[African Arguments] During COVID-19, youth from different ethnic groups have worked together drawing on teamwork and friendships forged on the football pitch.

[SNA] Al-Damazine — Representative of Blue Nile State (BNS) Governor Ishraf Hassan Khidr has affirmed that Juba peace agreement achieved unprecedented number of gains for the state comparable to Nivasha agreement 2005.

[African Arguments] Debating Ideas is a new section that aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It will offer debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books.

[State Department] Today, at the UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting, “A Dialogue with the World’s Top Ten Donors on Global Humanitarian Needs,” hosted by the United States, we announced nearly $108 million in humanitarian assistance for the people South Sudan, including South Sudanese in neighboring countries.  This funding includes nearly $97 million from the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration and more than $11 million from the U.S. Agency for International

[UN Women] The impacts of crises are never gender-neutral, and COVID-19 is no exception.

[USAID] Statement by USAID Acting Administrator John Barsa

[MSF] Doctors Without Borders (MSF) teams are deeply concerned by the impact of the ongoing severe and fierce flooding across South Sudan where anestimated 500 000 people have been displaced.

[SNA] Khartoum — The Minister of Petroleum of the Republic of South Sudan arrived in Khartoum Tuesday on a visit to Sudan to discuss ways and means of boosting technical cooperation in the field of oil between the two countries.

[OHCHR] The Human Rights Council this morning held separate interactive dialogues with the Commission of Inquiry on Burundi and the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan, and started an interactive dialogue with the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

[African Arguments] Hit by 30% ration cuts and with no land to grow our own food, South Sudanese refugees in Uganda are stuck between a rock and a hard place.