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This week on Hold Your Fire!, Richard Atwood talks with Olga Oliker, Crisis Group’s Europe and Central Asia director, about the latest escalation in Ukraine, as Russian airstrikes batter multiple Ukrainian cities.

This week on The Horn, Alan hosts a roundtable discussion with guests Aleu Garang, Kholood Khair and Simon Mulongo about the political landscape in the Horn of Africa, from the renewed outbreak of conflict in northern Ethiopia to the perilous paths toward political transition for countries in the region.

This week on Hold Your Fire! Richard Atwood is joined by Jean-Hervé Jezequel, Crisis Group’s Sahel director, to discuss the latest coup in Burkina Faso and what it means for Burkina’s fight against Islamist militants in a moment of change for the Sahel.

This week on War & Peace, Olga Oliker and Elissa Jobson talk with RAND Senior Policy Researcher Dara Massicot about the latest military developments in Ukraine amid Russia’s decision to declare a partial mobilisation.

This week on Hold Your Fire! Richard Atwood speaks with Crisis Group’s Asia Director Laurel Miller about U.S. policy in Afghanistan, the Taliban’s foreign relations and what the killing of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in the Afghan capital Kabul says about the threat from transnational militants in Afghanistan a year into Taliban rule.

This week on Hold Your Fire! Richard Atwood is joined by Crisis Group Senior Analyst William Davison to discuss fighting in northern Ethiopia, as a humanitarian truce collapses and the devastating war in and around the Tigray region starts back up again.

This week on Hold Your Fire! Richard Atwood talks to Crisis Group’s UN Director Richard Gowan about the state of the UN as world leaders meet for General Assembly week, and also catches up with Europe and Central Asia Program Director Olga Oliker about the latest from Ukraine and violence on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border.

This week on The Horn, Alan is joined by Comfort Ero, Crisis Group’s president and CEO, to discuss how African countries can navigate a changing world order amid rocky geopolitics, while protecting itself from a tsunami of pressures threatening peace and stability on the continent.

This week on Hold Your Fire! Richard Atwood talks to Crisis Group’s Iraq expert Lahib Higel about the crisis in Iraq, with parties unable to form a government almost a year after elections and the deadliest clashes the Iraqi capital has seen in years erupting in late August.

In Season 3 of The Horn, host Alan Boswell and guests analyse events from across the Horn of Africa, including civil war in Ethiopia, military coup in Sudan and the ongoing climate crisis facing the region — as well as a special series on “Eastern Africa’s Jihadis”. Produced by Maeve Frances. Episodes from other series of The Horn can be found here: Season 1, Season 2 and Season 4.