alan boswell, horn of africa, director a crisis group. thank you very much for the insight. thank you. 2 more news now, in brief, afghanistan's taliban government has killed the islamic state, group leader thought to be behind the deadly 2021. capital airport bombing the white house as convert the killing some 170 afghans and 13 you west troops were killed in the last, during the chaotic american withdrawal from afghanistan, jail, russian, opposition leader, alexey novak. he says he faces up to 35 years on new charges of terrorism. russian investigators have linked to supporters to the murder of a popular military blogger in st. petersburg this month. and he is already serving 11 and a half years on previous challenges. german and british find the jets have intercepted a suspected russian spite aircraft flying over the baltic sea without its transponder signals. on last year, nato find a jet scrambled, almost $600.00 times in response to incursions, double the year before russian casualties have fallen by around 30 percent a day. this month, according to british intelligence

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i want to bring in alan boswell. he is the project director for the horn of africa at the international crisis group. thanks so much for being here with us, so obviously, tensions have been building recently, but was this armed clash inevitable? i hate to say it was inevitable , but it has been something that we and you know, sudanese and diplomats have been very concerned about for a number of years. these are essentially the two most powerful, um armed groupings within the country, um omar al bashir ruled sudan for three decades. i mean, he was overthrown in 2019 in the sudanese revolution, but essentially near the end of his rule. he didn't really trust the army, so he allowed other security. forces and the biggest being this rapid support forces this paramilitary paramilitary to grow. quite large, partly so that no one could really challenge him for rule. um and basically what we've seen since he was overthrown. what? that this military rule by committee could never really get on the same page. they've been dange

alan boswell horn of africa director for the international crisis group. thank you very much. thanks year old at a warring size and the conflict in yemen have released more detainees on the 2nd day of a major prisoner exchange. this is the latest group of the prisoners to arrive in santa. the red cross says more than $800.00 detainees from both sides of the conflict are due to be released by monday. exchange is part of a broader diplomatic effort to end the 9 year conflict. shamela macy is a prominent. you have any activist and former political detainee, he says civilians have suffered a lot in yemen. yep. 84 percent of the population in need of some form of a 2 thirds of the population are foot insecure. people are sick. you go and ask any, any on the street these days and tell them, oh sure. when the war, who do you think should have the upper hand? who do you think should become the president of human and not a human is they'll tell you. we no longer care, i just need electricity. the clean water, we need a job. i need to be able to put bread of the table. that's all i care

how does diplomacy even work when you're in a moment of high intensity conflict that speak to alan boswell? he's the horn of africa director for international crisis group. he joins us from doha allen. i'd like you to try and pull back the curtain and take us behind the scenes of conflicts like this one. how do you even begin to start mediation efforts? well, you start by figuring out who can mediate that's in terms of powers and personalities who might have influence over these to you also look at the landscape of various institutions multilateral regional blocks and you look at who is already mediating . so when the case of few, dan, we've already had a few different forms of mediation, but the media, the media landscape is already quite fragmented. so there isn't actually a clear lead actor right now that we have in sudan. so this is the sort of situation which sometimes takes a while to, to settle and where, you know, sometimes you have to get quite creative when it comes to mediating. right. so the 2 men who are behind this conflict right now and who are at war are the 2 generals, rig