Our editors’ weekly take on humanitarian news, trends, and developments from around the globe.
WFP boss to step down, aid reform’s leaderless movement, Palantir and the humanitarian technocracy, and another test for ...
The recent deportation of alleged scam ringleader Chen Zhi to China led to mass escapes of trafficked workers. But who is ...
More than 11,000 people have disappeared during Israel’s military campaign. Their absence torments the families left behind.
It is the result of state control over Uyghur families. Uyghurs are a Turkic, and predominantly Muslim, people numbering ...
A glaring gap exists when it comes to providing support and care to male victims of conflict-related sexual violence.
With no sign yet of a diplomatic off-ramp, this analysis explores the conflict dynamics that could lead to war.
The aid sector shouldn’t let the funding crisis stop them decarbonising; they should see it as an opportunity, argues Bruno ...
The rebels swept through large chunks of eastern DRC, claiming a revolution, before entering Goma – the capital of North Kivu province – in January 2025, seizing the city from the Congolese army and ...
Media reports – including our own – have detailed many of the atrocities carried out by the UAE-backed group during its October 2025 assault on El Fasher, the last major Darfur city where the Sudanese ...
Yet funding is not the only barrier, politics is also blocking basic operational logic. In northern Somalia, regional humanitarian teams have been inhibited from travelling between Garowe, the capital ...