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Recent reports by RVI Fellows and Associates

Recent reports by an RVI Fellow and a member of the teaching staff of the RVI Great Lakes Course cover current political and economic issues in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Horn of Africa. Sally Healy's Hostage…
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What we do

The RVI anniversary event at SOAS was introduced by the Director, John Ryle, in these words: "The RVI is a transnational network distributed across Eastern and Central Africa. Our goal is to bring local realities and local knowledge to…
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Ten years of the Institute

In December 2011 the RVI marked its tenth anniversary year. On December 13 half-a-dozen Sudan Handbook contributors were present at the School of Oriental and African Studies for a panel discussion under the title "Next Year in Sudan and…
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  • Recent Publications

    Commodification and Conflict in the Horn of Africa Borderlands

    April 1, 2026

    This report synthesizes findings from the Rift Valley Institute’s X-Border Local Research Network (2019–2025). In the surveyed studies, 25 leading local and international area specialists conducted extensive qualitative fieldwork across borderlands in South Sudan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and the Somali

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    Peace and Instability: Tigray since the Pretoria Agreement

    March 26, 2026

    CONFLICT TRENDS ANALYSIS / MARCH 2026 Summary THE ETHIOPIA PEACE RESEARCH FACILITY This conflict trends analysis was produced by the Ethiopia Peace Research Facility (PRF). The PRF is an independent facility combining timely analysis on peace and conflict from Ethiopian

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    Political Economy of Cash and Markets in Sudan

    February 27, 2026

    The research provides a snapshot of the war in Sudan in the period from February to April 2025. However, the war is dynamic, with political alliances and territorial control changing. The April 2023 conflict between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF)

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