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I'm Sara Salem.
I'm co-director of LSE Human Rights and an associate professor in the Department of Sociology.
And I'm really excited to be welcoming Dr.
Nisreen Elameen to LSE to speak about the politics of hunger in Sudan.
A special thank you to Maddie Giles and Yadna Rahman and the LSE events team
for making this event happen and also to our co-sponsors,
the Feroz Ralji Institute for Africa.
This lecture is our annual Human Rights Day lecture.
part of our human rights program in the department where we aim to speak to critical and transformative notions of justice and resistance in relation to or against certain notions of human rights.
So today's lecture touches on one of the most urgent crises of our contemporary moment unfolding in Sudan.
And the talk will explore how, as millions of Sudanese face starvation,
global markets are also experiencing a surge in the value of key Sudanese commodities such as gold,
gum Arabic,
and livestock that are smuggled out of the country to places like the United Arab Emirates,
Egypt, and Kenya.
This talk situates Sudan's current famine within a broader historical context of neoliberal economic restructuring,
U.S.