Joint South Sudan Women's Statement at the Verge of the 43rd Extraordinary Summit of the IGAD Assembly of Heads of State and Government on the Situation of #SouthSudan. “ NO to war, YES for PEACE, democracy and national unity.”

Greater Sudan and the Risk of Regional War sudanwarmonitor.com/p/greater-suda…

If you fail to implement a peace agreement, the default outcome is war. That’s one way of understanding what’s happening in South Sudan. Whether that war comes now or later is a different question. But it will come. At this moment, there are a number of immediate risk factors,

Rising military tensions in West Kordofan following SAF advances in neighboring North Kordofan sudanwarmonitor.com/p/rsf-attack-a…

Let’s not forget, there are no winners in any war. This tribal tension needs to stop now.

Rapid Support Forces kill five civilians and burn several villages in West Darfur sudanwarmonitor.com/p/rsf-attacks-…

Stakeholders to the Tumaini Initiative held a press conference today. The civil society leaders called for an immediate de-escalation in the country & return to dialogue stating the current political and security situation is placing #SouthSudan on the brink of war.

خواجة رافد The withdrawal of Western powers from Africa is now a reality. The U.S. and Europe are preoccupied with their own challenges, and the suspension of USAID has left Africans wondering what comes next. Meanwhile, China’s involvement serves no one but its own interests.

Europe and the United States are retreating from Africa, ending a long era of major counterinsurgency and peacekeeping operations, some of which were conducted directly, but much of it through “partner-led operations” like AMISOM, UNAMID, MNJTF, etc. For the foreseeable future,

خواجة رافد Africa’s security dilemma is not just about the absence of Western forces, but the failure of post-colonial states to construct durable governance models that can withstand such geopolitical shifts. As long as governance remains predatory, and as long as external players—whether

Airstrikes in Upper Nile State could have wider national effects, potentially inflaming ethnic tensions & factional differences within South Sudan's fragile unity government. The conflicts in Sudan & South Sudan, though separate, risk becoming intertwined. sudanwarmonitor.com/p/nasir-fire-b…

Sudan's War Spills Into South Sudan: The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fought a deadly battle against South Sudanese opposition soldiers (SPLA-IO) east of Renk inside South Sudanese territory. The battle raises questions about Juba’s ties with the RSF. sudanwarmonitor.com/p/renk-county-…

The situation in Somalia is flashing red. Al-Shabaab is escalating its attacks and encircling Mogadishu while the federal government & federal member states focus on their political differences. 1/3

🇸🇸 Has South Sudan's 2018 peace deal collapsed? 🕊️ Or can it be saved? What can prevent war? 💡 Read our latest coverage for background & details. 💬 Join the discussion. sudanwarmonitor.com/p/south-sudan-…

Alwaleed Abdeen was a Mandela Washington Fellow with the YALI Network. During his 2017 fellowship, he went to Dartmouth 🌲. He died, emaciated, after 6 months in an RSF detention center south of Sudan's capital. mandelawashingtonfellowship.org/fellow/alwalee…

The RSF has regained control of four towns in Kordofan, reversing recent Sudanese army advances and disrupting its push to relieve the siege of Dilling and retake Al-Nahud, which fell to the RSF in early May. sudanwarmonitor.com/p/rsf-countera…