War in Gaza: To What End and At What Cost?
In this episode of Hold Your Fire!, Richard is joined by Crisis Group experts Mairav Zonszein, Robert Blecher, Tahani Mustafa and Heiko Wimmen to discuss what has happened over the past week in Gaza a...
20 Okt 202346min
No Going Back? Hamas’s Atrocities and Another Catastrophe in Gaza
For the first episode of a new season of Hold Your Fire!, Richard is joined by Crisis Group experts Joost Hiltermann, Mairav Zonszein and Azmi Keshawi to discuss Hamas’s shock attack on Israel over th...
13 Okt 202338min
A Long War Looming in Sudan
Almost three months into the war in Sudan that has pitted the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) against the Sudanese Army, the fighting shows no sign of slowing. Khartoum remains the epicentre, ...
7 Jul 202347min
Bonus Episode: What Egypt Wants in Sudan
Today we're bringing you a bonus episode on Egypt and Sudan from Crisis Group's The Horn podcast.The conflict in Sudan between the country’s armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF...
30 Jun 202345min
Is This the End? Wagner in Russia, Ukraine and Africa
Over the weekend, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Russian private security company known as the Wagner Group, spearheaded an insurrection in Russia. In response to Kremlin moves to bring Wagner und...
28 Jun 202350min
Blinken in Beijing: Will the Secretary of State's Visit Calm China-U.S. Tensions?
This week, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken travelled to Beijing, where he met with top Chinese foreign policy officials as well as President Xi Jinping. His trip, the first high-level visit in ...
23 Jun 202349min
Myanmar’s Forgotten War
In February 2021, Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup that plunged the country into a protracted crisis. Mass protests against the junta met a brutal crackdown and morphed into armed resistance,...
16 Jun 202353min
Could Jihadists Seize Parts of Coastal West Africa?
Recent years have seen increasing fear in some Gulf of Guinea countries, notably Benin, Togo, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, that jihadists who have overrun much of the Sahel move south. Militants already o...
2 Jun 202348min
