New HSBA Situation Update on the Political Economy of Port Sudan, Sudan

Although no official directive was made to relocate the capital to Port Sudan at the outbreak of war in April 2023, some government departments, diplomatic agencies, and international organizations have since set up shop in the eastern capital. This movement, however, seemingly ignores the fact that the city of Port Sudan does not possess the service competence, civil structure, or geopolitical stability to embrace a new capital for the fragile Sudanese state.

Port Sudan: The Political Economy of a Potential Administrative Capital—a new Situation Update from the Small Arms Survey’s Human Security Baseline Assessment for Sudan and South Sudan (HSBA) project—examines the fragile political landscape in and surrounding Port Sudan, and how this struggle continues to exacerbate the humanitarian suffering in the city. 

Read: Port Sudan: The Political Economy of a Potential Administrative Capital

For more, check out:

• Nuba Hopes and Fears: Fuelling SPLA-North Mobilization in South Kordofan—a Situation Update that examines the clashes between the three main political stakeholders in South Kordofan, Sudan
• Pay Day Loans and Backroom Empires: South Sudan’s Political Economy since 2018—a Briefing Paper on the predatory nature of the political economy in South Sudan
• The Human Security Baseline Assessment (HSBA) project page
• South Sudan outputs in our Resource Library

Other news from the Survey:

• New SANA Briefing Paper on the political economy of Tripoli’s Abu Salim
• New HSBA Situation Update on the SPLA-North mobilization in South Kordofan, Sudan
• The Small Arms Survey’s New 5-year Strategy
• New report on the political economy of armed groups in Libya
• New Blog Post: More firearms, more security, or greater gender violence in Chile?
• New Director at the Small Arms Survey: Dr. Mark Downes