Regional Overview: South Asia and Afghanistan
7-13 May 2022
19 May 2022
Last week in South Asia and Afghanistan, the Taliban targeted the National Resistance Front (NRF) in northern Afghanistan, causing civilian fatalities and displacement. The Islamic State (IS) and anti-Taliban groups also clashed with the Taliban, while Taliban authorities introduced further restrictions on women, triggering protests. In Pakistan, Baloch separatists continued to target state forces and…
Read MoreRegional Overview: Africa
7-13 May 2022
19 May 2022
Weekly reports on the latest conflict developments in Mozambique and Ethiopia are made available by the Cabo Ligado and Ethiopia Peace Observatory projects, respectively. Last week in Africa, violent events were highest in the Democratic Republic of Congo following deadly attacks on miners in Ituri province; Islamist violence with JNIM spilled over into Togo for…
Read MoreRegional Overview: United States and Canada
23 April-6 May 2022
12 May 2022
Over the past two weeks, demonstration activity in the United States increased slightly before spiking to its highest levels since the week of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is largely attributable to a nationwide wave of demonstrations in support of continued access to legal abortion, following the leak of an initial draft majority opinion…
Read MoreRegional Overview: South America
23 April-6 May 2022
12 May 2022
Over the past two weeks in South America, violence slightly increased in the region, while demonstrations fell by almost a quarter compared to the weeks prior. In Colombia, organized political violence increased as the Gulf Clan increased their activity and declared a curfew in several departments in response to the extradition of a cartel leader.…
Read MoreRegional Overview: East Asia Pacific
23 April-6 May 2022
12 May 2022
A number of new developments took place over the past two weeks in the East Asia Pacific region. In Myanmar, fighting between the military and resistance groups continued amid the emergence of new pro-junta militias. North Korea held a large military parade and conducted its 14th missile test of 2022. Islamist and rebel violence were…
Read MoreRegional Overview: Middle East
23 April-6 May 2022
12 May 2022
In the last two weeks in the Middle East, political violence levels remained relatively low in Yemen, as the country entered the fourth and fifth weeks of the two-month UN-sponsored truce, which came into effect on 2 April. In Syria, Israel targeted Iranian-backed militias outside Damascus city. In Iraq, the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBS) and…
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