This research report focuses on coping strategies by South Sudanese households during severe food insecurity. Using the case of Leer, Pagak, and Rubkona countries of Upper Nile, the report finds that a combination of factors including conflict, displacement and flooding, have undermined the main livelihood means of local communities, with wild fruits and fishing becoming the main copying strategies. Finally, the report provides a nuance on how to effectively explore the coping strategies of households…

Upper Nile is on the precipice of renewed armed conflict. After a lull in violence in the past two months, armed groups are mobilizing for possible confrontation as Johnson Olonyi’s Agwelek forces reposition themselves near key ports on the White Nile, and SPLA-IO and Nuer White Army forces mobilize youth in northern Jonglei and southern Upper Nile. ‘Upper Nile Prepares to Return to War’ — a new Situation Update from the Small Arms Survey’s Human…

The civil war that began in South Sudan in December 2013 has had dire consequences for the Shilluk of Upper Nile. Attacks by the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) and allied militia forces have forcibly displaced tens of thousands of people. Many of those displaced have fled to Sudan—just as they did during the second civil war (1983–2005)—where they eke out an uncertain existence. On the east bank of the White Nile, where there was…

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