A Famine is Never Just a Famine — It’s Political Violence By Starvation. Carol Jean Gallo March 22, 2017 We are entering an age of famine. But the extreme food crises facing South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, and Northern Nigeria are not solely a consequence of natural disaster or climate change. Rather, people are starving to death because other people with the power ...
Here is What a Cut in U.S. Foreign Aid Could Mean for this Woman’s Family Karen Coates March 3, 2017 I sat in the dim light of a Christian church with walls of mud and a roof of corrugated metal, as Alaakiir Ajok told her story. This was last September, 19 months after fighting had erupted around her home in South Sudan. Ajok, a widow, ran for the Uganda bord...
Famine Strikes South Sudan. UN Warns Three Other Countries Could be Next. One of the Biggest Catastrophes of a Generation Mark Leon Goldberg February 23, 2017 Famine kills children first. Famine does not simply mean "lack of food." Rather it is a threshold against which indicators like childhood mortality are measured to determine whether the lack of food is causing people to starve to death in large numbers. Whi...
This Man Directed Refugee Policy for George H.W. Bush. He explains how the Refugee Ban is totally unprecedented. Mark Leon Goldberg January 30, 2017 Princeton Lyman was a long serving US Diplomat who has become one of the leading experts on African politics and policy. He most recently served as President Obama's special envoy to Sudan and South Sudan from 2011 to 2013; but before that had an extensive...
The Crisis in South Sudan is Sending 2,000 Refugees to Uganda. Every Day Karen Coates October 12, 2016 Over the past three months, an average of more than 2,000 South Sudanese a day have crossed into Uganda, seeking safety from bloodshed at home. Aid groups and government agencies are scrambling to shelter and feed everyone. The influx has not abated since figh...
Are South Sudanese Forces Deliberately Targeting Americans? Is the UN next? Mark Leon Goldberg September 7, 2016 Colum Lynch has an explosive scoop in Foreign Policy reporting an incident in July in which a convoy of American diplomats was fired upon by South Sudanese government forces. The diplomats were traveling in armored cars, and when they passed the presidential p...
Can a New Peacekeeping Force Stabilize South Sudan? Mark Leon Goldberg August 12, 2016 There is an important vote at the Security Council today to extend and expand the mandate of the beleaguered UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan. The resolution will likely pass. But the weeks that follow will be a key test of the international community's...
Five Powerful Photos from South Sudan Mark Leon Goldberg July 8, 2016 South Sudan commemorates its fifth anniversary as an independent country on July 9. But the half decade since independence has not been kind to the world's youngest country. In December 2013 a civil war broke out between rival political factions, displacing mi...
The World’s Newest Country Turns Five and There’s Not Much to Celebrate Mark Leon Goldberg July 7, 2016 On July 9, South Sudan commemorates its 5th independence day. And I say "commemorates" and not "celebrates" because there is not a whole lot to celebrate. The country has been mired in conflict since late 2013, when a political dispute between president Sa...
