Sudan

From being host to a net influx of refugees from neighbouring states in the 1970s and early 1980s, Sudan has become a generator of forced migration on an unprecedented scale, creating the world’s largest crisis of human displacement. Since 1983 two million Sudanese are reckoned to have died as a result of conflict. About a million have fled to neighbouring countries, and some six million - one sixth of the population - have been displaced within the country. The process has, until relatively recently, been accelerating. It took two decades of war in South Sudan to displace four million people, but less than three years to displace two million in Darfur.

This resource summary highlights a small selection of web-based resources available on FMO that focus on Sudan and Sudanese people, with particular regard to the issue of forced migration. Links are provided to full-text documents, journal articles, web resources, and organizations.

Research Guide

Verney, Peter. " FMO Country Guide: Sudan" (February 2006)
Also see the “Emergencies and Humanitarian Assistance” resource page.

Documents

Selected full-text documents (for more, search in the Digital Library)

An introduction to the food economy research in southern Sudan 1994-2000, WFP/Save the Children, 2000
Ending starvation as a weapon of war in Sudan, International Crisis Group, 2002
Forced Migration Review, No. 24, Special Issue on Sudan, November 2005
Imposing Aid: Emergency Assistance to Refugees, Barbara Harrell-Bond, 1986
Promoting humanitarian principles: the southern Sudan experience, Iaian Levine, RRN Network Paper, 1997
Sudan: Darfur: what hope for the future? civilians in need of protection, Amnesty International, 2005
Sudan: Towards an incomplete peace, International Crisis Group, 2003
Sudan: Who will answer for the crimes? Amnesty International, 2005
Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda: from one conflict to the next, Emmanuel Begenda & Lucy Hovil, Forced Migration Review 16, 2003
Sudan: Rape as a Weapon of War, Amnesty International
The Sudan/Eritrea emergency, May-July 2000: an evaluation of UNHCR's response, Arafat Jamal, UNHCR, 2000
Transnational linkages between refugees in Africa and in the diaspora, Dianna Shandy, FMR, 2003

Web Resources

Selected web-based information resources (for more, search the FMO website)

Africa Confidential
Country reports,Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict
The Black Book – Imbalance of Power and Wealth in Sudan – Part 1 (2001) and Part 2 (2002), Anonymous ('Seekers of Truth and Justice')
Internally displaced people in Sudan, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
Major documents concerning Dinka-Nuer peace process, Sudan Infonet
Occasional papers, Justice Africa
Reports: Torture in Sudan, Sudan Organisation against Torture (SOAT)
Sudanese Human Rights Quarterly, Sudan Human Rights Organization (SHRO). Cairo Branch