Publication

This Conflict Trends report provides an overview of violent conflict trends and patterns in Africa in January 2013. The authors focus on developments in Kenya in advance of March's elections; Mali following the deployment of international troops in the north of the country; Egypt on the second anniversary of the uprising there; the Democratic Republic of Congo with the emergence of new actors in the already complex conflict environment in the east of the country; and Algeria, which was the center of international attention in January with the dramatic unfolding of the hostage crisis in the east of the country.