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We need to know the economic impacts of Sudan’s ongoing conflict

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Sudan’s conflict is having major impacts on its fragile economy. We need accurate measures of these impacts to support conflict resolution and international aid efforts.

The past two years (2022–2023) have sadly witnessed a remarkable return of large-scale armed conflicts around the world. Armed conflicts — regardless of their scale — entail devastation. However, it is typically true that the bigger and more intense the conflict, the higher the casualties, greater the displacement of people, and the more adverse the economic consequences. However, the focus internationally on armed conflicts in terms of coverage, intervention and aid tends to be influenced by geopolitical factors, and some conflicts risk being overlooked. Sudan’s ongoing armed conflict is a prime example of this: it exacts substantial humanitarian and economic tolls, yet other major conflicts have garnered greater international attention.

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Fig. 1: Effects of Sudan’s ongoing armed conflict.

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The work was supported by the Sudan Strategy Support Program (SSSP), which is managed by IFPRI and is financially supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The funder had no role in the decision to publish or the preparation of this manuscript.

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  1. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Khartoum, Sudan

    Khalid Siddig

  2. Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Khalid Siddig & Mohammed Basheer

  3. Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

    Khalid Siddig

  4. Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Mohammed Basheer

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Siddig, K., Basheer, M. We need to know the economic impacts of Sudan’s ongoing conflict. Nat Hum Behav (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01883-y

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