فهم النظام الانتخابي السوداني: مبادئ التمثيل

بعد الإطاحة بالرئيس عمر البشير في أبريل ٢٠١٩، بدأ السودان عملية الانتقال إلى الديمقراطية. يشمل ذلك إنشاء مؤسسات تشريعية وقضائية جديدة تتوج بإجراء انتخابات (مبدئيًا من المقرر إجراؤها في أواخر عام ٢٠٢٢). من بين التحديات الرئيسية التي يجب معالجتها في التحضير للانتخابات مبادئ التمثيل وترسيم الحدود، والتي كانت محل نزاع حاد في انتخابات السودان السابقة. […]

Understanding Sudan’s electoral system: Management of elections

This briefing is part of RVI’s Sudan Elections Project, a short-term study on the history of elections in the country. The project examines the different factors that have shaped the course and consequences of elections in Sudan, while drawing out lessons to inform the programming and advocacy work of those hoping to ensure a successful […]

Understanding Sudan’s electoral system: Political campaigns

This briefing is part of RVI’s Sudan Elections Project, a short-term study on the history of elections in the country. The project examines the different factors that have shaped the course and consequences of elections in Sudan, while drawing out lessons to inform the programming and advocacy work of those hoping to ensure a successful […]

XCEPT research consortium (formerly X-border local research network)

How is Puntland Coping with Yemen’s Fishing Boom?

Aims and Objectives Beginning in March 2018, the X-Border Local Research Network is a research consortium aimed at developing a better understanding of the causes and implications of conflict in the border areas of north-east Africa, the Middle East and Asia. This project is part of a broader FCDO programme, X (Cross) Border Conflict – […]

Understanding Sudan’s electoral system: Principles of representation

This briefing is part of RVI’s Sudan Elections Project, a short-term study on the history of elections in the country. The project examines the different factors that have shaped the course and consequences of elections in Sudan, while drawing out lessons to inform the programming and advocacy work of those hoping to ensure a successful […]

From Dust to Dollar: Gold mining and trade in the Sudan-Ethiopia borderland

From Dust to Dollar focuses on the borderland region between Sudan and Ethiopia, using gold-mining and trade to examine transnational flows of people and commodities across its semi-permeable frontier. Gold mining has shifted from being part of a long-term, family- and community-based livelihood strategy to a short-term entrepreneurial pursuit. Mining is increasingly dominated by the […]

Sudan elections project مشروع انتخابات السودان

A man casts his ballot in a practice vote in Omdurman, 1953. (Sudan Archive, Durham: SAD 674/5/27.)

The RVI Sudan Elections Project is a short-term study on the history of elections in Sudan—particularly the 2010 and 2015 elections. The project aims to examine the drivers and constraints that have shaped the course and consequences of previous elections in Sudan while drawing out lessons to inform programming and advocacy work of actors working […]

Community approaches to epidemic management in South Sudan

Responding to COVID-19 in South Sudan: Making local knowledge count

A scoping study by the Rift Valley Institute on how communities in South Sudan are responding to COVID-19, published in May 2020, identified a variety of local epidemic management systems, including contagion controls, migrant tracking and quarantine systems, care of infectious patients and self-isolation. However, there has been no systematic research that documents these management systems, […]

Sudan open archive

Sudan Open Archive

The Project The Sudan Open Archive (www.sudanarchive.net) offers free digital access to knowledge of all regions of Sudan and South Sudan. It is an expanding, word-searchable, full-text database of books, documents, scholarly resources and grey literature. The website is linked to the RVI’s guide to internet resources on Sudan and South Sudan.   SOA was originally created in 2004 to […]

Conversations with RVI researchers: Joseph Diing Majok and Nicki Kindersley

Conversations with RVI researchers: Joseph Diing Majok and Nicki Kindersley

  RVI’s Magnus Taylor speaks with RVI researchers, Joseph Diing Majok and Nicki Kindersley, about their latest report, Breaking Out of the Borderlands: Understanding migrant pathways from Northern Bahr el-Ghazal, South Sudan. The report takes the phenomena of the monetization of land, life and work in the borderland and looks at the consequences of this […]