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Dec 2023
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No More Rules? Discussing the Crisis in ...

INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP
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In this episode of The Horn, Alan hosts a roundtable discussion with Alexander Rondos, a former diplomat and a senior advisor at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Kholood Khair, founding director of Confluence Advisory, a Sudan-focused think tank, and Abdul Mohammed, who has served in senior positions for the United Nations and the African Union, to discuss the state of diplomacy in the Horn of Africa. They talk about the war in Sudan and the risk of conflicts and crises proliferating in the Horn, absent coherent diplomatic initiatives. They discuss the rising competition among regional and international powers to head diplomacy in Sudan and elsewhere, as well as the diminished role of the U.S. They also look at how the increasing strategic importance of the Red Sea is fuelling tensions between regional powers.


This episode of The Horn is produced in partnership with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.


For more in-depth analysis of the topics discussed in this episode, check out our Horn of Africa page and our Sudan page.


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