The UK, Côte d’Ivoire and other nations plan to pull their troops out of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, clouding its future as it undergoes internal review. In this Q&A, Crisis Group experts discuss

Fighting has intensified in North Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, with M23 rebels now partially encircling the major city Goma. Regional leaders, particularly Kenya, should press hard for a halt to the

A looming crisis of succession in several African countries indicates a troubling persistence of ego-driven political paternalism. Democratic transition in Africa offers much to celebrate. For one thing, support for democratic principles, especially among young

Yemen, a small country in the Arabian Peninsula, has been wracked by a civil war that, for seven years, has devolved into a proxy war between the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who overthrew the Yemeni government,

Behind lofty summit declarations, several bilateral agreements and thousands of decade-old undelivered pledges yet to be implemented, Russia has been stacked due to its “special military operations” it began late February in Ukraine. It has

Fighting has intensified in North Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, with M23 rebels now partially encircling the major city Goma. Regional leaders, particularly Kenya, should press hard for a halt to the

The UK, Côte d’Ivoire and other nations plan to pull their troops out of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, clouding its future as it undergoes internal review. In this Q&A, Crisis Group experts discuss

Overview of Ethiopian Politics  Africans have always complained that their resources are looted by colonial powers (in the past), neo-liberal businesses, and domestic embezzlers, among others. In Ethiopia, both history and current affairs inform us