Denmark and Britain have recently included Rwanda as an intermediary country for asylum seekers, but is it beneficial for refugees? Staff writer Tilde Bergström examines this issue.
Welcome, but not here: outsourcing asylum seekers
Africa
SUDAN WEEK – UNITAMS Sudanese Political Dialogue Process … Success or Failure?
For the final installment of SUDAN WEEK, Maha Tambal, Hubert H Humphrey fellow at American University Washington College of Law and scholar with vast experience of projects regarding the Sudanese democratic transition, writes on the challenges of the UNITAMS efforts of facilitating political dialogue.
SUDAN WEEK – Sudanese media is waging a “battle of freedoms”
In the second installment of SUDAN WEEK, journalist Elsadiq Elbidari explains the challenges of the Sudanese media professionals under both the dictatorship and the Transitional Council.
SUDAN WEEK – Security and state-making – arguments for a subaltern security approach in the case of Sudan and South Sudan
In the first installment of Utblick’s SUDAN WEEK, Sudanese PhD Student and scholar Yasir Zaidan makes the case for a subaltern security approach in the conflict between Sudan and South Sudan.
Bitter Sweet: The Chocolate Industry’s Testimony to Global Injustice
The global economic system is constructed in a manner which excludes the majority of people keeping it afloat. In this piece, staff writer Linnea Björk discusses this in relation to the chocolate business, not least in West Africa.
A History of Dictators – Recent Developments of the Crisis in Sudan
Sudanese guest writer Sara Mohamed explains pivotal events in Sudan’s interior politics from the 1940’s to today, and what events preambled the current turmoil.
Boys will be… sexual violence victims too
For our Neglected Issue, Vilma Ellemark wrote of the important and too often forgotten subject of male victims of conflict related sexual violence.
Cornered and forgotten – 45 years of decolonization for Western Sahara’s refugees
Isabel Wilson writes about the conflict of Western Sahara and the people who have been caught in the middle, displaced, vulnerable and forgotten.
The Destabilization of Ethiopia
Changes in climate, mounting tensions over control of the Nile …