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Sudan

In Sudan, “climate wars” are useful scapegoats for bad leaders

By Harry Verhoeven | Climate Change, Multimedia

Sudan’s conflict escalates, endangering millions

By Erik English | Biosecurity, Climate Change

Khartoum

WHO: biological hazard brewing in Sudan as fighters overtake a central public health lab

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

President Slobodan Milosevic of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, President Alija Izetbegovic of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and President Franjo Tudjman of the Republic of Croatia initial the Dayton Peace Accords in December 1995. Photo Credit: US Air Force/Staff Sgt. Brian Schlumbohm via Wikimedia Commons

The United States has supported successful mediation in 11 vicious conflicts since 1990: Could Ukraine make it an even dozen?

By Stephen R. Weissman | Nuclear Risk