Yotam Gidron

Yotam Gidron is an African History PhD student at Durham University where he researches Christian Zionism in the Ethiopian-South Sudanese borderlands. He is the author of Israel in Africa: Security, Migration, Interstate Politics (Zed Books, 2020). He tweets at @GidronYotam.

Recent Articles
Anya-Nya recruits in southern Sudan learning how to use Bren guns provided by Israel, 1970. (Photographer unknown, Archivo Comboniani Roma)
Not a new dawn: Why the Israel-Sudan deal was a long time coming
With U.S. backing, Israel has long bribed Khartoum into cooperating on regional policy. Normalization is the latest stage in that history.
By Yotam Gidron October 30, 2020
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