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In this online event Crisis Group experts discuss the eight priorities that Crisis Group has identified for the African Union in the year ahead and specifically zoom in on what it can do to help solve the crises in Sudan, DRC and Cameroon.

As the African Union prepares to choose new leadership, it faces several forbidding challenges in the peace and security domain. This briefing points to eight areas where the organisation can put its diplomatic weight to particularly good use.

Les régimes militaires au Mali, au Burkina Faso et au Niger entendent restaurer « l’autonomie d’action de l’Etat », explique Jean-Hervé Jezequel, dans une tribune au « Monde ». L’analyste regrette que « Paris se condamne à ignorer le potentiel de transformation politique » en cours.

This week on Hold Your Fire!, Richard Atwood is joined by Richard Moncrieff, Crisis Group’s Great Lakes director, to discuss the fall of Goma, eastern DR Congo’s largest city, to the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels, and whether regional diplomacy can stop things escalating further.

This week on The Horn, Nazanine Moshiri speaks with Liesl Louw-Vaudran, Crisis Group’s Senior Advisor for the African Union, about the forthcoming AU Commission Chairperson election. They discuss the challenges the next chair will face in strengthening the AU’s role in conflict resolution and elevating its global influence.

Rebels backed by Rwanda have taken Goma, a provincial capital in the eastern DR Congo, amid uncertainty over proposed constitutional reform. In this excerpt from the Watch List 2025, Crisis Group explores how the EU can help the country deal with security and governance challenges.

Sudan’s war is causing untold misery and threatening to spill over into the neighbourhood. In this excerpt from the Watch List 2025, Crisis Group explores how the EU and its member states can assist urgently needed efforts at mediation and relief.

The fall of eastern Congo’s biggest city has sent thousands from their homes and – once again – left the Great Lakes on the edge of a wider war. African mediators with the concerted backing of external partners should move with speed to prevent more fighting.

In this video, Crisis Group’s Senior Analyst for the Sahel, Ibrahim Maiga, speaks about Mali’s sovereign turn and what this means for the country.

The disastrous conflict in Sudan is pushing the country deeper into chaos. Work to halt it has never been more urgent. To get talks going, mediators may need to present a notional picture of what the post-war dispensation could look like.