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Sudan’s War Without Borders: How Global Powers Turned Darfur into a Proxy Battleground

Sudan’s War Without Borders: How Global Powers Turned Darfur into a Proxy Battleground

DEEP DIVE — Entire cities in the Darfur region of Sudan have been burned and razed, millions have fled their homes, and unspeakable terror and [...] More

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Economic Development in West Africa Can Counter Terror

Although the United States counterterrorism campaign is focused on key battlegrounds in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen, the threat [...] More

Sahel Governments Need More Security Assistance

Developments in the Sahel are cause for real alarm. Insecurity in northern and central Mali, the epicenter of much of the region’s al Qaeda-related [...] More

A Tale of Three Libyas

A Tale of Three Libyas

To put it mildly, circumstances on the ground in Libya are complicated. Mired in a state of conflict since former head of state Muammar Gaddafi was [...] More

Algeria Takes the Lead in Libya

That Libya is a mess is beyond doubt, but who is actually trying to resolve the conflict is a harder question to answer.U.S. President Donald Trump [...] More

Nobody is in Charge in Libya

The Cipher Brief’s Bennett Seftel sat down with Mohamed Eljarh, former political consultant to the Libyan Mission to the European Union, to discuss [...] More

Conditions in the Sahel Benefit Al Qaeda

The Cipher Brief sat down with Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck, non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center, to discuss the growing threat of al [...] More