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Russia and Togo are increasing ties as the Kremlin aims to expand its influence beyond the Sahel in West Africa. French-based investigative news site Africa Intelligence reported on February 19 that a contingent of 30 Russian military advisers that

Reports of a small and potentially growing number of Russian military advisers in Togo indicate that Russia and Togo are increasing their...

Competition with China is playing out not only in the sea lanes of the Indo-Pacific but in the parliaments, board rooms, and even local councils of developing nations.

Three years of coups around Africa’s Sahel region — eight of them in six nations, from Guinea on the Atlantic to Sudan on the Red Sea — leave many African and other policymakers frustrated over how to respond. The Sahel’s crises have uprooted more than 4 million people and could add millions more to our record levels of global human migration as Africa’s population grows and its climate destabilizes. Yet the pattern of coups and other evidence — notably from USIP’s Sahel fieldwork,...

Jordan Kyle and Danielle Resnick reflect on a new working paper concerning constitutional reforms in post-conflict settings, using a case study from Nepal.

News and Press Release in English on Haiti about Food and Nutrition, Health, Drought, Earthquake and more; published on 9 Jun 2023 by InterAction

The Central Sahel is increasingly deemed the new epicenter of terrorism, accounting for 35 percent of global terrorism deaths in 2021. Yet as the

Program/Project Management Consultancy about Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding, Protection and Human Rights and Recovery and Reconstruction, requiring 10+ years of experience, from Interpeace; closing on 26 May 2023

The United States is rightly concerned at the growing role in Africa of Russia’s Wagner Group, which operates as an auxiliary of President Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime. Where African governments have asked Wagner for security assistance, the group deploys military, economic and political interventions that deepen violence, corruption and authoritarian governance. Wagner’s role disrupts Africans’ efforts to move their countries from violent conflict to stability. Yet many Western...

Linda Rau Tule and other rights defenders deal daily with the consequences of conflict and violence.