Yet funding is not the only barrier, politics is also blocking basic operational logic. In northern Somalia, regional humanitarian teams have been inhibited from travelling between Garowe, the capital ...

The rebels swept through large chunks of eastern DRC, claiming a revolution, before entering Goma – the capital of North Kivu province – in January 2025, seizing the city from the Congolese army and ...

The aid sector shouldn’t let the funding crisis stop them decarbonising; they should see it as an opportunity, argues Bruno ...

A glaring gap exists when it comes to providing support and care to male victims of conflict-related sexual violence.

The climate crisis, the thirst for fossil fuels and critical minerals, colonial legacies and Indigenous rights: A battle for ...

Portrayed as victims in need of rescue or as accomplices of a foreign rebellion, South Kivu’s Tutsi communities face a precarious position.

Without coverage, victims remain invisible, aid groups cannot respond, and humanitarian crises vanish in the fog of mob ...

Israel’s security cabinet approved a new set of measures on 8 February, further consolidating its control over the occupied West Bank. Israel’s nearly six-decade occupation of the Palestinian ...

As established groups that see advocacy as part of their mission are banned, a new cohort is being given preferential treatment to take their place.

Trump’s Board of Peace is treating Gaza as a management problem, erasing Israeli crimes and the fact that the Palestinian people have rights.

The US is trying to redefine humanitarian principles by dictating discrimination. Humanitarians – and other donors – must draw a line.

We need to build new structures and develop ways of working to support ethical communications under real-world pressures.