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Africa’s youngest state has a long way to go before it can put conflict behind it for good.
Unless member states try to solve the contradictions in expectations, UN peacekeeping will not be fit for purpose in the future.
Despite more rainfall, devastating hot and dry spells are projected to become more frequent in the Upper Nile basin in the future.
Drones could help United Nations peacekeepers save civilians’ lives – but there are obstacles.
South Sudan has had many opportunities to create a lasting peace but so far all efforts have been unsuccessful.
In a three-year project, students were taught STEM skills by designing solutions for real-world problems. An evaluation of the project found most students were stimulated and engaged.
South Sudan has been in the business of building peace for years but is no closer to implementing the roadmap to peace than when it drafted the first agreement.
The immediate cause of the economic crisis that brought many thousands of Sudanese onto the streets and continued beyond al-Bashir’s downfall lay in the structure of the economy itself.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan has had a mixed bag of success and failure.
Al-Bashir’s ability to play a skillful combination of internal and external balancing acts, plus ruthless repression and a divided opposition, kept him in power for three decades.
East African countries use a scorecard to monitor maternal and child health progress in the region.
Warring factions in South Sudan have signed numerous peace deals none of which have held.
The debate on sanctions on Zimbabwe has been lost in the southern African region and on the continent.
Fed up with the high cost of living, and an oppressive state, the people of Sudan are rising up against their president.
South Sudan’s road to peace has been bumpy but there’s hope.
When the Aral Sea dried up, it was called the “world’s worst environmental disaster”. We’re witnessing its equivalent in Africa.
The return of South Sudan’s opposition leader
is likely to solidify the permanent ceasefire.
South Sudan faces numerous and serious challenges contributing to instability. But there are potential solutions.
Today in South Sudan’s political climate, footballing success may wield more symbolic importance than anything else.
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Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Visiting Professor University of Buckingham, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
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Researcher at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Österreichisches Institut für Internationale Politik (OIIP)
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Adjunct Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of History, University of Washington
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Lecturer, Western Sydney University
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Director, International Development Department, University of Birmingham
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Research Professor & Associate Director, Peace Accords Matrix (PAM), Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Adjunct Professor of African Security Studies, University of Juba
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DPhil Candidate, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
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Research associate at African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town
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McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Charles Darwin University
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Professor of Politics, University of Birmingham
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Professor, Weber State University
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham