Sudan

ADF STAFF In response to brutal attacks against civilians by militia members, some of Sudan’s pro-democracy groups who once protested the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have rallied to support it. In the six months since fighting erupted…

ADF STAFF Rising intercommunal violence and a war in neighboring Sudan threaten South Sudan’s fragile five-year peace deal, experts say. Against this backdrop, the Advocacy Unit of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in…

ADF STAFF Ethiopia recently completed the fourth and final filling of its huge Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). However, the controversy the dam has created with Egypt and Sudan remains unresolved. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy…

ADF STAFF As the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) grinds on, Sudan’s de facto leader, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, spent several weeks in August and September traveling outside Sudan to…

ADF STAFF Weeks after the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the future of the mercenary operations led by Russia's notorious Wagner Group remains uncertain. Prigozhin’s death “represents an inflection point in Russia-Africa relations,”…

ADF STAFF In the early hours of August 29, Gabonese authorities announced that President Ali Bongo had won a disputed election that gave him a controversial third term. Gyldas A. Ofoulhast-Othamot, assistant professor of political science…

ADF STAFF Since the outbreak of violence in Sudan in April, the flow of weapons smuggled into the heavily armed country has become a flood. “We used to receive a shipment every three months, but now we’re getting one every two weeks,”…

ADF STAFF Abu Bakr al-Iraqi, the leader of Islamic State group (IS) in Sudan, secretly finances his operations through businesses in Turkey, according to a recent report by the United Nations. Investigators reported to the U.N. Security…

ADF STAFF The clash between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is the latest eruption of military violence in a country that has experienced 35 coups or attempted coups since 1956. Some of the coups…

ADF STAFF After two years of silence, Egypt and Ethiopia recently restarted talks about the management and potential downstream impacts of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), which straddles the Blue Nile, the primary Nile…