A particularly apt description of the funding dilemma can be found in the latest Rift Valley Institute report, which quotes a commentator as saying: 
The donors, either they are stupid or they are totally naive. The government [i.e. GoNU] didn’t put money for the election, in which they had an interest. So are they going to put money for…

A particularly apt description of the funding dilemma can be found in the latest Rift Valley Institute report, which quotes a commentator as saying: 
The donors, either they are stupid or they are totally naive. The government [i.e. GoNU] didn’t put money for the election, in which they had an interest. So are they going to put money for…

This is our archive," Youssef Fulgensio Onyalla says wistfully as he pulls back the tarp covering the metal door and opens the large tent that stores the majority of the historical documents that survived his country's long brutal civil wars. Onyalla, the deputy director of the southern Sudan archives, does not seem proud to show off this…

This is our archive," Youssef Fulgensio Onyalla says wistfully as he pulls back the tarp covering the metal door and opens the large tent that stores the majority of the historical documents that survived his country's long brutal civil wars. Onyalla, the deputy director of the southern Sudan archives, does not seem proud to show off this…

The government archive in Juba suffered badly during the civil war in Southern Sudan. Tens of thousands of documents were removed from the Records Office, disordered, and stored in sacks in damp basements. Many have been damaged by termites, some beyond repair. Now the contents of the archive, which range from the early twentieth century to the…

The government archive in Juba suffered badly during the civil war in Southern Sudan. Tens of thousands of documents were removed from the Records Office, disordered, and stored in sacks in damp basements. Many have been damaged by termites, some beyond repair. Now the contents of the archive, which range from the early twentieth century to the…

Marol Academy is a community primary school in Southern Sudan, in Warab state. It opened in 2008 with 350 students and seven teachers. Founded by Dr Jok Madut Jok, an RVI Fellow born in Warab, the Academy is one of a handful of functioning schools in the state. Unusually, in a region where women have historically been excluded from education,…

Marol Academy is a community primary school in Southern Sudan, in Warab state. It opened in 2008 with 350 students and seven teachers. Founded by Dr Jok Madut Jok, an RVI Fellow born in Warab, the Academy is one of a handful of functioning schools in the state. Unusually, in a region where women have historically been excluded from education,…

RVI in Local and Global Media 2009 is a cumulative record of references to the Rift Valley Institute in local and international news media and academic literature in 2009. Included in the document are online, broadcast and print commentary and analysis from Fellows, staff and associates of the Institute (and its partner organisations in Eastern…

RVI in Local and Global Media 2009 is a cumulative record of references to the Rift Valley Institute in local and international news media and academic literature in 2009. Included in the document are online, broadcast and print commentary and analysis from Fellows, staff and associates of the Institute (and its partner organisations in Eastern…