Seven actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and one improved in April 2009, according to CrisisWatch. Heavy fighting between government forces and the LTTE continued in Sri Lanka’s north east, with disastrous consequences for the trapped civilian population. In Kenya divisions within the fragile coalition government rose to new levels, while demonstrations in Thailand in favour of ousted PM Thaksin turned violent and left two dead. The relationship between Turkey and Armenia improved after an agreement on a “roadmap” to normalisation of relations and opening of their joint border.
30 April 2009
The Niger Delta risks sliding deeper into conflict and criminality and spreading instability across the Gulf of Guinea, unless Nigeria’s President Umaru Yar’Adua responds constructively to recommendations of a key committee.
28 April 2009
Haiti’s environmental destruction is a time bomb that needs urgent attention if the country is to preserve its social and economic stability.
The International Crisis Group (Crisis Group) is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, with some 130 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict.