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12th November 2021
As an entrenched military elite tries to protect extensive economic and political interests despite no public support, parts of the old regime are rea...

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20th October 2021
The Iran fuel shipment to Lebanon was significant not because of its size but because of what it signals about regional conflict.

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14th September 2021
A conversation with Joseph Diing Majok in South Sudan on his scholarship-winning research under the XCEPT programme.

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25th August 2021
Regime forces are staging a comeback in southern Syria, and this time Russia may be helping matters.

Podcast

21st July 2021
When the Myanmar military reclaimed power in February after a decade of democratic government, it disrupted the delicate peace process with Myanmar’s ...

Newsletter

23rd June 2021
Joint bulletin from the X-Border Local Research Network about recent research and activities from The Asia Foundation, Rift Valley Institute, and Malc...

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30th April 2021
After six days stationary in the Suez Canal, the Ever Given was finally unstuck. While its name will soon become a piece of trivia about blocking one ...

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26th April 2021
Jordan’s bahhara have suffered from a closed border with Syria, but efforts to resume informal trade ties continue.

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14th April 2021
The new coronavirus is spreading into conflict-affected states. The pandemic and efforts to contain it are much more likely to aggravate and multiply ...

Podcast

10th March 2021
RVI’s Magnus Taylor speaks with RVI researchers, Joseph Diing Majok and Nicki Kindersley, about their latest report, “Breaking Out of the Borderlands:...

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21st January 2021
By impeding research, Egypt curtails knowledge that can help resolve crises, especially in border areas.

Podcast

13th January 2021
Displaced Tastes is a collaborative research project run by the Rift Valley Institute and the Catholic University of South Sudan as part of the X-Bord...

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15th December 2020
Because of Covid-19 restrictions, researchers have had to find alternative ways of getting information.

Newsletter

2nd December 2020
How political, security and socio-economic developments affect the people living in contested borderlands and, reversely, how border dynamics shape ch...

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22nd October 2020
The rules of what is deemed acceptable political behavior are constantly shifting in Syria, with perilous consequences.

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