1/2 The countries signing on to the new institution in Davos include some—such as Egypt and the United Arab Emirates—that have backed different sides in Sudan’s grim civil war. ~ @fortid.crisisgroup.org foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/22/t...

Fact as Trump talks up ungrateful allies here in Davos: 1/2 In exchange for shouldering much of Europe’s security burden, Washington has enjoyed loyal allies and partners in its international endeavours (and wars) and had enormous sway in all alliance decisions.

While Trump has several times referenced national security in his talk of acquiring Greenland, it is difficult to make an interest-based case for his vision. www.crisisgroup.org/qna/europe-c...

1/2 In Iran: perhaps the greatest leadership failure of all has been resistance to change at home. What Iran’s regime is now struggling to contain is the predictable consequence of rejecting major changes in how it runs the country. www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...

Voters go to the polls in Uganda on 15 January. Question: what might these elections portend for Uganda after Museveni departs? The clock is ticking for Uganda’s long-serving leader and many are contemplating the post-Museveni transition that is surely coming. www.crisisgroup.org/africa/ugand...

Gambia, which brought the case says, it's “about real people, real stories and a real group of human beings – the Rohingya of Myanmar. They have been targeted for destruction. They are farmers, labourers, teachers, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, grandparents.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Trump appears focused on forcing Caracas to accept what amounts to neocolonial tutelage & pillage of its oil. But there can’t be resolution of Venezuela’s deep-rooted, long-running conflict w/out comprehensive negotiations & sustained gradual political transition. www.crisisgroup.org/latin-americ...

While Venezuelans live with a deeply uncertain future, the seizure of Maduro caps a year of Trump demonstrating ever more brazenly his belief that Washington must have free rein in the Western Hemisphere. ~ @latam.crisisgroup.org @crisisgroup.org time.com/7344540/trum...

“Trump had his own agenda, it was not the same agenda as the opposition leadership. So for many people this is going to mean a great deal of heart searching. They're going to have to acknowledge that Trump really is not working for them, he's working for himself.” www.crisisgroup.org/united-state...

Crisis Group's @comfortero.crisisgroup.org has been appointed as a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George. “It’s a privilege to lead an organisation that continues to serve as an invaluable global public good”. #NYHonours www.crisisgroup.org/who-we-are/c...

Congratulations to @comfortero.crisisgroup.org for her place on the New Years' Honours list in recognition of Comfort’s services to Crisis Response and Conflict Prevention.

NEW MAP ALERT 🗺️ We just shipped a brand-new Mapbox scrolly at @crisisgroup.org — rebuilt from the ground up with full-motion video and interactive maps throughout. Design: @clairemaevabg.bsky.social Engineering: me 👉 www.crisisgroup.org/visual-expla...

🔴@crisisgroup.org’s 10 Conflicts to Watch in 2026 is out. From the battlefields of Ukraine & Sudan, to the crisis in Venezuela, to the tentative ceasefire in Gaza, we lay out the global hotspots to pay attention to this coming year with @foreignpolicy.com ⬇️ 1/3 www.crisisgroup.org/global/10-co...

🔥 Prospects for de-escalation between Cambodia and Thailand are bleak. Both sides call the other the aggressor and claim to be acting in self-defence. ~ @mzwheeler.bsky.social @crisisgroup.org www.crisisgroup.org/asia-pacific...

A delicate dance taking place among EU members to bypass one of its own in effort “to indefinitely immobilise up to €210bn in Russian sovereign assets” as Trump applies more pressure on Zelenskyy to respond within days on his latest peace proposal. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Honouring his predecessor's planned travel, Pope Leo chooses Turkey and Lebanon for first foreign visit and "underscores the message he sent from his very first Sunday address in May when he called for peace." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/w...

There is no public evidence to support the claim that Mr. Maduro is the head of a military-run drug cartel, but it contains enough half-truths to make it politically useful. @philgunson.bsky.social @crisisgroup.org www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

Indispensable read today from my @crisisgroup.org colleague @glaeldys.bsky.social on #Ecuador, where a hard-handed approach against criminal gangs has fragmented and exacerbated violence. As Ecuador votes in a critical referendum, don't miss this important read 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...

Protests against U.S. military intervention have popped up across Nigeria following Trump’s recent threat to go “guns-a-blazing” into Africa’s most populous country over false claims of Christian persecution.

Brazil's vice president says his country will push for further tariff relief on Donald Trump's coffee levies.

The United States has proposed a UN Security Council resolution to back President Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza. In this Q&A, my colleagues @fortid.crisisgroup.org @richardgowan1.bsky.social and @maxji.bsky.social analyse its contents. www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...

Ecuador is usually considered an oasis of calm as its South American neighbours descend into drug-related crime and conflict. No longer. Today, the country is the continent’s most violent nation. Why is President Daniel Noboa’s iron-fist approach failing? 📖 www.crisisgroup.org/latin-americ...

Ouch: “Trump can threaten Nigeria and refer to it as “that now-disgraced country” because the US no longer needs or wants anything of importance from an old ally that has lost its way … and that can no longer play regional military policeman as it used to do in the 1990s.” on.ft.com/48aSA6e

@comfortero.crisisgroup.org @crisisgroup.org talks Trump's campaign in Latam and Mx: “La solución no puede ser permitir nuevamente uso de fuerza excesivo desde el exterior, porque tiene repercusiones, como ya hemos visto en Sinaloa, con fragmentación de las fuerzas del crimen y aumento de violencia”

Cutting aid for disease fund would be moral failure, Labour MPs tell Starmer

Britain sends RAF specialists to help Belgium combat disruptive drones

Reports that seek to reduce Nigeria’s security situation to a single story of widespread persecution and mass slaughter of Christians, misinterpret the complexity of violence and inter-faith relations in the country. www.crisisgroup.org/africa/niger...

When Trump-Xi meet will they build on trade détente their teams negotiated? Broaden talks to broach security issues? Pursue balance of military power that allows 🇺🇸🇨🇳to feel sufficiently assured that respective core interests are secure? - @mwhanna.crisisgroup.org www.crisisgroup.org/asia-pacific...

In Cameroon: Efforts to defuse the standoff are sorely needed, but there are no easy fixes. As protests mount, Biya should quickly initiate a high-level forum mediated by faith leaders to discuss a way forward for the country. www.crisisgroup.org/africa/camer...

Latest @crisisgroup.org Autumn Update for the EU Watch list ⬇️ From the Red Sea to the Taiwan Strait to Kosovo, here are the latest crises that could stress test or shock the system. www.crisisgroup.org/global/watch...

We began this year’s #TheBodrumRT with a keynote speech by @comfortero.crisisgroup.org, President & CEO of @crisisgroup.org, chaired by @sinanulgen.bsky.social @edamorg.bsky.social

‘Two years on, Gaza has paid the price for global inaction.’ As we mark Hamas’s attacks against Israel on 7 October 2023, @crisisgroup.org’s CEO and President @comfortero.crisisgroup.org reflects on what has unfolded since - and the urgent choices now before us. 1/9 🧵 mailchi.mp/crisisgroup....

What next for Nepal after public turmoil claimed the scalp of Prime Minister K.P. Oli and toppled his government? @ashishpradhan.bsky.social looks at the interim government’s priorities and the challenges ahead. www.crisisgroup.org/asia-pacific...

The Gaza strip’s population, serially uprooted, starved and bombed, is reeling from a war whose cruelty has few parallels in modern history. www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...

After the Anchorage and Washington mtgs: regardless of the odds of bringing about a durable peace between Russia and Ukraine, negotiators will have a better shot if they are guided by the following five realities as they consider how to approach additional talks. www.crisisgroup.org/europe-centr...

➡️What are the biggest challenges Ukraine must overcome in its war effort? ➡️What's the best realistic scenario at end of summer offensive and further down the road? ➡️As 🇺🇸 scales back its assistance, are European partners filling the gaps? ~ @luciankim.bsky.social www.crisisgroup.org/europe-centr...

As we mark 80 years since Hiroshima, the global nuclear order is under real stress. Escalation risks in Europe, South Asia, and the Korean Peninsula are intensifying. It’s time for bold, preventive action. My piece in @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/05/h...

At the Aspen Security Forum, @comfortero.crisisgroup.org spoke with Mark Goldberg about what the global retreat from foreign aid means for conflict and stability worldwide. With donors pulling back, the risks are rising. 🎧 Tune in to the podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

🎧 Worth a listen for francophones! New episode out now from @enripicco.bsky.social & Rinaldo Depagne for Crisis Group's 30th anniversary. They speak with Jean-Marie Guéhenno about 30 years of conflict prevention. www.crisisgroup.org/fr/africa/ep...

The situation is just indefensible & catastrophically bad. The suffering is really acute. Press coverage has changed. In past 2 wks, in particular, I feel like there has been a tipping point in terms of how the war is being covered. So I think you’ve seen natural reactions. @mwhanna.crisisgroup.org

Great @reuters.com exclusive in which “State Department disputes findings, cites video evidence of Hamas looting. Israel claims Hamas diverts aid, based on its intelligence reports. GHF accuses Hamas of theft, U.N. rejects GHF's militarized model.” www.reuters.com/world/middle...

‘People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.’ It should never have come to this. Experienced local and international aid workers are ready to help. But nothing will change so long as Israel is allowed to keep Gaza’s gates shut. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Israel has managed Gaza’s humanitarian access for decades. It knows exactly what survival requires. Yet the system it has created delivers too little food at too few sites to too few people. The predictable result has been deadly chaos that makes a mockery of “humanitarian” distribution.

Intense and deadly border clash between Cambodia and Thailand. Both sides say they acted in self-defence. Prospects for de-escalation and the restraint called for by PM Anwar of Malaysia, current chair of ASEAN, look remote. ~ @mzwheeler.bsky.social www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-e...

The Middle East seems to have dodged a devastating conflagration, but the 12-day war in June established a dangerous dynamic. So here's an idea that addresses nuclear concerns, fortifies the existing truce and puts in place arrangements to stabilise the region. www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...

Trump’s “apparent epiphany”! on.ft.com/3IT5HyK

Following her trip to Bamako, our CEO & President @comfortero.crisisgroup.org talks about #Mali and its domestic and foreign policy at a moment of important geopolitical change in the region. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0UQ...

I believe now what I believed then: There’s no reason why a group of people can’t make an impact on the world. 30 years since its founding, @crisisgroup.org’s work to shape peace is more crucial than ever. Proud to continue supporting its mission.

Interesting assessment: ““We’ve been very successful in settling wars” with trade, Trump claimed, citing conflicts between India and Pakistan, and Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.“” on.ft.com/44wo1X7