Hong Kong politicians have warned local academics not to take part in the upcoming third Hong Kong Studies academic conference hosted by Academia Sinica in Taipei.

America has a new plan to pull back from global health funding, but it still wants out.

Sudan’s devastating civil war shows what will replace the liberal order: anarchy and greed.

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Coordinated health aid for vaccination has increased coverage rates and saved the lives of children around the world.

Littered with abandoned gold mines, eastern Botswana is drawing hundreds of informal prospectors as the precious metal’s price smashes records.

The world body should go back to focusing on its founding principle: preventing war

Leaked reports, satellite images and interviews reveal the extent of Rwanda's shadow war in the Congo, as the U.S. tries to strike a deal for peace and access to the region's minerals.

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The IPIS briefing offers a selection of articles, news and updates on natural resources, armed conflict, Business & Human Rights and arms trade.  Every month, an editorial and related publications she...

WFP will cut food assistance to refugees to just 28% of a full ration – the lowest level ever recorded in Kenya.

Despite what administration officials have claimed about preserving life-saving work, many of the programs delivering interventions known to save the most lives per dollar spent have not received the ...

In so many histories, writers so often ignore the social movements and underclass that helped define island nation's destiny.

The Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) network will host its first-ever research and policy conference in Asia from June 2 to June 4, 2025, at National Taiwan University (NTU) in Taipei.The event wi...

Crisis Group expert Richard Gowan on what is in the leaked “UN80” reform plan, and what it is missing

Researchers have unearthed the surveillance records of Taiwan’s former dictatorship. But the revelations inside could tear society apart

This report offers a new framework for looking at the eastern Congo conflict, one within which new evolutions of the past twenty years find a place. Indeed, violent conflict in eastern Congo has chang...

China has a new chance to call America’s bluff

(Forthcoming Article) - Military spending has large and persistent effects on output because it shifts the composition of public spending towards R\&D. This boosts innovation and private investment in...

Crisis Group’s Shewit Woldemichael on the battle for El Fasher in North Darfur and what’s at stake

In an unusual exchange in the legislature yesterday, KMT caucus leader Fu Kun-chi lashed out at TSMC’s plans to invest 100 billion USD in the US. This occurred in the course of an exchange between Fu…

War in Sudan has pushed about one million refugees and returnees into isolated and impoverished parts of neighbouring Chad. Crisis Group expert Charles Bouëssel visited this region to learn how it is ...

How can we estimate state presence in areas where direct measurements are lacking? New research offers a solution to measuring state presence using machine learning techniques.