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Sudan crisis

Fighting broke out between the Sudan Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in Khartoum, Sudan, on 15 April 2023. The fighting rapidly spread to many other urban areas across the country, with all regions of Darfur particularly affected. Although both sides are currently discussing a possible truce in Saudi Arabia, there is no definitive sign of a cessation in fighting. Before the fighting broke out, humanitarian agencies expressed concern that up to a third of the Sudanese population were in need of assistance. The fighting has amplified an already dire situation and created new, interconnected crises including mass forced displacement, major disruptions to the provision of health care and food insecurity.

This page provides links to articles, blogs and relevant news media about the historical and socio-political dynamics underpinning recent events in Sudan. It also includes blogs from Sudanese social scientists who have been caught up in the violence. This page will be updated regularly with additional material and briefs in the coming weeks and months.

Amr Nabil / Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo
Photo credit: Amr Nabil / Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo
Sudanese evacuees wait under a plane at Port Sudan airport, Thursday, May 11, 2023.
Briefing

Female genital mutilation among Sudanese displaced populations in Egypt

A Key Considerations brief considering the drivers and dynamics of FGM practices in the context of forced displacement to inform culturally sensitive strategies for FGM prevention and response.
SSHAP
2024
Briefing

Mutual aid lessons and experiences from Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan

A Key Considerations brief based on the first case study of the volunteer networks known as Emergency Response Rooms, conducted June to August 2024.
Central and East Africa Hub
SSHAP
2024
Briefing

Humanitarian responses to famine and war in Sudan

This Key Considerations brief offers key information about the background to the civil war in Sudan, responses to the humanitarian crisis and reasons why relief has been inadequate, setting out opportunities to push against the obstacles or constraints to relief.
Central and East Africa Hub
SSHAP
2024
Briefing

Crisis in Sudan: Briefing note on displacement from Sudan to South Sudan

This Key Considerations brief focuses on the historical and socio-political dynamics humanitarian agencies need to consider when providing assistance to South Sudanese fleeing Khartoum and other parts of Sudan to South Sudan, and to Sudanese fleeing Sudan to South Sudan.
Central and East Africa Hub
SSHAP
2023
Infographic

Crisis in Sudan: Note on displacement from Sudan to South Sudan

This infographic summarises the insights from a recent briefing note on displacement due to the crisis in Sudan.
Central and East Africa Hub
SSHAP
2023
Case study

Strengthening health information surveillance: Implementing community-based surveillance in Sudan

This case study explores the 2018–22 implementation of a national community-based surveillance programme in Sudan designed to meet critical needs of the existing health surveillance system.
Central and East Africa Hub
SSHAP
2023
blog

Leaving Sudan: a cyclical journey to safety

This blog is a first-hand account written by Machar Diu Gatket, a South Sudanese social scientist currently fleeing the conflict in Sudan.
Central and East Africa Hub
Machar Diu Gatket
9 May 2023
news

As conflict escalates in Sudan, three urgent health issues need addressing

19th April 2023
In this article, one of our SSHAP fellows from Sudan, Mariam Sharif, shares an update on the conflict and three ways in which the healthcare infrastructure has been compromised.
Central and East Africa Hub
Blog

A widow’s story of survival and humanitarianism in the Sudans

The story of Nyapuottek, a widow from the Sudanese war, illustrates how fraught it can be to navigate changing relations during times of conflict and migration, and how such struggles can intersect with humanitarian initiatives.
Central and East Africa Hub
2023
Briefing

Sudan: Humanitarian access snapshot

This briefing note gives a snapshot of the humanitarian access situation in Sudan following the start of fighting in April 2023 as well as some insights into the overall humanitarian access situation since the military takeover in October 2021.
Central and East Africa Hub
ACAPS
2022
Report

Sudan: Update on the humanitarian situation with a focus on the impact on healthcare

This thematic report provides an update on the impact of conflict on Sudan’s healthcare system using a secondary data review of public sources.
Central and East Africa Hub
ACAPS
2022
Briefing

Sudan: Conflict briefing note

This briefing note describes the impact of the Sudan crisis on provision and humanitarian constraints.
Central and East Africa Hub
ACAPS
Article

Sudan hunger: ‘Children are facing the threat of death’

A news article looking at the crisis in Sudan.
Central and East Africa Hub
The New Humanitarian
2022
Briefing

High food prices, flooding and inter-communal clashes continue driving high needs

A Sudan food security outlook update describing different drivers of food insecurity among a range of vulnerable population groups.
Central and East Africa Hub
FEWS NET
2022
Article

A critical juncture for Sudan’s democratic transition

An expert commentary describing how international pressure is essential to reach an agreement that establishes a credible civilian government.
Central and East Africa Hub
2023
Briefing

One year after the coup: What next for Sudan’s Juba Peace Agreement?

This briefing considers the changing political situation in Sudan, exploring how the relationship between two key factions in the conflict has complicated discussions around the formation of a new political arrangement in Sudan.
Central and East Africa Hub
XCEPT
2022
Book chapter

Comparing peace processes: Sudan

This chapter examines how contests over military control were played out during peace negotiations and in the implementation of agreements in Sudan between 2002 and 2011.
Central and East Africa Hub
Routledge
2019
Briefing

Protection analysis update

This update analyses priority protection risks and recommendations with findings based on an analysis of protection monitoring actors and assessments by the Protection Sector, its AoRs, protection partners and reports produced by other agencies.
Central and East Africa Hub
Sudan Protection Cluster
2022
Research paper

Peace and the security sector in Sudan, 2002–11

This paper examines how contests over military control were played out during peace negotiations and in the implementation of agreements (including the manipulation or violation of the terms of agreements) in Sudan between 2002 and 2011.
Central and East Africa Hub
Taylor & Francis Online
2017
Research paper

Beyond scarcity: Rethinking water, climate change and conflict in the Sudans

This article critiques the emphasis on ‘scarcity’, ‘state failure’ and ‘under-development’ within discussions of environmental security, proposing instead an alternative model of environment-conflict relations.
Central and East Africa Hub
2014
Research paper

Sudan: International dimensions to the state and its crisis

This paper locates the internationalisation of Sudanese governance in a historical context.
Central and East Africa Hub
London School of Economics
2007
Research paper

The Lord’s Resistance Army in Sudan: A history and overview

This study examines the military history of the LRA in Sudan, the prospects for ending the conflict and the main challenges facing the peace talks.
Central and East Africa Hub
2006
Research paper

Conflict, trade and the medium-term future of food security in Sudan

This article considers that the classic neoliberal prescription of peace, growth and foreign investment may deepen (and obscure) the needs and grievances of those historically left behind in a dysfunctional development process.
Central and East Africa Hub
Wiley Online Library
2007
Article

Egypt: Police target Sudanese refugee activists

This Human Rights Watch article describes the political conditions and recent experiences of Sudanese refugees in Egypt which may shape how current Sudanese refugees are treated in the country.
Central and East Africa Hub
2022
Research paper

Sudan’s political marketplace in 2021: Public and political finance, the Juba agreement and contests

This paper examines the continuities and changes in Sudan’s political economy and political marketplace since the popular uprising in 2019 and the subsequent formation of a military-civilian transitional government.
Central and East Africa Hub
2021
Blog

The ‘real politics’ of taxation in post-revolutionary Sudan

Matthew Benson and, Raga Makawi describe Sudan's tax system and plans to search for domestic tax revenue to respond to economic, political and social uncertainty.
Central and East Africa Hub
London School of Economics
2021
Report

Assessment of communication, community engagement and accountability in Sudan

An assessment of response-wide communication, community engagement and accountability (CCEA) work with the affected population in Sudan.
Central and East Africa Hub
2021
Blog

The Sudan uprising and its possibilities: Regional revolution, generational revolution, and an end to Islamist politics?

Willow Berridge discusses parallels between the popular uprising in 2019 and Sudan’s two previous popular uprisings, the October Revolution of 1964 and the April Intifada of 1985.
Central and East Africa Hub
London School of Economics
2019
Research paper

Sudan: A political marketplace framework analysis

This paper provides a succinct analysis of Sudan as a political marketplace, offering a framework for analysing the Sudanese predicament so as to understand the implications of different courses of action.
Central and East Africa Hub
2019
Research paper

Political economy of violence against women in Sudan

An analysis of the main socio-economic, political and cultural factors contributing to the emergence and perpetuation of violence against women, especially in conflict-prone areas.
Central and East Africa Hub
2018
Report

Sudanese refugees in Chad: Passing the baton to no one

This Refugees International report describes the conditions faced by Sudanese refugees in Chad in recent history.
Central and East Africa Hub
2017
Research paper

Darfur refugees in Egypt: Suffering out of the spotlight

This paper describes the conditions faced by Sudanese refugees in Egypt in recent history.
Central and East Africa Hub
2016

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