Sudan & South Sudan

Soldiers and tradespeople cross the dried up Jubba River in Dollow, Jubaland, southwest Somalia, on the border with Ethiopia. (Photo by Sally Hayden / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Africa in Focus

Tackling fragility and promoting integration in the Horn of Africa through ‘development diplomacy’

Vijay Pillai and Miguel de Corral

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

U.S. President Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attend an Arab summit, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 16, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

Order from Chaos

Rights as realism in the Middle East

Steven Heydemann

Monday, July 25, 2022

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Assessing UN state-building in South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and beyond

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

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Protesters march during a rally from Khartoum North to Omdurman against military rule following last month's coup, in Khartoum, Sudan. December 13,2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah

Africa in Focus

The women of Sudan will not accept setbacks

Rogaia Abusharaf

Thursday, March 3, 2022

Reports

A Saudi border guard patrols Saudi Arabia's maritime border with Yemen along a beach on the Red Sea, near Jizan April 8, 2015. Iran sent two warships to the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday, state media reported, establishing a military presence off the coast of Yemen where Saudi Arabia is leading a bombing campaign to oust the Iran-allied Houthi movement. REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser - GF10000052482

Gulf States

Red Sea geopolitics: Six plotlines to watch

Zach Vertin

Sunday, December 15, 2019

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman stands next to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt November 27, 2018. Bandar Algaloud/Courtesy of Saudi Royal Court/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY? - RC171E79B100

Gulf States

Toward a Red Sea forum: The Gulf, the Horn of Africa, and architecture for a new regional order

Zach Vertin

Sunday, November 3, 2019

Report

The role of civil-military-police coordination in supporting durable solutions to displacement

Elizabeth Ferris and Sarah Deardorff Miller

Friday, May 29, 2015

Report

An African Solution to Internal Displacement: AU Leaders Agree to Landmark Convention

Andrew Solomon

Friday, October 23, 2009

Report

Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons

Walter Kälin

Monday, August 3, 2009

Blog Posts

MOSCOW, RUSSIA NOVEMBER 11, 2021: Mali's Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop (L) and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov give a joint news conference following their talks at the reception house of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Spiridonovka Street. Sergei Savostyanov/TASS

Order from Chaos

Russia’s Wagner Group in Africa: Influence, commercial concessions, rights violations, and counterinsurgency failure

Federica Saini Fasanotti

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

A boy poses for a picture under a massive Bangladeshi flag, during a flag rally three days ahead of the country's 50th Victory Day anniversary, in front of the parliamentary building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 13, 2021. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

Future Development

Success despite the odds: South Sudan and Bangladesh

Shanta Devarajan

Friday, January 14, 2022

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan and Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta attand a joint statement at State House, in Nairobi, Kenya, May 4, 2021. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Somalia, Sudan, and Tanzania updates

Christina Golubski, Tamara White, and Leo Holtz

Saturday, May 8, 2021

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Middle East & North Africa

Oslo to Abraham: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Middle East geopolitics

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Podcast Episode

What’s the significance of the US-Israel-Sudan normalization deal?

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