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This week on The Horn, Alan speaks with Crisis Group’s Africa program director, Murithi Mutiga, about the inauguration of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, what the project means for Addis Ababa and why it has fuelled tensions with downstream Nile countries, Egypt and Sudan.

Crisis Group’s Shewit Woldemichael explains what is at stake in the battle for El Fasher in western Sudan

Political tensions are rising in Somalia. With elections due in 2026, politicians are arguing over the terms for the polls. The government and its opponents urgently need to compromise in order to stave off the possibility of violence and implement improvements to the voting process.

Crisis Group expert Daniel Akech analyses the treason charges against Machar and the threat they pose to the 2018 peace deal.

Crisis Group expert Alan Boswell writes on a breakthrough agreement among key outside actors that could help bring peace to Sudan

This week on The Horn, marking Crisis Group’s 30th anniversary, Alan Boswell speaks with president & CEO Comfort Ero about how the landscape of peacemaking has shifted over the past three decades in Africa and beyond and how these changes have shaped Crisis Group’s work.

Crisis Group expert Onesphore Sematumba analyses the operations of the ADF, a rebel group that is pressing its advantage in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo while Kinshasa focuses on the Rwanda-backed M23 insurgency 

Dans cet épisode d’Afrique 360°, Enrica Picco et Rinaldo Depagne reçoivent Paul-Simon Handy, directeur général pour l’Afrique de l’Est et représentant auprès de l’Union africaine à l’Institute for Security Studies (ISS), et Stéphane Akoa, politologue camerounais et chercheur à la Fondation Paul Ango Ela, pour parler de l’élection présidentielle au Cameroun, prévue pour le 12 octobre 2025, et de ses principaux enjeux.

Crisis Group expert Shewit Woldemichael on the paramilitary force’s creation of a rival administration based in western Sudan.