The Council on African Studies presents
Fayez Al-Silaik, Sudanese journalist and former media advisor for the Sudanese Prime Minister in 2020-2021 and Nathaniel A. Raymond, Executive Director of the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab:
“The Neglected Crisis: The Roots and Humanitarian Costs of Sudan’s War.”
Fayez Al-Silaik is a Sudanese journalist with over 30 years of experience in communication and human rights activism. He was the media advisor for the Sudanese Prime Minister in 2020-2021. He worked for the renowned London-based ‘Alsharq Alawsat’ newspaper from 2009-2011, and the Khartoum-based ‘Ajrass Al-Hurrya’ newspaper from 2008-2011. He is the author of “the backstages of Sudan’s transition’, a recently published book that explores the uneasy relationship between the different actors in Sudan’s aborted democratic transition.
Nathaniel A. Raymond is the Executive Director of the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) which monitors the ongoing conflict in Sudan through a combination of satellite imagery and open-source data analysis. He was a Lecturer of Global Affairs at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs from 2018 - 2022, and the director of the George Clooney-founded Satellite Sentinel Project at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), which utilized high resolution satellite imagery to detect and document attacks on civilians in Sudan and South Sudan, from 2010-2012. He advised the UN Mission in South Sudan on early warning of mass atrocities in 2015.