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- News
- 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’

- News
- Health
- 10 August 2009
Nodding disease or "river epilepsy"?

A rare and unexplained brain disease has affected hundreds of Ugandan children, health workers say.
- News feature
- Conflict
- 7 January 2019
In South Sudan, girls forced into war face gender double standards in peace

Girls represent at least one in five children recruited by armed groups. Upon release, many endure stigma and find it hard to reintegrate.
- News
- Conflict
- 21 May 2012
Back in Kakuma camp again

Six years after leaving a Kenyan refugee camp for his home in Sudan, where a 2005 accord was supposed to have put a permanent end...
- 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.
- Feature
- Aid and Policy
- 16 March 2016
Myanmar refugees in China caught between political fault lines

More than one year after war erupted between Myanmar’s military and an ethnic insurgent group, thousands of refugees who crossed the border into China are ignored by both governments as well as the international community.
- Analysis
- Aid and Policy
- 18 January 2016
Aid finance panel urges ‘grand bargain’

After seven months of research and deliberation, the UN secretary-general’s high-level panel has finally delivered its proposals for reforming humanitarian financing. The ideas are not startlingly new, but, four months ahead of the World Humanitarian Summit, is this now a framework that might actually be adopted and help close the gap between soaring needs and dwindling resources?
- Analysis
- Food
- 1 June 2015
South Sudan food crisis deepens

Through 17 months of conflict, tens of thousands of people have been killed in South Sudan and two million more displaced. Schools, health centres and...
- News
- Migration
- 21 November 2013
Migration myths debunked

Widespread negative public opinion about migration and migrants is often driven less by facts, such as the actual number of migrants arriving in a particular...
- News
- Human Rights
- 24 June 2013
Uganda nodding syndrome centres struggle

As scientists continue to search for the cause of and cure for nodding syndrome - a debilitating condition that causes seizures and stunting in children...