Publications

Abyei Final Status: A Mismanaged and Unyielding Stalemate
Organization: The Sudd Institute
Type: Weekly Reviews
Date: 29/10/2013
As the month of October draws to a close, the future of the final status of the disputed region of Abyei remains disappointingly uncertain and extremely unpredictable. The unyielding stalemate between South Sudan and Sudan is a remarkable test that challenges not only the leadership and credibility of the African...

A Fallacy of Failed States Index: The Case of South Sudan
Author: Augustino Ting Mayai
Organization: The Sudd Institute
Type: Weekly Reviews
Date: 18/10/2013
A useful experimental tool, the FSI is intended to warn the world community against ramifications of states’ fragility. Precisely and rightly so, the Index postulates that state failure anywhere might have some serious implications for most, if not all, nations, particularly as the globalized and technologically connected world system is...

SPLM’s Internal Politics: A Catalyst to the Dissolution of Government
Author: Abraham Awolich
Organization: The Sudd Institute
Type: Policy Briefs
Date: 09/10/2013
This brief provides updates on the political developments within the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) party after the dissolution and the formation of the new government. This piece brief is a direct response to many inquiries that have come from multiple sectors of the society eager to understand what is...

An Emerging Diplomatic Row between Uganda and South Sudan
Authors: Jok Madut Jok, Augustino Ting Mayai
Organization: The Sudd Institute
Type: Policy Briefs
Date: 20/09/2013
The recent decision by the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of South Sudan to ban the use of motorcycles by foreign riders as commercial taxis known as Boda Boda has riled up the Ugandan workers in South Sudan who were victims of that decision. The events that followed, i.e.

President Salva Kiir’s Visit to Khartoum
Author: Adel Sandrai
Organization: The Sudd Institute
Type: Weekly Reviews
Date: 13/09/2013
The Sudd Institute analyzes the net gain from the visit of President Salva Kiir Mayardit to Khartoum, the driving factors behind the move to hold the Presidential Summit and the potential political backlash resulting from changing national political landscapes in South Sudan.

Police Service and Law Enforcement in South Sudan
Author: Jok Madut Jok
Organization: The Sudd Institute
Type: Special Reports
Date: 06/09/2013
South Sudan has been engaged in a daunting endeavor to build institutions of security, justice and national defense. In addition to decades of cataclysmic conflict with what is now the Republic of Sudan, the new state of South Sudan has had to face tensions within itself.

Restructuring the South Sudanese Federal Government: Political or Human Factor?
Author: Augustino Ting Mayai
Organization: The Sudd Institute
Type: Weekly Reviews
Date: 10/08/2013
On July 23, 2013, President Salva Kiir Mayardit issued some of the most courageous political/administrative decrees of all time, relieving the nation’s longstanding vice president of his post, suspending the chief administrator, the Secretary General of the ruling party, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), dissolving the executive branch of...

SPLM Leadership Contest
Author: Abraham Awolich
Organization: The Sudd Institute
Type: Policy Briefs
Date: 23/07/2013
The days surrounding the 2nd anniversary of independence have ushered in a tense political climate in Juba causing public concern across the country and beyond. This anxious political situation showcases the cracks within the top leadership of the nation’s ruling party, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM).

South Sudan’s Fight against Corruption: Are We Winning?
Author: Abraham Awolich
Organization: The Sudd Institute
Type: Weekly Reviews
Date: 03/07/2013
In a decree, issued on June 18, 2013, the President of the Republic, Salva Kiir Mayardit, in a rare move, lifted the immunity of two senior ministers in the government, Deng Alor and Kosti Manibe, to answer questions regarding their role in the an un-procedural transfer of nearly eight million dollars.

Regional Conferences in South Sudan Are Imperative
Author: Lual A. Deng
Organization: The Sudd Institute
Type: Weekly Reviews
Date: 25/06/2013
Justice Deng Biong has triggered an opportune and a healthy discourse on the relevance of regional conferences based on the colonial division of the South into three administrative provinces of Bahr el-Ghazal, Equatoria, and Upper Nile.