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Climate change could intensify Sahel conflicts

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SAHEL

It will increase rainfall variability and extreme events such as droughts and floods, as well as raising temperatures. These effects may trigger cascading risks to economic…

Sri Lankan Tamils’ push for reform may prompt violence

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SRI LANKA

Sri Lanka's stalling constitutional reforms and Tamil politics.

Guerrillas could prompt Turkish state of emergency

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TURKEY

They were responding to increasingly serious attacks on Turkish soldiers and police by Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) guerrillas in eastern Turkey. With President Recep Tayyip…

ASEAN will pursue incremental engagement in Myanmar

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MYANMAR

Myanmar’s junta for the first time accepted the invitation to have a ‘non-political’ representative at high-level ASEAN meetings, standing since its exclusion from such events…

Conflict may intensify after failed Ethiopia-OLA talks

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ETHIOPIA

This was the second attempt at resolving the intractable conflict in Oromia that has killed thousands and displaced millions. Moreover, hopes of a resolution this time had been…

Ethiopia’s Amhara conflict is likely to persist

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ETHIOPIA

There are growing calls for the parties to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the conflict, but little sign that any such process is imminent.

Turkey's Kurds will be angry if HDP is not re-elected

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TURKEY

The process looks in danger. Serious local conflicts in south-eastern Turkey are straining tensions between Kurds and the government, even though guerrilla warfare has not…

West will urge parties to form Kosovo government

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KOSOVO

In the lead is the three-party PAN coalition, comprising the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and Initiative for Kosovo (Nisma), all…

Turkey's Iraqi-Syrian Turkmen policy will backfire

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TURKEY/IRAQ/SYRIA

Ankara’s policy towards Iraqi and Syrian Turkmen.

Turkey's emergency rule will arouse fears of abuse

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TURKEY

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared the SoE following a four-and-half-hour National Security Council meeting on July 20, five days after a failed coup. A countrywide SoE is a…