Stories of extreme violence show we are still only beginning to grasp the scale of the atrocities committed by the Rapid ...

IOM’s disregard for accountability will continue to hamper its ability to comply with its own principles of transparency and ...

An invisible colonial-rooted crisis in Greenland challenges the traditional boundaries of humanitarianism.

As you read this, there are more than 40 conflicts unfolding in countries around the world. Many of them don’t get the media or policy attention of the wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan or Ukraine, and ...

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In Arabic “jihad” refers to striving in the service of God. Its use in connection to political violence is seen as offensive and a perversion of its true meaning by many Muslims. It is, however, ...

More than two years after a cessation of hostilities ended a brutal civil war, Ethiopia’s Tigray region should be well along the road to recovery. Instead, its ruling Tigray People’s Liberation Front ...

Editor’s note: This ongoing series explores the humanitarian implications of South-South migration. Although South-South migration flows are larger than the numbers of people heading South to North – ...

The war between the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s military and the Tutsi-led M23 armed group is having a harmful impact on the country’s Rwandophone Tutsi communities, some of whom have been ...

The memorandum of understanding between the UN and troop-contributing countries (TCC) leaves member states with primary jurisdiction over their soldiers. That means TCCs are responsible for conducting ...

Myanmar is experiencing unprecedented levels of conflict between the military junta, or Tatmadaw, and increasingly collaborative ethnic armed organisations (EAOs). In the past year, various EAOs’ ...

In 2018, as Uganda was catering for hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese escaping conflict across the border, a major corruption and mismanagement scandal hit the country's widely praised refugee ...