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Famine in the Sudan: causes, preparedness and response. A political, social and economic analysis of the 1998 Bahr el Ghazal famine

Deng, Luka Biong

This paper analyses the causes of the Bahr el Ghazal famine in 1998 as a chain of political, environmental, economical and social factors, as well as a failure of public action and early warning systems. The famine emerged from a long history of exploitation and repression by successive governments in the Sudan that aimed at destroying the lives of civil population in Bahr el Ghazal region.