<span class="vcard">Brian Adeba</span>

Brian Adeba

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Brian Adeba (LinkedIn – X) is a policy advisor with The Sentry who has covered South Sudan for more than a decade. His peer-reviewed research on South Sudan has appeared in Intelligence and National Security and The RUSI Journal. He has also authored two book chapters on the region: “Sudan and South Sudan,” co-written with Jihad Mashamoun, in The Handbook of African Defence and Armed Forces (Oxford University Press, 2025), and “Benefitting a Few: Oil Rents in South Sudan,” in Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation (Routledge, 2021). 

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A tiny three-wheeled vehicle with open sides drives from right to left in the foreground across a wide dirt road in front of an embankment, beyond which a calm expanse of water extends to the mostly cloudy skyline with a bit of whitish sun glaring through. The silhouette of a goat can be seen standing or walking along the top of the embankment from left to right.
President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, in the door of an airplane, wearing a Black hat and Brown suit.
Women prepare raw groundnuts to cook at the Protection of Civilians (POC) site in Wau on February 1, 2020.

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