Southern Sudan - the ten southern provinces of Sudan - has attained autonomy and may soon achieve total independence … from Sudan. Yet decades of civil war not only prevented development but destroyed the infrastructure left over from the … colonial period. While Southern Sudan is fortunate to have oil resources that can finance building up the new nation, the task …

commodity prices and the onsets of conflict events in Sudan. Using monthly data ranging from January 2001 through December 2012 … Autoregression (SVAR) and Linear Non-Gaussian Acyclic Model (LiNGAM), we find that wheat price is a cause of conflict events in Sudan …