Aly Verjee
Biography
Publications
Aly Verjee is a doctoral candidate at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. A fellow of the Rift Valley Institute, he was a visiting expert and then senior advisor to the Africa Center at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, DC. Previously, he was deputy and then acting chief of staff to the former president of Botswana, Festus Mogae, the chair of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission overseeing the 2015 peace agreement in South Sudan, and senior advisor to the chief mediator of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)-led peace process for South Sudan.
Five potential global consequences of Sudan’s escalating conflict
Even distant Australia could feel knock-on effects of a refugee crisis, gold smuggling and disruption to wheat crops.
Ethiopia’s crisis on the Blue Nile
Disputes over a new mega-dam foreshadow the importance of hydro-electric diplomacy in a water-scarce world.
Ethiopia matters to the world
But a fast-growing economy and a Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister won’t solve its problems.
Explaining China’s involvement in the South Sudan peace process
Most analyses of China’s relations with South Sudan begin and end with oil, but this is far from the whole story.
