This analysis of the political economy of oil in Sudan since 2005 finds that governance at national, regional, and local levels has largely failed to manage the damaging political and economic effects of the resource curse. Uncertainty surrounding Khartoum’s oil transfers to the South, negligence and corruption among the Southern elite, and the lack of a peace dividend to offset environmental degradation in oil-bearing regions trace the multiplicity of the resource curse in Sudan. Download
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The CSRF Research Repository aims to support greater contextual knowledge for policy makers, programme managers, and implementers by providing a searchable repository of research, analysis, and resources, and providing periodic updates on new research and analysis.
Renewing the pledge is a publication by a coalition of 26 NGOs including Global Witness from Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the US. The report calls for urgent action from the African heads of state who met shortly after publishing this document at a major summit of the African Union in Uganda from 19-27 July 2010. Ahead of the summit, international Sudan envoys met in Khartoum on 17 July 2010. Download
In the light of the upcoming referendum, this report (2010) looks at the political interests of regional states and how they ould/should respond to the possibility of South Sudan’s independence. Download
This article comments on the execution and effects of the 2008 census, mandated as part of the 2005 CPA. Link to the publication
A guide to Sudan’s electoral system – one of the most complex in the world – and its effects on the distribution of power. The report analyses government documents to reveal errors and ambiguities in the demarcation of electoral districts, and warns of the challenge these pose to the conduct of elections in April 2010.
This report from 2010 provides a contextual background and discusses some of the challenges of the post-referendum period. Download
This collection of articles delineates potential post-referendum scenarios, and identifies the political options they open up for different actors in Sudan. Download
This article explores the history of elections by secret ballot in Sudan since the 1950s, and considers what lessons this history may offer in the run-up to the national elections planned under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. The article locates the repeated use of the secret ballot in Sudan in the context of a wider state-directed project of modernity, for which the secret ballot offers a performative enactment of the relationship between an efficient state and…
Lundin Petroleum AB acquired rights to explore for oil and gas in South Sudan in 1997, in Ethiopia in 2006, and in Kenya in 2007. In the spring of 2009 the company relinquished its interest in South Sudan and sold affiliated companies that held concessions in Ethiopia and Kenya. It thus put an end to twelve years of oil exploration in East Africa. This article describes Lundin Petroleum’s experiences and how it managed conflict or…
This report explores Sudanese elite women’s perceptions of gender equality and to what extent they represent grassroots women’s priorities and attitudes. Download
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