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Casie Copeland, Crisis Group's Consulting Analyst and Jérôme Tubiana, Crisis Group's Sudan Senior Analyst, stress the increasingly regional nature of the conflict in South Sudan.

Casie Copeland, Crisis Group's Consulting Analyst and Jérôme Tubiana, Crisis Group's Sudan Senior Analyst, highlight the growing humanitarian crisis in South Sudan, recently declared a "Level 3" global emergency by the UNOCHR, a distinction shared only by Syria and the Central African Republic. The UN has worryingly issued a warning of famine in a country where perhaps 1 million people have been displaced in the last 3 months.

Casie Copeland, Crisis Group's Consulting Analyst and Jérôme Tubiana, Crisis Group's Sudan Senior Analyst, discuss the relationship of China, the biggest consumer of South Sudanese oil, with both Sudan and South Sudan.

2014 has seen South Sudan descend into civil war just a few years after independence. Consulting analyst Casie Copeland breaks down the different parties to the conflict and their demands.

2014 has seen South Sudan descend into civil war just a few years after independence. Consulting analyst Casie Copeland breaks down the different parties to the conflict and their demands.

Hear about International Crisis Group's new report Divided Cyprus: Coming to Terms On an Imperfect Reality from Hugh Pope, Deputy Program Director, Europe & Central Asia. To avoid another failed effort at federal reunification in the new round of Cyprus negotiations, all sides should break old taboos and discuss all possible options, including independence for Turkish Cypriots within the European Union.

Join the Crisis Group conversation: Louise Arbour and Kofi Annan on the responsibility to protect, Comfort Ero on the militarisation of peacekeeping, Thomas Pickering on UN Security Council reform, and George Soros on the breakdown of the rule of law. Crisis Group's annual briefing brings serious thought to foreign policy's hardest questions.

Peace talks are currently underway in Havana between the Colombian government and representatives of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). In this Google+ hangout, Communications Director Scott Malcomson discusses with Javier Ciurlizza, Latin America Program Director, and Christian Voelkel, Colombia Analyst, about the challenges of transitional justice facing Colombia after decades of conflict.

Piers Pigou, Southern Africa Project Director, and Trevor Maisiri, Southern Africa Senior Analyst, talk about tensions surrounding Zimbabwe's 2013 elections. We recently published the report Zimbabwe: Election Scenarios looking at possible paths towards elections, expected to be held between July and November 2013.

As the humanitarian crisis reaches catastrophic proportions, Syria needs to open its borders to external aid, while Turkey and its international partners need more long-term planning to meet growing refugee needs and avoid having instability spill over the porous border.