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Briefing paper

31st March 2025

Localisation of Research and Evidence Generation in Conflict...

Zaki Ullah, Pamela Combinido
Practical lessons and guidance from the X-Border Local Research Network (LRN)’s experience on supporting equitable, locally embedded research in fragi...
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Southeast Asia South Asia and Southeast Asia South Asia Sahel Middle East and North Africa Middle East Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Blog

19th March 2025

XCEPT local research legacy: Xogta xuduudaha (knowledge of t...

Sahra Ahmed Koshin
Sahra Ahmed Koshin reflects on her transformative experience as a local researcher with the XCEPT programme, exploring the role of Somali women in cro...
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Somalia Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Ethiopia Migration Conflict Economies Borderlands

Blog

19th March 2025

XCEPT local research legacy: Sharing the experiences of wome...

Elizabeth Nyibol Malou
Elizabeth Nyibol Malou shares how her involvement in the XCEPT programme’s Local Research Network since 2018 has fostered valuable collaborations and ...
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Sudan South Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Migration Conflict Response Conflict Economies Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Publication

2nd October 2024

Research in displacement: The impact of war on Sudan’s highe...

Muna Mohamed Saied Elgadal
This report assesses the impact of war on Sudan’s higher education and academic research and how these institutions have, to some degree, continued t...
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Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Governance Conflict Response Conflict Economies Borderlands

Research report

29th July 2024

Transborder mobile money platforms in the greater Somali eco...

Ahmed M Musa
This XCEPT research paper from Rift Valley Institute explores the informal transborder movement of goods and people in the ‘greater Somali economic sp...
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Somalia Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Ethiopia Transnational Flows Governance Conflict Economies Borderlands

Research report

29th July 2024

The triple burden: women selling their labour in South Sudan

Elizabeth Nyibol Malou
This study explores the labour burdens of women in agriculture, based on interviews conducted in Western Bahr al-Ghazal and other areas of Sudan.
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South Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Governance Gender Conflict Economies

Research report

24th May 2024

War and the Borderland: Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea at a Time o...

This XCEPT research paper from the Rift Valley Institute highlights the significant changes in internal dynamics in Sudan and Ethiopia since late 2022...
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Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Ethiopia Violent Extremism Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Blog

30th August 2022

Frontier Farming: Along the War-Torn Ethiopia-Sudan Border, ...

The capture of fertile agricultural land in Western Tigray and the eastern Sudanese Al Fashaga region sheds light on how profits from cash crops help ...
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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Conflict Economies Borderlands

Event

20th July 2022

Virtual Launch Event: Border Towns, Market and Conflict

As part of the Cross-Border Conflict Evidence, Policy and Trends (XCEPT) program, the X-Border Local Research Network held a report launch event to ex...
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Syria Sudan Southeast Asia South Sudan South Asia and Southeast Asia South Asia Pakistan North Africa Middle East and North Africa Middle East Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Afghanistan Governance Conflict Response Borderlands

Blog

23rd March 2022

What are the Causes of Somaliland’s Drought Crisis?

Ahmed M. Musa
This blog is the first in a series published by the Rift Valley Institute to help understand the causes of the drought-related crisis in the Somali re...
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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Borderlands

Research report

12th January 2022

Social Media and the Transnational Everyday

Peter Chonka
Mobility, opportunity and risk in Hargeisa, Somaliland.
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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Transnational Flows

Briefing paper

16th December 2021

What Next for the Juba Peace Agreement After the Coup in Sud...

This report considers what impact recent events may have on the Juba Peace Agreement and, more generally, peace and security in Sudan’s conflict affec...
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Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Conflict Dynamics

Blog

1st December 2021

Can Ethiopia Avert Deep Turmoil and Prioritize Peace?

Ahmed Soliman
Ethiopia’s devastating civil war recently entered into its second year and, to achieve peace, both sides in the conflict need to accept some difficult...
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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Governance Conflict Response Conflict Dynamics

Research report

30th November 2021

Trade, Taxes and Tensions in the Somali Borderlands

Tobias Hagmann
Trade, Taxes and Tensions explores how cross-border trade affects both cooperation and conflict between the states and state-like entities in the Soma...
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Somalia Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Transnational Flows Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Event

20th August 2020

World Bank Fragility Forum: The ‘Transnational Everyday’ in ...

Sahra Ahmed Koshin, Freddie Carver, Hannah Stogdon
A focus on recent research on local populations’ everyday experience of transnational connectedness in the Horn and the implications for the aid and d...
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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Transnational Flows Conflict Response Borderlands

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