Armenia and Azerbaijan:
Preventing War

Europe Briefing N°60, 8 February 2011

Escalating front-line clashes, a spiralling arms race, vitriolic rhetoric and a virtual breakdown in peace talks increase the chance Armenia and Azerbaijan will go back to war over Nagorno-Karabakh, with devastating regional consequences.

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Crisis Group Statement on the Situation in Egypt

CrisisGroup statement on Egypt protests, 02/03

3 February 2011: The past several days have brought both hope and fear to Egypt. As Wednesday’s and Thursday’s tragic and wholly unacceptable events illustrate, risks of worse bloodletting continue to mount. The International Crisis Group calls on Egyptian authorities and members of the opposition to take urgent action to stop civil strife and resolve the political crisis.

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CrisisWatch N°90, 1 February 2011

Historic events in the Arab world gripped the world’s attention in January. In Tunisia weeks of escalating riots and demonstrations over dire economic conditions, corruption and government repression culminated in the ouster of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali on 14 January. He was replaced by an interim government which announced the country’s first free elections since independence.

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Crisis Group Condemns the Detention of Mohamed ElBaradei and Violence against Demonstrators

28 January 2011: Crisis Group strongly condemns the detention of Mohamed ElBaradei in Cairo today, and calls on the Egyptian government to cease using violence against its own people and allow peaceful demonstrations to take place.