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This week on The Horn, Alan talks with Crisis Group’s Great Lakes Project Director Richard Moncrieff to size up the new efforts to end the regional war in eastern DR Congo.

Crisis Group expert Daniel Forti on the AU Somalia mission’s financial woes and prospects for future multilateral assistance

Crisis Group expert Mathieu Pellerin on the country’s worsening security in the wake of an assault on Djibo

In this webinar, former U.S. Ambassador to Niger, Bisa Williams, and Crisis Group experts Franklin Nossiter and Ibrahim Yahaya Ibrahim discuss whether the U.S. and the central Sahel are headed toward a period of mutual disengagement, or whether there remain possibilities for productive cooperation.

Crisis Group expert Shewit Woldemichael on the recent escalatory attacks on Port Sudan and their implications for the country’s civil war

The annual renewal of the UN arms embargo on South Sudan comes up for a vote in May. In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert Maya Ungar warns that ending the mandate entirely would risk fuelling a return to civil war in the country.

Crisis Group expert Richard Moncrieff on the state of play in peace talks between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda 

The UN Security Council will soon vote on the future of the peacekeeping mission in conflict-hit South Sudan. In this Q&A, Nazanine Moshiri discusses what is at stake and why climate and peace should remain part of the mission’s work. 

This week on The Horn, Alan talks with Abdul Mohammed, a former senior official on Sudan at the UN and the African Union, about Sudan’s growing fragmentation after two years of war, risks of a de facto partition and prospects for getting a peace initiative on track.

Crisis Group's Daniel Akech on stirrings of renewed civil war in South Sudan