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Conflict
![A tank damaged during fighting between the Ethiopian military and Tigrayan rebels lies abandoned on the outskirts of Humera town in July 2021.]()
Expulsions, blockade thwart Tigray relief as fresh offensive launched
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Food
![People wait in front of a bakery in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 4 October 2021.]()
From rural drought to urban shortages: Afghanistan’s new hungry
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Aid and Policy
![WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he takes “ultimate responsibility” for failing to tackle the sexual abuse allegations during the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak.]()
Sex abuse scandal rocks World Health Organization, but what now?
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Aid and Policy
![A woman walks on a street in northern Afghanistan’s Mazar-i-Sharif on 5 September 2021.]()
For some NGOs, female staff guarantees are a red line for continuing Afghan aid
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Environment and Disasters
![People ride on a bus through a road partially blocked by rocks from a landslide near Pestel, Haiti, after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake took place on 14 August.]()
Haiti earthquake aid slowed by gangs, blocked roads, and shipping delays
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Health
![A man waits to refill his oxygen cylinder during Afghanistan’s third COVID-19 wave in June. Donor funding freezes after the Taliban takeover will severely disrupt coronavirus treatment and vaccination, health officials say]()
Afghan healthcare under threat from international aid freeze
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Conflict
![Women wade through floodwaters after the River Nile broke through flood defences in Pibor, South Sudan, 6 October 2020.]()
Fighting, flooding, and donor fatigue: Unpacking South Sudan’s food crisis
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Conflict
![A clandestine Nigerian government programme is reaching out to senior jihadist fighters in the bush to encourage them to abandon their goal of building a caliphate by force of arms, and to defect. (Still taken from an ISWAP propaganda film)]()
Nigeria’s secret programme to lure top Boko Haram defectors
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Health
![A public vaccination campaign in the Algerian capital of Algiers on 7 June 2021.]()
Soaring cases and little vaccination: A COVID-19 Middle East snapshot
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Environment and Disasters
![Two women sit in the shade at a makeshift encampment set up on a soccer field after Saturday's 7.2-magnitude quake, in Les Cayes, Haiti on 16 August 2021.]()
Haiti hospitals overwhelmed as earthquake disaster worsens existing needs
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Conflict
![A Taliban member stands outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 16 August 2021. The speed of the Taliban’s advance on the capital took aid agencies by surprise.]()
In Afghanistan, aid groups wrestle with the new reality of Taliban control
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Aid and Policy
![Members of the Amhara special forces stand guard on a bridge near the Ethiopia-Eritrea border on 1 July, 2021. The Tigray conflict has spread into the Amhara and Afar regions in recent weeks.]()
Tigray aid response hit by suspensions, blockade
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Conflict
![A Rohingya woman holds a child on a foggy morning at the Balukhali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on 25 December, 2017.]()
As violence soars in refugee camps, Rohingya women speak up
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Food
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Rival visions compete as UN gears up for summit to defeat hunger
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Aid and Policy
![Ethiopian porters unload food aid bound for victims of war after a checkpoint leading to Tigray in Mai Tsebri town, Ethiopia, 26 June 2021.]()
Aid neutrality under fire in Ethiopia’s widening conflict
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Conflict
![Recent gang violence has displaced some 19,000 people in the capital, Port-au-Prince. Here, aid is transported to a sports centre housing 1,500 people.]()
Gang violence and security vacuum in Haiti thwart aid delivery
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