The unholy trident of conflicts, coups and climate criss has almost permanently hugged the headline in Africa throughout the past year, making 2025 a challenging twelve months for the continent,Aside ...

Africa dominates the Global Watchlist for 2026, with six of the world’s ten most crisis-affected countries located on the continent, reflecting the deepening impact of conflict, political instability, ...

Beyond the wars in Ukraine and Gaza/Israel, a number of other regions are emerging as potential flashpoints that may shape ...

Even by the standards of recent years, 2024 was a year of turmoil in which new conflicts erupted, existing crises seethed, and climate-fueled disasters multiplied. As a result, the number of people ...

Analysis - The respected Brussels-based think tank, the International Crisis Group, has identified three conflicts in Africa as among the 10 world-wide which – following a violence-wracked 2025 – are ...

Recent developments in Sudan's bloody civil war have left one of Africa's largest nations split in two, entrenching two factions that have both been accused of widespread abuses and threatening to ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is becoming the world’s most volatile region for armed conflict, according to the 2025 Global Peace Index (GPI) released on Wednesday. Of the 44 African countries assessed by the ...

GENEVA - Over 165,000 people have fled increasing tensions and conflict in South Sudan in the past three months, seeking safety both within the country and across borders and deepening an already dire ...

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