Since a series of military coups in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, most EU military and capacity-building missions have been closed, development aid has been largely frozen, and diplomatic relations w...

When she became president, Samia Suluhu Hassan offered hope. But the country’s sudden democratic decay is more than just a national tragedy

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Join us for an evening of dialogue and networking with Canada’s dynamic public policy community.   This year’s IRPP fall lecture will feature Canadian author and scholar Timothy Caulfield, one of Nort...

Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El Fasher Britain rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite intelligence warnings that the city of El Fasher would fall amid a wave of ethnic cleansing and possible genocide, according to a report seen by the Guardian. Government officials turned down the plans six months into the 18-month siege of El Fasher in favour of the “least ambitious” option of four presented. Continue reading...

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António Guterres calls for the violence to end but there appears little appetite for ceasefire proposed by US The UN secretary general, António Guterres has said the war in Sudan is spiralling out of control as he called for a halt to the fighting and an end to the violence. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which are reportedly backed by the United Arab Emirates, seized El Fasher in Darfur last week after a near 18-month siege. Some of its soldiers have posted videos of civilians being shot, including in the town’s maternity hospital. Continue reading...

The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Demonstrators took to streets after president’s main challengers were excluded from ballot About 700 people have been killed during three days of election protests in Tanzania, the main opposition party has said. Protests erupted on election day on Wednesday over what demonstrators said was the stifling of the opposition after the exclusion of key candidates from the presidential ballot. Continue reading...

Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces captured the city from the army after an 18-month siege – but who are they and what do they want?

Emergency security council session criticises killings of civilians in El Fasher and external supply of arms to RSF Diplomats and senior UN figures speaking at the UN security council have condemned mass killings by the Rapid Support Forces in El Fasher after the Sudanese city “descended into an even darker hell” following the paramilitary group’s takeover at the weekend. Widespread reports of ethnically targeted killings in recent days prompted the UK, as the UN penholder on Sudan, to call an emergency session of the security council in New York on Tuesday. Continue reading...

The speeches at the UN General Assembly this year focused their foreign policy attention on Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan and UN reform. Crisis Group experts analyse the issues world leaders picked out and wha...

This briefing note explores how early-warning and early-response (EWER) systems have been implemented in response to violence and conflict, and for the purpose of reducing harm and increasing the…

Gunfire was heard in Kenya on Thursday as a crowd of mourners pushed through a gate of the Nairobi stadium for a viewing of deceased opposition leader Raila Odinga's body, a YouTube feed hosted by the Kenyan presidency showed.