Conflict and Security Headlines — Revised

This issue documents RSF’s escalating abuses across Darfur and Kordofan, including killings, mass detentions and multi-front clashes following intensified operations in El-Fasher and Babnousa.

It also outlines expanded federal, Puntland and U.S.–supported operations against ISIS and al-Shabaab in Somalia, alongside a sharp rise in JNIM attacks across Mali and Burkina Faso—from checkpoint seizures to IED ambushes and assaults on VDP positions.

Additionally, the report highlights worsening kidnapping waves and insurgent activity across Nigeria, heightened ISWAP and JNIM cross-border operations, and continued M23–FARDC–Wazalendo confrontations in eastern DR Congo amid displacement and regional military friction.

Political Transitions and Diplomacy — Revised

Coverage includes intensified international scrutiny and regional diplomacy surrounding Sudan’s conflict—ranging from Burhan’s outreach to the U.S., UN coordination efforts, and revived negotiations with Russia—to Somalia’s expanding foreign engagement, Central Asian outreach, and maritime-security cooperation.

The issue also tracks the Guinea-Bissau military takeover and ECOWAS/AU responses; Türkiye–Libya defence and energy coordination; growing Algeria–Egypt and Ethiopia–UAE political partnerships; expanding Rwanda–Qatar and Rwanda–Türkiye engagement; and rising political tensions in Tanzania, Cameroon and South Africa amid arrests, protests and shifting institutional alignments.

Economic and Energy Developments — Revised

This edition highlights major continental economic shifts, including Nigeria’s large-scale oil and gas block auctions, refinery-driven fuel-market restructuring, and the launch of the African Energy Bank; Mali’s $1.2 billion recovery in mining arrears and its first lithium exports; Ghana’s nuclear-energy plans and easing inflation; and expanding LNG, mining and infrastructure investment in Mozambique, DR Congo, Guinea and Zambia.

Significant developments also include Morocco’s aviation, irrigation and renewable-energy expansion; Kenya’s trade and infrastructure financing challenges; South Africa’s clean-energy, logistics and mining-sector investments; and Angola’s launch of its first non-associated gas project.