Today the African Union announced that it plans mediation soon between Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces. Explainer on these warring parties here. The bad news: The UN reports that famine is imminent in Sudan and the neighboring nations where millions have fled; while the Yale School of Public Health published recent photographic evidence…
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Photo courtesy Ambebi. By Jeremy Lichtman The Georgian parliament has passed its third reading of a controversial foreign agents bill. The bill will likely be vetoed by the pro-EU president of the country. However, the governing Georgia Dream party has sufficient votes to override her veto. So the bill will almost certainly pass soon. It…
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By Jeremy Lichtman — 2 min read We’ve published several stories lately on recent events across several countries in the Sahel region. Speaking with a colleague this week, he noted that matters in that region are of exceedingly little interest to the news-reading audience. This is in no way a criticism of his comment. Weeks…
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Mikhail Bogdanov, the Special Representative of the Russian President for the Middle East and Africa and Deputy Foreign Minister, and the Sudanese Minister of Minerals, Muhammad Bashir Abu Nomo, are meeting April 28-29 in Port Sudan to discuss the nation’s gold mining industry. Sudan is the 3rd largest producer of gold in Africa and could…
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There are at least 1 million Sudanese refugees currently in Chad. Chad has frequently played host to Sudanese refugees during previous conflicts, notably during the Darfur war several years ago. Chad and Sudan are ethnically similar, and the border runs through the middle of several tribe’s traditional territory. Additionally, the Sahel region, a dry grassland,…
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