The first Tarikh Tana (Our History) radio show in this second series will focus on What makes a chief? The changing role of customary authorities. We will take two personality sheets written about chiefs under the British Colonial period, found in the South Sudan National Archives, as the starting point for our discussion.

In November 2019, the Rift Valley Institute and OSSREA held a workshop in Addis Ababa on Understanding and visualising the 'Transnational Everyday’. This brought together researchers and data visualisation experts from the region and beyond with an objective of informing the development of the Transnational Everyday workstream.

In June, the Rift Valley Institute will hold the 2020 annual field courses. Now in their seventeenth year, each course examines a different sub-region within eastern and central Africa: Sudan and South Sudan, the Great Lakes and the Horn of Africa. They offer a dawn-to-dusk programme of lectures, seminars, panel discussions and debates.…

The Rift Valley Institute is pleased to announce that RVI Fellow, Aly Verjee, has been awarded the 2019 Oslo Forum Peacewriter Prize for his article, 'Monitoring Ceasefires is Getting Harder: Greater Innovation is Required'.

On 5 July 2019, the Rift Valley Forum launched the book, Widow Inheritance and Contested Citizenship in Kenya, by Dr. Awino Okech. The book explores the intersection between power, gender, and sexualities and the role of body politics in the construction of gendered subjects and nations. The book uses widow inheritance amongst Luo of Kenya as a…

La ville d’Uvira dans la province du Sud Kivu, frontalière du Burundi, est depuis longtemps la proie à une grave insécurité : vols à mains armés, braquages, assassinats et autres formes de violence battent leur plein. Pour s’auto-sécuriser en patrouillant dans leur quartier pendant la nuit, les jeunes d’Uvira se sont organisés dans des groupes…

Ces dernières années, Goma, la ville-capitale du Nord-Kivu est confrontée à plusieurs cas d’insécurité.  On observe les mouvements des populations des milieux ruraux vers  Goma  pour diverses raisons notamment économiques, en termes  d’échanges commerciaux ou à la quête d’un travail. D’autres personnes migrent dans Goma pour des raisons…

En mi-février 2018, face à une population de plus en plus frustrée, le gouvernement provincial réunit un Conseil de Sécurité élargi composé des acteurs de sécurité clés de la province tout comme les bourgmestres des trois communes de la ville et les chefs de ses 20 quartiers. Le Conseil décide de lancer la campagne « Tujikinge » (« …

South Sudan’s borderland region with Sudan, in Northern Bahr el-Ghazal, is a hard place to make a living. Jobs are scarce, livelihoods insecure and movement across the border is heavily regulated. The region's women often bear the heaviest burden as they strive to make the best choices for their families. Joseph Diing, a researcher on RVI’s X-…

The Somali diaspora has been a lifeline for people in Somalia for many years, responding to major humanitarian emergencies and everyday crises. The ways in which this humanitarian response is mobilised, channelled and delivered to people in Somalia is the subject of a new research project—Diaspora Humanitarianism in Complex Crises—run by the…