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Crisis Group expert Nnamdi Obasi reflects on the winners and losers coming out of the 7 December coup attempt in Benin

This week on The Horn, Alan speaks with Heiko Nitzschke, Germany’s special envoy for the Horn of Africa, to discuss how Berlin and other European capitals approach foreign policy in the region amid conflicts, geopolitical jostling and a rapidly changing world order.

Campaigners in Tanzania are planning peaceful protests on 9 December, weeks after police killed hundreds in a brutal post-election crackdown. Authorities must desist from yet more wanton violence. Looking further out, they should embrace conciliatory politics, including long-overdue constitutional reforms. 

Crisis Group expert Nnamdi Obasi analyses the kidnappings of over 300 students and churchgoers in November and the implications for northern Nigeria’s hard-hit education system

This edition of On the Horizon includes entries on Bangladesh, DR Congo, Lebanon and South Sudan, sounding the alarm about conflicts and crises that may emerge or escalate in the next three to six months. It identifies key actors and dates to watch in support of global conflict prevention efforts.

The trial of South Sudan’s First Vice President Riek Machar represents one of the greatest threats to the country’s stability since the end of its civil war in 2018. In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert Daniel Akech analyses the charges against Machar and the danger they pose.

Dans cet épisode d’Afrique 360°, Rinaldo Depagne et son co-présentateur, Ibrahim Yahaya Ibrahim, reçoivent Jean-Hervé Jezequel, directeur du projet Sahel à Crisis Group, et Boubacar Haidara, chercheur senior au Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies, pour parler du blocus sélectif imposé sur la capitale Bamako par les djihadistes du JNIM et de son impact sur le régime militaire au pouvoir et les pays voisins.

The G20 summit in South Africa had been billed as an opportunity for the country to showcase its claim to be a continental leader. But blistering U.S. criticism of Pretoria and geopolitical divisions have made for a diplomatic predicament.

L’intégration de miliciens zandé dans l’armée a exacerbé l’instabilité dans le sud-est de la République centrafricaine, illustrant les risques liés à l’utilisation de groupes d’autodéfense par l’Etat. Pour apaiser les tensions, Bangui devrait engager un dialogue intercommunautaire et négocier avec la milice le sort de ses combattants.

This week on The Horn, Alan speaks with Julia Steers, investigations editor at Lighthouse Reports, about the large-scale atrocities that followed the RSF’s capture of Darfur’s El Fasher.