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    A Timeline of Key Events in Sudan

    Mar 5, 2026Ingie Gohar

    This timeline traces the key political and military developments in Sudan from the 2018 uprising that toppled former President Omar al-Bashir to the ongoing wa…

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    US Policy toward Somalia: Regional Geopolitics and Somali Americans

    Mar 10, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM ET

    Experts discuss the Trump administration's policy toward Somalia and its regional and domestic implications.

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    Saudi ArabiaRegional Relations and Geopolitics

    Saudi Arabia Confronts the Israel–UAE Alignment in Somalia

    Feb 26, 2026Giorgio Cafiero

    Israel’s December 2025 decision to recognize Somaliland’s unilateral declaration of independence was of grave concern to Saudi Arabia. Riyadh sees Somalia’s te…

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    Israel’s Recognition of Somaliland Is Nibbling at the Margins of Arab Security

    Jan 8, 2026Imad K. Harb

    Israel’s December 26, 2025, recognition of the Republic of Somaliland showed that it will continue to threaten the security architecture of the Arab world, dis…

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    The Legacies of the Middle East in 2025 Are Likely to Repeat in 2026

    Jan 6, 2026Yara M. Asi Daniel Brumberg Elobaid Elobaid Samia Errazzouki Imad K. Harb Marwan Kabalan Nabeel A. Khoury Laurie King Assal Rad Rend Al-Rahim Mtanes Shihadeh

    In 2025, the Middle East and North Africa saw Israel’s genocidal war on Palestinians and destabilizing military attacks across the wider region, Sudan’s unsalu…

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    SudanConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Foreign Actors Fueling the War in Sudan

    Dec 29, 2025

    Sudan’s civil war, which erupted on April 15, 2023, between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), quickly escalated into a region…

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    Sudan’s Pro-Democracy Movement: The Role of Civil Society and Prospects for Democratic Transition

    Dec 9, 2025

    Experts discuss the role of Sudan's civilian-led grassroots pro-democracy movement and the prospects for democratic transition.

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    SudanConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Sudan: International Actors Need to be Part of the Solution, Not the Problem

    The war in Sudan has caused one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, with an estimated 150,000 people dead and millions displaced since the conflict broke…

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    SudanJustice, Equality, and Human Rights

    Sudan’s War on Civilians: A Continuation of Decades of Atrocities

    Dec 1, 2025Yara M. Asi

    For more than a year, the al-Saudi Maternity Hospital was the only functioning hospital in al-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur in western Sudan. The largest…

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    The Horn of AfricaEnergy and Economics

    Bitcoin Mining on the Nile? Implications of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam for Egypt and Sudan

    Nov 12, 2025Lama Elhatow

    Ethiopia’s highly contested and controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) was officially inaugurated on September 9, 2025, marking the completion of…

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    What Does the Fall of El-Fasher Mean for Sudan?

    Nov 4, 2025The Unit for Political Studies

    On 26 October 2025, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia seized control of El-Fasher, the last stronghold of the Sudanese army in the Darfur region, after im…

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    Sudan’s War: The Failure of Mediation and the Struggle for Civilian Rule

    Oct 31, 2025Ingie Gohar

    On April 15, 2023, a power struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led b…

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