Andrew Tchie is the Editor of the IISS Armed Conflict Database (ACD) which focuses on monitoring armed conflict trends globally. He manages the ACD and provides critical analysis on conflicts, actors in conflict, peacekeeping and the use of indiscriminate violence. He also has extensive experience in providing policy recommendations for international organisations and governments. Through the ACD he focuses on understanding civil war dynamics and violence against civilians by state and non-state actors.
Following months of protests, and a prolonged sit-in outside the military headquarters in Khartoum, Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir was placed under house arrest on April 11 as the country’s military…