Richard Gowan is Crisis Group UN Director. He oversees the advocacy work at the United Nations, liaising with diplomats and UN officials in New York. In this video, he explains how that works behind the scenes.
What’s new? In 2019, amid fighting with separatist militants in its two Anglophone regions, the North West and South West, Cameroon granted those areas a Special Status to respond to demands for greater autonomy. This step has failed to quiet the six-year …
Opposition turned to court to challenge election of ruling party’s Bola Tinubu as president, while violent incidents marred governorship elections; jihadist, criminal and separatist violence continued. Tinubu won presidency with record-low votes, violence …
In 2018, South Sudan's main warring parties signed a peace deal which today should have already concluded with national elections. However, mid-2022, after years of implementation delays and stalled politics, South Sudan's power-sharing government …
Я много думала о том, заслуживает ли война в Украине в этом докладе столь же пристального внимания, сколько я уделила ей во время нашей прошлой встречи несколько месяцев назад. Если уж быть откровенными, мне очень хорошо известно, что то значение, которое …
Security agencies in Pakistan are on high alert following two major insurgent attacks on heavily fortified police compounds. On 30 January, the Pakistani Taliban (Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP) hit police headquarters in Peshawar, capital of Khyber …
Что проиcходит? Вскоре после начала незаконного полномасштабного вторжения России в Украину в феврале 2022 года международные юристы, государственные деятели и ученые выступили за создание нового трибунала для суда над российским руководством по обвинению …
Quelle est la situation en République centrafricaine (RCA), dix ans après le coup d’Etat mené par la Séléka ? Il y a dix ans, une coalition rebelle du nord-est à majorité musulmane, la Séléka, est descendue sur la capitale Bangui avec l’appui de milliers …
The military regime in Myanmar has started laying the groundwork for elections, passing a new party registration law and updating the voter list. But with most of the country engulfed in civil war, and most citizens opposed to the exercise, no regime-run …
အကြောင်းအရာသစ်က ဘာလဲ - မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်တပ်သည် မကြာသေးမီက ရွေးကောက်ပွဲကျင်းပရန် စတင်ပြင်ဆင်လာသည်။ ၎င်းပြင်ဆင်မှုများတွင် နိုင်ငံရေးပါတီများမှတ်ပုံတင်ခြင်း ဥပဒေပြဋ္ဌာန်းခြင်းနှင့် မဲဆန္ဒရှင်စာရင်း ပြုစုခြင်းတို့ပါဝင်သည်။ နိုင်ငံတစ်ဝန်းလုံးတွင် …
Over recent months, the Somali army, backed by clan militias, has recaptured areas in central Somalia from Al-Shabaab militants. Profiting from local anger at Al-Shabaab’s predation, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s government has deployed Somali forces …
The Russian-owned Wagner Group continues to grow its footprint in parts of Africa, with a presence in Libya, the Central African Republic, Mali and elsewhere. As a private military contractor with close ties to the Kremlin, the group ostensibly provides …
The following is adapted from a March 2023 report by Crisis Group’s President and CEO Comfort Ero to the organisation’s Trustees (before Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s 20-21 March visit to Moscow). She looks at the Ukraine war and its knock-on effects – from …
In this video, Crisis Group’s Senior Analyst for Eastern Africa Omar Mahmood discusses the Somali government’s recent gains in its war with the Islamist insurgency Al-Shabaab, mainly in central Somalia. Most of the progress is due to Mogadishu’s leveraging …
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has marked a watershed for Europe. The European Union (EU) and its member states acted quickly to implement sanctions against Russia, bolster Ukrainian defences and improve their own energy security. Now, over a year …
When President Barack Obama admonished his foreign policy team, “Don’t do stupid stuff” (he used an earthier phrase), there was no real question what he had in mind. In 2002, as an Illinois state senator, Obama had warned that a U.S. invasion of Iraq would …
What’s new? The Somali government has gained ground in its war with the Islamist insurgency Al-Shabaab, mainly in central Somalia. Most of the progress is due to Mogadishu’s leveraging of local discontent with Al-Shabaab to form alliances with clan …
It is now three years since United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an “immediate global ceasefire” in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 23, 2020, Guterres called on warring parties to “put armed conflict on lockdown” to …
يمكن للعنف المستمر في القدس الشرقية والضفة الغربية أن يتصاعد قبيل الأعياد الإسلامية واليهودية الرئيسية القادمة – رمضان وعيد الفصح – اللذان يتزامنان في عام 2023 كما حدث في السنتين الماضيتين. لقد تصاعدت التوترات على مدى الأشهر القليلة الماضية، مدفوعة بمزيج …
Last week, Saudi Arabia and Iran agreed to restore diplomatic relations in a deal brokered by China. The two countries had broken off ties in 2016, after Saudi authorities executed a prominent Shiite cleric and dissident, prompting protesters in Tehran to …
