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Aid cuts and healthcare devastation in South Sudan

Among the countries worst affected from the sudden and wide-ranging US aid cuts is South Sudan. South Sudan relies on international assistance to provide basic services to its people. Cuts will devastate its healthcare system, including its ability to prepare for and respond to infectious disease outbreaks.

Central and East Africa Hub

Leben Moro

6 Apr 2025

Briefing

Post-trauma impacts in conflict-affected communities in northern Nigeria

This Key Considerations brief compares the biomedical framing of post-traumatic stress disorder with the social science understanding of the drivers of and possible solutions for mental health impacts of trauma.

West Africa Hub

SSHAP

2024

Report

Conflict-sensitive returns and integration in South Sudan

This research aims to provide a stronger understanding of the risks and opportunities associated with ‘returns’ and ‘integration’ in South Sudan, as well as highlight opportunities for conflict-sensitive (re)integration and early solutions activities.

Central and East Africa Hub

2024

news

Navigating insecurity in North Kivu, DRC: learning from humanitarian actors, civil society and research

9th April 2024

In December 2023, a workshop on the deteriorating security situation in North Kivu was held in Bukavu, South Kivu. Read more about the workshop in this short news item by Godefroid Muzalia from Groupe d’Etudes sur les Conflits et la Sécurité Humaine (GEC-SH) – a Central & East Africa Regional…

Central and East Africa Hub

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‘Sword in the water’: local peoples’ perceptions of NGOs in eastern DRC

In this blog, Sylvie Imata and Godefroid Muzalia, who work at Groupe d'Etudes sur les Conflits et la Sécurité Humaine (GEC-SH) - a Central & East Africa Regional Hub partner organisation - explore how humanitarian actors, including NGOs, can be aware of and sensitive to the needs and perceptions of…

Central and East Africa Hub

Sylvie Imata, Godefroid Muzalia

24 Oct 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

Nigeria Humanitarian Situation Report No.4: 1 January to 31 December 2022

Summanrises the humanitarian situation in Nigeria.

West Africa Hub

2023

Background report

Women,Peace and Casamance – A field study of how women organisations in Casamance, Senegal are working for peace

Drawing on feminist critical theory, this ethnographic study in Casamance examined how gender roles affect women and women organisations strive for peace. The research shows how embedded gender roles in the Senegalese society and the patriarchal system dominate, making it…

West Africa Hub

2018

Research paper

Violence and the body: somatic expressions of trauma and vulnerability during war

Drawing on ethnographic research conducted along the Sierra Leone-Guinea border during wartime, this article explores the contested nature of the body and bodily illness during times of spectacular political violence.

West Africa Hub

2006

Research paper

Rebel Recruitment and Migration: Theory and Evidence From Southern Senegal

The authors investigate whether the threat of recruitment by rebel groups spurs domestic and international migration, showing that individuals who fit the recruitment profiles of rebel groups are more likely to leave and be sent away by their families. The…

West Africa Hub

2022

Past horrors, present struggles: the role of stigma in the association between war experiences and psychosocial adjustment among former child soldiers in Sierra Leone.

We examined the role of stigma (manifest in discrimination as well as lower levels of community and family acceptance) in the relationship between war-related experiences and psychosocial adjustment (depression, anxiety, hostility and adaptive behaviors).

West Africa Hub

2010

How African civil wars hibernate: the warring communities of the Senegal / Guinea Bissau borderlands in the face of the Casamance forgotten civil war and the Bissau-Guinean state failure

This article focuses on the issue of how civil wars survive (post) conflict resolution and reconstruction policies at the edges of states through the local dynamics of cross-border areas.

West Africa Hub