🇪🇹 | Without progress on interconnected domestic and regional issues, #Ethiopia’s 1 June elections could heighten the risk of further fragmentation and wider conflict, rather resolving it, write @AhmedSolHoA and @Abele_a for @ChathamHouse: chathamhouse.org/2026/05/eth…

Assassinations in Aden undermine confidence in Yemen's government’s and its ability maintain security for civilians — as well as international organizations and aid workers. Read @almuslimi's (@CH_MENAP) latest analysis for Chatham House⤵️ chathamhouse.org/2026/05/kil…

صورت قوات شبه عسكرية سودانية نفسها وهي تقتل مدنيين أثناء سيطرتها على مدينة الفاشر، بينما وقف قادتها متفرجين. وبالاستناد إلى مقاطع فيديو لمقاتلين وشهادات ناجين، يعيد هذا الوثائقي من رويترز سرد أحداث العنف. reut.rs/4wKnXiw

Here I look at the many questions surrounding the US-Nigeria operation to kill an ISWAP commander. To me the biggest question is - why so much hype around decapitation ops when they seldom make a difference? alexthurston.substack.com/p/…

Sudan’s grassroots mutual aid groups – the Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs) – have been awarded the 2025 Chatham House Prize, in recognition of their crucial role in delivering humanitarian support during the ongoing war in Sudan.

Calls are getting louder to investigate the UAE for its role in Sudan's war, demanding that governments say what they have so far refused to: that the UAE has earned its place among the ranks of the world’s outlaws. This week's column theguardian.com/commentisfre…

🎥| This webinar examines the role of African institutions in the Great Lakes peace process, and how closer coordination with external partners and grassroots initiatives might move the process forward. Watch: youtube.com/live/JN_6RD5_9dw #CHAfrica

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The 15 Latin Americans deported from the US to Kinshasa are holed up in a hotel by the airport, where there are water cuts, rats, and lots of mosquitoes. They have no passports, don't speak French, and have no idea what comes next. My story for @NPR: npr.org/2026/04/28/nx-s1-579…

Seeing this number of fighters operating openly in Kati and Bamako and the reach of today’s attacks is completely unprecedented in Mali. Status of the defense minister still unclear, multiple major military sites taken over across the country. Fighting is continuing.

"A thousand dead humanitarians in three years - when did that become normal?" Tom Fletcher (@UNReliefChief) on the violence facing humanitarian workers in conflict zones. Watch the event➡️bit.ly/3QmKAsv

My review of what AU’s decision rejecting the proposal endorsing former President of 🇸🇳 Macky Sall's candidacy means & how & why @_AfricanUnion arrived at that decision, why withdrawal of his candidacy is the most honorable next step & #Burundi's role in that regard.👇🏽

On March 3, up to 80 fighters from a new militia group overwhelmed Upemba national park, in southeastern DRC. "They had very precise instructions,” said one survivor. My account of what happened for the @guardian. 1/8 theguardian.com/environment/…

Three years of silence: A Sudanese journalist’s journey from a digital dead zone via @sudantribune_en sudantribune.com/article/311…

⚖️ History has a long memory. On 17 March, a Brussels court will decide whether former Belgian diplomat Étienne Davignon (93) should stand trial over the chain of events that led to the 1961 murder of Patrice Lumumba 🇨🇩 For decades Belgium acknowledged only “moral responsibility.” But morality without accountability leaves history unfinished. For many Congolese, this moment is not about a 93-year-old man — it’s about whether colonial crimes can ever truly face justice, no matter how long it takes. Justice delayed should not mean justice denied. ✊🏾 africa-confidential.com/arti…

This is the sort of humiliation that should ignite an aggressive push to end aid dependency once and for all. For how long must the Continent’s peoples and nations depend on the fickle generosity of strangers?

Un plaisir de participer aujourd’hui à cette audition de la commission relations extérieures du parlement fédéral belge sur la traçabilité des minerais:

Event | How can West Africa strengthen its collective security against violent extremism? Foreign ministers @YusufTuggar (@NigeriaMFA) and @S_OkudzetoAblak (@GhanaMFA) join us to discuss the security challenges facing West Africa. Watch the livestream⤵️ x.com/i/broadcasts/1OxwblLAN…

Nigeria and Ghana Foreign Ministers discussing regional security cooperation in West Africa @ChathamHouse 🇳🇬🇬🇭 « Right of pursuit needs to be reestablished, we need Niger to reengage »