Publication

Apr 2017

Since the 1980s, successive governments in Khartoum have relied on local militias to fight their wars in Sudan’s hinterlands. Conducting ‘counterinsurgency on the cheap’, however, has led to a twofold problem – 1) militia leaders are demanding more and more financial and political rewards for their services, and 2) their loyalty has become more unreliable. Given these problems, this brief’s author can’t help but conclude that maintaining a “paramilitary marketplace” in Sudan is not a ‘passport to peace’.

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Author Jérôme Tubiana (Editors: Emile LeBrun, Claire Mc Evoy)
Series Small Arms Survey HSBA for Sudan and South Sudan Issue Briefs
Issue 27
Publisher Small Arms Survey
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