This report investigates the 1998 food crisis in Sudan and reveals how the fault lies primarily with Sudanese government and militias and opposition forces that precipitated the famine and deliberately diverted or looted food from the starving or blocked relief deliveries. Download
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Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS) seeks to integrate humanitarian principles and the protection of civilians within its mandate and operations. This paper details the ways in which these laws and principles were promoted through negotiation, advocacy, dissemination and training and the monitoring and follow-up of violations and abuses. It seeks to distil specific lessons from working with armed opposition movements, as distinct from sovereign governments, in particular the concern of humanitarian agencies that they may provide…
Exposition of the state of customary laws in the Dinka and Azande communities of Southern Sudan. The case studies are set in the period of the civil war that broke out in 1983, and include cases of the SPLA (Sudan People’s Liberation Army) soldiers interacting with the local populations.
The process of liberation in south Sudan has been rocky since 1955. Successive governments in Khartoum have broken promises and agreements relating to governance of the south, and the northern establishment has manipulated the situation to perpetuate northern hegemony, and to speed up the process of Islamisation in the south. This study from an activist in the politics of liberation in the south addresses relevant issues such as the objectives of the armed struggle, and…
The purpose of this book is to document some of the famine crimes committed in Sudan, as well as to evaluate relief programmes and to identify political conditions that create famine or make its prevention possible.
The author’s experience of information collection and analysis in the Bahr-el-Ghazal region of south Sudan is reflected on here. The paper suggests that existing strategies of needs assessment are often based on misunderstandings about the cultural, social and economic conditions of war-affected communities. Furthermore, the needs assessment process has taken on a life of its own: for the intended beneficiaries it is often a wearying experience, but one which can yield benefits if the ‘correct’…
This report reviews Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS), with a particular focus on the relationship between OLS’s creation of humanitarian space, and the flow of assistance to war-affected populations. It sets out to assess and analyse the effectiveness of the OLS modus operandi in meeting the needs of war-affected civilians. Download
This report reviews Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS), with a particular focus on the relationship between OLS’s creation of humanitarian space, and the flow of assistance to war-affected populations. It sets out to assess and analyse the effectiveness of the OLS modus operandi in meeting the needs of war-affected civilians.
This paper discusses the institutional and organizational characteristics of the state administration in Southern Sudan and its relationship with the foreign non-governmental aid organisations in the period between the Addis Ababa peace agreement in 1972 and the collapse of the administrative structure in the middle of the 1980s. It focuses on two different but interrelated phenomena. Firstly, an empirical description and analysis of the state and structure of the public bureaucracy and its characteristics and…
Through the pioneering efforts of the famed British anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard, the Nuer of southern Sudan have become one of anthropology’s most celebrated case studies. Now Sharon Hutchinson combines fresh ethnographic evidence and contemporary theoretical perspectives to show not only what has happened to the Nuer since their 1930s encounters with Evans-Pritchard, but, more importantly, what is to be gained from a thoroughly historicized treatment of ethnographic materials. Hutchinson’s work provides a vision for…
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