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The age of AI warfare has arrived – and it’s not looking good.
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War is often described as long periods of waiting punctuated by short periods of terror – for the environment, the reverse is true.
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A single International Finance Corporation project, on average, causes 7.6 additional armed conflict events in the year after it is introduced.
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Wars are multiplying – and the damage these conflicts do isn’t just immediate. They leave long-term environmental damage
Destruction caused by Israeli aerial bombardments is visible in Gaza City, Oct. 11, 2023.
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This unleashing of violence, including the initial acts and the response to them, inevitably leads to war crimes.
Palestinian children walk through the rubble of a school run by the United Nations shortly after an Israeli offensive on the night of 8 to 9 October 2023.
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Deprived of viable political alternatives, Gaza residents have increasingly looked to violence as their only salvation from an open air prison.
The Sudanese military has been at war with the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group since April 2023.
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An expert on civil conflicts explains why the international community has so far failed to create peace in Sudan, and what new opportunities lie ahead.
Rockets fired from Gaza are intercepted by the Israeli defence system Iron Dome in the early hours of 8 October 2023.
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Rarely has been the prospect of peace between Israelis and Palestinians seem so remote.
Nigeria-led Ecowas artillerymen land by helicopter on 10 January, 1999 in Freetown.
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The use of force to end the coup in Niger would come at great cost and cripple the regional fight against terrorism.
A 2014 view of Gaoui refugee camp in N'Djamena, Chad. Pressure on refugee camps in Chad has increased due to latest fighting in Sudan.
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The ongoing war in Sudan poses security, humanitarian, political and economic challenges for Chad.
Workers next to the Independence Monument, depicting a hand holding a map of the country, in the city of Hargeisa, Somaliland, in September 2021.
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Whichever way the ongoing armed conflict ends, the loser will be Somaliland president Muse Bihi Abdi.
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Climate change is a real threat to national security. So why didn’t our armed forces review properly come to grips with this?
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell (R) light candles in the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints during their visit to the site of a mass grave in Bucha, April 2022.
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The war’s one-year anniversary is eerily close to that of an EU report on the prevention of mass atrocities. Ten years later, its authors reflect on what the bloc could have done differently.
Young people in Nigeria seek freedom from repression and other governance failures. Photo by Olukayode Jaiyeolai/NurPhoto,
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Young Nigerians actively discuss politics and governance despite being kept on the sidelines. They seek a government that would promote their inclusion and solve problems affecting them.
Photo taken in a refugee camp in Somalia in 2019. Somalia tops the list of the world’s most corrupt countries.
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A review of Transparency International’s recently released global corruption ranking confirms that corruption fuels war, and vice versa.
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Destructive mining in Congo’s protected areas is rampant because it generates money for citizens, officials and armed groups.
Kenyan troops fly the flags of the East African Community and Kenya in Goma, eastern DRC.
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There are advantages to a regional force overseen by the East African Community – particularly as the bloc is leading new political talks.
Dan Stoenescu, head of the EU delegation for Syria, during a visit to the territories controlled by the Damascus regime on 8 August 2022.
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In the name of contributing to the reconstruction of Syria, is the EU rehabilitating Bashar Al-Assad?
Internally displaced people from the Dinka ethnic group at the Minkamman camp in South Sudan in 2014.
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In 2018, Africa accounted for 70% of the world’s people displaced by armed conflict and human rights abuses.
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In the absence of peace, efforts to address climate risks will be restrained, ineffective and counterproductive.