civil war

ADF STAFF Nearly a year before hostilities broke out between Sudan’s rival generals, a private jet touched down at an airfield in Khartoum. Members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) met the plane during its brief visit. On board,…

ADF STAFF As fighting continues in Sudan, it is not just the Sudanese people who are fearful for their future. The entire region is anxiously watching the developments. The mass exodus of refugees and the threat that the conflict could…

ADF STAFF A recent attack less than 40 kilometers west of Cameroon’s largest city, Douala, has citizens feeling unnerved and insecure. On May 1, at least 15 heavily armed Anglophone separatists attacked a military post in the farming…

ADF STAFF Cease-fires have failed. Rival sides seem evenly matched. The men at the top are increasingly entrenched in their opposition to each other. Regional players are choosing sides. Observers say they’ve seen these factors before, and…

ADF STAFF Battles between Sudan’s rival military leaders spread from Khartoum, the nation’s capital, to Darfur in late April, sparking concerns that a decades-old conflict in the western desert region may be reignited. Darfur…

ADF STAFF A terror group’s campaign is more likely to escalate into a civil war when the state it operates in uses repressive tactics and when the group diversifies its attack strategies. Although about 70% of terror groups end their…

ADF STAFF Tension is escalating in northern Mali, where a fragile peace plan is teetering on the verge of collapse. The Tuareg rebellion ended in 2015 with the Algiers peace accord, but because it has never been fully implemented, the…

ADF STAFF After two years of war in Ethiopia’s north, Tigrayan families reconnected in January and cried tears of joy and grief. “My mother cried when she heard my voice after all these months,” a 42-year-old man in Addis Ababa told…

ADF STAFF When experts and activists gathered recently to advance a different approach to conflict resolution in Africa, they found their host nation of Burundi to be a fitting backdrop. “No one knows what the devastation of war is all…

ADF STAFF After visiting Kyiv, Ukraine, in April, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres took a delayed trip to the Sahel to focus international attention on the deteriorating security situation there. His dilemma, and that of…