Desmond Davies

Desmond Davies, originally from Freetown in Sierra Leone, has been a journalist and commentator on African affairs since 1972. Moving to London in 1978, he worked for New African and Africa Now magazines, becoming Editor of the latter in 1984. He spent 10 years (1993-2003) with West Africa magazine, also in London, and was Editor from 2001 to 2003. He continues to write extensively on African and global affairs. He has a wide range of contacts in Africa and has interviewed numerous heads of state, political, business and cultural leaders. Desmond is currently the Editor of Africa Briefing magazine in London and also a contributor to the Ghana News Agency (GNA). He is a Mentor in strategic communication at the African Leadership Centre, King’s College London.

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ALC Research seminar event (HYBRID): Conflict and Instability in Sudan and the Wider Horn of Africa: What Options for Peace-making?

27 November 2024

  The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (http://email.alcafricanos.com/c/eJwkzTFuxCAQQNHTQGnBAIspKCJF3GM8BnskbG-A3Si3j6ztfvP11ljKDNbKHLU34MA4FeQevbMLFuOhlICeSGcXYKYlqKCLNlZyBAVWa3BqNtqGaV20whUCKef1A4uwCithaUx4Xn2i65A17mM8uzBfApKAhJWuUpjy1P_6yEcXkIjfTO0QkA7kyucmIL1avQeTXsJ86xAEPH54vdtbAC9b7HnBPhjP6Tf369zw5j92zbjm1nd-Uj5Hy9PVNvmO8B8AAP__hCpNNQ) (HD) would like to invite you to our upcoming ALC Research seminar series event, “Conflict and Instability in Sudan and the Wider Horn of Africa: What Options for Peace-making? ” It will be held on Thursday, 28 November 2024, from 18:30 UK Time. Abstract: In this seminar, experienced policy actors and peace practitioners will share their insights about prospects for peace, leadership processes, and the domestic and international factors that influence the longstanding crisis of war in Sudan. The prolongation and stalemate characterising the war in Sudan calls for renewed conversations about what is possible and the way forward, making it important to bring practitioners into academic spaces. Policymakers and practitioners who have been involved in the day-to-day peacebuilding process in Sudan share their insights, peacebuilding efforts and perspectives of the war. The war in Sudan cannot be understood in isolation due to the wider insecurities in the Horn of Africa – Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and South Sudan. In the case of Ethiopia, despite the signing of a Cessation of Hostilities Agreement between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray Peoples’ Liberation Front in 2022, Ethiopia continues to experience armed insurgencies and instability from conflicts in the Oromia, Amhara and the Beni...

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