‘Always looking at the sky’: Life amidst Somalia’s flood waters
4 June 2018 Migration
After enduring a year of drought and then the heaviest rainfall in over three decades, more than 750,000 Somalis must now figure out how to secure ...
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Emergency aid funding fell in 2017, even as Syria/Yemen wars drove needs higher
15 May 2018 Aid and Policy
The numbers are in: 2017 was another costly year for humanitarian aid donors, but despite huge needs in Yemen, Syria, South Sudan, and elsewhere, f...
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Somalia’s climate change refugees
21 February 2018 Aid and Policy
Displaced by drought and conflict, rural Somalis have been heading to Mogadishu in their tens of thousands...
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Drone strikes, diphtheria, and data: The Cheat Sheet
29 December 2017 Solutions and Innovations
Every week, IRIN’s team of specialist editors scans the humanitarian h...
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No quick fixes in ‘countering violent extremism’
29 November 2017 Conflict
Since 9/11, Western countries have increasingly invested in programmes to prevent transnational jihadism...
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Ethnic violence displaces hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians
8 November 2017 Migration
Lifting her robe the young woman revealed undulating scar tissue blanketing her breasts, stomach, and extending up her neck and along her arms...
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US ramps up military strikes in Somalia
8 November 2017 Conflict
When Ali Osman Diblawe arrived in Bariire he was barefoot and winded...
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Shock and revulsion over Mogadishu bombing
16 October 2017 Conflict
The bomb was as enormous as the flecks of torn skin smudging the ground are miniscule...
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Six major humanitarian challenges confronting the UN General Assembly
18 September 2017 Aid and Policy
Hype over what President Donald Trump may or may not say dominated the media build-up to this week’s UN General Assembly...
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Somalia’s impossible fight against cholera
1 August 2017 Aid and Policy
Ahmed Hussein’s perfectly white teeth seem too big for his mouth; his upper arms look like they belong to a little boy, not a 23-year-old man...
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