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Research report

12th January 2022

Social Media and the Transnational Everyday

Peter Chonka
Mobility, opportunity and risk in Hargeisa, Somaliland.
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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Transnational Flows

Briefing paper

16th December 2021

What Next for the Juba Peace Agreement After the Coup in Sud...

This report considers what impact recent events may have on the Juba Peace Agreement and, more generally, peace and security in Sudan’s conflict affec...
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Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Conflict Dynamics

Newsletter

15th December 2021

Peripheral Vision: Views from the Borderlands – Fall 2021

Joint bulletin from The Asia Foundation, Rift Valley Institute, and Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center about recent research and activities.
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Middle East and North Africa Horn of Africa and the Sahel Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Transnational Flows Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Event

20th January 2022

How Technology is Reshaping Conflict Research: The Profits a...

The Cross-Border Conflict Evidence, Policy and Trends (XCEPT) research programme held a virtual panel discussion exploring how technology is advancing...
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Middle East and North Africa Horn of Africa and the Sahel Transnational Flows Conflict Response Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Blog

1st December 2021

Can Ethiopia Avert Deep Turmoil and Prioritize Peace?

Ahmed Soliman
Ethiopia’s devastating civil war recently entered into its second year and, to achieve peace, both sides in the conflict need to accept some difficult...
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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Governance Conflict Response Conflict Dynamics

Research report

30th November 2021

Trade, Taxes and Tensions in the Somali Borderlands

Tobias Hagmann
Trade, Taxes and Tensions explores how cross-border trade affects both cooperation and conflict between the states and state-like entities in the Soma...
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Somalia Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Transnational Flows Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Research report

24th November 2021

Contested Commerce: Revenue and State-Making in the Galkayo ...

Khalif Abdirahman
Contested Commerce examines how continuing political conflicts and the fragile security situation affect cross-border trade in the city of Galkayo, cl...
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Somalia Horn of Africa and the Sahel Borderlands

Blog

12th November 2021

Reversing the Military Coup in Sudan

Ahmed Soliman
As an entrenched military elite tries to protect extensive economic and political interests despite no public support, parts of the old regime are rea...
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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Governance Conflict Response Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Research report

3rd October 2021

Regularly Irregular: Varieties of Informal Trading in the Et...

Mustafe M. Abdi
Regularly Irregular focuses on the Gaashamo corridor—a series of small border crossings between Ethiopia and Somaliland—to analyze the everyday govern...
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Somalia Horn of Africa and the Sahel Governance Conflict Economies Borderlands

Research report

1st October 2021

Lasanod: City at the Margins. The Politics of Borderland Tra...

Ahmed M. Musa
Lasanod: City at the Margins examines the economic and political consequences of this ambiguous borderland status, which has led to new forms of reven...
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Somalia Horn of Africa and the Sahel Governance Conflict Economies Borderlands

Blog

14th September 2021

“The border is a semi-autonomous place where people can mobi...

A conversation with Joseph Diing Majok in South Sudan on his scholarship-winning research under the XCEPT programme.
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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Migration Governance Borderlands

Research report

16th August 2021

Unequal Adaptations: A History of Environmental Change in th...

Dr. Steven Serels
Unequal Adaptations considers how Little Ice Age (c1640-c1820) and the 1887 introduction of rinderpest can help us better understand the Horn of Afr...
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Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Ethiopia Borderlands

Research report

16th July 2021

Illicit Flows Fuelling Conflict in the Tri-Border

This XCEPT research report examines the intersection of armed actors, gold mining and migration in the tri-border area of Chad, Libya and Sudan. The...
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Sudan Middle East and North Africa Libya Horn of Africa and the Sahel Chad Organised Crime Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Newsletter

23rd June 2021

Peripheral Vision: Views from the Borderlands – Spring 2021...

Joint bulletin from the X-Border Local Research Network about recent research and activities from The Asia Foundation, Rift Valley Institute, and Malc...
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Middle East and North Africa Horn of Africa and the Sahel Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Transnational Flows Governance Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Research report

21st April 2021

From Dust to Dollar: Gold-Mining and Trade in the Sudan-Ethi...

Enrico Ille, Mohamed Salah, Tsegaye Birhanu
This report focuses on the borderland region between Sudan and Ethiopia, using gold-mining and trade to examine transnational flows of people and comm...
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Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Ethiopia Transnational Flows Migration Governance Conflict Economies Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

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