Manal Abdulaziz Mudir is a Sudanese refugee from Nuba mountains region/ South Kordofan, who happened to flee from South Kordofan to South Sudan in 2014 to seek protection and education. In 2019, she was offered a Scholarship by UNHCR under Dafi at Catholic University of South Sudan and graduated in 2023 with Bachelor’s in Conflict and Peace Studies. She then Joined Rift Valley Institute (RVI) as a cross-border researcher. Manal’s research examined changing livelihoods, and the impact of the current Sudan war on the South Sudan-South Kordofan borderlands and in Ajoung and Pamir camps.