Community Approaches to Epidemic Management in South Sudan
South Sudanese people have extensive knowledge of infectious diseases and experience of organizing responses to epidemics during wars and other crises. There are multiple, locally-specific methods used by communities for interrupting infection transmission and managing epidemics. This report documents these community infectious disease management strategies, based on sustained investigative research in the Yei, Juba, Wau, […]
Community Approaches to Epidemic Management in South Sudan: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
This briefing summarizes findings from the Rift Valley Institute’s research project, Community Approaches to Epidemic Management in South Sudan (CAEMSS), which started in August 2020. The project, which began in response to the global coronavirus pandemic, was designed to document how communities across South Sudan have created systems and structures to control the spread of epidemics and […]
Conversations with RVI researchers: Luga Aquila, South Sudan
Displaced Tastes is a collaborative research project run by the Rift Valley Institute and the Catholic University of South Sudan as part of the X-Border LocalResearch Network. The project examines how experiences of conflict, regional displacement and mobility, and the shift to an increasingly market-oriented and import-dependent economy have changed what people in South […]
Conversations with RVI researchers: Elizabeth Nyibol, South Sudan
Displaced Tastes is a collaborative research project run by the Rift Valley Institute and the Catholic University of South Sudan as part of the X-Border LocalResearch Network. The project examines how experiences of conflict, regional displacement and mobility, and the shift to an increasingly market-oriented and import-dependent economy have changed what people in South […]
Borders, buffalos and communicable disease: Insights into epizootic control in colonial southern Sudan
This blog is part of a series that showcases the rich diversity of information held in the South Sudan National Archives (SSNA). RVI works in partnership with the Ministry of Culture, Museums and National Heritage on the preservation and digitization of the archives. Under the current project, funded by the Government of Norway, through […]
South Sudan: Hussein Abdel Bagi deepens his control of the borderland
In February 2020 Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir, appointed Hussein Abdel Bagi—head of the South Sudan Opposition Alliance—as one of his five vice-presidents. Abdel Bagi is a member of the Malual Dinka community from Madhol, on the Northern Bahr el-Ghazal border with West Kordofan, and is the son of the late Abdel Bagi Ayii Akol, a […]
Launch of ‘And The Country Still Needs Us’ film
The Rift Valley Institute and Juba in The Making, supported by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, will be hosting a discussion of the new film, And The Country Still Needs Us: A story of the chiefs of South Sudan, on Thursday 10 December from 16:00 to 17:30 EAT. The conversation will focus […]
Book Launch: The Dissent Channel
In South Sudan, a peace deal was signed in September 2018 to bring an end to a conflict that has killed and displaced hundreds of thousands of people since 2013. However, progress towards implementing the agreement has been slow, and transitional justice and accountability have been almost entirely overlooked. On 20 January, the Rift […]
Understanding Hussein Abdel Bagi: South Sudan’s vice-president from the borderlands
Key points • Hussein Abdel Bagi’s appointment as the third Vice-President of South Sudan is an important building block for the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGoNU), particularly its relations with Khartoum. Hussein’s long experience of Sudanese politics, and friendships with members of the Sudan Military Council, will likely be very useful to President Kiir. […]
Release of new documentary: And The Country Still Needs Us: A Story of the Chiefs of South Sudan
Over the past five years of RVI’s South Sudan Customary Authorities (SSCA) project, the Institute has built a strong level of trust with customary authorities across the country. Continued engagement with chiefs is essential, particularly in finding ways to support and present the views and interests of their communities at the national level, and to […]