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This report examines the performance of the Sudanese banking system. Building on STPT’s wartime analysis, “The Banking System During and After the War: Challenges and Policy Recommendations,” it offers a comprehensive analysis of the sector, including an overview of recent developments, an assessment of existing challenges and vulnerabilities, and a focus on critical areas such […]

(13 September 2023) STPT’s Executive Director, Suliman Baldo, today joined 54 other heads of organizations in calling for stronger UN action on Sudan. A disaster isunfolding before our eyes. With fighting continuing across the country, brutal sexual violence rising, widespread deliberate and indiscriminate attacks on civilians, and journalists and human rights defenders being silenced, the

September 4, 2023 The Sudan Conflict Monitor is a rapid response to the expanding war in Sudan written through a peacebuilding, human rights, and justice lens. Bi-weekly, we try to capture the five most important stories in Sudan. Please share it widely. Powered by Ayin, Human Rights Hub and the Sudan Transparency and Policy Tracker

Dr. Bakry Eljak Elmedni (August 30, 2023) In mid-April war erupted in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). As we edge towards six months since the conflict began, five realities started to become clearer. First, the conflict is metastasizing in ways that may be difficult to contain, for the conflict

Sudan’s Gold Curse, Briefing Paper No. 2 (August 29, 2023) Since April 15, 2023, the war in Sudan has further weakened the capacity and will of the government to control dangerous substances such as cyanide and thiourea which have already caused significant health and environmental damage and which has the potential to do more catastrophic

These are the top stories in this issue: ● Spreading war. Fighting is intensifying both in Khartoum and other key locations across the country.● The Islamist influence. Islamist leaders are conducting a recruitment campaign in eastern Sudan.● Mounting atrocities, sexual violence, and attacks on activists. Ongoing documentation efforts are showing targeting of civilians trying to

(July 24, 2023) After months of tireless work to create a broad-based consensus with diverse components, a Sudanese coordination group reported that it had reached a joint declaration of principles agreed upon by dozens of civil society organization, trade unions, youth and women’s groups and resistance committees. They represent a broad spectrum inside and outside

The war that erupted on April 15 between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is devastating Sudan and its people, killing thousands, displacing an estimated 2.8 million and exposing 25 million Sudanese to hunger. What both belligerents thought would be a lightning campaign has turned into drawn-out urban warfare that has

The Economic Impact of the War in Sudan No. 2 Since April 15, 2023, the war in Sudan has devastated the country and displaced its people, subjecting them to arbitrary killing, looting and deprivation of the most basic necessities of life. The main driver of this conflict is a war economy instilled under the kleptocratic rule of the Bashir

(July 12, 2023) Tomorrow, Thursday, July 13, 2023, ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan will brief the UN Security Council on the progress of the International Criminal Court in Darfur. Although the prosecutor has been carrying out such briefings biannually since 2005, this time, he will be doing so against the backdrop of an ongoing tragedy in