Answer: the usual. All very worrying.

Great extract from @ZachVertin’s book on South Sudan.

Effect as well as (partial) cause.

Juba was better in my day. But not much.

The last time the UN declared a famine was in 2011. Today we are on the brink of four.

First declared famine in the world for six years. Very sad.

Interview with an aid official.

Very sad. Unhappy fifth birthday. #fb

I recognise a lot of this. (Too kind to Gration.)

The return of the sacred dang in 2009.

Though I think it was ever thus.

Why not, indeed?

Appalling - UN offers military protection to local chief, Sudanese militia kill him anyway.

"There are more girls in 3 secondary schools in Oxford, UK, than in the whole of South Sudan, which has a population of 10 million people."

How not to be an ambassador!

Quotes "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People".

Intermittent clashes since January have in the past month turned into substantial military engagement on the ground, with repeated reports of aerial bombardment by Sudan.