As an independent non-governmental organisation committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflicts, Crisis Group’s methodology and mandate are clear. We speak to all sides in all of the 70-odd conflict areas we cover, develop practical policy solutions …
The year 2023 has seen peace and security challenges both far from the EU’s borders and closer to home. The latter, especially, have heightened in recent weeks and months, which have seen fighting in the South Caucasus and Kosovo, even as a second year of …
A 26 July coup in Niger has upended alliances in West Africa and struck another in a succession of blows to democratic principles in the region. After military takeovers in Mali and Burkina Faso in 2021 and 2022, the European Union, the U.S. and other …
Since July 2021, when President Kais Saïed made his power grab, sacking the prime minister and suspending parliament, Tunisia has taken a further autocratic turn as its underlying economic crisis keeps growing. The president is trying to build a full-blown …
The future looks increasingly bleak for close to one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, most of whom were forced out of western Myanmar more than six years ago. The 2021 coup in Myanmar brought to power the same military officers whose brutality …
An opportunity has arisen to make durable improvements to ties between Türkiye and the European Union, which have been frayed for years. There remain multiple sources of tension between Brussels and Ankara, which have hampered both the latter’s bid to join …
Mientras el presidente Gustavo Petro avanza en sus planes para una “paz total” a través de conversaciones con grupos armados y criminales, algunas zonas de Colombia enfrentan la amenaza de nuevos brotes de violencia. En estas conversaciones hay más en …
بعد زيارة درنة ورؤية الدمار الذي سبَّبه انهيار سدَّي المدينة في الساعات الأولى من الحادي عشر من أيلول/سبتمبر، قررت رؤية ما تبقى من أكبر الحاجزين المائيين، وهو سد وادي بومنصور. كان انهيار هذا السد وسد آخر أصغر منه في ضواحي المدينة، والمعروف محلياً بسد …
Azerbaijan’s 24-hour military operation of 19-20 September marked the end of three decades of de facto self-governance for the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave and led to an exodus of its people. Baku’s definitive victory over local security forces shifted the …
The tragedy that befell the eastern Libyan city of Derna shocked the world. Heavy rain broke the city's dams and a flash flood deluged the town in the early hours of 11 September, resulting in an estimated 20,000 deaths. It is too early to draw a firm …
من المروّع زيارة مدينة درنة على الساحل الليبي بعد انهيار السدود، وبعد أن غمرت مياه الطوفان المدينة في الساعات الأولى من 11 أيلول/سبتمبر، الأمر الذي أسفر عن وفاة ما يقدر بـ 20 ألف شخص. ظل مسجد المدينة الأبرز، مسجد الصحابة، وقبته الذهبية دون مساس، لكن ما …
If you attended last week’s High-Level session of the United Nations General Assembly, you could convince yourself that the U.N. still matters. 131 presidents and prime ministers turned up to address the General Assembly, and the east side of Manhattan was …
Episode 1: Pourquoi cette recrudescence de coups d'État en Afrique? Le Gabon est le septième pays africain à avoir connu un changement non constitutionnel de pouvoir depuis août 2020. Cette recrudescence des coups d’Etat ravive le débat sur les …
Le Gabon est le septième pays africain à avoir connu un changement non constitutionnel de pouvoir depuis août 2020. Cette recrudescence des coups d’Etat ravive le débat sur les transitions démocratiques sur le continent. Enrica Picco et Rinaldo Depagne, …
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Two months after meeting at the UN General Assembly, world leaders will reconvene in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, for COP28. The conference will test whether delegates can bring the necessary focus on conflict and climate affected countries and the …
What’s new? The Somali federal member state of Galmudug has experienced recurrent strife during its eight-year existence. The causes are elite infighting, clan rivalries and battles with non-state armed groups. Interference from Mogadishu often worsens …
In this episode of The Horn, Alan hosts a roundtable discussion with Dr Solomon Ayele Dersso, founder of Amani Africa, Paul-Simon Handy of the Institute for Security Studies, and Crisis Group expert Liesl Louw-Vaudran to discuss the state of peace and …
The 2021 coup has unleashed new waves of conflict in Myanmar and dramatically weakened the military-controlled central state. Amid this violence, ethnic armed groups – both established and emerging – have carved out territory and expanded their …
In this Twitter space, Comfort Ero, Crisis Group’s President and CEO, and Richard Gowan, Crisis Group’s UN Director, talk about all you need to know for this year’s high-level meeting at the UN General Assembly.
