Winnie Byanyima, executive director of UNAIDS, speaks during a press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, 24 March 2025. (Keystone/ Roman Levchkenko/UNAIDS via AP, file)

✂️UNAids to slash workforce by more than half as funding by US and other big donors disappears. The plan, which also includes relocating staff to cheaper cities, follows the recommendations of an expert panel saying the UN organisation should shrink its Geneva headquarters.

👋Who will come to the aid of a humanitarian system abandoned by the West? With the US and other traditional donors withdrawing assistance, emerging economies may fill the gap, though not necessarily through the UN.

👴🏼Countries must do more to address life-expectancy gap, WHO says. The World Health Organization reported that a 18.2 year gap between the top and bottom thirds of countries in terms of performance, needs to shrink to 8.2 years by 2040.

⛑️Why the ICRC prioritises sustainable presence in fragile regions. The aid organisation’s operations chief says that it can react more quickly with a better understanding of conditions on the ground.

👩🏻‍🍳Geneva fights to remain ‘kitchen’ of world diplomacy as Trump cuts bite. Geneva insiders reflect on what needs to be saved within the city’s international ecosystem.

🇸🇩ICJ dismisses genocide case by Sudan against UAE over RSF rebels. The International Court of Justice rejected the case noting that the Gulf state opted out of an article in the Genocide Convention allowing one nation to sue another state