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.