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, the EU is struggling to chart a course in the central Sahel. In this excerpt from the Watch List 2025 - Spring Update, Crisis Group explores how the EU and...

Crisis Group expert Mathieu Pellerin on the country’s worsening security in the wake of an assault on Djibo

An attack on a U.N. helicopter has highlighted rising tensions in the world’s youngest country, where a seven-year-old peace deal looks ever more fragile.

Tensions are running dangerously high after an opposition-linked militia overran an army base loyal to President Salva Kiir in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state. Regional leaders should urgently press Ki...

Tensions are running dangerously high after an opposition-linked militia overran an army base loyal to President Salva Kiir in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state. Regional leaders should urgently press Ki...

Allies of the VP were arrested after a militia linked to him clashed with the army

This week on Hold Your Fire!, Richard speaks with Crisis Group experts Shewit Woldemichael and Alan Boswell about the Sudanese army’s recent advances in Khartoum and other parts of Sudan, and what the...

Comfort Ero, President of the International Crisis Group, talks to Bianna Golodryga about what’s driving the deadly crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Plus de vingt ans après sa création à Durban, en Afrique du Sud, l’Union africaine tient le week-end prochain (15 et 16 février) à Addis-Abeba, en Ethiopie, un sommet des chefs d’Etat crucial dont un ...

In today’s newsletter: As Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seize more territory and the humanitarian crisis worsens, what’s the background to the war and prospect of peace?

As the African Union prepares to choose new leadership, it faces several forbidding challenges in the peace and security domain. This briefing points to eight areas where the organisation can put its ...

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This week on The Horn, Nazanine Moshiri speaks with Liesl Louw-Vaudran, Crisis Group’s Senior Advisor for the African Union, about the forthcoming AU Commission Chairperson election. They discuss the ...

On the morning of 27 January, Rwandan-backed March 23 (M23) rebels swept into Goma, capital of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province, seizing control of the city of one million. The development marks a dramatic escalation in the long-running crisis. The fighting has uprooted over two million from their homes, exposing thousands around Goma to predation by various militias. Rwanda and the M23 now control practically all of North Kivu province and by force of arms have forged a new reality in the region. Worse could well be on the way. Rebels are pushing deeper into the neighbouring South Kivu province and menacing its capital Bukavu, suggesting they have ambitions beyond Goma or at least are seeking to ramp up the pressure on a weakened Kinshasa. Left unchecked, the fighting could spread throughout the Great Lakes region, recalling the horrors of the late 1990s and early 2000s, when millions died amid a multi-country war in the Congo.

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The disastrous conflict in Sudan is pushing the country deeper into chaos. Work to halt it has never been more urgent. To get talks going, mediators may need to present a notional picture of what the post-war dispensation could look like.

Trump’s return adds unpredictability to an already volatile world. As global tensions rise, change looms, whether through deals or arms.

This week on Hold Your Fire!, Richard speaks to Crisis Group’s Africa director Murithi Mutiga about how African leaders view Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the implications thereof for U.S. Africa policy and the continent’s crises.

Depuis 2021, les autorités maliennes ont fait du souverainisme le moteur d’une politique de rupture dans les domaines sécuritaire, diplomatique et économique. Elles peinent cependant à répondre aux attentes des populations, faute de ressources et de solutions durables aux problèmes sécuritaires. Le régime devrait explorer la voie d’un souverainisme plus équilibré.

It is high time for African Union member states to step up with the funding needed to protect against climate-related security risks.

Concerns about fraud in Mozambique’s general elections in October have morphed into a nationwide movement protesting Frelimo, which has governed the country since independence. In this Q&A, Crisis Group explains why Mozambicans are unhappy with the ruling party.