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Review of The Sudan Handbook

June 21, 2018
RVI in local and global media

Tom Porteous of Human Rights Watch reviews the Sudan Handbook. In 2004 the Rift Valley Institute organised its first Sudan field course. The course was conceived in a spirit of cautious optimism and motivated by a simple idea. Already by that time it…

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Sudan and South Sudan

South Sudan’s Kings and Chiefs in the courts of Ghana

June 21, 2018
RVI in local and global media

17 March, 2013 (LONDON) – A delegation of South Sudan’s Traditional Leaders (TLs) has completed a tour of African countries in which a successful synthesis of governance at the local and centralised levels has been achieved. … Between July…

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The field course season in Eastern and Central Africa

June 21, 2018
News from the RVI

More than forty specialists on Eastern and Central African history, politics, economics and culture taught on the RVI’s annual field courses this year. Journalists and activists joined academics, humanitarians, and policy-makers for three intensive one-week events covering the Horn of Africa,…

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A Dinka moral world: reading an ethnographic account of an agro-pastoralist community in South Sudan

June 21, 2018
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The people of Lakes State, in South Sudan–the majority Agar Dinka in particular–have the reputation among some other South Sudanese of being hot-blooded and short-tempered, a wild card in the wider Dinka confederation that constitutes South Sudan’s largest ethnolinguistic…

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Livelihood concerns as Kenya kicks off regional infrastructure project

June 21, 2018
RVI in local and global media

A report from IRIN, published in the Sunday Nation, on a meeting convened by the RVI Nairobi Forum to discuss plans for a Lamu Port and South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor. The LAPSSET project includes a port in Lamu, a 1,500km…

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UN and DRC forces prepare for war

June 21, 2018
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The clock is ticking down on the launch of a military operation in eastern DRC against a Rwandan-Hutu militia that has refused to surrender and disarm. United Nations troops with MONUSCO in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, together…

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Sudan and South Sudan

South Sudan’s Experience at Peace Making

June 21, 2018
RVI in local and global media

I was in Juba two weeks ago participating in the Rift Valley Institute’s annual series of lectures at Juba University, whose theme this year was historic peace negotiations. Three sets of negotiations were examined: the 1972 negotiations thatled to…

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Work for the RVI: Opportunities in London and Nairobi – application deadline December 2014

June 21, 2018
News from the RVI

On 30 November the Rift Valley Institute announced a search for three new senior staff members, to be based in the London and Nairobi offices of the Institute. The RVI London office also has a vacancy for an intern from…

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RVI field courses 2015

June 21, 2018
News from the RVI

The Rift Valley Institute’s annual field courses will be held in East Africa in June and July 2015. Course applications are now open. Locations of courses will be confirmed in early 2015. ONLINE APPLICATION FORM Taught by teams of…

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Horn of Africa

Somaliland: Terrorism Exacerbates the Crippling of a Rotten Aid System in Hungry Somalia

June 21, 2018
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Aid workers in Somalia, which faces worsening hunger three years after famine struck the country, believe the humanitarian system is "rotten" and are hamstrung by fears of being prosecuted for aiding terrorists, an expert said. … "We have been…

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Recent Publications

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)

Rethinking Ethiopia II: Youth and politics

February 26, 2026

Seminar report Rethinking Ethiopia, a collaborative essay competition initiative between Addis Ababa University’s Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) and the Rift Valley Institute’s (RVI) Peace Research Facility (PRF), offers a platform for Ethiopian youth to express their ideas

2025 Year in Review

February 16, 2026

The 2025 Year in Review provides an overview of the Rift Valley Institute’s work over the past year across eastern and central Africa. The report highlights RVI’s research and publication outputs, education and training activities, and public forums and convenings,

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Review of The Sudan Handbook

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South Sudan’s Kings and Chiefs in the courts of Ghana

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The field course season in Eastern and Central Africa

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A Dinka moral world: reading an ethnographic account of an agro-pastoralist community in South Sudan

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Livelihood concerns as Kenya kicks off regional infrastructure project

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UN and DRC forces prepare for war

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South Sudan’s Experience at Peace Making

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Work for the RVI: Opportunities in London and Nairobi – application deadline December 2014

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RVI field courses 2015

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Somaliland: Terrorism Exacerbates the Crippling of a Rotten Aid System in Hungry Somalia

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Recent Publications

Political Economy of Cash and Markets in Sudan

Rethinking Ethiopia II: Youth and politics

2025 Year in Review

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