This CSRF report focuses on the return and reintegration resulting from the current influx of returnees and refugees from Sudan and other neighbouring countries. Specifically, the report explores the risks associated with return and reintegration as well as opportunities for conflict sensitive reintegration and durable solutions initiatives. To inform the current approaches to returns and reintegration, the report highlights key lessons from past returns and reintegration experiences in South (ern) Sudan.
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This article provides a multidimensional report of the persistent farmers-herders conflict in South Sudan, delving into its historical background, root causes, far-reaching consequences, potential prevention/management strategies and recommendations for actors and policymakers in South Sudan.
This report discusses the political economy of the Juba peace agreement, which was signed by the government of Sudan and a host of rebel groups in 2020. The report argues that the JPA has tried but failed to address inequality between the centres and the peripheries. This is particularly due to its power and wealth sharing formula which favours peripheral militia leaders whose main priorities are the acquisition of wealth and gathering of loyalty, at…
This report explores the links between European banks and companies investments in the South Sudanese oil sector and their complicity to violence in the country. The report outlines concrete steps on how to change current business practices to mitigate the risks of fueling violence in the country. Read more here
This report presents the findings of a study commissioned by FAO, IGAD CEWARN, IGADCBDFU and Interpeace, undertaken between November 2021 and April 2022, and aimed at analysing resource-based in the Karamoja Cluster. The report provides a conflict analysis of the border area spanning across Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, and Uganda, and identifies key drivers of violence – including competition over access to pasture, water, cattle rustling. These drivers are also exacerbated by climate change, unemployment,…
Despite many high-profile interventions, Abyei remains mired in a violent impasse. Conflict between the Ngok and Twic Dinka continues, and the territory’s political future remains in limbo. Attacked from Both Sides: Abyei’s Existential Dilemma—a new Situation Update from the Small Arms Survey’s Human Security Baseline Assessment for Sudan and South Sudan (HSBA) project—discusses the causes for the deadlock surrounding this politically fractured territory, and the catastrophic effect conflict has on its civilians. Read more…
Fossil Fuel Industry adds Despair to South Sudanese Communities Facing Flood Disaster A new analysis by PAX, with contributions from Utrecht University, demonstrates how severe flooding in South Sudan spawns environmental risks around its national oil infrastructure. The report uses satellite imagery and a hydrological model to identify how the increasing seasonal flood impacts can pose additional environmental health risks to civilians and their livelihoods from potential pollution sources. Download
The Protection Cluster has recorded an increase in incidents of rights violations associated with the current foodcrisis that is intensifying in South Sudan. In addition, food distribution as well as agencies engaged in these effortsare at significant risk of having their operations disrupted and their staff put in danger by sub-national andintercommunal violence, bureaucratic impediments, and physical constraints due to unprecedented flooding,combined with poor road conditions. The food security crisis in South Sudan is worsening…
Examples from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, the DRC, Nigeria, South Sudan and Sudan Key findings • Food-related livelihood activities such as tending fields, foraging for food or fetching water make women and girls vulnerable to conflict-related sexual violence attacks in conflicts where conflict parties use such violence. • The scarcity of food during conflict forces women and girls to travel further from their villages in search of food or water, increasing the likelihood of their…
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