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Regional Analysis 200 South Sudan 240Cameroon 292 Conflict Reports Ethiopia 252 Conflict Summaries The Sahel 204 Somalia 262 Mozambique 302 Lake Chad Basin 220 Great Lakes Region 270Sudan 310 Central African Republic 230Nigeria 282 Regional Outlook 320 UN and A UN and Ar rmed F med For orc ces of the es of the D Democr emocra atic R tic Republic of the C epublic of the Congo ongo ( (F FARDC ARDC) tr ) troops inspec oops inspect the sit t the site of an e of an A Allied D llied Democr emocra atic F tic For orc ces ( es (ADF) a ADF) attack ttack in Ruw in Ruwenz enzor ori, i, DR DRC, 9 A C, 9 Apr pril 2021 il 2021 Overview The scourge of armed conflict in sub-Saharan (twice) and Sudan, and failed ones in the CAR, Africa persisted in 2021 and early 2022. According Djibouti, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar and Niger. to the Institute for Economics and Peace’s Global Violence and lawlessness further escalated across Peace Index 2022, five of the ten least-peaceful the Western Sahel and Lake Chad Basin, where radical countries globally were in the region: the Central Islamist groups (both domestic