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Seminar. Political economy of digital food assistance: experiences from the current Sudan Crisis, Cairo, November 19, 2025

Speakers: Tamer Abd Elkreem (University of Khartoum) and Susanne Jaspars (SOAS/University of London)
Date: Wednesday November 19th, 2025
Time: 2pm (Cairo Time)
Place: CEDEJ Cairo, Egypt

As part of the Digitalizing Food Assistance programme, CEDEJ Khartoum will host a presentation by Tamer Abd Elkreem and Susanne Jaspars on the preliminary findings from the second phase of their research on Sudan.
The presentation will focus on the experiences of people receiving (or not receiving) digital food assistance in Darfur, Gezira, Khartoum, and Kassala, while also addressing broader political economy questions surrounding the digitalization of aid. Topics will include the role of merchants in facilitating money transfers, the expansion of digital banking in army-controlled areas, and the implications of internet access through Starlink across different parts of Darfur. The discussion will further explore the role of the Sudanese diaspora, questions of global responsibility, and the consequences of outsourcing humanitarian assistance to digital platforms. in different parts of Darfur.

Tamer Abd Elkreem is senior a lecturer at the department of Sociology and Social Anthropology and the Deputy Director of Peace Research, University of Khartoum and is a Co-Investigator/Sudan lead researcher of the ESRC funded project “Digitalising Food Assistance: Political economy, governance and food security effects across the Global North-South divide”, hosted by SOAS, London. Co-project leader of Sudan Norway Academic Collaboration (SNAC). His research interest focuses on power relations of development, Anthropology of post-colonial state, anthropology of mega developmental projects and critical analysis of its discourses and practices in Sudan.

Susanne Jaspars is the principle Investigator of the same project. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the SOAS Food Studies Centre. Susanne researches the political dynamics of food in situations of conflict, famine, and humanitarian crisis. Ongoing interests include: regimes of food practices and power relations, social approaches to nutrition and accountability for mass starvation, European migration and asylum policies and their effects. She has worked mostly in the Horn of Africa, often Sudan.


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cedejsudan (10 novembre 2025). Seminar. Political economy of digital food assistance: experiences from the current Sudan Crisis, Cairo, November 19, 2025. CEDEJ Khartoum. Consulté le 17 juin 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/154hr


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