This essay introduces the key ideas and challenges involved in examining SGBV and starvation, and introduces the nine essays in the series.

Middle East rivalries are turning a local war into a regional crisis..

Who, in the last 150 years, has murdered the largest number of people by starvation and ranks as the greatest famine criminals?

South African social justice activist Alwande Khumalo discusses her work exposing corruption and why her generation is demanding change.

European migration funding strengthened Sudanese paramilitaries, while weak export oversight allowed the flow of arms.

This blog post adopts a bottom-up approach to analysing recurrent famines in the Darfur–Bahr el Ghazal borderlands of southwestern Sudan

For the first time, data analysed by Shadow World Investigations (SWI) reveals exports of arms and weapons components from Germany to Israel occurred throughout 2024. Germany does not publish its real...

Famine in al-Fashir is man-made. Strikes on markets, hospitals, public infrastructures, and shelters were all the result of human decisions.

The war is being fuelled by regional powers and the US president may have some leverage over them.

Aditya Sarkar discusses whether a change in rent flows can explain the evolution of political settlements in the Horn of Africa.

Local dialogues can build coalitions and reduce conflict, but Nigeria’s transactional system and elite-driven elections block accountability.

Podcast Episode · Today, Explained · 11/19/2025 · 27m

The Corruption Tracker is exposing the arms trade as one of the most corrupt businesses in the world, affecting almost any region. Yet, the impacts of both arms sales and corruption are often ignored, or even excused, especially when it comes to the African continent. From Russian mercenaries to Emirati money to European weapons and militaries, some African countries have had to bear much foreign intervention even in supposedly postcolonial times.

Sudan is the world's largest humanitarian crisis but its civil war is being fuelled by weapons flown in from other countries.

How Runaway Military Spending Drives America Into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home

The Trump administration is pushing for a ceasefire in Sudan. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Sudan scholar, Alex de Waal, about the challenges in bringing an end to the conflict.

Authoritarians pose groups of people as the cause of societal problems, then prescribe exclusion of those peoples and enforced norms.

Atrocities unfolding in El Fasher since it fell to paramilitary forces follow a bleak pattern seen in Rwanda, Liberia and Sudan itself, including lack of international action

SIPRI is pleased to invite you to a public webinar on possible directions for multilateral policy on autonomous weapon systems (AWS), following the publication of a new SIPRI report on this topic.

Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo will either lead a breakaway state or seek to take control of the whole country, Sudanese say.

Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics · 05/11/2025 · 51m

Years after the signed peace agreement, Tigray remains defeated as it's leaders have descended into petty infighting and finger pointing.

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Here are five takeaways from the documentary exposing abuse and neglect that is all too common in U.S. prisons.

With private military contractors and killing of civilians, the GHF abandoned any veneer of being motivated by the humanitarian imperative.

This report explores the competing concepts of land and territoriality between Borana pastoralists and Kenyan authorities.

They deserved the Nobel peace prize, even though they didn’t win

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Trump’s profit and power approach translates to “transactional peacemaking,” focused on short-term interests rather than comprehensive peace.

Author Alex de Waal proposes that Nobel committee does not award the prize until world leaders get serious about peace.

The collapse of global norms fueling the catastrophes in Gaza and Sudan.

Report authors explain why recording events in Tigray contributes to a body of memory that resists denial and insists on accountability.