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Q&A / Ethiopia

The Dangerous Expansion of Ethiopia’s Tigray War

A rapidly escalating conflict has pushed Africa’s second most populous country to the edge. In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert William Davison explains why the main protagonists urgently need to strike a deal to avert a downward spiral toward state collapse.

Iraq: Protests, Iran’s Role and an End to U.S. Combat Operations
Podcast / Middle East & North Africa

Iraq: Protests, Iran’s Role and an End to U.S. Combat Operations

This week on Hold Your Fire!, Richard Atwood and Naz Modirzadeh talk to Crisis Group’s Lahib Higel about the Tishreen uprising that upended Iraqi politics and what President Biden’s announcement that U.S. forces will end their combat mission in Iraq means for the country.

Learning to Live with a Limited Security Council
Commentary / Global

Learning to Live with a Limited Security Council

Behind the Front Lines in Ethiopia’s Tigray
Podcast / Africa

Behind the Front Lines in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Tunisia’s Leap into the Unknown
Q&A / Middle East & North Africa

Tunisia’s Leap into the Unknown

Videos & Photography

Video /

Five Conflicts the EU Can Help Address

The Spring Update of the Watch List 2021 includes entries on Myanmar, Yemen, Bolivia, Nigeria and Ukraine.

 
Video / Africa

What Data Says About Herder-Farmer Violence in Nigeria

 
Video / Latin America & Caribbean

Colombian Guerrillas on the Venezuelan Border

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Video / Africa

What is Happening in South Sudan?

 
Video / Asia

Myanmar Edges Toward State Collapse Following Coup

 
Video / Middle East & North Africa

Peacemaking in Yemen Needs Women's Voices

 
Video / Africa

Resolving the Insurgency in South Sudan's Equatoria Region

 
Video / Latin America & Caribbean

Fighters for Peace: The Struggle of Latin America’s Women Activists

 
Video / Latin America & Caribbean

Deeply Rooted: Coca Eradication and Violence in Colombia

 
Video / Africa

A New Strategy to End the Sahel's Wars

 
Video /

Video – 10 Conflicts to Watch in 2021

CrisisWatch
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Trends for Last Month June 2021

Deteriorated Situations

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Improved Situations

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Outlook for This Month July 2021

Conflict Risk Alerts

Yemen

Resolution Opportunities

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President's Take

Resurgent Tigray and Horn of Africa Politics

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Richard Atwood
Interim President
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To accompany this month’s CrisisWatch, Interim President Richard Atwood looks at the dramatic turn of events in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, the danger of new fighting and its implications for Horn of Africa geopolitics.

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Gender and Conflict

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Gender and Conflict
Podcast / Gender and Conflict

Gender and Conflict

For an International Women’s Day special episode of Hold Your Fire!, Naz Modirzadeh and Richard Atwood talk to Azadeh Moaveni, Crisis Group’s gender and conflict expert, about the Women, Peace and Security agenda and Crisis Group’s work on gender and conflict.

Briefing / Gender and Conflict

A Course Correction for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda

Briefing / Middle East & North Africa

Exiles in Their Own Country: Dealing with Displacement in Post-ISIS Iraq

Also available in العربية
Podcast / Global

War & Peace: Why Gender Matters in the Fight Against Terrorism

Visual Explainers

Mapping Middle East tensions

The Iran-U.S. Trigger List

An early-warning platform to monitor, analyse, and provide regular updates on the key and increasingly tense flashpoints between Iran and the U.S. or their respective allies that could lead to a direct or indirect confrontation, or generally to a dangerous regional escalation. Read more...

Mapping Middle East tensions

The Iran-U.S. Trigger List

Turkey’s PKK Conflict: A Visual Explainer

The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: A Visual Explainer

In The News

27 Jul 2021
[Juan Francisco Sandoval's] firing [in Guatemala] confirms the fear from several months ago that despite having expressed an interest in collaborating on an anti-corruption agenda, ultimately, the Guatemalan government has a different agenda. Al Jazeera

Tiziano Breda

Analyst, Central America
27 Jul 2021
There has been no talk about Tunisian institutions or keeping up any kind of democratic governance; it's just being portrayed as people who have liberated themselves from an oppressive Islamist government. Washington Post

Elham Fakhro

Senior Analyst, Gulf States
26 Jul 2021
There was this idea that if you put a lot of resources into [Afghanistan] and a lot of willpower very quickly, that you can make what we otherwise know are long-term generational developments happen on some kind of speedy timeline that fits American policy priorities. And the world doesn't work that way. NPR

Laurel Miller

Program Director, Asia
22 Jul 2021
Al Shabaab is fully embedded in Somali society, especially in areas under their control, where local populations have little choice but to engage the group. VICE News

Omar Mahmood

Senior Analyst, Somalia
21 Jul 2021
What I think we're going to see in the next months is a slowly churning crisis [in Colombia], which is dangerous. Voice of America

Elizabeth Dickinson

Senior Analyst, Colombia
18 Jul 2021
[Saudi Arabia can] reassert its role, particularly in the charity aid sector, which it always has been traditionally proud of [...] I think we can see [Saudi Arabia] expanding its aid into more Covid diplomacy. Washington Post

Elham Fakhro

Senior Analyst, Gulf States

Regional Updates

Global

Learning to Live with a Limited Security Council
Commentary

Learning to Live with a Limited Security Council

Commentary

Seven Points for the G7

Podcast

The Under-loved Logic of Nuclear-free Zones

Africa

Behind the Front Lines in Ethiopia’s Tigray
Podcast

Behind the Front Lines in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Commentary

Turkey in the Sahel

Q&A

Riots Reveal South Africa’s Enduring Rifts

Asia

The Taliban’s Advance in Afghanistan
Podcast

The Taliban’s Advance in Afghanistan

Podcast

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Briefing

Pakistan: Shoring Up Afghanistan’s Peace Process

Europe & Central Asia

Rising Tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean
Event Recording

Rising Tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean

Podcast

Defusing Tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean

Podcast

Biden in Europe

Latin America & Caribbean

Handling the Aftermath of Haiti’s Presidential Assassination
Q&A

Handling the Aftermath of Haiti’s Presidential Assassination

Op-Ed

If sanctions failed to solve Nicaragua’s crisis, will more sanctions succeed?

Report

The Pandemic Strikes: Responding to Colombia’s Mass Protests

Middle East & North Africa

Iraq: Protests, Iran’s Role and an End to U.S. Combat Operations
Podcast

Iraq: Protests, Iran’s Role and an End to U.S. Combat Operations

Q&A

Tunisia’s Leap into the Unknown

Report

Iraq’s Tishreen Uprising: From Barricades to Ballot Box

United States

Putting AUMF Repeal Into Context
Op-Ed

Putting AUMF Repeal Into Context

Statement

Venezuela: An Opportunity That Should Be Seized

Q&A

How the U.S. Withdrawal Decision Will Affect the Afghan Conflict

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