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- Aid and Policy
- 24 May 2019
Ebola spread, CAR attack, and the children of Islamic State

A weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues.
- Opinion
- Health
- 24 May 2019
Resetting the Ebola response in Congo means trusting the people affected

A genuine community-driven strategy is key to ending the outbreak, say researchers from Anthrologica and the Institute of Development Studies.
- News
- Health
- 23 May 2019
As Ebola cases rise, so do worries of a cross-border epidemic

‘The longer transmission goes on, the more likely it will get to one of those countries’
- News feature
- Conflict
- 23 May 2019
Rubble, unexploded bombs, and more than 100,000 displaced: Marawi two years on

The Philippine government promised to rebuild, but assistance is beginning to dry up
- Special Report
- Conflict
- 23 May 2019
In Colombia’s Tumaco, the war isn’t over, it’s just beginning

‘There’s a limit to how much hunger a person can bear’
- News feature
- Migration
- 22 May 2019
As migrant numbers swell on the US-Mexico border, so do unmet needs

‘It is a humanitarian crisis, but we don’t see any humanitarian response to it’
- Analysis
- Conflict
- 21 May 2019
As Turkey and Russia pull the strings in Syria’s Idlib, civilians pay the price

Both countries are interested in preventing a full-scale assault but seem unable to agree on an alternative that might reduce civilian suffering.
- Opinion
- Conflict
- 20 May 2019
The Hodeidah smokescreen: A real peace deal requires Yemeni buy-in

The UN may be overselling its deal, but ultimately Yemenis need to put their weight fully behind any peace bid for it to truly succeed.
- Special Report
- Solutions and Innovations
- 20 May 2019
Rwanda, part 4: The ‘reconciliation villages’ where genocide survivor and perpetrator live side by side

‘We are now friends and relatives. We share everything.’
- News feature
- Conflict
- 20 May 2019
A decade on, distrust grows for families of Sri Lanka’s missing thousands

‘My child should know what happened to his father’

- Interview
- Human Rights
- 2 August 2007
Um Muhammad al-Daraj, Iraq, “I had to forget my honour to save my husband’s life”

Mother of three Um Muhammad al-Daraj, 35, recently went through a traumatic ordeal to try to save her husband’s life. She told IRIN her husband...
- Special Report
- Solutions and Innovations
- 20 May 2019
Rwanda, part 4: The ‘reconciliation villages’ where genocide survivor and perpetrator live side by side

‘We are now friends and relatives. We share everything.’
- News
- Migration
- 8 May 2019
Hungary condemned for using ‘starvation tactics’ to deter asylum seekers

‘It’s very cruel this situation; they just want to close the whole country’
- News
- Environment and Disasters
- 5 March 2019
How dire climate displacement warnings are becoming a reality in Bangladesh

After the floods, a real-time glimpse of migration as rice-farming villages empty
- Special Report
- Migration
- 18 June 2018
Destination Europe: Homecoming

What happens when migrants end up back where they started
- Maps and Graphics
- Conflict
- 4 April 2017
Mapped: a world at war

Today's wars. On one map.
- Interview
- Human Rights
- 4 May 2005
Interview with Abdul Sattar Edhi

One of the most admired men in Pakistan, Abdul Sattar Edhi has made a career out of helping those in need. For over half a...
- News
- Aid and Policy
- 10 May 2019
Idlib warnings, dementia questions, and an uprising in Juba?

A weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues.
- News
- Aid and Policy
- 28 February 2019
Key donors freeze Uganda refugee aid after UN mismanagement scandal

“The lack of funding directly translates into more hardships for the refugees”
- Special Report
- Conflict
- 12 June 2018
Cameroon’s anglophone war, part 1: A rifle as the only way out

The line separating fighters from refugees is very thin; their journeys are nearly the same

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