Alan Boswell
@alanboswell
Horn of Africa director @CrisisGroup. host, The Horn.
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-horn/id1481350176 25-06-2007 13:24:43
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Despite tamped-down expectations, Tuesday’s Sudan conference in London was a jarring reality check says Alan Boswell. In today’s fragmenting world, it is unclear which country or institution could bridge the external divides now tearing Sudan apart. crisisgroup.org/africa/horn-af…
Good brief by Alan Boswell of Crisis Group on 🇬🇧 London Conference on #Sudan & the complexities of regional multi-alignments. Emphasises the need to continue focused efforts to end Sudan’s war. Including narrowing the divide between key Arab countries 🇪🇬 🇦🇪 🇸🇦 #KeepEyesOnSudan
Here, Crisis Group's Daniel Akech Daniel Akech Thiong weighs where things are heading in #SouthSudan amid the political crisis in Juba and recent military gains by the govt in Upper Nile.
🎧 NEW EPISODE | The Horn This week, Alan Boswell talks with Abdul Mohammed, a former senior UN and AU official, about Sudan’s growing fragmentation two years into the war and the prospects for getting a peace initiative back on track. crisisgroup.org/africa/horn-af…
South Sudan’s precarious condition would likely worsen without UNMISS’s presence. Nazanine Moshiri unpacks why. crisisgroup.org/africa/horn-af…
Important piece from my Crisis Group colleague Maya Ungar on the upcoming South Sudan arms embargo. "The arms embargo has flaws, but lifting it now could stoke escalating violence in the country." crisisgroup.org/africa/horn-af…
An immense honor to be awarded the The Pulitzer Prizes for our work on Sudan. pulitzer.org/node/declan-wa…
“The RSF’s new strategy is to destabilize the east even if they’ve lost Khartoum militarily and are stuck in the west — they are making sure SAF can’t say they’ve won the war.” Alan Boswell quoted in Post World washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/…
New from Crisis Group’s Shewit Woldemichael: Drone attacks on Port #Sudan mark dramatic escalation in the war — and will further polarize the region. crisisgroup.org/africa/horn-af…
‘Absent a more permanent funding solution, the African Union may be forced to curtail AU Mission in Somalia’s operations well before Somalia is ready,’ writes Daniel Forti. crisisgroup.org/africa/african…
In this piece, Maya Ungar and I argued that the UNSC's failure to renew the arms embargo may legitimise military actions and reduce the cost of weapon transfers at a critical time for #SouthSudan. theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/opinion/co…
Some thoughts here for BBC alongside Kholood Khair Justin Lynch + others on the massive implications of RSF's long-rage drone strikes on Port Sudan -- both for #Sudan and Africa: bbc.com/news/articles/…
🎧 NEW EPISODE | The Horn This week, Alan Boswell and Richard Moncrieff discuss the latest efforts to end the regional war in eastern DR Congo. crisisgroup.org/africa/great-l…
“The war has taken a strange new turn.” Our Horn of Africa Director @AlanBoswell speaks to Al Jazeera English about recent battlefield developments in #Sudan.
“If I thought you could use a mineral deal to end decades of war, then there are countries that I imagine would have been fixed already,” Crisis Group president Comfort Ero reacting to the Trump administration’s slapdash DRC mediation efforts. theafricareport.com/384927/trumps-…
“Officials on both sides say Donald Trump administration’s upending of diplomatic norms and alliances have convinced them of the need to strengthen EU-African Union cooperation,” writes Liesl Louw-Vaudran. crisisgroup.org/africa/african…