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6th July 2020

COVID-19 in the Horn of Africa: How Can Aid Help Mobile Popu...

Freddie Carver
Aid providers in the Horn of Africa have always struggled to adapt their systems and models to the simple fact that people move from place to place. D...
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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Borderlands

Research report

29th June 2020

South Sudan’s Changing Tastes: Conflict, Displacement and Fo...

Deng Kuol, Edward Thomas, Elizabeth Nyibol, Jimmy Pitya, Jovensia Uchalla, Loes Lijnders, Luga Aquila, Steven Amosa
South Sudan is one of the hungriest places on earth – this report explains how reliance on regional grain markets is shaping its international relatio...
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South Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Migration Conflict Economies Conflict Dynamics

Briefing paper

16th June 2020

Conflict, Mobility and Archives: Changing Food Systems in So...

Loes Lijnders
An examination of how experiences of conflict, displacement and mobility have changed what people in South Sudan grow and eat.
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South Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Migration Conflict Economies Conflict Dynamics

Research report

11th June 2020

The Egypt-Sudan Border: A Story of Unfulfilled Promise

Sherif Mohyeldeen
Along the Egypt-Sudan border, tensions have been rising for several decades despite limited efforts at cooperation. Both countries need to reexamine t...
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Tunisia Sudan Middle East and North Africa Libya Horn of Africa and the Sahel Egypt Algeria Governance Borderlands

Briefing paper

26th May 2020

COVID-19 in South Sudan’s Borderlands: A View From Northern ...

Nicki Kindersley, Joseph Diing Majok
National response to the virus has rapidly become a new factor in Sudan and South Sudan’s cross-border political economy.
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Sudan South Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Coronavirus Conflict Economies Borderlands

Briefing paper

18th May 2020

Khat and COVID-19: Somalia’s Cross-Border Economy in the Tim...

Sahra Ahmed Koshin
The impact on the khat trade in particular is a good illustration of the economy’s regional and international connections, and the effects of anti-COV...
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Somalia Horn of Africa and the Sahel Coronavirus Conflict Economies Borderlands

Briefing paper

29th April 2020

South Sudan’s Food Imports in the Time of COVID

Edward Thomas
Coronavirus has caused import volumes into South Sudan to plummet by 50% – having profound effects on stressed food systems.
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South Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Coronavirus Conflict Economies Conflict Dynamics

Briefing paper

21st April 2020

Grains as Life: The Value of Sorghum and Millet Amongst the ...

Deng Kuol
A story of preserving access to a valued variety of sorghum—ruath—by travelling into military occupied areas of Abyei.
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South Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Conflict Economies Borderlands

Briefing paper

4th April 2020

‘You Can Now Get Engaged’ – Meanings of Cassava Among the Po...

Luga Aquila
Discussion of how the movement of people and tubers is connected to changing marriage practices and the organization of family wealth.
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South Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Migration Gender Borderlands

Briefing paper

2nd April 2020

Migrating with Seeds: Women, Agricultural Knowledge and Disp...

Elizabeth Nyibol
This account shows how Dinka women deployed the social and material capital of seeds under their control to manage the wider transitions experienced d...
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South Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Gender Conflict Economies Borderlands

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23rd March 2020

How Sudan’s Gold Boom is Changing Labour Relations in Blue N...

Mohamed Salah, Enrico Ille
This paper focuses on the impact that gold mining has had on labour relations in Blue Nile state.
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Sudan South Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Ethiopia Conflict Economies Conflict Dynamics

Interview

20th March 2020

Interview with Eddie Thomas on New Report, ‘Cash, Commodific...

Interview with Eddie Thomas on his report, ‘Cash, Commodification and Conflict in South Sudan.
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Research report

19th March 2020

Rethinking Aid in Borderland Spaces: The Case of Akobo

Freddie Carver
Traditional modalities of the aid industry are not fit for purpose in a world where transnationalism is a daily reality for communities.
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South Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Ethiopia Governance Borderlands

Briefing paper

1st March 2020

Understanding Hussein Adbdel Bagi: South Sudan’s Vice Presid...

Hussein Abdel Bagi’s appointment as the third Vice-President of South Sudan is an important building block for the Transitional Government of National...
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South Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Migration Governance Conflict Economies

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20th February 2020

Sudan’s Grain Divide: A Revolution of Bread and Sorghum

Edward Thomas, Magi El-Gizouli
This paper explains the significance of bread and sorghum in the political changes Sudan seen in 2019.
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Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Migration Governance Conflict Economies

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