Alan Boswell Project Director, Horn of Africa Nairobi Please submit all media inquiries to aboswell@crisisgroup.org or call +32 (0) 2 536 00 71 Crisis Group Role As Crisis Group’s Project Director for the Horn of Africa, Alan oversees the organisation’s research on Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan and regional dynamics. He also hosts Crisis Group’s fortnightly The Horn podcast since its launch in 2019. Professional Background Alan has worked for over a decade in East Africa. Prior to joining Crisis Group as Senior Analyst for South Sudan in 2019, he served as a formal adviser and researcher for a number of organisations, including the United Nations, USAID, U.S. Institute of Peace, European Institute of Peace, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Folke Bernadotte Academy, Friedrich Egbert Stiftung and World Peace Foundation. He also published extensive conflict research on South Sudan through the Small Arms Survey and was an associate of the Conflict Research Programme at the London School of Economics. Alan previously covered Africa as a Nairobi-based journalist, reporting from Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, the Central African Republic, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. He also covered Sudan's split into two countries while based in Juba from 2010-2011. Alan has written for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Time magazine, The Atlantic, a variety of U.S. newspapers, and Bloomberg. Select Publications "Conflict and Crisis in South Sudan's Equatoria", United States Institute of Peace, April 2021 “Spreading Fallout: The collapse of the ARCSS and new conflict along the Equatorias-DRC border", Small Arms Survey, May 2017 “Conflict in Western Equatoria”, Small Arms Survey, July 2016 In The News 3 Feb 2023 The situation is horrendous in South Sudan, and it seems to keep getting worse despite the peace deal. Washington Post Alan Boswell Project Director, Horn of Africa 9 Aug 2021 There is still no sign of a broader reset in South Sudanese politics [...] instead, the divisions just keep mounting. New York Times Alan Boswell Project Director, Horn of Africa 9 Jul 2021 [South Sudan] is just, unfortunately, in a much worse spot than it was 10 years ago. Whenever I talk with various diplomats from different countries [...] they all fear c... Al Jazeera Alan Boswell Project Director, Horn of Africa 13 Aug 2020 Disarmament in South Sudan resembles an abusive counterinsurgency operation, not an orderly collection of arms, which the local militias often resist giving up. The New York Times Alan Boswell Project Director, Horn of Africa 8 May 2020 The disagreement between Kiir and Machar has endangered the gains made toward a lasting peace. Reuters Alan Boswell Project Director, Horn of Africa 20 Feb 2020 "[South Sudan president Kiir and former rebel leader Machar] still have much to work through, but Machar was unlikely to extract more significant concessions before formi... Reuters Alan Boswell Project Director, Horn of Africa Latest Updates Podcast / Africa 23 March 2023 Russia’s Wagner in Africa Podcast / Africa 01 March 2023 Can the African Union Rise to Meet Its Moment? Podcast / Africa 15 February 2023 Tweets and Succession Politics in Uganda Podcast / Africa 02 February 2023 A Return to Civilian Rule in Sudan? Podcast / Africa 11 January 2023 Somalia's Offensive Against Al-Shabaab Podcast / Africa 07 December 2022 A Conversation with Top U.S. Diplomat to Africa Molly Phee Load more