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Ebola risks, Gaza stats, and a vote in Burundi: The Cheat Sheet

18 May 2018

A weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues

Feature

When Artificial Intelligence meets humanitarian jargon
16 May 2018
We asked a bot to devise new aid agency names and job titles. The results are in...
Investigations

EXCLUSIVE: Refugees in Sudan allege chronic corruption in UN resettlement process
15 May 2018
UNHCR’s services are supposed to be provided impartially and free of charge, but some refugees in Khartoum allegedly had to ‘pay to play’

Latest VideoThe humanitarian MeToo moment- where do we go from here?

Analysis

Emergency aid funding fell in 2017, even as Syria/Yemen wars drove needs higher
15 May 2018
Humanitarian needs are growing – aid donors aren’t keeping pace
News

UN evacuation bid fails ahead of battle for key Yemen port
14 May 2018
A plan to move Yemenis at risk stumbles before it even starts. Was it thought through properly?
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IRIN contributor expelled from Congo
12 May 2018
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have expelled British freelance journalist Philip Kleinfeld.

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Ebola outbreak in Congo: What you need to know
21 May 2018
A quick Q&A to get you up to speed on the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo
News

Ebola risks, Gaza stats, and a vote in Burundi
18 May 2018
A weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues
Investigations

EXCLUSIVE: Refugees in Sudan allege chronic corruption in UN resettlement process
15 May 2018
UNHCR’s services are supposed to be provided impartially and free of charge, but some refugees in Khartoum allegedly had to ‘pay to play’
Analysis

Emergency aid funding fell in 2017, even as Syria/Yemen wars drove needs higher
15 May 2018
Humanitarian needs are growing – aid donors aren’t keeping pace
Analysis

Politics and oil: the unseen drivers of violence in Congo’s Ituri Province
4 April 2018
It’s too easy to blame outbreaks of violence in Congo on ethnic tensions
Analysis

Why Indonesians don't flee volcanoes
1 May 2014
Millions of Indonesians who live near the country’s more than 130 active volcanoes are constantly having to decide whether to evacuate or not. Supporting “volcano...
Feature

As risks rise in Burundi, refuge in Tanzania is no longer secure
8 May 2018
If the situation in Burundi deteriorates, will Tanzania still be a safe haven?
Analysis

Negotiations with jihadists? A radical idea gains currency in Mali
19 April 2018
Bringing violent Islamist groups to the negotiating table isn’t on the Malian government’s agenda, but analysts say it might be soon

"(Western) humanitarianism has reached its historical limits and is now on the cusp of retreat"

The crisis of multilateralism and the future of humanitarian action

In Depth
Congo: A decades-long cycle of war

The scale of the humanitarian crisis requires an urgent international response – but the world is yet to step up to the challenge
Aid groups in Congo fear political tensions could impede their work
26 April 2018 Analysis

Politics and oil: the unseen drivers of violence in Congo’s Ituri Province
4 April 2018 Analysis

For victims of the Ituri conflict’s sexual violence, aid is scarce*
20 March 2018 Feature

Solutions and Innovations

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Dial for help: The surprise hotline helping quake survivors in Papua New Guinea
7 May 2018
Domestic violence counsellors have become an unexpected lifeline for thousands of people stranded in an isolated region
Analysis

#MeToo sex scandals spur interest in standards for the aid sector
2 May 2018
Which humanitarian outfits can you trust and why?
Feature

Mosul: Overcoming the trauma of IS rule, one haircut at a time
17 April 2018
In post-conflict Iraq, mental healthcare is scarce. So women turn to their hairdressers

Aid and Policy

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Twitter battles, Afghan battles, and Agadez arrests
4 May 2018
A weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues
News

Afghan drought, Syria information wars, and aid access in South Sudan
27 April 2018
A weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues
Analysis

Aid groups in Congo fear political tensions could impede their work
26 April 2018
Experts and officials say the humanitarian response is badly stretched and could become a soft target ahead of December elections

Migration

News

Niger sends Sudanese refugees back to Libya
10 May 2018
Rights advocates hope Niger hasn’t just set a worrying precedent
Analysis

In Burundi, a disputed referendum threatens to deepen a neglected humanitarian crisis
3 May 2018
One in four Burundians already needs aid, but that figure is set to rise
Feature

Afghanistan: Where home is a battlefield
1 May 2018
Afghan returnees come back to find no land, few jobs, and their ancestral homes behind the front lines

Environment and Disasters

Feature

Women, elderly left behind in Nepal’s post-earthquake rebuilding efforts
25 April 2018
Even when women can apply for money to build new homes, they often can’t do the work themselves or find skilled labourers to help
News

Rohingya camps run out of time as Bangladesh storm season arrives
18 April 2018
Despite weeks of preparations, officials and residents are bracing for the likelihood that winds and rain will cut off aid access and destroy shelters
Opinion

Opinion | Let’s end this competition of misery
10 April 2018
It’s time to stop comparing human suffering, a reductive shorthand that boils down to: who is most deserving of rich people’s attention?

Conflict

Opinion

First Person: In Raqqa, you can’t go home again
30 April 2018
Watching the destruction, and now the slow rebirth, of a Syrian city, one WhatsApp message at a time
Feature

For medical workers in South Sudan's war, just reaching the sick is a challenge
24 April 2018
Aid groups deploy planes and mobile health teams to hard-to-reach areas, but healthcare remains threadbare and underfunded
News

Civilians trapped in Yarmouk face “unimaginable” end to siege
23 April 2018
Palestinians who fled the besieged Damascus suburb, long recognised as a symbol of human suffering, are in need of shelter and basic assistance

Food

Analysis

How to declare a famine: A primer from South Sudan
5 March 2018
War, political sensitivities and the weather all complicate the data collection and number-crunching needed to identify – and hopefully preempt – famine
News

Forgotten Ukrainians feel the bite of winter food cuts
2 March 2018
For those near Ukraine’s front line, especially the elderly, reduced humanitarian aid in mid-winter could be deadly
News

Afghan attack, Congo killings, and crisis debate at Davos
26 January 2018
Get ahead of the curve on humanitarian issues with our weekly look ahead

Health

Feature

Nine months on, a race against time to find pregnant Rohingya rape survivors
16 April 2018
Workers in Bangladesh’s refugee camps are looking for women and girls who are expecting. But many are ashamed, and don’t want to be found
Feature

Caring for the chronically ill in Bangladesh’s Rohingya camps
28 March 2018
Palliative care is not part of most humanitarian responses. One group is trying to change that – in the middle of the Rohingya refugee crisis
Photo feature

The quest to heal Iraq's Yazidis
19 March 2018
A handful of determined medical workers and aid groups care for the residents of Sinjar. But their best efforts are often not enough

Human Rights

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Disaster labels, hate speech, and hypocrisy on equality
6 April 2018
A weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues
News

A LinkedIn to combat rights abuse?
29 March 2018
How an open source database has become a new tool in the fight against human rights abuse
Analysis

MeToo, AidToo: The next steps
22 March 2018
Preventing sexual abuse in the aid sector: What really works?