M23 and the challenges to peace in the DRC

M23 and the challenges to peace in the DRC

On 17 December 2012, Jason Stearns, director of the RVI Usalama Project, discussed the capture of Goma by the M23 rebel group and the escalation of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) at a public event in London. Organized by the Africa Programme at Chatham House, in association with RVI, the event […]

Somali President in RVI interview

Somali President in RVI interview

H. E. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of Somalia’s Federal Government, speaking to RVI Fellow Sally Healy during an official visit to London for talks with the British government.

Sudan’s contested borderlands in Addis Ababa

RVI Executive Director John Ryle

A year after the independence of South Sudan, RVI Executive Director John Ryle gave a lecture on Africa’s newest and most contentious border at the Centre for Federal Studies of Addis Ababa University on 25 October 2012. Demarcation of the boundary line between Sudan and South Sudan involves complex local questions of land ownership, use, […]

Border war in the Sudans?

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The new hostilities between Sudan and South Sudan have generated renewed interest in two RVI publications: Douglas Johnson's When Boundaries Become Borders and Eddie Thomas' The Kafia Kingi Enclave. The books offer the most detailed available account of border communities in the Sudans, their shared resources and disputed boundaries. Meanwhile Douglas Johnson has published a […]