Amira Hassan is Horn Updates' Editor covering Sudan and South Sudan. A journalist and analyst with field experience in both Khartoum and Juba, she has spent the better part of a decade tracking the political, security, and humanitarian dimensions of two of the world's most complex crises.
Her work on Sudan spans the period from the fall of Omar al-Bashir in 2019 through the short-lived civilian transition, the October 2021 military coup, and the outbreak of full-scale war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in April 2023. She has written extensively on the humanitarian consequences of that conflict, including the displacement of over 10 million people and the collapse of the country's medical infrastructure.
On South Sudan, her focus is the implementation — and frequent non-implementation — of the 2018 Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan, the country's elections question, and the intersection of oil politics and elite violence. She joined Horn Updates because it offered a platform for the kind of sustained, analytical attention that Sudan and South Sudan rarely receive in international media.
The SAF-RSF war and its humanitarian dimensions; Sudan's political transition and the civilian movement; South Sudan's peace process and elections question; resource conflict and gold mining violence; cross-border dynamics between Sudan, Chad, and the Central African Republic; famine and displacement in the Sudanese conflict zone.
