Here’s what else is happening

• 🛠️UN reform chief admits structural changes ‘difficult’, rules out further budget cuts. Guy Ryder, who is leading UN chief António Guterres’s reform push, says controversial merger proposals were to assess the merits of fusing organisations, not to force decisions on member states.
  Geneva Solutions (EN)
• 🤝Scoop: Global Fund, US agree on path around expanded gag rule. The health funder specialised in fighting Aids, malaria and tuberculosis says the US will not place conditions on its funding, bypassing Washington’s ban on funding going to programmes that promote abortion as well as diversity, equity and inclusion.
  Devex 🔐 (EN)
• 👨🏻‍💻Blurring the lines: when does a civilian hacker become a combatant? A report by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Geneva Academy warns that warfare strategies aimed at mobilising all parts of society raise questions about the protection that humanitarian law grants non-combatants.
  Swissinfo (EN)
• 🦠Ebola outbreak in Congo still spreading, WHO says. A World Health Organization representative in Bunia said some treatment centres were up to 90 per cent full.
  Reuters (EN)
• 🎧Inside Geneva: Can a woman lead the UN? Podcast host Imogen Foulkes speaks to the candidates vying to become the first woman to lead the world organisation.
  Swissinfo (EN)