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Food insecurity and unemployment crisis under COVID-19: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

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Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is struggling with unemployment and food insecurity, which became severe with the spread of COVID-19 pandemic and its containment measures. This paper aimed to present a systematic review of food insecurity and unemployment crisis in sub-Saharan Africa under COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, 1026 papers were retrieved from different sources, and 53 papers were included for the synthesis after screening and selection of retrieved papers. The review paper revealed that household livelihoods were disrupted,…

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COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in South Sudan; What Lessons Can be Learned From Angola’s Success Story?

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This short article explores the vaccine hesitancy in South Sudan. Vaccine hesitancy (the refusal or delay in vaccine uptake despite its accessibility) has been a long-standing challenge in South Sudan and appears to be a barrier to the uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine. The article identifies a number of challenges for vaccine uptake in the worlds newest country and furthermore outlines the case of Angola, which has been a success in vaccine uptake and could…

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Crisis responses, opportunity and public authority during Covid-19’s first wave in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan

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Discussions of African responses to Covid-19 have focussed on the state and its international backers. Far less is known about the role of a wider range of public authorities, including chiefs, professional associations, faith-based and civil society organisations, humanitarians, criminal gangs, local security services and armed groups. We begin to fill this gap by investigating how the pandemic provided opportunities for claims to and contests over power in areas of the Democratic Republic of the…

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Crisis responses, opportunity, and public authority during Covid-19’s first wave in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan

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Discussions on African responses to Covid-19 have focused on the state and its international backers. Far less is known about a wider range of public authorities, including chiefs, humanitarians, criminal gangs, and armed groups. This paper investigates how the pandemic provided opportunities for claims to and contests over power in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan. Ethnographic research is used to contend that local forms of public authority can be akin…

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Country Covid-19 Intra-Action Review (IAR) Report

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The Intra-Action Review (IAR) was an exercise that has reviewed the South Sudan Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) national preparedness and response best practices and challenges, and developed recommendations to maintain and institutionalized best practices and address challenges. The IAR reviewed the COVID-19 vaccination deployment and roll-out process, epidemiology and surveillance, and laboratory testing capacity at the national and sub-national levels. The review was conducted over two days (05- 06 August 2021) using the World Health Organization…

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South Sudan – Accountability to Affected Populations: Community Perceptions of COVID-19 and the COVID-19 Vaccine

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This paper presents findings on perceptions of Covid-19 and the Covid-19 vaccines in South Sudan. Based on focus group discussions (FGDs) with residents in both camp and non-camp settings, it found that the majority of people were aware of existence of Covid-19 and had heard about the vaccines, however there was a lack of concern about Covid-19 amongst non-camp FGD participants, differing levels of awareness on vaccines, with male participants and those living in camps…

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The True Cost of Delivering COVID Vaccines: South Sudan

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By July 18, South Sudan was able to administer the nearly all of the 60,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine they had in stock through a series of smart investments in delivery, training, and social mobilization coordinated with several different partners. As new doses are projected to arrive in country in August, South Sudan continues to reinforce gaps in the health systems to make COVID-19 vaccinations possible without disrupting existing health services. CARE’s estimated delivery costs…

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“This is your disease”: Dynamics of local authority and NGO responses to Covid-19 in South Sudan

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This report explores the dynamics of South Sudanese NGO and local government responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in South Sudan. It considers how these actors – as significant public authorities – responded to the pandemic, and how these responses shaped and were shaped by wider social and political dynamics. A significant theme throughout our findings relates to the trust and mistrust felt in relation to the Covid-19 response, and how the global pandemic took precedence…

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Will the Impact of the Pandemic on the Expected National Output Persist?

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This weekly review contributes to the debate on how the COVID-19 induced hysteresis effects could affect growth in South Sudan. It addresses two related questions: What channels would transmit the COVID-19 scarring effects to the output? What can public policy do to support recovery? The rest of the review proceeds as follows: Section 2 examines the literature on the hysteresis. Section 3 lays out the theoretical framework, relying on Keynesian economics to shed light on…

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Africa’s Peace and Security: The Pressures of COVID-19

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In this article, Crisis Group’s Interim Vice President and Africa Program Director Comfort Ero analyses the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on Africa to date and examines the biggest challenges facing the continent in its aftermath. The analysis includes a section on South Sudan and details how the pandemic has impacted the implementation of the peace deal.   Download

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