On 13 April 2025, during a visit to an African country, a former French colony, my host had the TV on in the background. France 24 channel, a state owned, publicly funded news network was showing a report commemorating the 50th anniversary of the start of the Lebanese civil war in 1975. This surprised me. …
Mit der Unterzeichnung des Waffenstillstandsabkommens1 mit Israel am 27. November 2024 kehrte im Libanon der Schein von Normalität ein. In Teilen des Landes spricht man unbeschwert von baad el harb – „nach dem Krieg“. Doch für viele Libanes:innen hat der Krieg nie aufgehört. Der libanesische Informationsminister meldete über 2.700 Verstöße2 gegen den Waffenstillstand3 durch Israel. …
In Lebanon, a refugee can build your house, harvest your crops, and care for your children, but cannot legally be a nurse, a lawyer, or a mechanic. Lebanon is home to one of the highest per capita refugee populations in the world. Since the 1948 Nakba and again with the outbreak of the Syrian war …
Lebanon’s systemic dysfunction is a story of state capture – a political elite hollowing out public institutions while outsourcing their responsibilities to multilateral lenders and NGOs (Fawaz and Harb, 2020; Merhej, 2021; Merhej and Ghreichi, 2021; Heller, 2023). As government accountability evaporates, multilateral development banks including the World Bank Group (WBG), have stepped in to …
2025 marks many round anniversaries of conflicts. It has been 80 years since Nazi Germany got defeated, 50 years since the Vietnam war ended, 50 years since the Cambodian genocide and 30 years since the Srebrenica genocide ended. Anniversaries rarely mean coherent remembrance. 50 years ago, on April 13 1975, the Lebanese Civil War is …
„Wer glaubt, er habe den Libanon verstanden, dem hat man ihn nicht richtig erklärt“, lautet ein berühmtes libanesisches Sprichwort. Denn was heute gilt, könnte schon morgen wieder anders sein. Libanon ist ein Land geprägt von Widersprüchen, traditionell und modern, vermeintlich zersplittert entlang religiöser Linien und doch säkular, mit einer Hauptstadt, die sich jung und kraftvoll …
Hassan Kamil is a Sudanese photographer, filmmaker, and storyteller whose work explores various cultural and historical themes. He is also the author of the photo used for the cover illustration by Yasmin El Nour in the print version of UNEINS Impulse Sudan.
In Sudan, hunger is not only a humanitarian emergency, it is a military strategy. For decades, starvation has been instrumentalized as a weapon of war, wielded by governments and militias alike. The current crisis unfolding in the country, following the outbreak of fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) …
In this personal essay, Hala Alkarib talks about the documentation of sexual violence by military forces in Sudan. Hala is the regional director of the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA Network). SIHA is a network of grassroots women’s groups throughout the greater Horn of Africa. Its primary focus is on …
How does the Sudanese war impact refugee movements? Eiman Salih addresses this question in the following case study of refugee movements from Sudan to Egypt. War erupted in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, on April 15, 2023 a Saturday morning just a few days before Eid al-Fitr and the end of Ramadan. More than 10 …