The report examines how the war in Sudan has affected the land and real estate sectors. The war has not only destroyed large amounts of housing and other real estate resources, it has allowed real estate to be drawn into the war economy. Each of the parties seeks to control land in order to control resources emanating from them, with the SAF focusing on urban areas and the RSF focusing on resource rich zones.
Accompanying this has been an erosion of state institutions that administer land, opening up opportunities for private actors as well to exploit weaknesses for economic gain.
These uncertainties have also been used to target the legitimate claims to territory of vulnerable groups, such as the Kanabi in Gezira State.
The paper offers an overview of land related rights violations and then discusses how weaknesses in the pre-war administration contributed to these outcomes, how land is being exploited by the parties and finally makes recommendations as to how a more just post-war dispensation could be built.
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