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A Massive New Estimate of South Sudan’s Death Toll Is Released as the Country Takes Steps Toward Peace

Kimberly Curtis
September 28, 2018
A new report details the deadly toll of the civil war in South Sudan, one of the world’s most overlooked conflicts. The report puts the number of conflict related casualties at over 380,000 since the war began in December 2013, a number not that far behind the...

Will a New Arms Embargo Contribute to an Elusive Peace in South Sudan?

Joanne Lu
July 21, 2018
After years of consideration, the UN Security Council imposed an arms embargo on South Sudan last week. It’s the latest international response to the rapid breakdown of another short-lived attempt at peace in the country’s almost five-year-long civil war. T...

PODCAST: Tom Catena is a Hero Doctor of Sudan’s Nuba Mountains

Mark Leon Goldberg
June 18, 2018
For many years Tom Catena was the only doctor in the Nuba Mountain region of Sudan. This is an area on the border between Sudan and South Sudan. In 2011 it was the site of intense fighting between government forces and local groups aligned with the South. ...

New Research Finds a Link Between the Cost of Getting Married and the Outbreak Violent Conflict

Mark Leon Goldberg
August 31, 2017
The high price of getting married can lead young men to take up arms.That is the conclusion of a new cutting-edge research paper that finds a correlation between what is known as "brideprice" and the outbreak of violent conflict. Some 75% of the world'...
A UN Peacekeeping Unit in South Sudan patrols an area where conflict destroyed thousands of acres of cropland

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...
A community health worker with UNICEF partner Swiss-Kaalmo, based in Salamey Idale IDP camp in Somalia, goes door to door to spread health messages to mothers and children living in the camp. Photo: UNICEF/Rich

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...
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