Women who fled war in Sudan and requested anonymity because they feared retribution after reporting sexual exploitation, walk in a refugee camp in Adre, Chad, on 5 October, 2024. (Keystone/AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

💰Abuse scandal in Chad: Swiss government suspends payments to Médecins Sans Frontières. The humanitarian organisation failed to inform the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in a timely manner about the extent of the sexual exploitation of refugee women and girls by some of its own staff in 2023.

🗣️'Remembering El Fasher, the city I knew and the atrocities that changed it'. A year since the Rapid Support Forces seized control of the Sudanese city, carrying out atrocities that UN investigators have called genocide, journalist and El Fasher native Mohamed Zakaria shares a powerful first-person account of the siege and the fight to preserve the memory of a city that he loves.

🇺🇳Tusk laughs off report that MAGA is eyeing Orbán for UN top job. Asked about the Wall Street Journal report on Sunday that the Trump administration has encouraged Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to enter the race, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk described such a notion as "funny".

⚕️Budi Sadikin: physicist, banker, reformer – and a balance sheet expert for global health crises? In this daily series examining the records, and institutional hurdles facing each contender for WHO director general, Health Policy Watch notes that the Indonesian candidate stands out as the sole nominee whose career originated outside clinical medicine and epidemiology.