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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.

This week on The Horn, Alan is joined by Murithi Mutiga, Crisis Group’s Africa program director, to discuss the outcome of Kenya’s closely fought, high-stakes election.  

In a three-part special episode of The Horn, Alan speaks to three Crisis Group experts across the Horn of Africa and Great Lakes regions. He talks with William Davison about the prospects for peace talks in Ethiopia, to Nelleke van de Walle about Kenya’s new diplomatic efforts in the eastern DR Congo, and to Nazanine Moshiri about the drought devastating the Horn region.

War & Peace is a podcast series from the International Crisis Group, in which Olga Oliker and Elissa Jobson interview experts about all things Europe and its neighbourhood, from Russia to Türkiye and beyond. Their guests shed new light on everything that helps or hinders prospects for peace. Episodes from past series of War & Peace can be found here: Season 1 and Season 2.

This week on War & Peace, Olga Oliker and Elissa Jobson are joined by Crisis Group experts Alissa de Carbonnel and Simon Schlegel, who share their impressions from a recent visit to western Ukraine and Kyiv. As Russia’s invasion continues to devastate the country’s east, Alissa and Simon explain how the war has taken its toll elsewhere in Ukraine as well.

In a special episode to mark the end of Season Two of Hold Your Fire!, Richard is joined by Olga Oliker, Crisis Group’s Europe and Central Asia director and Comfort Ero, its president and CEO. They look at what’s happening in Ukraine and reflect back on a rocky six months in Europe and across many of the world’s other hotspots.

In Season 2 of Hold Your Fire! Richard Atwood and Naz Modirzadeh speak to Crisis Group field analysts and special guests to get their unique, on-the-ground perspective on an array of world conflicts. They cover the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan, military coups in West Africa and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 — and its global fallout. Episodes from other seasons of Hold Your Fire! can be found here: Season 1 and Season 3.

This week on War & Peace, Olga Oliker talks to James Cowan, CEO of The HALO Trust, a charitable organisation which removes landmines, explosives, and other debris left behind by war. They discuss the impact of landmines on lives around the world, how HALO works to remove ordnance, and James’ recent visits to Ukraine and Afghanistan.