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Who will contribute troops to AUSSOM, the force set to replace ATMIS in #Somalia, and how will it be financed? Some answers with Crisis Group colleague Omar S Mahmood in this fresh PassBlue article ⬇️ passblue.com/2024/11/04/som…

The violence in Sudan is in focus at #PPF2024 as Mo Ibrahim, Founder and Chair of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, and Comfort Ero, President and CEO of the International Crisis Group, discuss the region's critical need for peace and stability.👇

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Two new podcasts from Crisis Group you won't want to miss. Here, Richard Moncrieff speaks with Richard Atwood about the dramatic fall of E. Congo's biggest city #Goma and the stakes in the months ahead as fighting spreads #1 crisisgroup.org/africa/great-l…

A propos du sommet extraordinaire sur le conflit en #RDC proposé par l’EAC et la SADC ce vendredi et samedi, notre expert Onesphore Sematumba parle de « succès diplomatique ». En revanche, Onesphore prévient qu’il ne faut nourrir de trop grosses attentes. rfi.fr/fr/afrique/202…

Here are Crisis Group’s annual eight priorities for the #AU featuring entries on #Sudan, #Somalia, #Cameroon, #Sahel and #SouthSudan. In this thread, I’ll focus on #DRC, where the risk of regional war is high after the fall of #Goma to M23 rebels. 1/9 crisisgroup.org/africa/african…

Kinshasa, the UN and many independent experts accuse Kigali of backing the rebels. Rwanda rejects this and claims it has legitimate security interests in the eastern DRC. The situation is especially fragile considering the number of external actors involved.

A dangerous spat broke out between South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa and Rwanda’s Paul Kagame following the assault on Goma. Ramaphosa named the Rwandan Defence Forces, together with the M23, as responsible for the death of 13 South African soldiers (the toll has now risen to 14.)

This sparked a furious reaction from Kagame. Leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) like their East African counterparts, called for an immediate ceasefire and urged all those involved in the conflict – states and armed groups - to return to talks.

Neighbouring Burundi has sent in thousands of troops to back the DRC, alongside Tanzanian, Malawian and South African forces.

Given the stakes, it is vital that African leaders patch up their differences, or at the very least, tone down their rhetoric to avert a wider war. And they must prioritise pulling the warring parties back to the negotiating table.

While the initiative to hold a joint EAC-SADC summit to discuss the situation has merit -- if only to try and bridge divides -- that format, given the large number of countries involved, would be too unwieldy to lead efforts at resolution in the longer run.

Instead, African leaders should agree on a narrower format, potentially a troika including representatives from both blocs. The new AU chair should encourage this effort, offer to host discussions and help implement any future deal with AU diplomatic support.

For the full set of entries in our briefing, read the full version, available below. crisisgroup.org/africa/african…

Joint Statement on Peace Talks between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Rwanda, Mediated by the United States and Observed by the State of Qatar state.gov/releases/offic…

The commentary builds on the insights drawn from a conference on the #DRC, co-organised with EUSR Great Lakes & his team with brilliant speakers: Kristof Titeca Judith Verweijen erik kennes Onesphore Sematumba #CENCO-ECC Koen Vlassenroot ➡️You can find their analyses on the Egmont Institute website!