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Peace & Security
The Wars We Choose Not to See: Media Attention, Moral Hierarchy, and the Conflicts the World Ignores

Despite devastating death tolls and record displacement in Sudan, Ethiopia and the DRC, Africa’s gravest conflicts receive a fraction of the global media and policy attention devoted to wars elsewhere.

African Union
Africa in a Global Interregnum

Africa must strengthen its collective geopolitical agency, reform global institutions and pursue pragmatic partnerships to shape a more inclusive international order amid growing global rivalry and instability.
Governance
The Oasis Punctured: War, the Gulf, and the Scenarios for Migration

The US-Israel-Iran war's impact on Gulf migration will bifurcate along migrant type and skill lines. While investors, tourists, and highly skilled migrants will increasingly look elsewhere, low-skilled and irregular migrants will continue flowing to the Gulf, with few alternatives available to them, regardless of the conflict's outcome.