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NEW REPORT | Elusive Peace in the Great Lakes

Peace talks between the Congolese government and Rwanda and the M23 rebels have yielded agreements. But as negotiations proceed, battles have become more intense. Diplomats need to redouble their efforts.

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The M23 Offensive: Elusive Peace in the Great Lakes | International Crisis Group
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...
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December 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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#Colombia
Personas LGBTQI+ entrevistadas por Crisis Group contaron que, en ocasiones, los habitantes de sus pueblos buscaban a integrantes de grupos armados para expulsarlos del área.

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Explotando los prejuicios: Personas LGBTQI+ y grupos armados en Colombia | International Crisis Group
El conflicto en Colombia se ha caracterizado durante mucho tiempo por los ataques contra grupos vulnerables, entre ellos, las personas LGBTQI+. Mientras el gobierno sigue adelante con su política de “...
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December 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Viv Ansanm has achieved a level of military might far beyond anything previously seen among Haiti’s gangs. Experts estimate that Viv Ansanm could collectively have between 12,000 and 20,000 members, of whom 3,000 are heavily armed.

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Undoing Haiti’s Deadly Gang Alliance | International Crisis Group
The Viv Ansanm gang coalition has pushed the violence wracking Haiti to alarming levels. As a new foreign force takes shape, it is vital that plans be in place not just to overpower the criminal group...
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December 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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📑 NUEVO INFORME | Acabar con la letal alianza de pandillas en #Haití

Mientras se forma una nueva fuerza internacional, es crucial que se establezcan planes no solo para derrotar a las pandillas a través del uso de la fuerza, sino también para incentivar su desmovilización.
Acabar con la letal alianza de pandillas en Haití | International Crisis Group
La coalición de pandillas Vin Ansanm ha llevado la violencia que azota a Haití a niveles alarmantes. Mientras se forma una nueva fuerza internacional, es crucial que se establezcan planes no solo para...
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December 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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📑 NOUVO RAPÒ | Demantle Kowalisyon Kriminèl Gang yo an Ayiti

Alòske yon nouvo fòs etranje ap prepare pou vini nan peyi a, fòk gen plan non sèlman pou kwape gwoup gang yo men tou pou konvenk yo kraze alyans yo fè a epi depoze zam.

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December 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Our most recent @crisisgroup.org report on #Haiti in creole
📑 NOUVO RAPÒ | Demantle Kowalisyon Kriminèl Gang yo an Ayiti

Alòske yon nouvo fòs etranje ap prepare pou vini nan peyi a, fòk gen plan non sèlman pou kwape gwoup gang yo men tou pou konvenk yo kraze alyans yo fè a epi depoze zam.

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December 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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🇨🇩 ❕ Journalists: tomorrow we will publish our new report on the #M23's expansion in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and ongoing violence despite recent peace deals signed between the DRC and Rwanda in Washington.

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December 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
NEW REPORT | A Precarious Lifeline? Women-led Business in Afghanistan

Despite the harsh controls imposed by the Taliban, many Afghan women are seeking ways to earn a living. Authorities should relax rules hindering them, and donors can also assist.

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A Precarious Lifeline? Women-led Business in Afghanistan | International Crisis Group
Despite the myriad harsh controls the Taliban have imposed on their lives, a growing number of Afghan women are seeking ways to earn a living. To boost the economy, the authorities should relax rules ...
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December 17, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Some 100K Karabakh Armenians left when Baku regained the territory in 2023. In Armenia today, their aid is shrinking & Yerevan is focused on peace talks & elections. On the new @crisisgroup.org War & Peace podcast, Alissa de Carbonnel & I discuss the implications with @joshuakucera.bsky.social
Karabakh Refugees in Armenia | International Crisis Group
This week on War & Peace, Olga and Alissa speak with Crisis Group expert Joshua Kucera about the challenges facing refugees who fled Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia after Azerbaijan regained the territory...
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December 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
🎧 NEW EPISODE | War & Peace

This week, we discuss the challenges facing refugees who fled Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia after Azerbaijan regained the territory in 2023.

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Karabakh Refugees in Armenia | International Crisis Group
This week on War & Peace, Olga and Alissa speak with Crisis Group expert Joshua Kucera about the challenges facing refugees who fled Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia after Azerbaijan regained the territory...
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December 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
NEW Q&A | Why Some Relief for Gaza, but None for the West Bank?

Israel has ramped up repression of Palestinians and settlement expansion in the West Bank. We explain the harm these measures have caused and how outside powers can help.
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December 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
NEW REPORT | Undoing Haiti’s Deadly Gang Alliance

A gang coalition has pushed violence in Haiti to alarming levels. As the foreign force takes shape, it’s vital that plans are in place not only to overpower criminal groups but persuade them to disband.

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Undoing Haiti’s Deadly Gang Alliance | International Crisis Group
The Viv Ansanm gang coalition has pushed the violence wracking Haiti to alarming levels. As a new foreign force takes shape, it is vital that plans be in place not just to overpower the criminal group...
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December 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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The failed coup in Benin last week illustrated something spectacular and unprecedented: ECOWAS’s firmest and most successful stance against an unconstitutional power grab in years.

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A Foiled Coup in Benin, and a Win for ECOWAS and Nigeria | International Crisis Group
Crisis Group expert Nnamdi Obasi reflects on the winners and losers coming out of the 7 December coup attempt in Benin
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December 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
NEW ANALYST’S NOTEBOOK | Palmyra Attack Exposes Syria’s Security Sector Vulnerabilities

We analyse ISIS’s attack on a U.S.-Syrian joint patrol and its implications for counter-terrorism cooperation between Damascus and the counter-ISIS coalition.

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Palmyra Attack Exposes Syria’s Security Sector Vulnerabilities | International Crisis Group
Crisis Group expert Nanar Hawach analyses this weekend’s ISIS attack on a U.S.-Syrian joint patrol and its implications for counter-terrorism cooperation between Damascus and the counter-ISIS coalitio...
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December 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
NEW UPDATE | On Our Radar

🇭🇳 Trump threatens to cut aid to Honduras following dispute over presidential election results

🇹🇿 Authorities impose a de facto curfew in Tanzania

🇺🇳 Quarter-billion people worldwide are “in urgent need” of life-saving assistance

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December 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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On the 30th anniversary of the Dayton Accords, Marko Prelec reflects for @crisisgroup.org on the deal's historic significance at the time and its repercussions since.
30 Years After Dayton: The Accords That Ended the Bosnia War
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December 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
NEW ANALYST’S NOTEBOOK | | A Foiled Coup in Benin, and a Win for ECOWAS and Nigeria

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

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A Foiled Coup in Benin, and a Win for ECOWAS and Nigeria | International Crisis Group
Crisis Group expert Nnamdi Obasi reflects on the winners and losers coming out of the 7 December coup attempt in Benin
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December 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
NEW REPORT | Embracing Arms: Securing Japan in a “New Era of Crisis”

Japan is building up its military. To promote its interests while keeping dangers of confrontation at bay, it should divide its energies between deterrence and diplomacy.

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Embracing Arms: Securing Japan in a “New Era of Crisis” | International Crisis Group
Japan is building up its military to meet the growing challenges it sees to national security and its vision of international order. To promote its interests while keeping dangers of confrontation at ...
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December 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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🔥 Prospects for de-escalation between Cambodia and Thailand are bleak.

Both sides call the other the aggressor and claim to be acting in self-defence.

~ @mzwheeler.bsky.social @crisisgroup.org

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Ceasefire Collapses as Heavy Fighting Erupts along Cambodia-Thailand Border | International Crisis Group
Crisis Group expert Matthew Wheeler explains how Cambodia and Thailand returned to hostilities, and why prospects for de-escalation right now look bleak
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December 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
NEW ANALYST’S NOTEBOOK | Ceasefire Collapses as Heavy Fighting Erupts along Cambodia-Thailand Border

Matthew Wheeler explains how Cambodia and Thailand returned to hostilities, and why prospects for de-escalation right now look bleak.
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Ceasefire Collapses as Heavy Fighting Erupts along Cambodia-Thailand Border | International Crisis Group
Crisis Group expert Matthew Wheeler explains how Cambodia and Thailand returned to hostilities, and why prospects for de-escalation right now look bleak
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December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Pleased to speak with @cnn.com about what accountability for the killing spree at sea could look like—both in the near term and the long term.

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Trump is immune from accountability for boat strikes. What about everyone under him? | CNN Politics
There is one person who can never face any accountability for the killing of people clinging to an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean in September.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Pleased to speak to @ewong.bsky.social about the administration’s legal problems in dealing with the survivors of one of the boat strikes.

“From the administration’s point of view, there are good reasons to be averse to bringing survivors to Guantánamo Bay or to the continental United States.”
NEW: Pentagon lawyers asked State Dept. if US could send survivors of Trump's boat strikes to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Then Pentagon pushed to have survivors sent anywhere but the US — to prevent any US court cases. Gift link to our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
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December 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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A delicate dance taking place among EU members to bypass one of its own in effort “to indefinitely immobilise up to €210bn in Russian sovereign assets” as Trump applies more pressure on Zelenskyy to respond within days on his latest peace proposal.

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EU races to bypass Viktor Orbán on Russian assets before summit
Move to outvote Hungary this week would indefinitely immobilise Moscow’s sovereign assets
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December 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Pleased & proud to have this new @crisisgroup.org report on Türkiye-Iraq relations, a collaboration between our Europe & Central Asia Program & our Middle East Program staff. It lays out rapprochement to date & prospects and pitfalls for the future.
Strengthening Iraq-Türkiye Ties amid Regional Tensions | International Crisis Group
After years of fraught relations, Ankara and Baghdad are charting a course toward rapprochement. But much depends on how the two sides (and other parties) manage various thorny issues. They should mak...
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December 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
NEW Q&A | Myanmar’s Military Seeks Vote of Approval in One-sided Polls

Close to five years after staging a coup, Myanmar’s military regime is holding elections in a bid for legitimacy. We explore the military’s hopes of normalisation and the risks ahead.

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Myanmar’s Military Seeks Vote of Approval in One-sided Polls | International Crisis Group
Close to five years after staging a coup, Myanmar’s military regime is holding elections in a bid for legitimacy despite internal conflict and simmering public discontent. In this Q&A, Crisis Group ex...
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December 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM