Separatism in South Cameroon: Sources and Prospects by T. S. Denisova, S. V. Kostelyanets

“…In the 2010s, the issue of separatism in Africa gained special significance in connection with the emergence in 2011 of a new state – the Republic of South Sudan (RSS), where a military and political conflict has continued throughout the entire period of independent development, accompanied by massive casualties among the civilian population. …”
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Characterising the scale-up and performance of antiretroviral therapy programmes in sub-Saharan Africa: an observational study using growth curves by Benjamin Bigelow, Stéphane Verguet

“…We fitted non-linear regressions for the two models, assessed goodness of fit using the Bayesian information criterion (BIC), and ranked countries based on their estimated performance drawn from the fitted model parameters.Results We extracted country performance in rates of scale-up of ART coverage, which ranged from ≤2.5 percentage points per year (South Sudan, Sudan, and Madagascar) to ≥8.0 percentage points per year (Benin, Zimbabwe and Namibia), using the Gompertz model. …”
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Range dynamics of Anopheles mosquitoes in Africa suggest a significant increase in the malaria transmission risk by Peixiao Nie, Chunyan He, Jianmeng Feng

“…Additionally, we predicted high range overlap index in West Africa, East Africa, South Sudan, Angola, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo under future scenarios. …”
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A revision of Xylopia L. (Annonaceae): the species of Tropical Africa by David M. Johnson, Nancy A. Murray

“…Five new species are described in section Stenoxylopia: Xylopia nilotica sp. nov. from Sudan, South Sudan, and Uganda, Xylopia calva sp. nov. from Nigeria and Cameroon, which is allied to X. phloiodora, and Xylopia monticola sp. nov. from Nigeria and Cameroon, X. piratae sp. nov. from Ivory Coast and Ghana, and X. unguiculata sp. nov. from Gabon. …”
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Rare causes of genital fistula in nine African countries: a retrospective review by Carrie J. Ngongo, Thomas J.I.P. Raassen, Marietta Mahendeka, Ladeisha Lombard, Jos van Roosmalen, Marleen Temmerman

“…Methods This retrospective records review focuses on rare fistula causes among 6,787 women who developed fistula after 1980 and sought treatment between 1994 and 2017 in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Somalia, and South Sudan. We compare fistula etiologies across countries and assess associations between rare causes and type of incontinence (urine, feces, or both). …”
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Exploring trauma and resilience of Urban South Sudanese refugees in Sudan by Shima Bashir, Shahla Eltayeb, Alia Badri

“…The study used a qualitative analysis approach and conducted in-depth interviews with 15 refugees from South Sudan residing in White Nile State refugee camps in Sudan. …”
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ADHERENCE TO THE ROUTINE NON-PHARMACOLOGIC INTERVENTIONS AMONG PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC ILLNESSES AT A RURAL HEALTH FACILITY SETTING OF UGANDA. A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY. by Irene Nakimera, David Serunjogi

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COVID-19’s Impact on Food Security among Urban Refugee Youth in Kenya: A Postcolonial Feminist Perspective by Cherie Enns, Samuel Owuor, Abbey Lin, Kristin Swardh, William Kolong

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Projecting malaria hazard from climate change in eastern Africa using large ensembles to estimate uncertainty by Joseph Leedale, Adrian M. Tompkins, Cyril Caminade, Anne E. Jones, Grigory Nikulin, Andrew P. Morse

“…While the two malaria models produce very distinct transmission patterns for the recent climate, their response to future climate change is similar in terms of sign and spatial distribution, with malaria transmission moving to higher altitudes in the East African Community (EAC) region, while transmission reduces in lowland, marginal transmission zones such as South Sudan. The climate model ensemble generally projects warmer and wetter conditions over EAC. …”
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Commentary: mobile laboratories for SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics: what Europe could learn from the East African Community to assure trade in times of border closures by Florian Gehre, Hakim Lagu, Emmanuel Achol, Michael Katende, Jürgen May, Muna Affara

“…Since May 2020, the National Public Health Laboratories of Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and South Sudan deployed these mobile laboratories to their respective borders, issuing a newly developed “Electronic EAC COVID-19 Digital Certificate” to SARS-CoV-2 PCR-negative truck drivers, thus assuring regional trade. …”
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Reducing onchocerciasis-associated morbidity in onchocerciasis-endemic foci with high ongoing transmission: a focus on the children. by Robert Colebunders, Christoph Kaiser, Maria-Gloria Basáñez, Piero Olliaro, Tom Lakwo, Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo

“…However, onchocerciasis remains a major public health problem in areas of South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, and the Central African Republic. …”
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Combat readiness, alcohol abuse, and posttraumatic stress disorder among Uganda peoples’ defence forces soldiers by Elias A. Baguma, Bives Mutume Nzanzu Vivalya, Patric O. Ocen, Rosco Kasujja

“…Abstract Background This cross-sectional study assessed combat readiness, alcohol abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among Uganda Peoples’ Defense Forces (UPDF) soldiers returning from Operation Lightning Thunder (OLT) in South Sudan and Central African Republic. Methods One hundred fifty participants recruited from UPDF soldiers who had recently withdrawn from OLT, and were based in Singo Peace Support Operation School were screened for combat readiness, alcohol abuse and PTSD. …”
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Too complicated for the field? Measuring quality of care in humanitarian aid settings by Roland Kersten, Götz Bosse, Frank Dörner, Andrej Slavuckij, Gustavo Fernandez, Michael Marx

“…This study tried to address this gap by introducing a new approach to systematically measure quality of care in a project of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Agok area, between South Sudan and Sudan. Our objective was to obtain a valid snapshot of quality of care for a MSF project in three weeks that has the potential to serve as a baseline for quality improvement strategies. …”
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Migration: The aftershocks to the provision of healthcare by Stephan Lobitz

“…At the end of 2016, more than 17.2 million refugees (+ 5.3 million Palestinians) were on the run outside their home countries. 55% of them fled from Syria (5.5 million), Afghanistan (2.5 million) and South Sudan (1.4 million), respectively. The top hosting countries were not, in fact, the Southern and Western European or North American, but some of the poorest countries in the world. …”
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The right to health as the basis for universal health coverage: A cross-national analysis of national medicines policies of 71 countries. by S Katrina Perehudoff, Nikita V Alexandrov, Hans V Hogerzeil

“…Overall, South Africa (1996), Indonesia and South Sudan (2006), Philippines (2011-2016), Malaysia (2012), Somalia (2013), Afghanistan (2014), and Uganda (2015) include the most relevant texts and can be used as models for other settings. …”
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Self-reliance in Kalobeyei? Socio-economic outcomes for refugees in north-west Kenya by Betts, A, Omata, N, Geervliet, R, MacPherson, C, Rogers, C, Sterck, O

“…Kenya hosts nearly 500,000 refugees.1 Most of these refugees are from Somalia, but Kenya also hosts refugees from South Sudan, Ethiopia, DRC, Burundi, and Sudan. Historically, most of the refugees have been concentrated in three main locations: the Dadaab camps, the Kakuma camps and Nairobi. …”

China's evolving role in African conflict involvement: a balance of national interests, international expectations, and host-country receptiveness by Wu, H

“…A comparison between controlled pairs across five case studies – the Darfur crisis before and after 2006, the Gulf of Aden counter-piracy campaign before and after the hijacking of the Chinese vessel De Xin Hai, and the South Sudan civil war – allows tracing the mechanism by which the determinants interact with each other and demonstrating the causal relationships between the determinants and the policy outcome. …”

Mosaic maternal ancestry in the Great Lakes region of East Africa by Gomes, V, Pala, M, Salas, A, Álvarez-Iglesias, V, Amorim, A, Gómez-Carballa, A, Carracedo, Á, Clarke, D, Hill, C, Mormina, M, Shaw, M, Dunne, D, Pereira, R, Pereira, V, Prata, M, Sánchez-Diz, P, Rito, T, Soares, P, Gusmão, L, Richards, M

“…Despite an inferred linguistic origin in South Sudan, the data from the two Nilotic-speaking groups point to a much more complex history, involving not only possible dispersals from Sudan and the Horn but also large-scale assimilation of autochthonous lineages within East Africa and even Uganda itself. …”

Changes in biomass burning, wetland extent, or agriculture drive atmospheric NH₃ trends in select African regions by J. E. Hickman, N. Andela, N. Andela, E. Dammers, L. Clarisse, P.-F. Coheur, M. Van Damme, C. A. Di Vittorio, M. Ossohou, M. Ossohou, C. Galy-Lacaux​​​​​​​, K. Tsigaridis​​​​​​​, K. Tsigaridis​​​​​​​, S. E. Bauer

“…In contrast, NH<span class="inline-formula">₃</span> VCDs declined over the Sudd wetlands in South Sudan by over 1.5 % yr<span class="inline-formula">⁻¹</span>, though not significantly (<span class="inline-formula"><i>p</i>=0.28</span>). …”
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Cost effectiveness and return on investment analysis for surgical care in a conflict-affected region of Sudan. by C Phifer Nicholson, Anthony Saxton, Katherine Young, Emily R Smith, Mark G Shrime, Jon Fielder, Thomas Catena, Henry E Rice

“…This CER is far less than the gross domestic product per capita in the comparator economy of South Sudan ($585), qualifying it as very cost-effective by World Health Organization standards. …”
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