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Vid millennieskiftet började det svenska bolaget Lundin Oil leta efter olja i södra Sudan. Krig pågick i området sedan 1983. När Lundin Oil etablerade sig i den lilla byn Rubkona i södern blev det nödvändigt att anlita militärt beskydd. Därmed ble...

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In the late nineteenth century, an active slave trade sustained social and economic networks across the Ottoman Empire and throughout Egypt, Sudan, the Caucasus, and Western Europe. Unlike the Atlantic trade, slavery in this region crossed and mix...

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Robert D. Kaplan is one of our leading international journalists, someone who can explain the most complicated and volatile regions and show why they're relevant to our world. In Surrender or Starve, Kaplan illuminates the fault lines in the Horn ...

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Analysing three cases of British colonial violence that occurred in the latter half of the 19th century, this book argues that all three share commonalities, including the role of racial prejudices in justifying the perpetration of extreme colonia...

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Expanded third edition of this key text on the complex underlying conditions of the civil war from the 1960s to the present day, including a new chapter on the current wars in Sudan's new south and South Sudan. Sudan's post-independence ...

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World Fantasy Award för bästa roman. Onyesonwu föds som ewu - ett barn som blivit till i en krigsvåldtäkt. Onyesonwu är misstrodd och utstött, samtidigt som hon inte vill annat än att smälta in. Det är inte bara det som gör henne annorlunda. Hon h...

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This book, first published in 1974, is a study of the two states which dominated the northern and western regions of Sudan from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century: the Funj kingdom of Sinnr and the Keira sultanate of Dr Fr. Until now the hist...

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NATALIE GERAMI får sin dröm uppfylld och reser med Läkare utan gränser till Sudan för att jobba som logistiker. Väl på plats drabbas hon av de svårigheter som finns med att arbeta i ett fattigt och konfliktdrabbat land, i en patriarkal kultur, i e...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the Unit...

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The fabled land of Nubia, whose very name means 'gold,' was famous in ancient times for its supplies of precious metal, exotic material, and intricate craftsmanship. Many of the adornments made in Nubia are masterpieces of the jeweler's art-marvel...

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After a decade of uneasy peace, the historic conflict between the Northern Sudanese, who identify with their Middle Eastern neighbors, and the Southern Sudanese, who are of African heritage, erupted into violent conflict in 1983. This ferocious ci...

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Children are today worldwide being released and let back into their communities, after years of abuse and violations against their rights. According to The Convention on the Rights of the Child, a child is protected from involvement in direct host...

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Over two separate twelve-year periods, two opposing states governed in parallel in Angola (19791991) and Sudan (19902002), each with competing conceptions of society, history and national identity. Deeply dividing communities with their counter-na...

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Christopher Award Winner Los Angeles Times Bestseller Washington Post Top 100 Books of the Year SelectionA stunning literary survival story of three young Sudanese boys, two brothers and a cousin,hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a moving, beauti...

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A concise and illuminating account of the turbulent history, economics, and culture of Sudan, this timely book is essential for anyone who wants to know more about the complicated country and the changes to come with the independence of South Suda...

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The crisis in Darfur has led to systemic and widespread murder, rape, and abduction, as well as the forced displacement of millions of civilians. It presents a defining moral challenge to the world. "The World and Darfur" brings together...

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NATALIE GERAMI får sin dröm uppfylld och reser med Läkare utan gränser till Sudan för att jobba som logistiker. Väl på plats drabbas hon av de svårigheter som finns med att arbeta i ett fattigt och konfliktdrabbat land, i en patriarkal kultur, i e...

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This book is about the Sudan Campaigns fought during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. This book covers the complete saga from 1883 – 1899.

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The British Empire at war in the deserts of Egypt and the Sudan This special Leonaur edition combines into a single volume two works concerning the campaigns of the British Army in Egypt and the Sudan during the later Victorian era. The text is su...

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NATALIE GERAMI får sin dröm uppfylld och reser med Läkare utan gränser till Sudan för att jobba som logistiker. Väl på plats drabbas hon av de svårigheter som finns med att arbeta i ett fattigt och konfliktdrabbat land, i en patriarkal kultur, i e...

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Love, corruption, violence and the dangerous politics of aid in the Sudan, by an exciting new writer. Emma McCunes passion for Africa, her unstinting commitment to the children of the Sudan, and her striking glamour set her apart from other aid wo...

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Love, corruption, violence and the dangerous politics of aid in the Sudan, by an exciting new writer.Emma McCune's passion for Africa, her unstinting commitment to the children of the Sudan, and her striking glamour set her apart from other aid wo...

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Internet of Things in Biomedical Engineering presents the most current research in Internet of Things (IoT) applications for clinical patient monitoring and treatment. The book takes a systems-level approach for both human-factors and the technica...

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When South Sudan's war began, the Beatles were playing their first hits and reaching the moon was an astronaut's dream. Half a century later, with millions massacred in Africa's longest war, the continent's biggest country split in two. It was an ...

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This book addresses the question, 'Why has UN state-building so consistently failed to meet its objectives?'. It proposes an explanation based on the application of complexity theory to UN interventions in South Sudan and DRC, where the UN has bee...

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De Waal examines the famine in Dafur, Sudan in 1984 - 5, and aid agencies' response to it. De Waal claims that humanitarian aid can be made more effective by looking at the underlying causes of local response to disaster rather than relying simply...

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This account of one of the Sudan's remotest provinces provides the historical context for the early classics of British social anthropology. It contains descriptions of local life by some of the first British officials to become conversant in the ...

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Made famous through Evans-Pritchard's ethnography, the Nuer are the second largest ethnic group in South Sudan. They were the object of Britain's last pacification campaign in Africa. The contemporary administrative reports and more recent intervi...

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Authored by scholars, practitioners and scholar-practitioners, this volume marshals a kaleidoscope of perspectives on peace and peacemaking.

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In 2004, Darfur, Sudan was described as the "e;world's greatest humanitarian crisis."e; Twenty years previously, Darfur was also the site of a disastrous famine. Famine that Kills is a seminal account of that famine, and a social history o...

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