Who Controls the Borderlands? Rents, debts and the role of political and commercial elites on the Kenya-Ethiopia and Sudan-South Sudan borders
Format: Hybrid EventDate: Tuesday, 18 February 2025Time: 10:30 AM – 12:30 PMVenue: BIEA Seminar Room, Laikipia Road, Kileleshwa, Nairobi and Online Borderland revenues, routes and controls are at the heart of state projects on the margins in Kenya and South Sudan. New XCEPT research examines the evolution of border controls and revenue generation projects on two crucial borders in the region. These […]
INFORMAL TRADE, GENDER AND CONFLICT DYNAMICS ON THE NEW KENYA-ETHIOPIA TRADE CORRIDOR
This report examines the effects of infrastructure development and shifting political conditions on trade and conflict at the Kenya–Ethiopia border, including on gender dynamics. In doing so, it focuses on how small-town cross-border traders in the town of Moyale, which straddles both countries, are navigating the area’s shifting economic and political landscape. This report is […]
Dissemination and Policy Workshop | 4th December 2024 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
On 4th December 2024, the Rift Valley Institute (RVI) hosted a regional workshop in Addis Ababa bringing together researchers, policymakers and practitioners to discuss cross-border dynamics in the Horn of Africa. The event explored conflict, governance and economic flows in border regions highlighting key research findings and policy recommendations to support peace and development. Watch […]
النزوح أثر الحرب في السودان على التعليم العالي ومجتمع البحث الأكاديمي
ويبينار تاريخ: الخميس 14 نوفيمبر 2024 ساعة: 2-4 مساء في القاهرة مكان: اونلاين في زوم منذ أن اندلعت الحرب في الخرطوم في 15 أبريل 2023، واجه سكان السودان سلسلة من المآسي والتحديات التي لا توصف. فقد شردت الحرب ملايين الأشخاص، و من بينهم أكاديميون وباحثون سودانيون. مما عنى نقص في الدراسات و البحوث الخاصة بالوضع […]
بحث في النزوح
أثر الحرب في السودان على التعليم العالي ومجتمع البحث الأكاديمي ملخص تنفيذي خلف اندلاع الحرب في السودان في أبريل 2023 دماراً ومعاناة لا حصر لها، مما شكل تهديداً لمؤسسات مهمة على امتداد القطر. ومن ضمنها مؤسسات التعليم العالي السودانية، التي لم تواجه تدميراً للمنشآت المهمة فحسب، لكن أيضاً النزوح الجماعي للطلاب وهيئات التدريس. يقيّم هذا […]
RESEARCH IN DISPLACEMENT: THE IMPACT OF WAR ON SUDAN’S HIGHER EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH
SUMMARY The outbreak of war in Sudan in April 2023 has created immeasurable suffering and damage, threatening critical institutions across the country. Amongst these is Sudanese higher education, which has faced not only the destruction of critical facilities, but also the mass displacement of students and faculty. This report assesses the extent of the damage […]
THE TRIPLE BURDEN: WOMEN SELLING THEIR LABOUR IN SOUTH SUDAN
SUMMARY In rural South Sudan, markets for food, labour, and land are expanding, leading to increased workloads for women. Historically, rural women had two primary labour burdens: producing food for home consumption and providing essential life-giving labour such as child-rearing and household maintenance. These were unpaid. Now, they face a third burden: producing food for […]
TRANSBORDER MOBILE MONEY PLATFORMS IN THE GREATER SOMALI ECONOMIC SPACE
SUMMARY The informal transborder movement of goods and people have long captivated scholars, policymakers and security institutions in the East Africa region, in particular in the Horn of Africa (HoA). Special attention has been given to the transborder economic activities within what is referred to as the ‘greater Somali economic space’. This area encompasses Somali-inhabited […]
Webinar | The Structure of Violence: States, Official Militaries, Paramilitaries, and Non-State Militias in the Northern Horn of Africa
For more than a century, the Horn of Africa has been affected by war and violence triggered and driven by clashes between state militaries, paramilitaries and other non-state militia groups. The ongoing war in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and the recent Tigray war in Ethiopia that […]
WAR AND THE BORDERLAND: SUDAN, ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA AT A TIME OF CONFLICT
This research paper builds on work the Rift Valley Institute (RVI) has conducted on the Sudan–Ethiopia borderland under the XCEPT programme since 2021. This culminated in the report ‘Resistance in the Peripheries: Fragile peace and civil war in Sudan and Ethiopia’s borderlands’, published in March 2023. It also draws on work undertaken by the RVI […]