Famine and the crisis of African development have become inseparably linked in popular
writing. Visual images of starvation are the icons of African failure, yet they have a dispelling …

The focus on entitlements, which is concerned with the command over commodities, has to
be seen as only instrumentally important, and the concentration has to be ultimately on basic …

In this paper we wish to explore, in theoretical terms, the inter-relations between poverty,
hunger and famine. In particular we argue that the locally and historically specific …

In popular representations of contemporary Africa the most compelling image, indeed the
leitinotif for the entire continent, is of crisis and decay. Consumed by famine, unrelenting …

This article analyses drought in Botswana as a 'revelatory crisis' in which structural
contradictions as well as deteriorating socio‐economic conditions are exposed …

During humanitarian crises, when population figures are often urgently required but very
difficult to obtain, remote sensing is able to provide evidence of both present and past …

After a decade of uneasy peace, the historic conflict between the North and South Sudanese
erupted into violent conflict in 1983 This ferocious civil war, witti its Arab militias and …

As a consequence of the US pursuit of neo-liberal global hegemony in the post-Soviet era,
the language of empire has returned to political discourse and social analysis after an eighty …

In 2004, the UN's Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan called Darfur the world's worst
humanitarian crisis. A comprehensive food aid programme soon followed, at the time the …

Since 2003, the ongoing violence and subsequent humanitarian crisis in Darfur has
attracted significant international media attention. Here, Noah R. Bassil offers a re …