Publications

This Weekly Review analyses the looming legitimacy crisis in South Sudan and how it may be averted. With the scheduled December 22 general elections as announced by the Chairperson of the National Elections Commissions (NEC), the President is bound by the provisions of the National Elections Act to dissolve by...

This Brief reviews South Sudan's economic diversification challenges and opportunities, focusing on agriculture, mining, and tourism. The research employs a systematic literature review to identify gaps and assess the complexities of diversification in resource-rich, post-conflict nations.

This Brief explores the causes of South Sudan’s spiraling inflation and depreciating currency, as well as the policy interventions needed to stabilize the currency and by extension, the economy. The immediate cause of the crisis is clear: pipeline disruptions due to the ongoing conflict across the border in Sudan have...

Anaerobic technology is a biotechnological intervention that has been employed for decades to treat organic waste streams producing methane-rich biogas as a significant energy carrier capable of being turned into electricity and heat. Biogas is an important component of the green energy sources which could partially solve energy crisis in...

This Review assesses the recently passed South Sudan’s National Elections Act, 2023 based on the crucial question of delineating new geographical constituencies ahead of the December 2024 general elections. The Review analyzes the constituency threshold formula proposed by the National Elections Act and uses the suggested calculation guidelines to construct...

Cultural contextualization of constitutionalism is a pervasive post-colonial challenge in Africa, where operating constitutions remain Eurocentric. Not only are these constitutions European in origin, but the normative ideals they embody were not applied even by the colonial governments who bequeathed them to the independent African states.

Recently the Council of Ministers of the Republic of South Sudan passed the country’s first land policy that says the “land shall belong to the people of South Sudan and shall be regulated by the government.” This has created emotional debates and contestations among citizens as it goes against the...

This Weekly Review assesses the South Sudan’s National Elections Act, 2023. This is paramount because the upcoming elections are crucial for democratic consolidation in the country. Time, however, is running out as there are only 14 months left before the elections are supposedly held.

On Thursday, April 6, 2023, South Sudan’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and other agencies, released what it calls Population Estimation Survey results (PES), putting the population at 12.45 million.

On Tuesday, February 21, 2023, the Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity (R-TGoNU) issued a Press Statement. It provided an update to the public, the region, and diplomatic community on the status of the implementation of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS), while...