Yemen’s sustained conflict could produce new epidemics

With cholera cases still rising, conflict-driven deprivation and collapse of medical systems create deeper risks

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Saudi Arabia will use security risks to manage dissent

As pressure for social change mounts, the highly competent interior ministry is being restructured

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International efforts to resolve the Libya crisis have faltered in recent months

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Campaigning has begun for the 2018 elections, but the future territorial unity of the country is in doubt

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Violent conflict in Syria is both encouraging and facilitating the spread of Captagon

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The UN and human rights organisations have warned of deepening sectarian violence in the Central African Republic (CAR)

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As Ankara, Moscow and Tehran plan a de-escalation zone in the north-west, other rebel factions are falling away

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Positive momentum after elections has slowed amid localised political infighting within federal member states

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The southern government’s hopes that a split among its foes might help it in the long civil war are dissipating

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Israel’s distrust of ‘de-escalation zones’ in Syria is complicating relations with the countries that back them

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