[MSF] During this World Immunisation Week, MSF shares recommendations for how Gavi – which is developing its new five-year strategy amidst looming funding cuts – can strengthen collaboration between governments and humanitarian organisations to ensure that more children up until the age of at least five, especially those living in fragile and humanitarian settings, get their routine vaccinations.

[ISS] As a guarantor of the peace agreement, the African Union must urgently take action to de-escalate political tensions.

[The New Humanitarian] Juba — Humanitarian assistance has been a lifeline, and an alternative to state authority.

[Crisis Group] The UN Security Council will soon vote on the future of the peacekeeping mission in conflict-hit South Sudan. In this Q&A, Nazanine Moshiri discusses what is at stake and why climate and peace should remain part of the mission’s work.

[MSF] Infectious diseases specialist Diyani Dewasurendra was on assignment in Malakal, South Sudan, when a cholera outbreak began. She goes through what happened during the first 72 hours and explains why vaccination is important for bringing outbreaks under control.

[Crisis Group] Crisis Group’s Daniel Akech on stirrings of renewed civil war in South Sudan

[UN News] The number of civilians in South Sudan harmed by conventional parties to the conflict and other armed groups increased by 51 per cent in 2024, the UN Mission in the country (UNMISS) said on Thursday.

[ENA] Addis Ababa, — The United Nations relief agency called for a rapid de-escalation to ensure the protection of civilians and unimpeded humanitarian access after fighting in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State killed more than 180 people since March.

[allAfrica] Rights Groups Criticize New Zimbabwean Law That Curbs Civic Space

[OCHA] Briefing to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in South Sudan by Edem Wosornu, Director, Operations and Advocacy for OCHA, on behalf of Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator