¿Qué hay de nuevo? Las sanciones se han convertido en una herramienta cada vez más prominente en la diplomacia estadounidense. A medida que ha aumentado la aplicación de sanciones, hay más conciencia sobre sus efectos colaterales. El gobierno …
يناقش مجلس الأمن الدولي التمديد السنوي لتفويض قوة الأمم المتحدة المؤقتة في لبنان (يونيفيل)، وهي قوة حفظ سلام منتشرة في جنوب لبنان على الحدود مع إسرائيل. الأطراف الضالعة في الوضع، وهي إسرائيل، ولبنان وحزب الله، وهو الحزب الشيعي/الميليشيا، جميعها تشعر …
The anti-government protests that erupted throughout Iran in September 2022 were the latest episode in a dismayingly familiar cycle: when discontent boils over in unrest, the Islamic Republic vaguely acknowledges popular concerns, perhaps even signalling …
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The UN has played a mediating role in Cyprus since the 1960s. After Türkiye intervened in the island’s civil conflict in 1974, leaving Cyprus split de facto between Turkish Cypriots in the north and Greek Cypriots in the south, the UN’s ultimate goal has …
Myanmar’s Shan State and northern Laos’s Bokeo province have become a contiguous zone of vibrant criminality, much of it beyond the reach of state authorities. The Mekong river, which bisects the zone, is also an axis of geopolitical competition, …
什么新发现？ 缅甸的掸邦和寮国（老挝）北部的博胶省已经演变成一个犯罪活动猖獗的毗连地区，其中大部分犯罪活动超出了国家机构的管辖范围。横跨这两区的湄公河，也成为地缘政治竞争的轴心，使打击有组织犯罪的努力变得更为复杂。 为什么重要？相较之下，非法商业的规模远超过了掸邦及寮国北部的合法经济规模，这意味非法商业对当地产生了巨大的影响，加剧腐败，弱化治理机构的能力，并破坏了这两个地区的社区纽带。这些影响波及整个地区，乃至更远的区域。 …
What is happening? On 23 August, Zimbabweans will vote in presidential, parliamentary and local council elections. As in the last presidential race, in 2018, 80-year-old President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s main competitor is opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, 45 …
What’s new? Venezuela is heading for presidential and legislative elections in 2024 and 2025, respectively, under conditions that clearly favour President Nicolás Maduro’s government. Talks between government and opposition are once again stalled. …
1 August 2023 The Haitian security forces and U.S. forces present in Haiti are not able to enter the areas where most kidnapped people are held. ABC News Consultant, Latin America and Caribbean
Since 2006, “unspoken rules” have prevented tensions between Hizbollah and Israel from blowing up into large-scale conflict. But the mutual deterrence is fragile. In this video of our In Black & White series, Crisis Group’s Senior Analyst for Lebanon, …
From 22-24 August, leaders of the BRICS countries, the economic grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, will meet in Johannesburg for their annual summit. The meeting is highly anticipated as it comes at a point of growing polarisation …
The U.S. Congress is trying to reassert itself after more than two decades of acquiescence to executive branch overreach on matters of war and peace. Among other recent developments, the House of Representatives is preparing to grapple with repealing and …
It has been two years since the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan. But earlier this summer, in a government office in Kabul overlooking a well-tended garden, a mid-level Taliban official lamented that the country remains locked in a political standoff. …
What’s new? As jihadist groups in the Sahel move southward, Côte d’Ivoire has beefed up its security deployment in the north and rolled out a range of social projects to alleviate poverty and youth unemployment. Militant violence has subsided since a …
This week marks fifteen years since the Russia-Georgia war, in which Russia invaded Georgia for five days in support of the breakaway region of South Ossetia. After the war, Russian forces stayed in South Ossetia and in another conflict zone - Abkhazia. …
What is happening? Chad was facing a turbulent time even before April, when fighting broke out in Sudan’s Darfur region on its eastern border, and things have only got worse since then. President Mahamat Déby Itno, who took over on an ostensibly interim …
What happened in Niger on 26 July? In the early morning of 26 July, soldiers from the presidential guard confined President Mohamed Bazoum and his family to the presidential palace, in a move met with widespread surprise. The interior minister, loyal to …
شهدت الأزمة السياسية الليبية انعطافة جديدة بعد موافقة مجلس النواب الذي يتخذ من مدينة طبرق الشرقية مقراً له على خطة لتعيين حكومة مؤقتة يمكن أن تعيد توحيد السلطتين التنفيذيتين المتوازيتين كجزء من خريطة طريق نحو انتخابات عامة. اتخذ أعضاء المجلس هذا القرار …
By Bram Ebus On an overcast morning in November 2022, Yeimy, a Venezuelan migrant, sat on a plastic chair, clutching her knees together and tightly gripping her backpack. Despite the commotion around her – agitated strangers coming and going, carrying …
